EADTU Conference announcement

Στις 2:54 μ.μ. Πέμπτη, 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2018, ο/η EADTU έγραψε:

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT OOFHEC2018

THE ONLINE, OPEN AND FLEXIBLE
HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE

OOFHEC2018

Blended and online Learning: Changing the Educational Landscape

Aarhus University, Aarhus (DK)
10 – 12 October 2018

Keynotes

Already confirmed keynotes:

Alejandro Tiana Ferrer

Alejandro Tiana Ferrer is rector and professor of Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and president of EADTU.

Diana Laurillard

Diana Laurillard is professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the London Knowledge Lab, UK.

Katie Goeman

Katie Goeman is affiliated as a researcher with the Centre for Instructional Psychology and Technology of the same university.

Willem Valkenburg

Willem van Valkenburg is currently member of the leadership of TU Delft Extension School. Willem is also Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Open Education Consortium.

Liz Marr

Liz is part of the senior management of the Open University UK. She is managing editor of the international journal Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning and an editorial board member of Learning and Teaching in the International Social Sciences.

Please check our key-notes regularly for updates.

Scope

In European universities three areas of provision emerge: degree education as the backbone of a university; continuing education and continuous professional development, which probably will exceed the number of degree students and open education which emerged mainly by the MOOC movement. Universities attempt policies and strategies to define their profile in these areas, which can be complementary to each other and to some extent interwoven.

Digital models of teaching and learning can solve some of the problems higher education is facing today and will offer new opportunities for teaching and learning in each of these areas. They will innovate and even transform higher education in the next years:

Blended degree education will raise the quality and efficiency of degree education, facing large numbers of students and it will offer new possibilities for communication and cooperation both inside the university (student-student and student-staff) and with stakeholders (student-stakeholder and teacher-stakeholder).
Blended and online education will upscale the area of continuing education and continuous professional development (CPD) by offering flexible courses with a large outreach responding to the needs of learners at work, who face longer careers and career shifts.
MOOCs are offered online only, providing massive and open learning opportunities for all, promoting engagement in the knowledge society. Blended and online systems are important to accelerate innovation and to keep pace with the needs of learners of all ages and of society.

Blended and online systems are important to accelerate innovation and to keep pace with the needs of learners of all ages and of society.