Panel discussion statements for Italian e-learning conference

1. Integration of
Open communities and Education
Networks
in TEL Curriculum
Assoc. prof. Airina Volungevičienė
Vice President for research (EDEN)
President of Lithuanian Distance and eLearning (LieDM) association
Director of Innovative Studies Institute at
Vytautas Mangus University (Lithuania)
Genova, September 10, 2015

2. Statements from EDEN position paper, 2014
• Online learning forms became the main stream
• Society became networked and consolidated, digital, global, mobile, ubiquitous
• Education institutions meet challenges of diversification of target groups and
institution sustainability models
• TEL concept has significantly changed existing dominant practices, introduced
innovations and continues to change the landscape of learning services at
education institutions
• A broader concept of TEL has emerged implying the value of judgment of
improved learning services for students and new, innovative scenarios in learning
and teaching
• MOOCs – is a form of TEL!
• MOOCs have not invented neither TEL nor online learning but the other way
around
• New providers of TEL should try to base their approaches on the legacy of already
existing research and best practices in order to keep the current high quality
standards of practice

3. IMPORTANT ACTION ITEMS (enriched) – Genova, 2015
1. Institutions have to identify and apply scalable sustainability
models
2. A need for solid research to develop new practice models built
upon appropriate foundations which take into account the basic
principles of open education and take the most out of the new
networked social environments
3. Education organizations need to open up their organization,
methods and services in order to be able to cope with the
challenges of an open educational culture
4. Open and flexible education should happen through TEL
curriculum integration in an organization
5. Online networks and open professional collaboration should be embedded in
TEL curriculum

4. Volungevičienė, Airina; Teresevičienė, Margarita; Tait, Alan William.
Framework of quality assurance of TEL integration into an educational organization (IRRODL, 2014)

5. TEL integration into organizations
-available at
Researchgate.net

6. HTTP://CONFERENCE.LIEDM.NET

7. Integration of
Open communities and Education
Networks
in TEL Curriculum
Assoc. prof. Airina Volungevičienė
Vice President for research (EDEN)
President of Lithuanian Distance and eLearning (LieDM) association
Director of Innovative Studies Institute at
Vytautas Mangus University (Lithuania)
Genova, September 10, 2015