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Twenty Years with EDEN<br />MortenFlate Paulsen<br />NKI NettstudierDublin, June 21, 2011<br />

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What happened in 1991?<br />

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What happened in 1991?<br />June 1991<br /> Sunday 09:The congress of the ItalianpartyProletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.<br />Monday 10:In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.<br />Wednesday 12:Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.<br />Tuesday 25:Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.<br />Thursday 27:Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.www.spiritus-temporis.com/1991/<br />

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What happened in 1991?<br />February 26Tim Berners-Leeintroduced theweb browser.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web<br />

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In the history of virtual learning environments, the 1990s was a time of growth, primarily due to the advent of the affordable computer and of the Internet.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments_in_the_1990s<br />

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VirtualLearningEnvironments20 yearsago<br />

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In 1991, I was at Penn State without e-mail contacts in NorwayThere, I was the Founding Editor of DEOSand published The first EDEN Newsletter<br />http://home.nki.no/morten/index.php/english-menu/online-journals/deosnews/123-deosnews-volume-2-number-25.html<br />THE EDEN EXECUTIVEPresident: Dr ErlingLjosa, Managing Director, NKS Ernst G. Mortensen Foundation.Vice Presidents: Professor Armando Rocha Trindade, Rector, UniversidadeAberta. Professor TamasLajos, Technical University of Budapest.Members: Dr John Daniel, Vice Chancellor, The Open University. MrFredNickolmann, FernUniversitat. MrBernard Loing, Recteurd'Academie, CentreNational d'Enseignement ` Distance.Observer: Reidar Roll, Secretary General, ICDE Permanent SecretariatSecretariat - UK: Ms Kerry Mann, Executive Secretary, EDENSecretariat - Hungary: Dr Szucs, TEMPUS Hungarian Office<br />

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<ul><li>Mailing list at www.museumofdistanceeducation.com

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We are looking for photographs, documents, artifacts, and personal and organizational histories that are related to distance education and related technologies to add to our online museum on the web and in the virtual world.

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We will be holding webinars, virtual world meetings and invite guest speakers.

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There will be publications available.

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One of our longer term goals is to fund graduate research.

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Please contact William C. Diehl at wdiehl@museumofdistanceeducation.com</li></ul>MuseumofDistanceEducation.com<br />

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EDEN Timeline<br /><ul><li>1990 -Budapest Platform

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1991 - EDEN Launched

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1994 - EURODL launched

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1995 - First EDEN Open Classroom Conference

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1996 - NAP – EDEN EC Memorandum

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1997 - Secretariat moves to Budapest

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1998 - First EU Project with EDEN Involvment

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1998 - EDEN Web launched

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1999 - Electronic Newsflash substitutespaper

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2000 - First EDEN Research Workshop</li></li></ul><li>EDEN Timeline<br /><ul><li> 2006 – Changed name from European Distance Education Network to European Distance and E-Learning Network

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2007 - First Online Conference Registration System

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2007 - First Conference Proceedings on CD

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2007 - First EDEN Fellows awards

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2008 - Best Research Paper Award launched

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2008 - President’s Blog launched

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2009 - Conference Blog at the Gdansk conference

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2010 - NAP Member Area launched

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2011 - EDEN on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin</li></li></ul><li>EDEN Presidents<br />7. MortenF. Paulsen, 2010 - Professor of Online Education, Director of Development, NKI Nettstudier<br />6. Alan Tait, 2007-2010 Pro-Vice-Chancellor, The Open University, UK, Chair of the NAP Steering Committee, <br />5. IngeborgBoe, 2003 - 2007 Executive Director, NADE <br />4. Erwin Wagner, 2000-2003 Director of Centre for Distance and Continuing Education, University Hildesheim,<br />3. + ValerioGrementieri, 1997-2000 President, Associazione CAMPO, Italy, <br />2. TamásLajos, 1995-1997 Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, Founder of EDEN, <br />1. ErlingLjosa, 1992-1995 Head of Product/Market Unit, NKS, Norway, Founder of EDEN, <br />

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Institutional membership<br />

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NAP members<br />

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Conference attendance<br />

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The Future Seen from the Past<br />http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144094928842683632#<br />

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Anniversary Reflections<br />In 1991, our future was on the Internet<br />In 2011, our daily life is on the Internet<br />In 2031, our history will also be on the Internet<br />

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Thankyou<br />I care, so I share:<br />http://home.nki.no/morten<br />https://twitter.com/MFPaulsen<br />http://www.slideshare.net/MortenFP<br />http://www.facebook.com/mfpaulsen<br />18<br />http://www.eden-online.org/blog<br />