The President's report summarizes EDEN's activities in 2017-2018. Key points include: - Membership grew to 185 institutional members and 293 individual members - Conferences in Jönköping and Athens attracted hundreds of participants both in-person and online - Webinars and virtual events generated thousands of views and signups - The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning published 28 articles - Social media presence expanded through Twitter and other platforms - Projects are exploring digital credentials and recognition of non-formal learning.

1. President’s report
EDEN Annual General Meeting 2018, Genova
Doc. dr. Airina Volungevičienė
The President of EDEN

2. Numbers characterising the activities of
EDEN in 2017- 2018
Development of the association
institutional members 185
individual members 293
individuals in the Network of
Academics and Professionals: 1060

3. Dynamics of EDEN institutional and
individual membership in 2017/ 2018
2017 2018
Institutions 169 185 +16
Individuals 1048* 1060 +12
* Including NAP members delegated by paying institutions.

4. Conference activities
Annual Conference in Jönköping
- about 200 participants present
- other 480 following online
- 3 web-streamed plenary
- 34 parallel sessions
- 14 workshops, training, demonstration and
synergy sessions, 5 posters, published Book of
Astracts
Open Classroom Conferences
- in Athens with 120 participants and
- in Kaunas attracting 162 participants

5. Virtual events
EDLW (European Distance Learning Week) - EDEN’s
2016’ initiative continued well in 2017
NAP webinars and the webinars held in the
Open Learning Week for the Year of Open
- generated 900 signups
- several thousand people watched the webinars
Most popular webinar in 2017: “How to be more
open: advice for educators and researchers” with
1226 views.

6. European Distance Learning
Week 2017
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7. Open Education Week, 2018
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8. Publication activities
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
(EURODL)
Published online
20 double peer reviewed articles and a special issue
with selected 7 papers in 2017
2800 subsciptions
29200 page views

10. Quality Enhancement
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11. Social media presence
Conference hash tags and 16 #EDENChats
2000+ tweets from about 260 participants
Most popular tweet:„What is open culture” with 31
participants
Most discussed topic: „Blurring boundaries: impact on
effective learning spaces with more than 250 individual
tweets.

12. Social media
presence
keynote interviews of
EDEN17’ made by the
NAP SC president
the video recording of
the EDEN17’ plenary
session
1200 visitors

13. International collaboration and alliences:
all records are available at EDEN Presidency blog
(2017/2018)

14. Awarding excellence
EDEN awards
4 EDEN Senior Fellow,
4 EDEN Fellow;
1 Best Research Paper,
1 Young Scholar
48 participants supported by waiving their
conference fees at EDEN’17
23 students supported by reduced conference
fees

15. Recognition
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16. Council of EDEN Fellows
• Proposal prepared by Presidency and EDEN
Fellows
• A group of advisors, experts and professionals
within EDEN (Senior) Fellows group,
representatives of current and past leadership tp
lead and coordinate the collaboration of EDEN
Fellows
• The aim – to support EDEN EC, AGM and NAP,
EDEN member organizations and other target
groups with strategic discussions, consolidation of
best practices, etc.
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17. Digital credentials
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18. Communication activities
Active web presence: www.eden-online.org
16 EDEN Newsflashes
18 conference circulars
2 conference microsites with 1200 visitors
7 Presidency blogs posted, 322 users produced
769 page views.

19. Current EU projects for recognition
and micro-credentialization
MicroHE – Support Future Learning Excellence through
Micro-Credentialing in Higher Education 590161-EPP-1-
2017-DE-EPPKA3-PI-Forward
to examine the scope for and impact of micro-credentials – a form of
short-cycle tertiary qualification – in European Higher Education
ReOPEN - Recognition of Valid and Open Learning,
2016-1-LT01-KA202-023131
to create instruments to develop validated OOL for recognition of
prior and non-formal learning
Open Education Passport, Erasmus+ KA2 project aims to
collect the challenges and create solutions to optimise
the recognition of individual credits in open education and virtual
mobility
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20. Open online non-
formal learning with:
- Learner identification
- Measuring learning
progress
- Digital badging and
credentialization
- Assessment and
recognition of learning
achievements
- Matching non-formal with
formal
- Matching non-formal with
competence standard
and employer needs
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21. Digital micro-credentials
EDEN open badges scheme
Number of badges types 5
Number of badge recipients 700
Badges awarded 1335
Badge stackability was introduced as novelty

22. Important trends observed
Webinars preferred to f2f training
Open badges more and more accepted as digital
micro-credentials in non-formal and informal learning
Virtual events might overtake some of the roles of
the traditional conferences
Growing importance of social media presence in
maintaining the activity of networked organisations

23. Raising awareness of EU policy initiatives and
contribution to shaping EU policies
EDEN EC members in the ET 2020 WG on Digital
Skills and Competencies
Active participation in the DSC Peer Learning
Acitivities (Malta, Vienna, Tallin, Zagreb, Paris, Sofia)
Policy workshops as pre-conference events
EDEN NAP model suggested as a community of
practice

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25. Presidency
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26. Outstanding colleagues in EC
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27. Secretariat – the best team and colleagues
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