This document provides information about the EDEN Oldenburg RW9 conference taking place from October 4-6, 2016 in Oldenburg, Germany. It discusses some of the key topics and innovations in open, distance, and e-learning that will be addressed at the conference, including self-learning vs tutored learning, learning design, virtual internationalization, MOOCs, and learning analytics. The document emphasizes that the conference will look at how to shape the future of open and distance learning based on past research best practices over the past 12 years since the last conference in Oldenburg in 2004.

1. EDEN Oldenburg RW9
Assoc. Prof. Airina Volungevičienė
EDEN President
Director of ISI at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
October 4-6, 2016

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http://www.eden-online.org/2016_oldenburg/

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4. EDEN Oldenburg 2004 best paper award
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5. More from EDEN Oldenburg 2004
• From conventional to open, distance and e-learning
• Designing learner support in open and distance learning
• Assessment strategies that strengthen the learner
• Institutional strategies in open and distance learning
• Learning communities for professional development
• The tutor in open, distance and e-learning
• Drop-in/ drop-out and retention issues in open, distance
and e-learning
• Cost – effective strategies and solutions in ODL
• And other important topics….
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6. The legacy of ODL research was continued
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7. Innovations changing the landscape of
education in Europe since 2004
• The most influential technological innovations:
– Open Educational Resources
– Open Educational Practices
– Virtual Mobility and international virtual exchange
– Massive Open Online Courses
– Open Science, open data
– Learning analytics
– Personalization and flexibility of learning
– Recognition of open learning

8. EDEN Oxford RW8 – 2014
DEVELOPMENTS AND STATE OF THE ART/ OUTCOME
1. Online forms of education provision are no longer being seen as a curiosity or a
niche market, but a central part of any HE institutional offer
2. Massive open learning emerged and resulted in disruption and transformation of
education
3. HE meets the challenges of industrialization, demography, and globalization,
direct impact of lifelong learning service provision needs
4. Diversification of target groups in HE makes considerable impact upon
institution sustainability models
Institutions have to identify and apply sustainable and scalable sustainability
models

9. • negative side effects
• inadequate theoretical frameworks and established
practices
• Innovations are introduced episodically
• Confusion exists in terms of concepts and phenomena
• Sudden and disruptive development, as well as
segmented integration of innovation in an organization
often lose the desired effect and anticipated impact
• Such instances demonstrate irresponsible decisions,
bring negative effect to strategic planning and may
generate wrong feedback to European discussions on
best practices
EDEN Oxford RW8 – 2014
DEVELOPMENTS AND STATE OF THE ART/ OUTCOME

10. IMPORTANT ACTIONS
Higher education institutions need to open up their
organization, methods and services in order to be able to cope
with the challenges of an open educational culture
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
EDEN Oxford RW8 – 2014
DEVELOPMENTS AND STATE OF THE ART/ OUTCOME

11. EDENRW8 DEVELOPMENTS
• TEL concept has significantly changed existing dominant practices,
introduced innovations and continues to change the landscape of learning
services at education institutions
• A broaderconcept of TEL has emerged implying the value of judgment of
improved learning services forstudents and new, innovative scenarios in
learning and teaching
• MOOCs – is a form of TEL!
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.
MOOCs have not invented neither TEL nor online learning but the other way
around.
STATE OF THE ART
IMPORTANT ACTIONS

12. Objectives for EDEN
• To continue with the dimension of openness
• To base new approaches on the legacy of already
existing research and best practices in order to keep
high quality standards of practices
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13. EDEN operates as an open organization
Through Open Governance
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14. Through transparency, participation and recognition
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EDEN operates as an open organization

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Through open research

16. Through involvement and leadership
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EDEN operates as an open organization

17. Through Open Professional Collaboration and Community
Development
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EDEN operates as an open organization
Open (and virtual) universities
(12 of them being members of
EDEN) and their professionals
are great contributors and
mentors towards opening up

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EDEN operates as an open organization
Through the values of digital and networked
society

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And we are back to Oldenburg – 2016
To shape the future of ODL!

20. EDEN Oldenburg RW9 addresses
• Historical perspective of research in ODL
• Self-learning vs tutored learning
• Learning design
• Virtual internationalization
• Quality of ODL
• Massive open online learning
• Digital skills and employability
• Socio - economic aspects of ODL
• Learning analytics and profiling of online learners
• Motivation, interventions, participation and negative effects – and whether
digital devices are to blame
• National case presentations
• OERs
• New research directions and opportunities
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21. • Scholarly journals editorial panel
• Focus group session
• Workshop Session
• Parallel sessions
• Poster sessions
• Synergy sessions
• Something old, something new! – Oxford style debate
• Conference dinner and Best paper awards
All this and more is prepared for you!
– Get ready and answer the question with your session
peers and excellent keynotes - 21

22. The question for EDEN Oldenburg RW9
How shall we prepare for future learning and
what recommendations EDEN Oldenburg RW9
will prepare for the next 12 years?
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