European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) 2027 Annual Conference

The European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) 2027 Annual Conference explores innovative approaches to digital, distance, and e-learning in higher education, focusing on learner empowerment, new pedagogies, and technology-enhanced teaching.

Key Topics

• Opening the classroom, to expand education
  • Institutional repositories and digital libraries as a teaching tool
  • The intersection between higher education and MOOCs
  • Sharing open activities between higher educational institutions
  • Users as creators and curators of learning resources
  • Sustainable business models for openness in education
• Expanded learning scenarios
  • Use of social networks within/outside the classroom
  • Augmented reality and innovative uses of smartphones
  • Addressing multiculturality in the classroom
  • Mixing formal and informal learning / Hybridisation of higher education
  • Tools and resources for learning through mobile devices
  • 21st century citizen skills
• Empowering learners
  • Practices and guidelines for e-feedback
  • Promoting self assessment and reflection
  • Collaborative assessment
  • Distance assessment tools
  • Platform and tools for crowd participation and peer support
• Learning analytics from the "learning" perspective
  • Evaluating the real impact of learning analytics
  • Helping learners, teachers and managers to visualise their achievements
  • Data-driven learning personalisation
  • Learning analytics for improving e-assessment
  • Reducing dropout through learning analytics
• New generation of methodologies
  • Elements of new, digital pedagogies in context
  • Changing leardership models and practices
  • Challenges of diversity and its impact to learning and teaching
  • New learning modes - How learning happens through cognition, emotion and auto-motoric skills with new technology and media
• Expanded learning scenarios from the teaching perspective
  • Digital competences for teaching
  • Teaching development in the networking
  • Scaling up pedagogies for crowd learning
  • Interplay between centralised and personal learning environments