To implement EU Digital Education Action Plan

1. Strength and potentials of EDEN
and the contribution to the
Digital Education Action Plan
Assoc. prof. dr. Airina Volungevičienė
President of EDEN
DSC Working Group plenary session, Sofia, 18 April 2018

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“The smart network for the professional community
and a professional community for smart learning”

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

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
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. 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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. How EDEN works?
• EDEN does not issue recipies!
• EDEN incubates and experiments
innovations in open, online and
distance learning
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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

15. 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

16. 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)
Policy workshops as pre-conference events
EDEN NAP model suggested as a community of
practice

17. Rapid developments of innovations – slow
and difficult uptake
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18. EDEN Community of Practices - to reduce the
divide
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19. EDEN proposal for Sofia Call for Action on
Digital Skills and Education
• To ensure networking and open professional
collaboration of innovators, teachers and trainers,
academics and professionals to mainstream digital
transformation in education by:
1. Experimentation, piloting and sharing best practices of
application of digital technology for teaching and learning
2. Developing digital competences and skills of teachers and
learners
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20. 1. Experimentation, piloting and sharing best practices of
application of digital technology for teaching and learning
through the following EDEN actions
a. Webinars, chats, communication through EDEN channels to support scaling the
SELFIE self-assessment tool to teachers, trainers and learners (Action 2)
b. Mainstreaming digital credentialization and recognition potentials and practices
through project work, EDEN network, physical and virtual events (Action 3)
c. Highlighting virtual collaboration forms from / to EDEN members, working with
virtual mobility and online campuses in HE, bridging the network with global
communities through EDEN partners (Action 4)
d. Discussing and awareness raising of open science and open education, learning
analytics and other innovations during EDEN bi-annual research workshops (Action
5, 10)
e. Investigating the reasons and challenges of digital transformation and bridging
the gap through networking of education organizations and individuals during all EDEN
events (Action 7)
f. Using EDEN Fellows – think – tank and NAP to foresee key trends arising from
digitalization of education – all EDEN events (Action 11)
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21. 2. Developing digital competences and skills of teachers and
learners
through the following EDEN actions:
a. Training sessions for teachers, trainers and learners on SELFIE uptake (Action 2)
b. Establishing EDEN mentors for SELFIE tool (Action 2)
c. Training teachers and trainers, academics and professionals on digital assessment,
recognition and credentialization (Action 3)
d. To foster institutional collaboration on recognition of open, online and distance
education – during EDEN events (Action 3)
e. Train and network with EDEN and liaison institutions on virtual mobility offer,
collaboration and capacity development (Action 4)
f. Research and awareness raising sessions on open science, big data and learning
analytics during EDEN bi-annual research workshops (Action 5, 10)
g. Facilitate organizations addressing the challenges of digitalistion during all EDEN
events (Action 7)
h. Work with EDEN Fellows and NAP to establish policy briefings on the key
European trends arising from digital transformation for the future of education
systems at all levels – during EDEN events (Action 11)
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22. Invitation
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