EDLW - 2019 - Distance Education: Challenges on the European and the Global Level
Channel: EDEN Digital Learning Europe
Date: 2020-09-09

Monday, November 11 2019, 15:00-16:30 CET

Technology has been changing the landscape of education for years and one of the greatest advancements has been in distance education. ICTs have been playing an important role in the delivery strategies of distance learning and providing a variety of new techniques for educators and learners to enhance their knowledge. Distance education is growing in popularity globally, maybe not so in Europe as in America, Canada, Australia… More and more learning and classes are taking place online and depending on the technology. We take e-books, online courses, watch videos on YouTube, communicate online, have virtual practices and laboratories, get online certificates and diplomas. The number of online programmes and accessibility for learning are growing every day. While technology brings numerous opportunities for students and teachers, still challenges are opening for distance education as well.

In discussion with distinguished experts join us in the discussion on some of the challenges the distance education is facing:

how recent technology innovations line VR, AI, AR can be used to support distance learning efficiently and do/can they provide real opportunities in learning?  
with all information available today through numerous communication channels learner attention is easily disrupted and difficulty kept, deep learning is difficult to achieve – how to keep learners’ attention on the course?
how to create and ensure good quality materials and courses, from the point of online learning in HE to distance education?
how to protect respectable institutions and good quality programmes from the fake ones?
MOOCs were at one point taken as a trend that will pass – is it so, and how important MOOCs are for the education?

Moderator: Sandra Kucina Softic, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre, EDEN President

Panel members:
Airina Volungevičienė, Vytautas Magnus University, EDEN Senior Fellow, LieDM association
Jennifer Roberts, Vice President/Publications Officer, ODLAA
Dean Hoke, USDLA board member president-elect
Svetlana Knyazeva,  UNESCO IITE, EDEN Fellow
Jonatan Castaño Muñoz, EC JRC
Sally Reynolds, ATiT

https://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/distance-education-challenges-on-the-european-and-the-global-level/