A report to Annual General Meeting members, 2018

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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