A presentation at the EDEN annual conference in Dublin, June 21, 2011

1. Twenty Years with EDEN MortenFlate Paulsen NKI NettstudierDublin, June 21, 2011

2. What happened in 1991?

3. What happened in 1991? June 1991 Sunday 09:The congress of the ItalianpartyProletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party. Monday 10:In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm. Wednesday 12:Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic. Tuesday 25:Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. Thursday 27:Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.www.spiritus-temporis.com/1991/

4. What happened in 1991? February 26Tim Berners-Leeintroduced theweb browser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

5. In the history of virtual learning environments, the 1990s was a time of growth, primarily due to the advent of the affordable computer and of the Internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments_in_the_1990s

6. VirtualLearningEnvironments20 yearsago

8. In 1991, I was at Penn State without e-mail contacts in NorwayThere, I was the Founding Editor of DEOSand published The first EDEN Newsletter http://home.nki.no/morten/index.php/english-menu/online-journals/deosnews/123-deosnews-volume-2-number-25.html THE EDEN EXECUTIVEPresident: Dr ErlingLjosa, Managing Director, NKS Ernst G. Mortensen Foundation.Vice Presidents: Professor Armando Rocha Trindade, Rector, UniversidadeAberta. Professor TamasLajos, Technical University of Budapest.Members: Dr John Daniel, Vice Chancellor, The Open University. MrFredNickolmann, FernUniversitat. MrBernard Loing, Recteurd'Academie, CentreNational d'Enseignement ` Distance.Observer: Reidar Roll, Secretary General, ICDE Permanent SecretariatSecretariat - UK: Ms Kerry Mann, Executive Secretary, EDENSecretariat - Hungary: Dr Szucs, TEMPUS Hungarian Office

10. We are looking for photographs, documents, artifacts, and personal and organizational histories that are related to distance education and related technologies to add to our online museum on the web and in the virtual world.

11. We will be holding webinars, virtual world meetings and invite guest speakers.

12. There will be publications available.

13. One of our longer term goals is to fund graduate research.

14. Please contact William C. Diehl at wdiehl@museumofdistanceeducation.comMuseumofDistanceEducation.com

16. 1991 - EDEN Launched

17. 1994 - EURODL launched

18. 1995 - First EDEN Open Classroom Conference

19. 1996 - NAP – EDEN EC Memorandum

20. 1997 - Secretariat moves to Budapest

21. 1998 - First EU Project with EDEN Involvment

22. 1998 - EDEN Web launched

23. 1999 - Electronic Newsflash substitutespaper

25. 2007 - First Online Conference Registration System

26. 2007 - First Conference Proceedings on CD

27. 2007 - First EDEN Fellows awards

28. 2008 - Best Research Paper Award launched

29. 2008 - President’s Blog launched

30. 2009 - Conference Blog at the Gdansk conference

31. 2010 - NAP Member Area launched

33. Institutional membership

34. NAP members

35. Conference attendance

36. The Future Seen from the Past http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144094928842683632#

37. Anniversary Reflections In 1991, our future was on the Internet In 2011, our daily life is on the Internet In 2031, our history will also be on the Internet

38. Thankyou I care, so I share: http://home.nki.no/morten https://twitter.com/MFPaulsen http://www.slideshare.net/MortenFP http://www.facebook.com/mfpaulsen 18 http://www.eden-online.org/blog