Presentation for EDEN's European Online and Distance Learning Week on 'We are all in this together – Rising to the challenges' - Tuesday, 3 November 2020, 15:00 CET More info: https://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/eodlw-2020-11/

2. We are all in this together –
Rising to the challenges
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN)
United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ)

3. EDEN Association
• Exists to share knowledge and improve understanding
amongst professionals in distance and e-learning and
to promote policy and practice across the whole of
Europe and beyond
• Smart network for the professional community and a
professional community for smart learning for more
than 29 years
EDEN is its members!
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4. Numbers characterising EDEN activities in 2020
 Institutional members 188
 Individual members 286
 Individuals in the Network of Academics and Professionals: 1053
 55 countries
 Over 430 institutions from Europe and other continents

5. EDEN NAP SC
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• New NAP SC (elected June 2020)
• Fosters the NAP activities
• Supports networking of
individual members of the
Association
• Provides a highly effective
meeting and communication
forum
• In 2020 so far: 10 EDEN NAP
webinars with 1379 participants
EDEN Fellows Council
• Serves an advisory role in the EDEN
Community, a think tank for future visioning,
and as ambassadors of EDEN
• Board of the EDEN Fellows Council leads
ongoing work on defined Council projects:
 Current and future open education trends within
socio-political contexts
 Roles, responsibilities, and values of members of the
EDEN Community
 Strategic development of EDEN (2030)
• The Chair of the Board became a standing
invitee to EC meetings

6. EDEN Initiative: Education in time of pandemic
 Started on March 30
 Practical webinars on how to take
face-to-face education online
 Focus on the day-to-day
challenges educators face
 11 webinars
 35 speakers and moderators
 Over 3500 participants
 From over 120 countries
worldwide
 More than 9100 views of
recordings
webinars #onlinetogether

7. EDEN Initiative: Education in time of new normal
 Started on September 14th
 6 webinars
 26 speakers and
moderators
 Over 800 participants
 1064 views of recordings
 EC presents the Digital
Education Action Plan
webinars #onlinetogether

8. Annual Conference in Timisoara, June 2020 – ONLINE!
 About 309 participants present, from 40 countries
 511 livestream views generated
 4 web-streamed plenary sessions
 44 paper presentations
 12 workshops/training sessions, 1 synergy session introducing 8 different
projects
 11 posters and 2 demonstrations
 Conference Proceedings published electronically
Conference Activities

9. Research Workshop in Lisbon, October 2020 – ONLINE!
 About 200 participants present, from 43 countries
 4 web-streamed plenary sessions
 48 paper presentations
 7 workshops
 16 posters
 14 PhD symposium presentations
 Oxford-style debate, round table discussion
Conference Activities

10. EDEN
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EDEN is providing free, continuous and high quality online support for the
international open, distance and e-learning community of education by
regular, updated series of webinars about the emerging needs, demands,
relevant solutions in the context of the epidemic for digital pedagogy,
organization and delivery of learning.

11. • EDEN web http://www.eden-online.org/
• Recordings from the sessions
• Proceedings of the Annual Conference and Research Workshop
• EURODL http://www.eden-online.org/resources/eurodl/
• Monthly newsletter
• Blogs: President and Fellows
• EDEN YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/EDENSecretariat/featured
Available Resources