New President of EDEN
Budapest (HU), June 2010 - Morten Flate Paulsen, Professor of Online Education at NKI Distance Education, Norway, has been elected the new President of the European Distance Education Network (EDEN). He will take over from the current President, Alan Tait, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the Open University, UK. The announcement was made in June at the EDEN 2010 Annual Conference in Valencia, Spain.
The new President's keywords for the future of EDEN are flexibility, cooperation, and transparency.
Morten Flate Paulsen will be the third Norwegian President of EDEN. Erling Ljosa, elected when the organization was founded nineteen years ago, was the first. Ingeborg Boe, who today sits on ICDE's Board of Trustees was President from 2003-2007.
The EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP) has been set up to support networking and activities of interest for the individual members of EDEN. NAP consists of individual members of EDEN and experts delegated by member institutions. Within EDEN, NAP was organised as a meeting and communication forum for professionals in the field of open, distance, and flexible learning as well as eLearning.
