EDEN 2015 Annual Conference - in Barcelona
Budapest (HU), January 2015 - "Expanding Learning Scenarios - Opening Out the Educational Landscape" is the title of the EDEN Annual Conference in Barcelona, 09-12 June 2015. Submissions that relate to the conference scope and themes are invited as papers, posters, workshops, and demonstrations. The Call for Contributions ends 31 January 2015.
"Expanding Learning Scenarios - Opening Out the Educational Landscape" is the title of the EDEN Annual Conference in Barcelona, 09-12 June 2015. Submissions that relate to the conference scope and themes are invited as papers, posters, workshops, and demonstrations. The Call for Contributions ends 31 January 2015.
The landscape of learning in the past few years has changed substantially.
The ever-improving performance of mobile devices and the development of networking infrastructure continue to increase the appeal of powerful new instruments. The rapid spread of technologies, reflected in their untamable demand and use, and the momentous development of research and practices inevitably transform the information society - mostly outside of institutional settings and often along unexpected pathways.
Whilst there is growing public interest and high demand worldwide for knowledge and education, and intensive social-media movements are experienced both on the provider and user communities’ side, the issue of skills deficit is contributing to the critical public approach.
Research workshops and innovative projects often deal with and provide systematic data analysis, smart observations, and validation. As new functions and interactions among students, teachers, researchers, and managers emerge, their contributions are shaping the processes more than ever before.
Deeper knowledge and reflective responses to the issue of "how we learn" could greatly enhance the efficiency of ICT-supported education. Important partners from interdisciplinary fields like brain sciences can help to discover the cognitive processes in the world of learning.
How can the progressive and innovative academic and professional international community contribute in 2015 to the better understanding of the above-mentioned expansion of the educational landscape?
For Europe, as the focus of the new educational programme Erasmus+ indicates, priorities include serious enhancement of mobility in the education-and-training sector. This implies an impact for the increased and better use of ICTs (virtual mobility) and a challenge for the learning-innovation field as well.
