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Best of EDEN 2012 (Click here to see the articles)
One of the important missions of EDEN is to support the exchange of academic and professional experience, to promote navigation and information reach on the rapidly evolving scene.
EDEN is organising since 1992 annual European conferences for open, distance and e-learning and also bi-annual thematic research workshops and Open Classroom conferences on learning innovation for school level e-learning.
The EDEN conferences have become major events in Europe, with increasing attendance from other continents. They are based on collecting best practice: the papers presented and published in the Proceedings have been serving as relevant resources for the professional community.
The integrating approach of the conferences helps to consolidate the knowledge and to build the international community of professionals. EDEN conferences have been useful in capitalising on the knowledge of proficient actors and also in assisting in the introduction of newcomers.
Research in open, distance and e-learning is indispensable to provide information for development, decision-making and quality of products and services. Even more this is the case as many changes occur and the pace as well as the extent of innovation often seem to be dramatically fast and wide.
The EDEN Best Research Paper Award was launched in 2008. And it is granted at EDEN’s Annual Conferences as well as at EDEN’s bi-annual Research Workshops. A high quality standard selection process guarantees the branding of the award for scholarly conference papers in the field of open, distance and e-learning.
The selection process takes place in collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning and is supported by a Jury, nominated by the Foundation and approved by the EDEN Executive Committee.
A special issue of the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning - EURODL entitled "Best of EDEN 2012" has collected the enhanced versions of the final candidate and winner research papers of the Best Research Paper Awards 2012 (EDEN 2012 Annual Conference in Porto in June and the 7th Research Workshop in Leuven)
In co-operation with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation, our aim is to launch this tradition in order to provide visibility to quality research on the field. Dr Andras Szucs
Secretary General, EDEN