The 2012 Annual EDEN Conference in
Porto was again a great success with 350 delegates with over 150
presentations from all over the world. The event was rich both in
content and in collaboration opportunities and was highly interactive
not only face-to-face, but also on the web. The professional community
followed the webcasts of the keynote sessions, the referenced links by
the keynotes at the
Conference blog (over 1300 visitors in 3 days) and shared experiences via
Twitter (over 1400 tweets on the conference topic), Facebook (with 473 members of the
Group), and Linkedin. A
Scoop.it rolling issue collected the links, presentations, shared content of the conference with cca 1000 visitors online.
We thank the keynotes, the speakers and
all delegates for their valuable inputs and contribution to the
achievements and nice atmosphere of the conference. See further
information on downloadable keynote presentations, the Best Paper Award and the EDEN Fellow Awards below.
Plenary Sessions
To read the most interesting contributions (PPT) of key presenters, please, visit the
Keynotes' site. Thanks to Universidade Aberta, the plenary sessions were
webcasted and recorded. Recordings will be available soon.
Best Research Paper Award
Ingeborg
Bo, the Chair of the Jury in her introduction to the Best Research
Paper Award said, that 'In the Jury's judgement the Award winning paper
is an excellent contribution to the theme of the conference on „Open
Learning Generations - Closing the Gap from Generation 'Y' to the Mature
Lifelong Learners“ and it is best in presenting applicable and
transferable results based on a solid methodological approach. The
findings are critically discussed with references to the relevant
literature and with creative ideas for further research.' The Winner was
announced at the Conference Dinner:
Reconsidering “Gen Y” & Co: From Minding the Gap to Overcoming it by
Emanuele Rapetti and Lorenzo Cantoni, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Both papers as well as previous years' Best Research Papers are donwloadable from our
Publications' site.