EDEN Conference 2011: Learning and Sustainability
Dublin (IE), February 2011 - In 2011, EDEN is not only celebrating twenty years of vibrant networking and collaborative research on ICT-supported learning in Europe, but is also hosting a conference. The event, which will foster better integration of the concept of responsible and sustainable development within learning, takes place 19 - 22 June 2011 at University College Dublin in Ireland.
Movements around sustainability and ecology in the past decade have changed approaches and thinking in radical and inclusive ways. Sustainable strategies include the flexibility offered by ICT-supported solutions. Smart use of ICTs in learning is one of the vital factors in making the world more sustainable. The web itself is a kind of ecosystem of innovation for learning. It is important to conceptualize and analyze the changing nature of learning - including lifecycles of learning and knowledge and their methods and paradigms.
The EDEN Secretariat is now overseeing the registration for the 2011 Annual Conference. All attendees (presenting or visiting) are expected to register. The registration fee includes all Conference facilities: the Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM, the Book of Abstracts, the Welcome Cocktail, lunches and coffees. Authors of contributions accepted for presentation benefit from a reduced fee. For each paper, only one reduced author's fee will be offered.
Groups of more than three people registering for the event from the same institution can apply for a special conference fee reduced by fifteen percent. It is also possible to combine conference registration and membership in the organisation at a discounted price. A daily fee is a new alternative; it includes all conference materials, lunch, and coffees on the day of attendance.
Year 2011 marks EDEN's twentieth anniversary of EDEN; the organisation was launched in 1991 in Milton Keynes. The Conference is being held in partnership with the US Distance Learning Association, with contributions of their senior board members in the Europe-US Strategy Session. Keynote speakers include Mary McAleese, the President of Ireland, and Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning.
The EDEN 2011 Conference is organised in collaboration with Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, with a unique constellation of supportive features and collaborating institutions. The host country is Ireland - for a generation, a symbolic region of Europe for innovation and development both in technology and the society.
