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The 2010 Research Workshop will continue the EDEN tradition
of highlighting bi-annually the relevant emerging fields in research
and innovative practice.
The
Budapest event will offer a platform to present newly born research,
theory and practice about assessing the value and impact of e-learning,
exchange ideas about the objectives, methods, tools and results of
making assessment personalised and inspiring experience in schools and
workplaces of the future.
We invite researchers, practitioners and experts in
evaluation and quality, developers of online assessments, and test
users to share experience about this highly innovative e-learning
field.
Raising motivation of young researchers, to provide a space
where people would like to present their research will be amongst the
strategic aims of the workshop. Special fees for the members of the
Group of the Young Researchers at the EDEN NAP Area will be offered.
The workshop is organised in collaboration with ICDE – the
International Council for Distance Education and EFQUEL – the European
Foundation for Quality in E-learning.
Research
Questions
in Focus
- The
real value of e-learning, which is questioned for different reasons in
different contexts, may be boosted by credible and appropriate
evaluation methods and practices.
In the context of assessment, the quality dimension is emerging as
contribution to the valuation of ICT supported learning, its
re-positioning by better evaluation methods.
- The quest for
added value – how can contribute the new forms of learning, in
circumstances of hard socio-economic challenges – is strongly coming
forward.
- Online
assessment techniques are among the hot topics in educational
research, as they provide opportunity to assess skills and competences
in the context they occur.
- Peer production
and user-created content are becoming important elements as learners
are no longer just consumers, but they actively participate in the
process and influence it.
- When we evaluate
user generated content, quality may be both the result of the interplay
between peer production and peer validation process of digital content.
The issue of transparency, together with credibility is high on the
agenda.
Call for Papers
You are invited to submit full proposals (no abstracts are
required) for paper presentations in parallel sessions, or posters that
relate to one or more of the conference themes. Poster presentations
will also be themed and moderated in related panel discussions. For
details and format requirements please, visit the respective
conference page.
There will also be space in the programme for a limited
number of workshops, introducing a more comprehensive theme and for
interactive (learning café or cracker barrel) sessions. The maximum
number of workshops, cracker-barrel/learning café sessions will be 10
altogether.
Papers should be submitted in English
by 23th August or for
later submissions by 5th September
2010, through the online
submission form.
Authors of papers submitted by 23th August will be notified
about acceptance by 6 September. All other authors will be notified by
15th September at the latest.
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