Challenges
for research into Open & Distance Learning:
Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things
Call
for Contributions
Invitation
 As a founding member of EDEN the
Open University
is pleased to be hosting and sponsoring EDENRW8
which will be held in Oxford on 27-28
October 2014 ('zero day' 26
October). The theme
and scope
reflects the current challenges facing
researchers and the intersection of their work
with ‘doing better things’ for key
stakeholders.
The format
of the event is key. This is not your usual
conference program and definitely a workshop
format! You will not sit through long
presentations and juggle a programme by jumping
from one room to another and network between
sessions. The networking occurs as an essential
aspect of your experience. Featuring small
groups for deep dialogues, feedback on your
research, team symposia,
‘research-speed-dating’ papers,
demonstrations, poster sessions, a connect
lounge, informal sessions for meet the
professor for early career and
postgraduate researchers , world café style
facilitation and presentations along with our
resident keynotes. You can also volunteer to be
one of our social media ambassadors or be in the
lucky dip for a curator role.
EDENRW8
is very focussed on you the researcher and what
you can learn from and with your peers. It takes
place in an intimate setting where researchers
including postgraduate students can share
research, connect with peers and have adequate
time to discuss the challenges of their work.
EDENRW8 is suitable for
researchers and postgraduate students and
particularly those wishing to actively connect
with peers and debate Challenges for
research into Open & Distance Learning:
Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things.
Call for Contributions
 EDEN intends to bring together
differing points of view with a debate approach
and speakers who back up their points of view
with sound research.
We invite
all interested professionals to take part and
discover the Workshop
Themes by submitting their proposals.
Submissions
that relate to the Workshop
Scope and one or more of the Workshop
Themes are welcome in papers,
workshops/symposia, posters and demonstrations
categories by the deadline: 1 September.
You are encouraged to submit your proposal
earlier to support a speedy evaluation of the
proposals and enhance your possibility to
register early in time. Proposals submitted before
11 July will be evaluated within two
weeks.
Submissions
will be double peer reviewed by the Conference
Committee. Accepted contributions will be
published in the electronic Conference
Proceedings with ISBN and their summary in the
printed Book of Abstracts.
For details
visit the Call
for Contributions and the Submission
Guidelines.
To submit
your proposal, please use the online
submission form.
Schedule and Deadlines
Paper Submission: 1
September 2014
Registration Open: 1 September 2014
Notification of Authors: 15 September
2014
Conference Venue, Oxford
There are few places
more quintessentially and unashamedly
English than Oxford, a city so
picturesque that even its nickname,
‘The City of Dreaming Spires’,
sounds lifted from a classic romance
novel. This city perfectly blends old
English charm with modern shopping
streets, a cutting-edge arts scene and a
buzzing nightlife.
The conference venue is
the Oxford Spires Four
Pillars Hotel – surrounded by
lush and tranquil greenery just 15
minutes walk from the city centre –
providing an excellent setting for the
event with professional facilities.
The Research Workshop is
organised in cooperation with the Open University, a
world leader in modern distance
learning, pioneer of teaching and
learning methods which enable people to
achieve their career and life goals
studying at times and in places to suit
them.
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