A 10-minutes presentation at a seminar organized by the International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) and the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR), in cooperation with Norway Opening Universities (NOU). Oslo, February 27-28, 2012

1. The European Scene A Presentation by Professor Morten Flate Paulsen, President of EDEN At a seminar organized by the International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) and the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR), in cooperation with Norway Opening Universities (NOU). Oslo, February 27-28, 2012

5. The EDEN Fellows met in Dublin to celebrate EDEN’s 20th anniversary and to reflect on the remarkable developments in e-learning and the challenges ahead. The workshop concluded that all major developments during the last five years had been predicted, although not by all. Even so, the Fellows agreed that resistance to educational innovation persists . In fact, developments are mostly substantial slower than foreseen because educational institutions inertia is much more effective than hoped. Important emerging technologies pointed out by the Fellows were: social media; open educational resources and practices; mobile learning and personal learning environments.

7. In its Europe 2020 strategy, the EU Commission stressed the importance of healthy and active ageing, and 2012 will be The European Year of Active Ageing and the Solidarity between Generations . EDEN has therefore chosen Open Learning Generations as the theme for its annual conference in Porto in June.

8. Some personal thoughts Ipads and other mobile gadgets in combination with the growing culture for sharing through social media were promising developments in 2011. In addition, video lectures seem to pop up all over the Internet. After the July 22 massacre in Norway, we should remind both young and mature learners of the dangers of unlimited and unattended access to extreme networks and resources on the Internet.

9. Planning for Oslo EDEN’s Annual Conference,17-21 June 2013

10. Thank you I care, so I share: http://home.nki.no/morten https://twitter.com/MFPaulsen http://www.slideshare.net/MortenFP http://www.facebook.com/mfpaulsen Morten Flate Paulsen, NKI Nettstudier http://www.eden-online.org/blog