EDEN Virtual Annual Conference 2021: “Lessons from a pandemic for the future of education” https://www.eden-online.org/2021_madrid/

1. Opportunity
knocks!
Have your say
in shaping
EDEN2030
Conversation A conversation with selected experts to collect
oppinions on EDEN future development and to
frame the EDEN SWOT Excercise

2. If you think
about EDEN:
What does it
stand for for
you…?
What are the
values coming
to your mind…?
• We are the leading open and inclusive,
European, authentic, appreciative community
with a shared purpose, where members feel at
home in the family of distance and e-learning
professionals
• We foster leadership, networking, dialogue and
curiosity and deal with up-to-date rersearch and
forefront innovation in education
• It is important to us to be valuable for our
members, reliable, transparent, foster
transformation and bridge between tradition
and innovation.

3. Main Messages

4. Main
Messages for
EDEN Futures
• EDEN – Better & more explicit craft &
catalyse the message of future of learning
and skills (instead of organising conversations
between the members about our own
institutions)
• EDEN – Organise European policy dialogue:
Become the forum to invite EU stakeholders
on digital learning policies (EUA, EURASHE,
ESU, ENQA)

5. Main
Messages for
EDEN Futures
• EDEN – Use membership power to develop
Exploratoriums: Start with policy labs
• EDEN – Become the European reference:
Engage (Fellow) Experts to publish regular
seminal/ reference reports
• EDEN – Invent new community formats (i.e.
Micronetworks, Leadership forums)

6. Messages in Detail…

7. I - EDEN – Host of Learning Futures
Conversations
• EDEN – Better & more explicit craft & catalyse the message of
future of learning and skills (beyond organising conversations
between the members about our own institutions)
• More: Foster multistakeholder dialogue as default format for
events (practice, research, policy)

8. II - EDEN: Have a stronger Policy Voice
• EDEN needs to develop further its policy voice: Start an agenda
setting process
• EDEN points of policy contact: Organise points of contacts with
policy makers
• EDEN policy task force (from Fellows Council)

9. II - EDEN: Have a stronger Policy Voice
• Develop EDEN policy labs: Smart, small scale membership led
Exploratoriums in which practice and policy is formulated/ shaped/
further developed
• EDEN organises EU Stakeholder policy dialogue on learning futures
with EU stakeholder organisations (EUA, EURASHE, ESU, ENQA, etc.)

10. III - EDEN: Which Community futures?
•EDEN – Invent new community formats (i.e.
Micronetworks, Leadership forums)
•EDEN needs to develop new formats/ ideas/ concepts
for the community

11. III - EDEN: Which Community futures?
•EDEN is too introvert (cease opportunity: from an
emergency to an inclusive concept of TEL)
•New target groups, EDEN needs to map communities
which are not reached yet (from GOF to new)
•EDEN discussed too much challenges of our own
institutions (makes us feel loke a family but not open
enough)

12. III - EDEN: New Community Formats
•EDEN: New Community Formats - Develop Experts’
involvement
• EDEN needs to make more of its expertise
• Network of Academic Professionals
• Fellow Council
• More visibility
• More operational & More involved

13. IV - EDEN – Valorise Expertise
• EDEN needs to develop a systematic interface to the Corporate
World
• EDEN needs to produce visible regular products (branded
research/ practice reports/ whitepapers/ policy statements)
• Become the European reference: Engage (Fellow) Experts to
publish regular seminal/ reference reports

14. V – Open issues?
• Should we expand the membership?
• How can leadership be better expressed?
• How can membership be involved in more transparent real-time
strategy development?