The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2016
Enhancing European Higher Education; 'opportunities and impact of new modes of teaching'
Wednesday 19 October 2016
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
19 - 21 October 2016
ROME, ITALY
Hosted by
Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno Rome
13:00-14:30 Conference registration
14:30 Plenary opening session in Auditorium: Networks of Traditional and on-line Universities for a Global Citizenship
Opening by Anja Oskamp, President EADTU and Recor Open University of the Netherlands
Official adresses, Chair: Alejandro Tiana Ferrer, vice-president EADTU and rector UNED, Spain
14:35 Maria Amato Garito, Rector of Uninettuno
Welcome and presentation of Uninettuno
"Distance learning, the way to access inclusive and quality education, a response to refugees and migrants needs"
14:50 Minister Stefania Giannini, Minister of Education of the Italian Republic
"Academy diplomacy, ‎university and international cooperation for sustainable development in the Euro-Mediterranean area"
15:05 Fr. Michael Perry, General Chancellor of the Franciscan
Online‎education‎“The‎world‎facing‎academia”:‎The‎prospect‎of‎a‎pontifical‎university
15:20 Dr. Mansoor Al Awar, Chancellor Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) Dubai
"Smart Learning Facing the Challenges of Higher Education"
15:35 Memorandum of Understanding
Between the PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY ANTONIANUM, the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO and Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University
15:50 Presidential address by Anja Oskamp
EADTU policies and activities concerning empowering European universities for ICT-based teaching and learning, continuous education/CPD and short learning programs,
open education and MOOCs, social inclusion and education for migrants/refugees, blended education
Enhancing European Higher Education; 'opportunities and impact of new modes of teaching'
Innovating higher Education
16:10 Sir John Daniel, Former Vice-Chancellor Open University UK and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, Senior Advisor for International Affairs to CHEA (Council for Higher Education Accreditation, USA)
"Blended Learning - What Blend? Flexible Learning - How Flexible?"
16:30-17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00-19:00 Parallel sessions
Session 1 - Aula A
Open Education (OERs and MOOCs)
Chair: Danguole Rutkauskiene
17:00
UNIGE’s humanitarian interpreting
orientation module as a case study in
offering OERs as rapid responses meeting
immediate and large-scale educational
needs in emergency settings
Barbara Delahayes /Emma Sebastiani
(UNIGE- InZone, Switzerland)
A digital learning engagement model
supporting the sustainability of human
identity in a technology-herded
educational world
Yannis Angelis
(Fresenius Kabi, Germany)
MOOCs in HE - Opportunities and Treats.
Or how small can a learning unit be in
university degree programmes?
Arne Kjaer
(Aarhus University, Denmark)
Educating undergraduate students
for openness
Sandra Hofhues/Sabrina Pensel
(University of Cologne, Germany)
The learner's Journey Creating more engaging MOOCs
Adam Brown/Carl Dawson/Krishan Meetoo
Proversity
19:00-20:00
Session 2 - Aula 5
Empowering Universities
Chair: Lourdes Guardia
Empowering lecturers to facilitate high
quality education through the use of
learning technologies
Inger-Marie F. Christensen
(SDU Centre for Teaching and Learning,
Denmark)
Reflections on the inaugural Empower
Online Learning Leadership Academy
(EOLLA)
Tom Farrelly/Ana García-Serrano
Ruth Schaldach/Jeroen Thys
Your turn to talk: Participant beliefs of
synchronous classroom interaction
Eamon Costello
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
Digital teacher training. A tool for
excellence in Higher Education
Rubén Gómez Palomo
(UNED, Spain)
Session 3 - Aula B
Flexible Continuing Education
Chair: Antonio Texeira
Connacht Ulster Alliance Ireland,
Collaborative Initiative: Recognising Prior
Learning (RPL) with an online ePortfolio
assessment tool and an open online
assessor skills course
Carina Ginty/Gavin Clinch
(Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology,
Ireland)
Evaluating the significance of for-profit
versus non-profit education in the
veteran job market and the significance
of credentials in lieu of degrees
Donna Duellberg and DeAnna S. Dotson
(FC-T, United States Coast Guard, DC, USA)
Fostering the digital transformation of
European SMEs and Public
Administrations: the IN-CLOUD project
Dario Assante
(Uninettuno, Italy)
Using online primary sources to foster
historical thinking
James Brunton
(DCU, Ireland)
Work in Progress - The MicroElectronics
Cloud Alliance: A way to delivere OERs in
a Cloud-based European Infrastructure
Rosario Gil
(UNED, Spain)
CONFERENCE NETWORKING DRINK
Session 4 - Aula 3
Blended Degree Education
Chair: Paola Coro
Session 5 - Aula 10
Curriculum networking and mobility
Bring Your Own Device – Utilising
students’ own Laptops in Higher
Education
Harri Kuusela
(LAMK, Finland)
WORKSHOP
Blended learning for non-traditional
learners; Seven years of experience and
future challenges at a dual mode
university
Elisabeth Katzlinger/Ursula Niederländer
(JKU, Austria)
Creating a virtual space to support
self-access language learning
Oscar Serra
(University of Barcelona, Spain)
Can asynchronous discussions enhance
supervision of nursing students in clinical
placements?
Catrine Buck Jensen
(Bachelorprogram in Nursing, UiT The
Arctic University of Norway)
Performance Evaluation in Virtual
Lab Training
Dimitris Kalles / Vasilis Zafeiropoulos
(Hellenic Open University, Greece)
Blended Degree Development and
Operation: The Model of
Uninettuno University
Kyriakos Kouveliotis
Uninettuno
EDELNet
Curriculum networking and mobility
Challenges and rewards from
international cooperation
Empower Transnational Education
Huub Spoormans
Michiel van Oosterzee
(Open University, The Netherlands)
Thursday 20 October 2016
08:00-09:00 Conference registration
Session 1 - Aula A
MOOC Platforms and Portals
Chair: Yves Punie
09:00 Europe ambraces MOOCs - A prospective
analysus on the way ahead
António Teixeira / Darco Jansen
(Universidade Aberta, Portugal / EADTU)
ECO Elearning Communication Open Data
Analyses of satisfaction survey for MOOC:
the case study of the student perception
about "Creativity MOOC Camp"
Paula Herrero-Diz / Emma Camarero
(Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Spain)
Session 2 - Aula 5
Empowering Universities
WORKSHOP
Internationalization, Distance Education,
and Short Learning Programs
Session 3 - Aula B
Social Inclusion and HE
Chair: Seamus Fox
MUSACCES: Designing m-learning
interaction for disabled people and
inmates at Prado Museum
Covadonga Rodrigo
(UNED, Spain)
Lecturer Engagement with the Virtual
Learning Environment in Dublin City
University
Naoimh O'Reilly
(DCU, Ireland)
The role of comparative law in the
integration of migrants
Piervincenzo Pacileo
(Uninettuno, Italy)
Future Scenarios for Digital Learners:
Sociotechnological and sociocultural
trends will transform the current
educational ecosystem
Xavier Mas Garcia
(UOC, Spain)
The Impact of Distance Education for
Students with Disabilities in HE
Tiberio Feliz Murias (UNED, Spain)
Maria-Carmen Ricoy (Vigo University, Spain)
Cultural dynamic of Education, Science
and Social Representations in the
worlwide research landscape and
contemporary media scenario
Annamaria de Rosa
(Sapienza University Rome, Italy)
Ingrid Thaler
MOOCs – why (not)? Potentials and
barriers for European organisations and
learners
Christian Fiedl/Darco Jansen
(FH Joanneum, Austria)
(FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany)
Evaluating Quality in Scalable Open
Learning Formats: a proposal for a
Quality Reference Framework for MOOCs
António Teixeira
(Universidade Aberta, Protugal)
Session 4 - Aula 3
National and Institutional Policies
Chair: Mark Brown
Inclusive Higher Education: The role of
MOOCs in integration of refugees
Sanja Sontor
(Kiron Open Higher Education, Belgium)
Session 5 - Aula 10
Learning Analytics
Chair: Leonor Barroca
A Learning Analytics Methodology for
Student Performance Assessment in a
Distance and Open Education
Environment
Vassilios S. Verykios
(HOU, Greece)
Building an infrastructure for empowering
Distance Education in the
Open University of Cyprus
Christos Rodosthenous
(OUC, Cyprus)
Innovative practice relating to
examination in distance learning
Pierre Beust
(UNICAEN, France)
Learning by testing. Spaced Education
through QStream platform in large
number of students
Angeles Sánchez-Elvira
(UNED, Spain)
COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00
Session 1 - Aula A
Open Education (OERs and MOOCs)
Chair: Tiberio Feliz
11:00 Why the Many are Smarter than the Few:
Applications and Aspirations of
Crowdsourcing for Education
Enda Donlon
(Institute of Education, Dublin City
University, Ireland)
Comparing Institutional MOOC strategies:
Lithuanian case
Danguole Rutkauskiene
(Kaunas University of Technology,
Lithuania)
Session 2 - Aula 5
Empowering Universities
Chair: Karen Kear
Innovative forms of Quality Assurance for
Innovative Programmes
Sir John Daniel, Former Vice-Chancellor,
UK Open University
and
Stamenka‎Uvalić-Trumbić,‎Senior‎Advisor‎
for International Affairs to CHEA (Council
for Higher Education Accreditation, USA)
Session 3 - Aula B
Flexible Continuing Education
Chair: Josef Reif
Session 4 - Aula 3
Blended Degree Education
Chair: Arne Kjaer
Session 5 - Aula 10
Learning Analytics
Chair: Ángeles Sánchez-Elvira
Online Proctoring of Exams: authenticity,
integrity, security
Gavin Clinch
(Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland)
Development and Evaluation of an
Educational Scenario
Jean-Michel Jullien
(Fernuni, Switzerland)
Prevention of student drop-out in higher
distance education - positive technology
Marcela Paz González
(UNED, Spain)
Food for Thought: A New Type of Online
Course for non-traditional students
Virginia R. Mosser
(Southern Virginia University &
The University of Virginia, USA)
Daring to do differently; Innovative
experiences in education
Gilda Van-Zeller
(IPL, Portugal)
Emotions, engagement and self-efficacy
in e-learning process
Francesca D'Errico
(Uninettuno, Italy)
Empowering universities for excellence in
HE, improving the quality of HE
Anat Lechner
(Stern School of Business, NY, USA)
An examination of anxiety towards a
MOOC educational approach: the case
of the MOOC of the Alhambra
Esteban Romero-Frías
(University of Granada, Spain)
Widening Access to Scalable Digital
Education in Latin America:
The contribution of MOOC-Maker
Maria do Carmo Teixeira Pinto
(UAb, Portugal)
Active online education: a new
educational approach at the
Open University of the Netherlands
Kathleen Schlusmans
(Open University of the Netherlands)
Exploratory Teaching Space: Stimulating
innovation in teaching
Colette Knight
(RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Supporting New Modes of Teaching with
Technology: The Role of Institutional
Benchmarking
Mark Brown
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
Open badges - a new way of recognizing
and demonstrating the skills of students
and staff online
Jenni Meriläinen
(LAMK, Finland)
12:00 - 12:40 WORKSHOP
Responsible Innovation: Open and
online education for students and
professionals
Joost Groot Kormelink
(TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Electronics remote lab integration into a
MOOC – Achieving practical competences
into MOOCs
Rosario Gil
(UNED, Spain)
The blended learning model for degree
courses and initial teacher training: the
University of Foggia experience
Pierpaolo Limone/Anna Dipace
(University of Foggia, Italy)
Science Writing Resources for Learning;
A suite of open teaching and learning
science writing resources
Eric Jandciu
(University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada)
An exploration of #MOOC networks
and their stories
Eamon Costello
(DCU, Ireland)
Use of technology and analytical thinking
in university students: the positive
impact of the psycho-pedagogical model
of the International Telematic University
Uninettuno (UTIU)
Ileana Di Pomponio
(Uninettuno, Italy)
Semantic technologies can help in
learner-centred (re)design of study
programmes
Achilles Kameas
(Hellenic Open University, Greece)
Teaching for Transitions’: Reflecting on
three nationally funded projects that
developed digital tools to facilitate
transitions into Higher Education
James Brunton/Gavin Clinch/Tom Farrelly
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
LUNCH
13:00-14:00
Session 1 - Aula A
Open Education (OERs and MOOCs)
Chair: Serine El Salhat
14:00
Sustainable and Adaptive Integration of
MOOC-Videos in Distance HE
Cornelia Eube
(FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany)
What have they done with the MOOCs?!
Pedro Cabral
(TU‎Delft‎–‎Extension‎School
The Netherlands)
Global OER Graduate Network: Raising the
Profile of Research into Open Education
Beatriz de los Arcos
Session 2 - Aula 5
Empowering Universities
Chair: Inger Marie Christensen
Session 3 - Aula B
Flexible Continuing Education
Chair:
Session 4 - Aula 3
National and Institutional Policies
Chair: Kathleen Schlusmans
Improving the Quality and Relevance of
Vocational Teacher Education in Finland
Maija Kärnä
(Tampere University of Applied Sciences,
Finland)
Certified online learning paths compared
to MOOCs: experiences of
OpenClassrooms
Natalie Cernecka
(Open Classrooms, France)
Recommendations for OER-Integration in
Austrian Higher Education
Michael Kopp
(Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria)
Pilot structured mentorship program for
HE young teacher training and lifelong
e-Learning in Romania
Aurel Vlaicu
(The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca,
Romania)
INFORM INSPIRE INNOVATE™ - Redefining
an institutional Short Courses Division in
South Africa
Carol Kat
(Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Changing the Gear: Adopting
Inter-institutional Collaborative Course
Development as the Policy for Distance
Higher Education in Greece
George Androulakis
(HOU, Greece)
Session 5 - Aula 10
Learning Analytics
Chair: Eamon Costello
Beyond remote and virtual labs: mobile
laboratories for physics and engineering
in e-learning and traditional teaching
Livio Conti
(Uninettuno, Italy)
Massive on-line learning: moving from
web to mobile
Enrico Venuto
(Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
(The Open University, UK)
Blended learning with MOOCs: towards
supporting the learning design process
Laia Albó
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
Spain)
Online Education Resources as supports
for blended degree learning and flexible
continued education in
University College Cork
Patrick Kiely
(UCC, Ireland)
What can Europeana bring to
Open Education?
Fred Truyen
(KU Leuven, Belgium)
Gaming the System: Reflections on
Formative Approaches to Academic
Integrity
Colum Foley
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
Agile Open HEI competence modules
meet the needs of working life
Tytti Pintilä
(JAMK, Finland)
Needs and Challenges of e-Learning in
MENA Region
Pierre Gedeon
(Erasmus+ HERE, Lebanon)
Quality & Faculty Satisfaction in
Higher Education Online
Danila Scarozza
(Uninettuno, Italy)
15:15 - 16:00 WORKSHOP
What is "flexible and personalized
education" anyway? The current state in
Dutch Higher Education
Christien Bok
(SURFnet, The Netherlands)
The Committee on Accreditation of
Teacher Education Programs (CATEP) and
its vision of the quality of the initial
teachers training in the universities in
Quebec: dimensions and indicators
Valérie Djédjé
(UQAT Québec, Canada)
Creating curious learners through
short learning programmes
The workshop will provide a multidisciplinary perspective on learning
design, employer perspective and provide
takeaway ideas
16:00-16:30
16:30-18:30 Plenary session in auditorium
Continuing education and the role of MOOCs and OERs
Chair: Seamus Fox, Open Education DCU
Liz Moody / Jo Lambert
(Open University, UK)
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 Anders Flodström, Director of Education at EIT Digital
Continuing professional development as conceived by EIT Digital (European Institute for Innovation and Technology, Knowledge and Innovation Community Digital),
main issues for high level competence and skill development
16:50 Mark Lester, Director of Partnerships Development at FutureLearn
The role of MOOCs in the field continuing education, future developments in FutureLearn
17:10 Yves Punie, Senior scientist at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Directorate Innovation and Growth (JRC Sevilla)
"Promoting Open and Effective Digital-Age Learning in Europe: Results from research to support policy"
Institutional policies for new teaching and learning models
17:30 Lluís Pastor, Director of the eLearnCenter, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya research and innovation center in the field of eLearning
"Changes in Higher Education Driven by Online Learning"
17:50 Bart Rienties, Reader in Learning Analytics at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University UK
"Analytics4Action Evaluation Framework: a review of evidence-based learning analytics interventions at the Open University UK"
18:10 E-xcellence and OpenupEd awards
18:30 Closing
20:00-23:00
CONFERENCE DINNER
Mobile learning: A one-year-old
Italo-Japanese collaboration
Satoshi Yamawaki/Atsushi Inutsuka
(Castalia, Japan)
Agile practices taught online at a
distance
Leonor Barroca
(Open University, UK)
The role of the image in online education:
from the representation of reality models
and concepts to the drawing of a new
space without place and time
Rosario Marrocco
(Uninettuno, Italy)
Friday 21 October 2016
Session 1 - Aula A
Open Education (OERs and MOOCs)
Chair: Fred Truyen
9:00 ‘A good start is half the work’: Developing
a MOOC to aid flexible learner transition
into Higher Education
James Brunton
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
How to develop a pedagogic and
workable MOOC
Päivi Kananen
(Open University of University of
Jyväskylä, Finland)
Learning to Learn Online
A MOOC with a difference
Martha Cleveland-Innes
(Athabasca University, Canada)
MOOSL democratizing education with
social learning MOOCs
Ove Christensen
(School And Learning Center, University
College Zealand, Denmark)
Session 2 - Aula 5
Empowering Universities
Chair: Darco Jansen
Inspiring excellence in teaching: the
Higher Education Academy approach
Stephanie Marshall
(Higher Education Academy, UK)
Course evaluation by the students: a way
to improve teaching quality
Valérie Follonier
(UniDistance, Switzerland)
E-students' readiness to adjust to online
learning technology
Luciano Di Mele
(Uninettuno, Italty)
Web-based learning performancecentered to develop professional
competencies in Program Evaluation
Catalina Martínez-Mediano
(UNED, Spain)
Session 3 - Aula B
Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation
Chair:
Session 4 - Aula 3
Blended Degree Education
Chair: Dario Assante
Session 5 - Aula 10
Empowering Universities
OpenMed: Opening up Education in
Arab-Mediterranean countries
Fabio Nascimbeni
(Universidad Internacional de la Rioja,
Spain)
Improvement of the
Teacher Training Quality
Tatyana Olenik
(H. S. Skovoroda National Pedagogical
University, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Euro-Israeli Cooperation for On-line
Education in Nanotechnologies
Slavka Tzanova
(Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
Students’ experiences of different types
of (distance) learning
Sami Suhonen
(TAMK, Finland)
E-xcellence: quality in the changing
e-learning landscape
European Union Law and Policies and the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership in comparative perspective
Francesca Maschio
(Uninettuno, Italy)
A programmatic blended learning
approach through the use of digital
technologies
Norm Vaughan
(Mount Royal University Calgary, Canada)
(Open University, UK)
Open Professional Collaboration in Europe
Airina Volungevičienė
President of European Distance and
E-Learning Network (EDEN)
WORKSHOP
Digital Education and Open Innovation:
UNINETTUNO "Be Digital" case
Alessandro Caforio
(Uninettuno, Italy)
The Impact of Emerging Web 3.0 on
Online Learning
Ilaria Venturini
(Università Telematica Pegaso, Italy)
WORKSHOP
Empower Quality Assurance
Jon Rosewell
Empower Knowledge Resources
Library benchmarking for student
and teaching staff support in
digital universities
Paul Bacsich (SeroHE, UK)
Gema Santos-Hermosa (Open University
of Catalonia and Chair of EMPOWER
Knowledge Resources' group of experts)
11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary session in auditorium
New policies and strategies for open and flexible education.
Chair: Anja Oskamp, President of EADTU and rector of Open University of The Netherlands (OUNL)
11:30 Julie Anderson, policy officer in the European Commission's higher education policy team in DG Education and Culture
The European Competences Framework and the modernization agenda of European universities
11:50 Institutional policies
Panel with Newish, Oldish and Alliance University, introduced by Mark Brown (EOLLA) - "Learning Leadership: Insights from EOLLA"
EMPOWER programma by George Ubachs
Three major policy lines for old and new universities and their partnerships, as conceived by teams of the EMPOWER Online Learning Academy
12:15- 13:00 The Rome Declaration
12:15 The Rome Declaration by Anja Oskamp
Themes: the competences framework and the skills/modernisation agenda, higher education for migrants/refugees, empowering universities, open education by
OERs, MOOCs and open media
12:25 Panel on the Declaration
Julie Anderson, Maria Amata Garito, Alejandro Tiana Ferrer, Theo Bastiaens
12:50 Closing
Ivan Colagè - professor of Philosophy Università Pantificia Antonianum
Anja Oskamp - President of EADTU and rector of Open University of The Netherlands (OUNL)
13:00-14:00
CLOSING DRINK