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  EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2012
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Join the EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2012 !
5 - 7 September 2012, Granada
How can we turn our traditional educational institutions into (r)evolutionary leading organisations? How can innovation be stimulated? The conference will observe and analyse how open innovation can be used to transform today’s educational institutions
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Info and Registration


Paper presentations selected, full list online!

This year, the EFQUEL Innovation Forum is for the first time welcoming paper submissions to complement the usual interactive workshop programme.  The papers will be presented within small discussion groups to guarantee a maximum level of interaction around the findings and research results. At the end of the session all paper presenters will formulate two questions as an outcome of the table discussions that can generate further online dialogue and that will be brought to next year's EIF  Find the list of papers on the EIF website!
>> Find the list of papers and authors
>> Visit the programme overview page

Certification of open learning: Up-to-date practice and a future vision

Current debates on radical changes in HEI sector are fueled by new models of educational provision by non-formal providers e.g. the Khan academy, Itunes U and Iversity. Leading providers were often part of the open access movement which had gained traction within universities first, leading to the creation of numerous courseware repositories of open educational resources (OERs) worldwide. In recent years a number of prestigious universities have started to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) expanding access to formal education to potentially tens of thousands of learners. Those new models of the formal learning sector are currently challenged by a lack of examples of accreditation of learning obtained through them, thus significantly reducing their transformative potential. The workshop addresses this need. >> Continue reading about this workshop on the EIF website.

‘e’ Innovation in the Academic Process

The EFQUEL Innovation Forum provides prominent EFQUEL members space to discuss with participants their own approaches to innovation.   On the 6th of September, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI) will therefore organise an interactive workshop around the topic of innovation in Higher Education, using their own experiences as a starting point for working groups and discussions.

This workshop will be guided by two main areas of academic innovations that MESI has been introducing and supporting recently:

  • experience and processes in an umbrella university management which are defined by new global trends of digital world
  • usage of Web 2.0 services

. >> Continue reading the article on the EIF website

In the Picture:  SimAula Tomorrow’s Teachers Training – Interactive session

The interactive session “SimAula Tomorrow’s Teachers Training” is organised within the frame of the EU SimAULA project. The project aims to promote the use of serious games technology and new innovative methodologies in future teachers’ preparation. The goals of this one-hour session are: to share the results achieved in the project, to provoke a professional discussion on the potentials of immersive and virtual environments for supporting learning and to receive audience’s feedback and recommendations about the developed SimAULA virtual practicum. >> Continue reading the article

Registration OPEN !

The registration for the EFQUEL Innovation Forum is open.  Participants from Spain and EFQUEL members can enjoy discounted rates.  

>>> Go the registration page



Info and contact: info@efquel.org

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