Events

See pictures of previous events here

Upcoming events

CONCEDE will finish in December 2011. At the moment there are no further events scheduled.

Past events organised by the CONCEDE Team

CONCEDE Final Conference

Our final conference was held 14 September in Oeiras.  Visit the dedicated page to find presentations, information on the programme and conference concept as well as pictures.

Policy Seminar on open educational practices

Please see the dedicated page here.

Selection of Conference presentations

The CONCEDE project’s partners were present in the following events:

EDEN conference 2011

When: 21st June, 2011
Where: Dublin
Go to conference website.

“My Truth, Yours and Ours – How to Bring Together the Quality Standards of University Students, Teachers and the Higher Education Institutions”

Outcomes of CONCEDE pilots on a quality dialogue on UGC in teaching and learning in our partner universities will be presented.

ED Media conference 2011

When: June 27 – July 1,  2011
Where: Lisbon
Go to conference website.

Further information up to come.

Plymouth e-learning conference

When: 4th April, 2011
Where: Plymouth, UK
Website: http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/e-learning/

The Plymouth e-learning conference (PELC) with the title “Digital Futures: Learning in a Connected World” will took place 6-8 April, 2011. CONCEDE was present with an interactive session:
Quality of User Generated Content and User Co-designed Practices in Higher Education
The use of user/learner generated content (UGC) in higher education often raises skepticism – sometimes due to its success and the quantity of UGC in comparison to content elaborated by professionals. There are evident implications in terms of opening up the “ivory tower” of education to the wider world, because hierarchies and the concept of “authority” are questioned. In addition to that, the rapidly growing number of learning materials and repositories generated by users makes the issue of quality a pressing one – quality of the content, but especially quality of the learning process it is part of. At this, quality as a subjective concept becomes more and more the result of a negotiation process all stakeholder groups.
Following these thoughts, the presentation will focus on the results of an online survey (approx. 400 respondents) where we intended to
•    identify forms of UGC already being used in Higher Education;
•    find the preferred sources which are extensively used;
•    identify the sources of UGC which are perceived to be of quality,
in order to draw a picture of the attitudes of HE stakeholders towards UGC. Then, we will draft a methodology derived from this exercise and based on the idea that with the increased usage of UGC the learning process itself will be modified by the learners. First results from the piloting at several European universities will be described.

International Technology, Education and Development Conference IATED

When: 7-9 March 2011
Where: Valencia, Spain
Website: IATED website

The Quality Framework for the introduction of User Generated Content in Higher Education was presented at the International Technology, Education and Development Conference IATED . 400 attendees from 50 countries were present. For more infos please follow the link above.

International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI)

When: 15-17 November, 2010
Where: Madrid, Spain
Website: http://www.iated.org/iceri2010/announcement

A special honour was awarded to CONCEDE at the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation in Madrid: the paper titled “OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND USER GENERATED CONTENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION – NEW CONCEPTS, OLD PROBLEMS?” was chosen amongst 500 papers to be presented in the plenary session and was well received by 600 participants from 60 countries. For more info follow the link above. Slides can be found in meetings 13

Online Educa Berlin 2010

When: December 1st-3rd, 2010
Where: Hotel Intercontinental, Berlin, Germany
Website: http://www.online-educa.com/
CONCEDE will offer a half-day pre-conference workshop in collaboration with the OPAL initiative at one of the most re-known conferences in the field. Participation is for free.

EDEN Research Workshop 2010

When: October 24th-27th, 2010
Where: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Website: EDEN Website

CONCEDE was presented at the Sixth EDEN Research workshop in Budapest which was titled “User Generated Content Assessment in Learning: Enhancing Transparency and Quality of Peer Production” attended by 126 participants from 26 countries. The morning session of the third day included a presentation on CONCEDE was present with a session called “User Generated Content In Higher Education: Approaches To Quality Assurance”. For more info follow the link above – slides can be found in meetings 11 . The workshop and the plenary sessions offered an insight into first outcomes of project activities and engaged all participants to share their views on UGC and quality in education.

Protocol by Gráinne Conole (OUUK) on http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4710

Protocol by Gráinne Conole (OUUK) on http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4713

Audio file on http://www.efquel.org/downloads/audio/Walter_Kugemann_on_Openness_and_Quality_-_Speech_at_the_6th_EDEN_Research_Workshop.MP3

EFQUEL Innovation Forum

When: September, 8-10, 2010
Where: Palace of the former Marquises of Pombal, Oeiras, Lisbon
Website: http://www.efquel.org

Thomas Kretschmer (ILI/FIM) and Marcelo Patras Maina (UOC) are presenting the CONCEDE project to give an input for the discussion on User Generated Content and its meaning for inclusion, innovation and excellence:

Roberto Carneiro, Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP), has held a keynote speech on opening education, user generated content, educational quality and changing paradigms at the EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2010:

Roberto Carneiro – Keynote speech at the EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2010 by EFQUEL

Workshop at EDEN Conference

When: June, 8-10, 2010
Where: Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Website: EDEN website

Conference Poster

Workshop at PELC conference, Plymouth

When: April, 8-9, 2010
Where: Plymouth

Workshop at INTED conference, Valencia

When: March, 8-9, 2010
Where: Valencia