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EADTU Annual Conference 2010
Strategies and business models
for lifelong learning
Networking Conference
27-29 September 2010
Zermatt, Switzerland

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28 October 2010
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE !!!!

Dear members, participants and interests,

We're happy to announce that proceedings of EADTU's 2010 Conference in Zermatt, from 27-29 September 2010, are available online.

For opening session, closing session, and keynotes: click here

For papers: read more

For Powerpoint presentations and presented manuals:

Manual EPICS
Manual Organising EADTU
Virtual mobility at uninettuno
USBM Showcases Report
The Webcam Exam

Although most papers were delivered by the deadline preliminary to the conference, we gladly accept and re-publish any individual contribution that will be forwarded to angelique.roemgens@eadtu.eu within the next 2 weeks.  By November 12th the proceedings will be finalized, with no more changes possible.

13 August 2010
The Board of Trustees of Fernstudien Schweiz (FS-CH) has appointed Professor Marc Bors as the new rector and Professor Ueli Frauenfelder as the new Vice-Rector. Professor Bors is thus on the first August 2010, the successor of Prof. Paul Volken as rector.
11 August 2010
Speakers are reminded of the deadline for providing their paper in WORD-extension (not PDF) by 1 September 2010 at the very latest at paperszermatt2010@eadtu.eu. The paper has to be in line with the specifications provided on the conference website.
16 June 2010
Check out our HIGH level social event on Tuesday at the Gornergrat (Observatory). The panorama is considered to be one of the most beautiful of the world! Click here!
9 June 2010
Are you curious about the set up of the parallel sessions? Click here!
1 June 2010
Are you interested in sponsoring our conference? Please contact us for more information about the sponsor packages.
31 March 2010
Call for papers - format specifications
For the call for papers and the format specification of papers and abstract.

EADTU ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010

A networking conference at great height

This year’s annual conference will take place in Zermatt. Zermatt lies on the Italian border of the canton of Valais in the west of Switzerland at the foot of the Matterhorn. Zermatt is all about high-alpine, awe-inspiring and originality. The climate is of an excellent quality, with 300 sunny days a year, there is less rainfall than anywhere else in Switzerland. The air in Zermatt is clear, dry and clean, because only electric cars without a combustion engine are allowed to operate in the village. Things are a little different in Zermatt. Zermatt: a world of its own! For three days, 27-28-29 September, Zermatt can become your world!  Experience it yourself. Register now for our conference.

This year’s scope

The scope of the conference is ‘the development of institutional strategies and business models for lifelong open and flexible learning, including (international) cooperation between institutions’.

This year’s themes

The main themes are:

  • Lifelong Learning
    • Policy: Setting the research and innovation agenda for open and flexible teaching and learning in higher education and for lifelong learning.
    • Best practice: Showcases of successful lifelong learning strategies and business models.
  • Open Educational Resources
    Cooperation, development and implementation models in higher education.
  • Quality Assurance
    Including quality assurance in higher education and benchmarking the quality of open and flexible learning.
  • Virtual Mobility and Virtual Erasmus
    Raising the numbers and quality of mobility of staff and students by the integration of Virtual Erasmus.
  • Academic Cooperation
    Including academic cooperation for international master spaces and joint doctorates and networked teaching and learning at the undergraduate and graduate level.
  • Employability & Entrepreneurship
    Education and training for employment and entrepreneurship through open and flexible provisions, combining informal and formal learning for innovation.

(Keynote) speakers

Llorenc Valverde
Hanne Smidt
Claude Roch
Brian Holmes
Zhang Deming
Carlos Reis
Marc_Bors
Janerik Lundquist
George Ubachs
Jørgen Bang
Kees-Jan van Dorp
Fred Truyen
Jaap van Marle
Alan Tait
Piet Henderikx
Luís Tinoca
Martin Watkinson
Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz

View the full list of speakers