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EADTU’s annual conference 2008, Poitiers, France, 18-19 September 2008 (22. Apr. 2008)

"Lifelong learning in higher education: networked teaching and learning in a knowledge society.”

The conference was organised under the French EU presidency 2008 and was hosted by the Centre National d’Éducation à Distance (CNED) at the Futuroscope site in Poitiers.

The scope of the conference:
Moving from an information society towards a knowledge society requires facing the challenge of lifelong learning as a continuum from initial education to higher education and adult continuing education. Conventional universities have difficulties in effectively responding to the lifelong learning paradigm. What can be the strategy to reach a vast number of potential lifelong learners having different backgrounds, origins, education, professional training and experience?

The leading themes of the conference were:
• Open Educational Resources in a lifelong learning context;
• From Virtual Mobility towards Virtual Erasmus;
• Quality Assurance and Benchmarking for online and distance learning;
• University Strategies and Business Models for lifelong learning;
• Research in lifelong learning;
• Employability and online learning.

During the conference, a series of plenary and parallel sessions were guiding the audience through the various aspects of networked teaching and learning in a knowledge society.

For more information please see: http://www.eadtu.nl/conference-2008