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The annual Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2016 (20th & 21st October) took place in Rome hosted by the University Telematica. The Minister of Education opened the event (see video) and over the two-days NIDL staff was visible throughout the conference programme. In total, members of the NIDL team presented 10 papers, including a brief invited Plenary by Professor Mark Brown on the last afternoon of the conference. More details of the papers presented by our team can be found in the conference proceedings and/or on the research outputs section of the NIDL website.

Rome

The NIDL is particularly active in the European Association for Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), which organises the conference, and currently Seamus Fox and Mark Brown serve on the Supervisory Committee.

This year’s Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) conference known as EdTech 2016 (May 26-27) was held in the Law Society Education Building in Dublin. The conference theme was “ReConstituting TEL: Rising to the Challenge”, with three keynote speakers: Audrey Watters, Rhona Sharpe and Mike Feerick.

We are pleased to report that NIDL staff made a major contribution to the conference programme, with a total of around 20 presentations, short Gasta sessions and/or workshops, which equates to approximately 20% of offerings coming from Dublin City University. A full list of NIDL staff presentations is available from our list of scholarly outputs on our website. The conference was very well organised and the general consensus is that this year’s event rates as one of the best EdTech conferences in recent times. Congratulations to everyone involved in making the conference such an outstanding success.