ICDE – Page 11 – Digital Learning Dispatches

The first Envisioning Report for Empowering Universities in the uptake of new modes of teaching and learning was formally launched at a Special EADTU-EU Summit on Open and Flexible Higher Education in Brussels in May 2017. The report co-edited by Professor Mark Brown is an outcome of the EMPOWER initiative and offers a number of think pieces on the future of higher education. Click here to download a PDF version of the report.

Copies of the report were also distributed to delegates attending the recent ICDE Leadership Summit in Nancy, France (May 22-23, 2017). You can read a brief summary of the highlights of this submit on the ICDE website and the slide-deck from Professor Mark Brown’s talk is available below.

Methodological Issues in Learning Analytics: Critical Insights and Reflections from Mark Brown

We are pleased to announce that DCU and more specifically the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) has recently been accepted as a new member of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). ICDE is widely regarded as the world’s peak professional body for promoting Open, Distance and Digital Learning and is celebrating 75 years of global impact. Last year, at the annual conference in Tianjin, China, Professor Mark Brown was recipient of an ICDE prize under the theme of impact. The NIDL looks forward to actively contributing to the ICDE community. Notably, staff associated with the NIDL already play valuable leadership roles on a number of professional bodies and currently serve on the executive committees of the following associations: