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EUNIS at the ET2020 working group on Digital Skills and Competences meeting

EUNIS at the ET2020 working group on Digital Skills and Competences meeting

The goal of the Working Group is to look at the development of digital skills and competences at all levels and stages of learning. How can education  and training address the growing need for digital skills? How can learners and teachers benefit from ICT developments? The group shares experience, evidence, analysis and policy options.

EUNIS representative has been selected among the experts to advise on the digital skills and ICT.

Themes that the group work on include:

  • Digital skills gaps and the link to education planning and curriculum planning.
  • Teacher training for digital education.
  • The role of management and leadership in promoting modernisation of education.
  • Quality assurance, validation and accreditation of digitally-acquired skills.
  • Quality of digital and online educational material.
  • Policy level issues and initiatives.
  • The role of computational thinking/skills and coding.
  • Learning Analytics and data in education.

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Free Webinar: Capturing Learning, Monday 6th March 13.30-14.30 (CET)

Free Webinar:  Capturing Learning.   Monday 6th March 13.30-14.30 (CET)

EUNIS member Manchester Metropolitan University (winner of the 2014 EUNIS Elite Award) invites you to join one of their teaching and learning conversations.

Following our last webinar on e-assessment EUNIS members expressed an interest in looking at the more pedagogic aspects of assessment so here is the opportunity. In this webinar we will look at the role of assessment in higher education. In focusing on curriculum and qualifications do we really capture all of the knowledge and skills that students develop? Technology has a role to play but so does how we think about learning outcomes.

The free webinar will be held on Monday 6th of March at 13.30 -14.30 CET. To participate in the webinar simply go to the registration page and follow the instructions. You do not need to register in advance but please allow sufficient time to connect and check your setup.

Read more on the webinar here.

 

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The HOLA Cloud Roadmap – identify the major challenges

The HOLA Cloud Roadmap – identify the major challenges

The HOLA Cloud roadmap compiles the opinion of ICT experts to assess how CLOUD Computing will develop over the next years.

Basing on the experts’ opinions the roadmap tries to identify which long-term developments are needed on basis of the overall research and development trends both in industry and academy, as well as market trends that indicate how the requirements and market needs will develop.

The Roadmap has now been published as a living document on HOLA Cloud website, where the key topics and the individual aspects are presented in full detail and opened to discussion. In regular intervals, the comments will be analysed and the roadmap updated accordingly. On behalf of euroCRIS (the partner of the project) we encourage  to contribute to the HOLA Cloud Roadmap.

Contribute to the HOLA Cloud Roadmap

Hola Cloud received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project targets to establish effective mechanisms for efficient collaboration among the members of the Software, Services and Cloud Computing community.

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An early Christmas present for EUNIS members

EUNIS is pleased to announce that we have negotiated a special deal for free access to EUNIS members at Integrated Systems Europe – ISE 2017, which takes place in Amsterdam on 7-10 February 2017. ISE is the world’s largest AV and systems integration trade show and will be of interest to anyone involved with audio-visual support, learning content, digital signage, smart buildings and unified communications.

As part of this event there will be a half day conference on Creating a Smarter Campus which will be chaired by Dr Gill Ferrell leader of the EUNIS Learning and Teaching Task Force Creating a Smarter Campus:

7 Feb. 2017
Conference: 14:00-17:00
Networking Reception: 17:00-18:00
More information

If you belong to a  EUNIS member organisation and would like a VIP pass to the event including free attendance at the Creating a Smarter Campus conference or you would like a free exhibition-only pass please contact gill@aspire-edu.org

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Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour 2017

Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour 2017

Each year the Vietsch Foundation awards a Medal of Honour to individuals who have contributed to the development of a service, technology or approach that will be of enduring value to the community.

Suggestions for people who should be awarded the 2017 Medal of Honour are very welcome. Nominations, including details of what has been achieved and why the achievement is of outstanding value to the research and education community, should be sent to  nominations@vietsch-foundation.org by Friday 24 February, 17:00 CET.

The trustees aim to award next year’s Vietsch Foundation medal of honour at the TNC17 networking conference to be held in Linz, Austria between 29 May – 2 June 2017.

The Vietsch Foundation was created in 2014 in memory of Karel Vietsch, former Secretary General of the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA).

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