During the online EADTU 2020 General Assembly meeting, 28 October 2020, Ricardo Mairal Usón, Rector de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) was elected for the next term 2020-2022 as President of the Association. We thank Liz Marr (OUUK) for her dedicated work as president of the EADTU for the past two years.

Due to the Covid-19 crisis, EADTU is now organising this year’s conference as an Online Bridging Event, 28-30 October 2020, towards next year’s onsite IHE2021 Conference in Bari (3-5 November 2021).

As announced, our Innovating Higher Education (I·HE2020) Conference was planned for the 28th till 30th October 2020, in Bari Italy, as long as the developments around Covid-19 would allow us. Although the crisis is decreasing and regulations are loosened, most of academics are not allowed to travel this year.

Today, June 19th 2020, is the launch of the OpenVM Special Interest Group (SIG), dedicated to virtual mobility.

EADTU in cooperation with the OpenVM partnership is organising a 2 days online event on virtual mobility. In these sessions there will be demonstrations of opportunities and formats of virtual mobility.

[EADTU-EU ONLINE SUMMIT]

Considering the current situation of the Corona crisis we decided to change this year’s edition to an ONLINE event.

"Digital Transformation and Innovation in Education”
Thursday 30th April 09:30 - 12:00

Currently many events for the coming months are cancelled due to the Corona crisis. The I·HE2020 organisers are constantly monitoring the situation with regard to the outbreak of Covid-19.

EADTU joining forces in organising online teaching; bringing together the basics and expertise in online education, useful resources and free (live) webinars, seminars and courses.

The special online seminar (16th March 20202), we organised with our member NIDL in Ireland on supporting educators to move online, was a great success with almost 200 participants. Following our webinar, a webpage is now launched with a list of resources that we will update further over the next few days

EADTU has changed the name of the “Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference” (OOFHEC2020) to the “Innovating Higher Education Conference” (IHE2020). Every year we will link the IHE conference with a new subtitle that reflects our main scope of the year. This year’s scope is ’Digital Transformation and Innovation in Education’.