UNESCO has partnered up with ICDE, Commonwealth of Learning and INQAAHE for the initiative: International Conference on Quality Assurance: Achieving Sustainable Development through a diverse provision of Higher Education, to be held at UNESCO Head Quarter in Paris, June 2018.

The next EADTU-EU Summit will take place in Brussels on 25 April 2017.

The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2017 (OOFHEC2017) will be hosted by the Open University in Milton Keynes (UK): 25 - 27 October 2017.

Registration is open!

EADTU amongst others focusses on open education and as such strongly supports activities related to OER, MOOCs and other educational provisions that enables access to quality education to all in need for higher education. Therefore EADTU supports the efforts of UNESCO and COL in their preparation of 2nd OER World Congress later this year.

Shaking the brick and mortar: moving Higher Education online
Recording Workshop, Monday 5th December 2016
Sala Europa – European University Institute

The new Postgraduate Program of the Hellenic Open University Language Education for Refugees and Migrants (LRM) aims to provide specialized pedagogical knowledge to Greek and international teachers concerning learning and teaching second language to children and adults with a refugee or migrant background.

On 31 January – 1 February 2017, the first Maastricht Innovation in Higher Education Days will take place at EIPA in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Stakeholders will discuss the challenges and opportunities of internationalisation in higher education by new modes of teaching.

On 28 September 2016 EADTU organised a free webinar on "Sustainable Business models for MOOCs: the need for cross-institutional cooperation". The recordings are available on YouTube, each powerpoint is available as well.

This Advisory Statement on Combatting Corruption and Enhancing Integrity is published as a wake-up call to higher education to fight academic corruption more aggressively.The sector’s quality assurance systems must take a leading role in this battle.

The University of Derby has received the OpenupEd Label on the 29-6-2016. By achieving this label the University of Derby demonstrates that it offers quality controlled MOOCs in compliance with benchmarks tailored to both e-learning and open education and keeps up to date with the latest developments.