The 10th International Confernce CSEDU 2018 on Computer Supported Education will be hold 15-17 March, 2018 - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. I will host a special session on Blended Learning and Quality Enhancement - BLQE 2018. Read more here

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Blended learning embraces personal quality learning. This widely recognized and personalizable method engages, facilitates, and supports learning. UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning emphasize this approach, as it makes learning more flexible and convenient. This will help students be part of a global digital society The blended learning model requires changes in the roles of teachers and learners. These changes are accompanied by shifts in ownership and empowerment, where learners become prosumers and orchestrate their own learning regarding time, place, setting, path, and pace. Blended learning involves people as learners, teachers, administrators, technicians, leaders, and managers with a variety of aspirations and ambitions. Clearly, there is a renewed focus on quality, and the blended learning approach is worthy of consideration.

Topics: Renewed focus on quality Role changes Implementation and next practice Shifts in ownership and empowerment, where learners become prosumers and orchestrate their own learning regarding time, place, setting, path, and pace. Promotion of students be part of a global digital society.

 Contributed by: Ebba Ossiannilsson, Vice President of the Swedish Association for Distance Education, Vice President of the Swedish Association for e-competence, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, ICDE Focal Points of Quality, ICDE_ON_BOLDIC, EDEN EC, EDEN Fellow, EDEN SIG on TEL Quality Enhancement, Open Education Europa Fellow and Ambassador.

During the 27TH ICDE World Conference, 16-19 October 2017, Toronto, Canada, ICDE  released the third installment of its ICDE Insight Papers Series.

Ebba Ossiannilsson, author of the 3rd ICDE Insight Paper on BLENDED LEARNING, STATE OF THE NATION provides an overview of what readers can expect from this publication. The report can be downloaded from here 

The European project Technology Innnovation in Blended  Learning  (TIBL) held its first techer training event in Seville, Spain 9-13 May 2018. The project coordinator hosted the event. All parnters were represented and some had several participants as it was a teacher traing event.

 Partners in the project are:

• The applicant SAFA Coordinator ( Seville) is an important Spanish school foundation focusing on school and vocational education, Coordinator Carlos Guerrero Herrero Dirección Central SAFA Departamento de Formación Profesional 
• EFQBL is a VET and trainers education organisation Austria Wiener Neustadt
• DigiLab from the University La Sapienza Rome Italy
• University of Aveiro south of Porto Portugal are specialised in innovation in technology enhanced training and the related pedagogy.
• Swedish Association Distance Education SADE is a specialist in Distance Learning and quality enhancement frameworks.

The main intellectual outcomes (IO) for the projct were of course in focus 

• Trainer’s Toolbox & MOOC
• Transferability guide and Evaluation Guide
• Pilot courses (dock inte finansierade)
•  teacher training eventet diskuterades