EDEN 2012 - The Last Day

Now, we are about to close the EDEN conference. We have just provided our two presentations. Eventhough, there were about untraditional DE - we have contributed to the conference with an important perspective - from my point of view.

In this moment, I listen to a UNESCO-representative. He claims that students are driven by realism.  A survey, he presents shows that students prefer to learn in groups, with practical problems together with peers. The same survey demonstrates that they are actually using their time at school copying from the board and listening to the teacher.

Key-factors in attracting students to HE are:

• Engagement
• Convenience
• Productivity

Ingeborg mentions MobileSage http://www.mobilesage.eu/ and a dilemma formulated by
Sherry Turkle in Alone together: "Why we expect more from technology and less form each other"

Experience from medical school in Porto is presented - including three concrete projects:
Serious Learning Game (Virtual Quizzz) : a tool for active learning and assessment in Clinical Analtomy - it is developed in Moodle.