EC-TEL engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. This year’s theme is "Addressing global challenges and quality education".
Thematic Workshop Online learning is becoming mainstream in higher education at both course level and program level, as well as stand-alone learning modules. As such, MOOCs and online courses are developed in an exponential rate and instructors and course developers are encouraged to supplement their teaching with online capabilities. However, evidence shows that the majority […]
Methodology Workshop The aim of the workshop is to present the participants with one of the existing software packages for the analysis of qualitative data (e.g. text,images, audio, video, etc.). MAXQDA is one of the most popular software packages for qualitative and mixed methods research, which offers the same features on both, Windows and Mac, […]
Soft-Skills Workshop Across the world, close to half of the students enrolled in a doctoral program will drop out or never finish their dissertation. A similar proportion of them will experience severe symptoms of stress, anxiety or depression (a larger proportion than in the general population). Although many external and personal reasons may influence such […]
Thematic Workshop Have you ever been enrolled in a MOOC and manage to complete it without experiencing any problem? Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have facilitated a transformation in online learning by offering learning experiences without geographical and cost restrictions. Nevertheless, a considerable number of MOOC learners face difficulties during the courses that result in […]
Methodology Workshop Conducting a systematic review is a fruitful exercise for early career researchers and doctoral students, to gain a solid overview of a given topic, in order to develop their own research topics and agendas. This workshop provides a dense introduction to the basic steps in systematic review methodology: the development of a review […]
Soft-Skills Workshop If you are in an early stage of your PhD, you may wonder how you can start being visible online, both to present yourself as researcher to others in TEL and to get to know other researchers and experts for networking, asking for advice during your research journey, or just to have a […]
Thematic Workshop The emergence of the Blockchain promises to revolutionise not only the financial world, but also education in various ways. Blockchain technology offers a decentralised peer-to-peer infrastructure, where privacy, secure archiving, consensual ownership, transparency, accountability, identity management and trust are built-in, both at the software and infrastructure levels. This technology offers opportunities to thoroughly […]
Keynote Abstract. Educational data analytics are currently a core trend in both Learning Technologies research and Online Education & Training innovations. As, nowadays, university teaching and learning, as well as, professional development is widely offered online and facilitated by digital technologies, Educational Data Literacy competencies are becoming essential to all stakeholders engaged in Online Education […]
