Personal report of the "EFQUEL Innovation Forum Lisboa 2010"

1. The 4th
EFQUEL Innovation Forum
took place in Lisbon,
Portugal in
collaboration with the
Catholic University of Portug
(UCP) and the
National Institute for Public A
(INA).
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2. The conference took place
at the Instituto Nacional
de Administração (INA),
situated in the gardens of
the old
Palace de Marqueses de Pombal
in Oeiras, close to Lisbon,
Portugal.
Interesting opportunity to participate,
listen and share the modern concepts
about the current paradigms and
evolution of the Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Games Based
Learning (GBL) in school education in
line with the
European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
.

3. The Forum started on
September 8th with a
pre-conference day
OPEN PROJECT LABORATORY
followed by the main
conference September 9-
10. 2010.

4. On the 8th September during the "
OPEN PROJECT LABORATORY" the
ENGAGE workshop 3 "Games in school
- a serious matter to consider for
excellent classrooms...?!" led by
Sébastien Reinders, Gina Souto and
Rolf Reinhardt joined an interested
group of teachers and stakeholders of
the educational sphere.
Gina Souto presentation and
theme discussion : "
Creative learning in the digital age
" (OER, GBL, Mobile Learning at
Secondary School).
Sébastien Reinders presentation :
"Serious Games on learning".
Rolf Reinhardt was the ENGAGE
moderator.

5. The conference theme :
Open Educational Resources
(OER) are high on the
agenda of social inclusion
policies and supported by
many stakeholders of the
educational sphere. User
Generated Content is more
relevant than ever, co- and
peer-production increasingly
at the heart of content
development.

6. At the same time,
assessment and quality
assurance processes are
put to test because well
contributed experts' and
teachers' led approaches
to assess and certify
quality seem to become
less effective in view of
user created content and
freely available resources.
EFQUEL

7. Parallel Session 1: How can open
educational practices contribute to
better inclusion, innovation and
excellence in education?
I have joined this parallel session
where Mr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers (EFQUEL
, Belgium), Ms. Gráinne Conole (
Open University, United
Kingdom), Prof. Roberto Carneiro (
Catholic University of Portugal,
Portugal) were excellent facilitators.
On a graphic panel created by
a student of UN ViE, the
developed vision of the
participants has been added as
well as a common set of
recommendations to promote
innovation, inclusion and
excellence through open
educational practices (OEP).

8. An interactive session! All
participants presented an
overview about their own open
educational practices, trying to
contribute to better inclusion
with innovation and quality in
education.
The 4 parallel sessions
took place in the rooms of
the Palacete Marqueses de
Pombal and the Plenary
sessions at the Auditorium
of Gulbenkian (Oeiras).

9. For three days, researchers,
practionners, producers, in open
interesting debates between all
the participants shared ideas
and experiences about "Open
Educational Resources (OER) on
the agenda of social inclusion
policies".
All the workshops, four
parallel sessions took
place in the rooms of the
Palacete Marqueses de
Pombal and the Plenary
sessions at the Auditorium
of Gulbenkian.

10. The Forum had as moderator
of the Conference
Prof. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, vice-
president of EFQUEL.
He has been an excellent
communicator as well
Prof. Roberto Carneiro,
professor
at the
Portuguese Catholic University
, where he also chairs the
Study Centre on Peoples and
Cultures. He is dean of the
Institute for Distance
Learning.
Both enriched completely the
international community of
practitioners who attended the
Forum with their vision about
innovation on learning and
teaching for social inclusion.

11. Mr. Claudio Dondi, the President of EFQUEL was one of the
keynote speakers at the Plenary Session here.
Claudio Dondi was the rapporteur and the moderator of
the Final Panel discussion: "Re-focusing on quality: How
can quality approaches evolve and enhance inclusion,
innovation and excellence" here.

12. The 9th September,
a Conference dinner at
the INA gardens joined
a big group among the
participants.
After the dinner, the
awarding ceremony
“EFQUEL Award 2010 “
took place.

13. Creators: Graphic facilitation panel
Team of the United Nations University
Vice-Rectorat in Europe (UNU-ViE).

14. The event was broadcast live
stream on the Internet and
offered various possibilities to
interact with participants on
Twitter and Facebook
Now on Youtube and Slideshare

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