Dates: 4-5 November 2019

Location: KIFU, Budapest, Hungary

Registration: https://eventr.geant.org/events/3146

Please note: Capacity of the workshop is 30 pax - waiting list and remote participation will be enabled.

Meeting description

On behalf of GEANT and the educational expert group, we would like to invite you to join us to discuss further the challenges and opportunities NRENs are facing regarding educational technologies.

Intended audience: NREN educational services responsibles, university representatives

Number of attendees: 30 people

Budget holder: WP3

Supporting NRENs: Jisc, UNIT, SURFnet, CARNET

Duration: 1,5 days

Workshops and call for topics:

• Call for topics, deadline: 4 October 2019
• Pre-worskhop online meeting, duration 1 hour, 7 October 2019
• NRENs educational technologies workshop, 4-5 November 2019 in Budapest, Hungary

Call for topics

We invite you to submit your proposal for a topic to be part of the face-to-face workshop. Requirements: Topics should focus on the educational aspect of a future activity, project and / or service to benefit both the educational and NREN communities.

Title / name of the topic:

Short explanation / pitch: maximum 150 words long and to address the following questions:

• Why it is important for you?
• Why is it relevant for your NREN?
• Why should we discuss / collaborate about it internationally?

The topics should be uploaded HERE to the wiki page Topic proposal. 

Pre-workshop

Objective: discuss and prioritize key topics for the NRENs and the educational communities which will be addressed during the face-to-face workshop.

NRENs educational technologies workshop

The workshop is the follow up from the first NREN educational technologies worksop from TNC19 (https://tnc19.geant.org/events/#s115). We will be discussing future strategies on how the NREN community can support educational institutions with innovative technologies. With specialised topics we would like to discuss possibilities for future collaborations, challenges and good practices, current topics include: joint procurement for LMS, Digital Learning Environment, eduID - MyAcademicID, learning analytics, open educational resources...etc During the workshop the collaboration on MyAcademic ID and micro credentialing progress will be discussed, possibility for the cloud procurement will be discussed and a couple more use cases presented.

Please register for the November workshop here:

https://eventr.geant.org/events/3146