 So hello everyone. Welcome to today's webinar in the education in time of new normal. This is our fifth webinar and we are having quite a little bit different topic today from the other sessions. This time we have changed a little bit format but also the topic in a way that we are not going to talk about experience and know how and practical advice for education but we are going to talk about the importance of the research for education. So while you are all getting into the room let me just give some brief introduction into today's session. So this is the fifth webinar in the Eden's Autumn initiative about education in time of new normal. After a very successful spring initiative and we tried to see how to pursue our support to teachers and educators into preparing their teaching and learning for the autumn as well as the educational institutions. I know that all of us hope that the pandemic will go away and that we could go back to normal before the March. But actually as the autumn is coming the pandemic is becoming more and more present and the numbers are already getting high. So it's a great chance that the education will have to move to online in much capacity than planned for the autumn. So in today's session we are going to talk about why research is important for enhancement of human experience of learning with technology and the reason for this session not the only one but the main reason for this session was that in less than 10 days we will have Eden research workshop. This is by annual activity which we are organizing and I think this year research workshop is the I would say the most important event in the education society because based on research we can adapt our teaching and learning to the needs of our students and definitely we can answer all the questions teachers have and institutional management how to organize teaching and learning in these times. Definitely it was the time this year quite fruitful for researchers because this pandemic that changed the shift from the normal situation enabled quite big field for research and definitely the results first results are out and from what I have seen in preparation of the research workshop and you will hear a little bit later from Antonio we have really high number of papers and contributions to the research workshop and definitely of high quality so I'm certain that the research workshop will be the top. So today we are having experts with us talking about the research workshop but also about the importance of the research we are going to take a peek into the program of Eden research workshop which is going to be on October 21st to 23rd and we will open the floor for discussion as well to hear your opinion about the importance of the research but also that you shared your experience how you integrated the information received found in the research into your teaching and learning. So I'm very happy that today with me two moderators of this session Alan Tait and Ines Giliaurena who are going to moderate the session as well as they are the have a role of moderators in the research workshop also Antonio Teixeira from University of Alberta who is the host of the Eden research workshop and I'm very sorry that we were not able to come to Lisbon but definitely we will use all the opportunities of being online to extend the possibility for participation to people who might not be able to come to Lisbon. Antonio is from really highly recognized and prominent university open university in Portugal and definitely their research and background will contribute to the quality of this research workshop. Also today with us is Joseph Duarte who is Eden Vice President for Research and also is a professor at University of Alberta in Catalonia in Spain and Ulrich Benart who is former Eden Vice President and Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the Ulrich Benart Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning. He is a long time friend of Eden contributing and helping to extend our work in the field of research and to engage and enhance young researchers to be better and to work well. So I think that we have chosen quite well today's speakers because they can really have a big time, a big experience, long experience in the field of research but also can share their insights about important of the research for education. And now after my introduction I think it will be good that I give the floor to Antonio to present an overview of Eden Research Workshop Program. Program is already in the final phase. I don't know how we managed to put everything into three days because it seems to me that five days wouldn't be enough but let's see what you have prepared, Antonio. Thank you so much, Sander, for the kind introduction and also hello everyone. Good afternoon, good evening, good morning depending on your own time zone and well this is not just for politeness is because actually we will have not only the Eden community has members all over the world but the research workshop itself will have presentations coming from all continents so it is an important aspect to always remind. I'm going to share with you a brief presentation. Here we are. Okay, I hope that you can see it. So this is just a brief introduction to the program, a brief overview of the program as we have it already settled. As you know the Eden Research Workshops are well an initiative that started, well actually the initiative started with the millennium so it's the millennium Eden typical event. It started in 2000 in Prague and then we had all the research workshops have been organized by annual basis as Sander has already explained so we have here 11th so we had 10 before us. Prague, Ildesheim, Oldenburg, Castel de Feros, Paris, Budapest, Leven Oldenburg again and Barcelona. And of course now Lisbon well I was forgetting Oxford of course in 2014 which was a really successful research workshop and then now of course in 2020 in Lisbon it was designed to happen in Lisbon actually but it will be conducted online as you already know. In the design of the Lisbon research workshop of course apart from the lessons learned from the previous editions were also used so there is a kind of a mix well all the research workshops have a special feature of course but there are also some continuities that we can find and who can trace along the years. Well the topic as Sander has already reminded us is enhancing the human experience of learning with technology, new challenges for research in digital open business and network education and what is really interesting is that when this title was chosen and the event was designed we were long before actually imagining that we will be having the impact of the pandemic. So at that time it was already clear for us that the field of open business and digital education in general were expanding. Online education was becoming mainstream especially in higher education but also across the education sector a large number of new actors in the field were coming in and of course all of these required good quality standards and required quality of the experiences to be clearly improved and that depended clearly as well on the input from research. So research is critical in order not to only to assure that the widening of the field of online and digital education, open education will continue but it will be based on a good experience to the learners. Also as you know we are also embracing a new age in technology in which the non-human element is becoming also very important so this refocusing of learning with technology but never forgetting that the focus of this is the human experience of learning was important for us. Basically the idea that was in the basis of the designing of the call for the workshop. Getting into the programs one of the things that is slightly new we had already something of the sort in the Oxford Research Workshop but this time it's even more improved in the sense is the Rapporteur so all the activities of the research workshop will be followed up by these team of Rapporteurs led by Alan Tait, our distinguished Alan Tait that is here with us as well and also our dear colleague Ignatius is also here with us and they will be speaking about their impressions in a minute. So they will be following up the activities and they will be producing a report. This report will be presented at the end of the research workshop and this will become a kind of a Lisbon message in the sense because it will sum up the state of the art of research and development in the online network education and technology learning field. They will be of course having a speech in the first day and in the last day because they will be announcing basically the major trends in the discussions and then presenting the report in the end. As for the keynote speakers they already announced but anyway let me just remind them in the first day, I mean the second day, it's day two so it's the first plenary keynote plenary. We'll have Tony Bates of course then Alan Elspers and Antoninova who is the Portuguese ambassador to the UNISP of the University of Lisbon. Well we'll have Tony and Alan sharing a little bit of their addresses later on in a minute. On the second day actually we'll have another important highlight which is the Oxford debate. We had an Oxford debate in Oxford actually but we're now doing it again as it was successful the first time and it will be shared by Alan, Alan Tait and we'll have speakers Mar Sanagustin on the right and Christina Costa on the left. They will be, as you probably know, assuming opposing positions in the debate and also they'll be debating and you will be asked to have to take a stand to take a position to vote for the best argument On the third day we'll start with a round table on open scholarship and actually on the new forms of open research and actually open publication, open science as well so these topics will be addressed and this round table will be shared by Ines and we'll have speakers Josep Duarte, Alison Little-John Maria McGrill and Eloy Houdrygish Finally, we'll have the on the closing keynote session it will start by Terry Anderson on the right and then we'll have Martin Miller and Mahabali they will be the speakers on the final keynote session. Just have a kind of an overlook of the program. This is not really final, as you can imagine, but this gives you an impression, an overview of how it will be arranged So in the first day we'll have the PhD symposium. We'll have also at the same time it will be announced very soon an activity with the NAP, the Network for Academics and Professionals Well, the major network in Europe for academics and professionals in our field we'll have the welcome ceremony by 5.30 CET and then on the second day we'll have the open plenary as already described. We have the parallel sessions we have actually close to 50 papers being presented and 15 posters as well and seven workshops so it's really full the program. We'll have also already told you about the standard debate. We have the ceremonies for the awards. Uli will be describing this more in detail and we'll be closing with the presentation of the recent report So 51 full papers 15 full posters, 7 workshops, 14 presentation actually we'll have even slightly more perhaps Uli's recognition it will be it is an even tradition, best research paper award which is very traditional as well and a new edition which is the best research improves award which will select the best poster presented So we'll have the three finalists being selected by a jury and then everyone participating in the conference will be getting the chance of voting for the best of those three. So I hope that we'll enjoy the Lisbon online research workshop 11 research workshop experience. We hope that you participate but can I just tell a little bit more Well, yes we can. So let's look a little bit of what Tony is going to prepare for us. So his keynote we also have this main topic, 10 lessons for online learning from sorry okay, 10 lessons for online learning from, oh sorry again from the perspective of research sorry, 10 lessons for online learning from the COVID-19 experience based on research this will be his approach. We have here also a slide while short introduction to the topic. It will be based on dozens of 12 research lessons that he has identified and now we're going to I'm going to finish the presentation and going to share, to stop sharing and go ask the colleagues in the secretary. So please feed in those other colleagues that will also be the keynote speakers that will be also announcing a little bit of what they will be talking about. We'll start by actually Ellen and then we'll go to well this will be the order in a sense we'll start by Ellen Elsper then we'll go to Terry Anderson and then finally to Mahabali. So let's see the videos Hello everyone I have a few meetings from London. Let me start by saying how wonderful it is to have been asked to be part of this Eden conference 2020. I guess I should introduce myself I'm Ellen Elsper and I'm a professor of digital inequalities at the London School of Economics and political science where I work at the Media and Communications department. The kind of work that I do looks at what the digitization means for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in particular and that's also what my talk at the conference will kind of centre on. So I will discuss how our deep ideas and our thinking about who gets to take advantage of the digitization of society and the learning opportunities that are available in the digital world and how those ideas have changed over time and also how the pandemic in particular has kind of been a wake up call for all of us who are looking at the kind of inequalities in these opportunities to take advantage of these digital technologies and the content that's available on them. It has made us realise even further that not all young people are as digitally native as we think or thought they might have been and I will look at these and the kind of evidence for these inequalities through two projects that I am working on. One is the youth skills or why skills project and the other one is from digital skills to tangible outcomes project or the disto project. So these studies allow us to highlight which young people and their families are most at risk of being left behind as societies become increasingly digital and not just because they don't have access or the right kinds of access but also because they lack the resources that are needed such as literacy or digital skills that are needed to be able to kind of reap the benefits the online learning benefits that are available online and also the kind of they might lack the resources these skills to be able to avoid some of the risks that come with being online and being in this digital world. So for me it's important that it's not just about understanding who is and who isn't included in this digital society or able to participate in this digital world but it's also really important to understand why because when we understand why we can design more effective interventions or curricula shifts or develop support structures for those young people who are at risk of being excluded and not being able to take up these learning opportunities. So my talk will finish with the more kind of the practical implications for educators and policymakers and other stakeholders such as parents on where we can do the most effective interventions because I think all of us are interested in making sure that the future is not only just more digital but also more equal in terms of the learning opportunities that are going to be available for future generations and the current generation of course. So I really look forward to the conference. I hope you enjoyed this teaser and that you are getting excited about the conference I will see you there. Thank you. Good morning and greetings from Canada. It's a real pleasure to be able to be invited and an honor to be invited to do this keynote at Eden Research Network conference. I have a very soft spot in my heart for Eden Research conferences because it was the very first one international conference that I got invited to do a keynote at in Oldenburg many years ago and I guess I told enough jokes that I kept getting invited back. So I would have much sooner been able to enjoy some Portuguese culture and wine with you in Lisbon but I'm settling for a chance to talk to you and I hope that when this presentation goes that you'll have some comments and some questions for me and for all of us. So let me start by sharing my screen so the title of my talk is going to be a quality through three generations and aggregations of online learning and one thing that I've been sort of asking a lot of people that I meet whether they be students or teachers who have been thrust into teaching online since Covid times is how is your experience of online learning and what surprises me is the variety you hear you get some people say oh it's terrible I can't wait to get back to the classroom and others say oh this is the greatest thing I can have freedom to pay attention to what I want to pay attention to I can multitask, I can network with my friends I can take care of my kids well I'm still enrolled in school so that we get a huge variation and yet we call this all online learning so what I wanted to do in this presentation is talk about the different kinds of online learning and pay special attention to the different pedagogies that drive it and Samantha McMahon from Sydney wrote a blog where she says I kind of got better at teaching online when I stopped saying what I can't do and started asking better questions like what pedagogical principles drive what I normally do and then how can I appropriate and use those in an online environment and so what I'm going to do in the talk is to go through an older article that I wrote way back in 2011 with John Braun and I sort of looked at online learning through three different models or pedagogical designs that underplay it and what I'm going to do is try to talk about the newer technologies as they've evolved since 2011 and the research techniques that we can use to study each of these three and these three are behavioral cognitive model training, the social constructivist model which you probably are very familiar from classroom instruction at least a smaller classroom instruction and then the emergent connectivist pedagogic for online learning and I hope that these advice I go through each of these you'll see which one resonates most specifically with yourself and your teaching institution and your teaching context and I think that's important with your students. So with that I will pause and end by just saying that I'm looking forward to talking to you at the Eden Research Conference number 11. Thanks very much. Hi everyone, this is Mahabeli from the American University in Cairo in Egypt and I'm supposed to be recording a teaser for my keynote on October 23rd for Eden Research Workshop and I'm completely settled on what I'm going to say on a keynote like two weeks ahead. So I'm just going to tell you that after about 18 years of experience in e-learning this past year with the pandemic has made me rethink a lot of what I believe about online learning about open education, about social justice and education. So I'm going to be talking about a lot of my recent research that I've published related to open education online learning looks different to me in light of the pandemic and what I'm planning to be researching in the future given the experiences I've now had learning to just be a faculty developer a teacher and public scholar in the time of COVID-19. Looking forward to seeing you there. Well this gives you a kind of overview as well of four different approaches to the topics of the conference and also quite representative of different experiences, different backgrounds different well generations as well and these I suppose well I hope it will be giving you some kind of anticipation to the conference and will also be relevant to build up your interest for the conference. Well thank you very much Sandra, back to you. Thank you Antonio. Well really really good teasers I'm already exciting about the conference and looking for research workshop and looking forward to their speeches but definitely the issues which are going to be presented are these that online learning and online education is not something new but in the time of pandemic lots of things have changed and we cannot have the same idea and experience about online and distance learning as before. Also as you have seen and it was emphasized in these teasers that the research show that we have to think about a number of issues which become quite visible during pandemic and this is how can learners participate in online education, what are their barriers for participating equally with others also how a teacher going to use online technologies and now when they are faced with issues that they cannot say anymore I don't think so or I can't know how to implement digital technologies in order to ensure the quality of education. So number of issues and definitely I'm very happy to see the number of papers which will present recent researches in this field and again I think that moment is that we can emphasize the importance of digital education at this moment as such when we have these issues that face-to-face is no longer option in many countries and still the infrastructure is also not available and good in a way it should be. So number of questions to be looked at online education and distance education from the different angle with new insights and new data and now I'm going to pass the floor to Alan and Ines Alan Tate is even former president and also as Antonio I'm always very happy to have guys with me, my former president so Alan and Ines I'm giving the floor to you and you can start about expectations, your expectations for the discussion main trends that are expected in research workshop and which are significant today. So thank you very much Sandra and thank you to Antonio for this invitation and greetings to all colleagues across Europe and why further a field I'm sure of major expectation I've got is a huge pleasure I've got to work with Ines on this project and the second expectation has been completely disappointed which is that I was going to spend three days in Lisbon which I was so looking forward to. So that's a little bit about expectations but the research workshop title, why research is important for enhancing human experience of learning with technology in a sense answers itself how could it not be important would common sense be adequate I don't think common sense will be at all adequate we've seen a lot of populism which attacks expertise it's a kind of anti modernization so if we don't think common sense is adequate and I firmly don't, what sort of research are we expecting to see and I think these themes which are set out on the Eden Research Workshop website are the right sorts of themes, there are three which I'm looking forward to exploring further and the first one, the first thing to say is that of course it's not new the fact that technology has shaped the human experience of learning is not new so we must try and discriminate between what is new and what is not new, the book of course 500 years ago was a huge impact on human learning and it's a form of technology but today I think the scale of technology reach is quite extraordinary so we've had 30 years which I certainly didn't expect of our society and our educational institutions being reshaped our economy being reshaped, our private lives being reshaped our health systems being reshaped and of course our education systems being reshaped have been extraordinary we've seen the commoditization of data with reaching to our day to day behaviors being collected analyzed, sold and resold in ways which surely merits research we cannot read anything, we cannot walk out of our front door without our mobile phones recording that collecting that data and passing it on and in fact selling it and reselling our private lives is having major implications for the power of the state and the power of capital and it is our witting and unwitting cooperation which makes all that possible that is our deliberate cooperation but also our naive and innocent cooperation which has recognized so well about a year ago in that book by Shoshana Zuboth the Agents of Agents Capitalism and this is very relevant in our world too as the recent and very interesting resistance to learning analytics and to online proctoring as shown with students and academics saying this is intruding into our private lives into ways that we find unacceptable and we also have in terms of our relationships what you might call the move from community to a sort of etiolated individualism that is networks of community with shallow relationships, not deep relationships if you like we surf personal relationships now as well as we surf the web and so I think this whole way in which our personal relationships and our relationships in education are being reshaped is a research focus that I look forward to exploring who is included and who is excluded continues to be a very very important theme. We discovered in campus based universities over the last six months in the UK which were all shut down in April that 16% of university students did not have a laptop that is in the sixth largest economy in the world so we can imagine what the impact on inclusion and exclusion is in other places which are less rich than the UK and so we need research to remind policy makers and institutional leaders how patterns of exclusion are made and remade by the digital revolution and they excluded are invisible they're completely invisible the decisions about the price to pay and the acceptable balance between exclusion and inclusion is political but the evidence for such decisions needs to come from us and I'm looking forward to the research workshop and seeing more of that as I think we will do. I also want to see more research about the way in which learning and pedagogy is changing with the widespread availability of resources not just open education resources but the enormous range of resources that we can find on the web and I hope we're going to move away from the tired to me somewhat tired rhetoric of open education resources I'm moving to more research about open education practice can we create more case studies of open education practice can we better define the digital skills needed by successful learners as outcomes of their engagement with open educational practice and can we reassess the economics of online learning using open education practice so I hope research into pedagogy and open education practice will be available to us and lastly and perhaps worryingly I think we need more research into the issues of academic integrity the issue of the sale of academic assessed work personalization of projects and theses and plagiarism are all significantly worse I've been working with the University of London over the last three months on their examination and assessment system and they've got very very significant issues here and the digital revolution has accelerated the scale and the commoditization of this problem although the problem in itself is not new so we need more research into assessment for learning which protects us against threats to academic integrity and I see from the research themes that I think I'm going to be rewarded in this research workshop because I think all of those are present and I'm very much looking forward to working within this to see how the research workshop works out as a whole and to give you some feedback cooperatively between the two of us at the end so let me finish there and pass it back to you Sandra or directly to Ines Ines please continue, thank you Alan Thank you Sandan, thank you Alan and hello everyone, for me it's a pleasure and a big challenge as well to be in this responsibility as a co-reporter with Alan and to what I have heard up to now from the videos from the keynotes and the teasers and also Sandra's abstract or summary and also Alan's expectations, I share a lot of them and I think I will find my expectations covered in the research workshop and I think one of the topics that will be present during all the research workshops is the pandemic because of course eLearning has spread as an emergency solution for many teachers, many students and it's most present ever but I think one of the values of this research workshop is that there is a big background and expertise and historical perspective and historical solutions to many problems or issues that newcomers are facing now, so we don't need to reinvent the wheel or go again and again to the same issues but we have a lot of research and practice and a lot of experience that I think there will be a lot of insight from many keynotes and many presenters at the conference, both experienced practitioners and researchers but also newcomers I think it can be quite balanced during the conference and one of the topics I think has been especially challenging and Alan talked about it as well has been the assessment, it had to be an e-assessment for many universities especially right before the summer and I think this is a very relevant issue and I hope to see some reflections and research and experiences during the conference about that, not only on the technological part but on the ethical part also has to do with the proctoring and ethical issues about privacy, plagiarism but also about scalability and how, for instance in my university we have seen that the assessment rates have increased so we have more students taking the final exams given it was online so there are many issues there to reflect about and also I think the topic of the conference is very it puts the emphasis in a very relevant and sometimes forgotten aspect and it's about the human and the social interaction and social aspects of e-learning we are very, even now during the research work so we are missing Lisbon but we are somehow present there but the human side I think it will be very relevant during the conference and I think or I expect to have a lot of also more qualitative research and qualitative reflections about these more social and more ethical and more human aspects and one of the key teachers talk about the inclusion and accessibility, we will talk about that also in the session about open scholarship about many issues that have to do with human aspects of e-learning so I'm both very excited and maybe afraid or scared about the conference but I think it will be very nice we can get many lessons and insight from it, thank you Thank you Alain, thank you Ines Yes, it's challenging to do fully online and definitely aspect of perhaps the humanization of learning and working together because of the technology is very important and I'm also very happy that Alain stressed very important issue of academic integrity which has also become quite visible and actual especially now with moving fully online when we have online exams from one point of view we have to prepare teachers how to prepare such exams because they cannot be just face-to-face exam to do the online environment on the other hand we have to make clear rules and guidelines to learners how to participate in such exams I know from my personal point of view as supporting teachers in higher education in Croatia that issue of exams was the highest on the agenda during whole summer and this is something definitely people are going to talk about but as well the issue that Ines said socialization and human aspect are very much important in social environment I know that lots of students are lacking this possibility to go to somewhere to go to campus to meet colleagues to chat with them, to be present it's not easy to start for example to be freshman in online university I have my daughter who is freshman now because and she has to do everything online and she's missing so much social contact with colleagues and now you can see actually something how it is on the other side I'm very happy that she is able to do lots of things online she can organize much better her time because of this online part but the meeting colleagues and see how it looks like to be in the classroom attending the lecture is very important part also why the research workshop is very important and I think it's maybe unique in that way that because we attract young researchers and PhD students and providing some kind of guidelines and the possibilities to become researchers in the future so I'm now moving to Joseph because he's coordinating the PhD symposium activity which is going at all our activities so Joseph can you please report how this research how this PhD symposium within the research workshop is going to be organized, why is it important and how how it's organized so how we organize such activities Yes Sandra thank you very much thank you to me this possibility to explain all of you everything related to our Eden PhD symposium let me just share my screen now with you just a few words to introduce this is our fifth Eden PhD symposium in our research workshops we like to have a particular part for young researchers and some years ago we decided to organize a particular event at the beginning of the research workshops and also in our annual conferences dedicated to the PhD candidates and also to the supervisors the idea here is just to offer to the PhD candidates the people that are doing research in the field of learning and technology and has learning and to provide with them an opportunity to discuss about these topics in front of an expert panel of the Eden members that means the goals of the main aims of this PhD symposium is the idea is to create a community in the intellectual exchange and support I think we are achieving this goal because many of the people that submit proposals for PhD symposiums are not the first time sometimes people that during the process of the PhD as you know it usually takes 3 or 4 years using this platform to discuss the proposals and to have feedback not only for international experts also that is also very interesting as a community for their peers this PhD symposium prefer to them the opportunity to have also to share with other PhD candidates about their research proposals inside of Eden we organize the speech symposium with an Eden committee I am the chair of this committee but this committee is people senior fellows like Wim and Sara and Irina and Albert and I am sorry I recognize that I miss Alan but Alan will be not able for the session but he is also here in this PhD symposium committee and usually we add people from the professors, teachers, PhDs from the hosting universities in that case you can see here Antonio Quintas, Lucia Mante, Teresa Cardoso Maria do Carmo Teixeira Pinto from the Universidad de Portugal we recognize that we are so happy because we have 14 submissions for this online PhD symposium as you can see from different continents from Europe from America and also from Asia it's 14 submissions but made by 30 authors which is a huge interesting number of people and the way that we developed this is just with an introduction, a short introduction at the beginning with Sandra Cushinas a president of Eden Antonio Teixeira as a hosting institution and myself by special research and we recognize these in three panels each PhD candidate has the opportunity to present a short PowerPoint with his or her main questions for the expert panels not about the methodology or the research goals or the topic etc and have an open discussion with his panel and also at the end of each one session with the peers or the people attending to this session we will have three sessions and at the end we have a short closing session with Anthony Teixeira and myself thank you very much and I hope to see you again here in the PhD symposium on 21st and morning, thank you very much thank you Joseph a very high number of PhD participants we have that is very good I think that the PhD symposium has started to become quite recognized in that way that the young PhD students it doesn't have to be young but I'm always saying the person is young as long as they want to be young and symposium students here can get some valuable feedback and insights into progress on their work from recognized and prominent international professors I think this is really high added value to their research and I'm very happy that we have such a activity and that number of students, PhD students is always raising higher let me move to the next speaker to Ulrich Benner because we have even the best research award paper and Uli foundation is supporting this so maybe Uli you can tell us a little bit about history how it started the significance importance of this award and how the selection process is going on I know that lots of young researchers are very much interested to participate because of this reward thank you Sandra for giving me this opportunity to talk to you hello friends, hello colleagues and participants in 2008 we started to introduce a rather rigorous standard evaluation system to pick out the best research paper out of all papers which are submitted to the annual conferences as well as to the annual research workshops the research foundation takes the lead in the procedures and the most important first step while taking the lead is to pre-select the ones that most likely have a chance to win the award with this pre-selected shortlist and jury comes in a jury which consists of an outstanding internationally renowned expert in our field an independent international expert in addition to this one a representative of the Eden Executive Committee a representative of the hosting university or hosting country and the foundation takes part in the final votes of the jury the jury discusses the shortlist and usually this is hard work because while applying the six rigorous evaluation criteria I try to present them in short papers have to convincingly address the theme of the conference papers have to deal with research questions that are of relevance for conference participants we expect a rigorous examination rigorous research methods which are applied findings, results and outcomes should be convincingly presented and critically examined and conclusions should be thoroughly discussed and we expect that aspects like applicability, transferability and further research are taken into regard and finally we expect that the literature is reused against the state of the art you can imagine that none of the papers scores in all these six criteria on the highest level and that usually more than one paper reaches a high score and the jury's task is to discuss which of the papers not only reaches the highest score sometimes there are several but which of them addresses the expectations on the highest level in a few cases juries couldn't make a decision on one paper, we've also had two winners but not more a jury needs to make this final decision and just yesterday the jury came to a final conclusion on who will be the winner this time out of the 51 papers that were submitted it's quite hard to make these decisions but names like Michael Moore Otto Peters, Alan Tate Albert Sangra Mora Terry Anderson, Tony Bates and others stand for this final decision and of course in good consent with the jury members their aim usually is to decide in good consent and this takes off in quite long discussions and then in the end winners come from all over the world winners from Canada, Ireland, France, Portugal Germany, Sweden, United States of America Norway, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom Italy, South Africa, Denmark, Croatia, Turkey the Netherlands, this was 2018, I have not completed the list until the latest, yeah that's how it works and we can say in the meantime that this is a competition that is attractive we can see that more and more papers aim at winning the award as fortunately it became a reputable award and we hope things will go on like they went since 2008 quite successfully that's it thank you Ulif, thank you so much I was very happy when Croatia got the best research paper award it was like a prestige I'm certain that this award is becoming quite significant part of our activities and definitely element that is bringing the research workshop to a success and I'm very happy that you are leading this reviewing and organizing the choice, the selection because definitely I know that it's going to be on the highest possible level it could be and that the award are really deserved definitely also the jury is always really selected by a number of prominent recognized experts internationally so definitely when you reach such award every person is very very happy so we have gave you now the peek into what we are planning for this research workshop this year and now we are opening the floor for questions at the moment I don't see any questions that we have but if you do have questions we can put this question into questions and answers or if you are following us on YouTube you can post it on the YouTube my question maybe to Antonio while we are waiting for the participants will ask something is how do you find that online such big online research workshop is going to influence people in Portugal to do more research would it give some incentives in a way that people become more active in research well I think so but this is not mainly in Portugal I think the impact of activities as we already talked about it are spread all over the world and this focus that even has always had on the importance of research to inform practice by doing so also have some kind of role in defining the practices run according to good quality standards that are of course research based these cycle that even has always fostered I think it's well not only a trademark of the association but also something that has been carried all through the years and will now become even more important for the next years so I would say yes of course the impact of such events will foster research but it will foster on a different direction that we have seen so far because as well as a consequence of the impact of the pandemic this movement that we had already been witnessing for some years of widening the field so of having more people more colleagues across the education sectors to involve in online education and distance education so this trend and digital forms of education or technology has learning in this sense these movement will of course be much reinforced as a result of the pandemic and in that sense it's critical at this point that events as this one will be inspiring colleagues all over the world to do research on our own and we already witnessed that in the program so amongst the submissions that we received this year and a higher number than typically we can already spot a number of new researchers in the field that were not actually conducting research on this topic some years ago so there is an increase to this event not only will inspire more researchers to research on these topics but is already a reflection of the widening of the community of researchers as well and this I think is very important also very significant is that well most of the expectations that were shared by Alan and Dinesh are already covered in the submissions that we received so this is a very good indicator as well and the quality level of the submissions is high which is also a good indication that not only more researchers are coming to this to our field but they are bringing important approaches that are also going to improve the quality of the research that we're conducting and so I think that there is a very beneficial movement that is actually emerging and that this research workshop that well could have been postponed but actually it didn't so unfortunately we didn't because we can now have this event as an historical landmark that can represent at the best this turning point in the history of our field as well thank you Antonio thank you very good points and actually making the summary for me in the end we just have one question when the program will be available online do you know when the program will be online well I'm not so sure but so I think in a few days basically as I've told you before in my presentation it's basically settled so it will be online this week yeah definitely okay thank you so much I think that we are coming to the end with our session today I would like to thank Antonio for taking care of the research workshop and for hosting us in Lisbon online in less than two weeks to Alan and Ines who are taking the role of reporters who will have very demanding and challenging three days or two days to follow all what's going on and prepare some kind of a summary to reach us at the end we will enjoy but it is quite demanding task I'm thanking to Joseph for PhD Symposium he's on the agenda first day with PhD and to Uli for the best research paper award already taking organization and selection and he's now looking for the best part to announce the winner in the workshop so I'm inviting all of you to come and join the Eden Research Workshop and participate be active and take part in research and contribute in the future to Eden with your research results and also for the next Monday I'm announcing next time we will talk about new digital education action plan and we will have colleagues from European Commission presenting this plan so stay with us next Monday as well and then we will all go to Lisbon to research workshop see you then, bye to everyone, thank you bye bye