News

  • EdVicon Local Event in Thailand: Pioneering the Future of Education with Portable Video Conferencing Toolkits
    Date: 27 December 2024   Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand   Co-Host & Organizer: Digital Education and Learning Engineering Association (DELE)   The EdVicon Local Event is set to make a significant impact on December 27, 2024, in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Co-hosted and organized by the Digital Education and Learning Engineering Association (DELE), this event promises to be a transformative experience, uniting over 30 educators, lecturers, and teachers from various provinces across the nation. At the heart of the event is an engaging three-hour workshop, showcasing innovative tools for modern education. Participants will delve into portable video conferencing toolkits, specifically designed
  • An-Najah National University Conducts Training Workshop for EdviCon Project on October 7, 2024
    An-Najah National University conducted a distinguished training workshop on Monday, October 7, 2024, as part of the EdviCon project at the An-Najah Innovation Park. The workshop targeted a group of academics and technicians from several Palestinian universities, as well as a number of professionals from the governmental education sector. The training focused on developing e-learning skills using mobile video system tools, as well as studying the role of mobile video conferencing systems in digital transformation within higher education institutions. The EdviCon project aims to enable participants to leverage advanced imaging technology through mobile phones and portable video devices, allowing them
  • HCII2023 – EdViCon presented
    After several years of keeping the conference HCII online, this summer finally it was back in a hybrid format, and attendees could join physically in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark. The first three days were solemnly virtual presentations, whilst from Wednesday, 26th July 2023 till Friday, 28th July 2023, all presentations were held live and streamed to remote participants. EdViCon had submitted two articles for the conference, which will be published by Springer during autumn. Partners from NTNU participated with the article “Discovering Best Practices for Educational Video Conferencing Systems”, written by Tord Talmo and Mikhail Fominykh, on Sunday, 23th July 2023.
  • EdViCon Presents Portable Video-Conferencing Toolkits at 9th EAI International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation, 2024
    The 9th EAI International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation took place in Halmstad, Sweden, 7th and 8th November, 2024. On behalf of the EdViCon consortium partner Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Tord Talmo and Robin Støckert engaged in EDUCERE, a network of Nordic Universities, that had an own track at DLI24, arranging four workshops for the participants on the 8th November. For the first time, the conference decided only weeks in advance to move the conference to an online format, making it more difficult to arrange the workshops in a hybrid format. Because of the work done in EdViCon, with ideating
  • Final Multiplier Event and Educator Training 
    Venue: Building 101, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Date:Day 1: Tuesday, 14 January 2025: EdVicon Final Multipler Event (face-to-face & online)Day 2&3: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 & Thursday, January 16, 2025: EdViCon Training—Hands-On WorkshopsProgram: https://t.ly/7Hrs2  Register form: https://forms.office.com/e/gjh0ULj6A9 Registration fee: Free. A no-show involves a fee of 300 DKK. Inform cancellation on or before Monday, 6 January, 2025 by sending email to kugani@dtu.dk LearnT – Centre for Digital Learning Technology/DTU Computehttps://learnt.dtu.dk/https://www.compute.dtu.dk/
  • EdViCon Multiplier Event June 26-27th 2023
    Marseille, France To conclude the first year of the EdViCon project, partners attended the first Multiplier event on June 25-27th 2023 at Aix-Marseille University (AMU) in Marseille, France. The 11 participants were excited to finally meet in person after a year of online meetings and coordination.  During the conference hosted by Aix-Marseille University under the facilitation of Maria Antonietta Impedovo, PhD, and Associate Professor Md Saifuddin Khalid, partners were invited to share the preliminary findings of R2. Over two days, partners and external participants shared their experiences and learnings from in-class observations and participatory interviews focusing on gathering trans-national data
  • EdViCon Multiplier Event Europe June 27
    The event will take place on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, and will be conducted at Aix-Marseille Université, France and online via Zoom. We are delighted to extend an invitation to you for an upcoming academic event showcasing the preliminary results of the EdViCon ERASMUS project. This project, officially known as Portable Video Conferencing Toolkits and Online Applications for Engaging Learning Experience Design in Higher Education Classroom, has been underway since 2022 and is scheduled to conclude in three years. The collaboration involves seven universities and two private organizations from different parts of the world, namely: Registration To ensure your participation,
  • MFU Education Reformation Day
    ‘MFU (Mae Fat Luang University) education Reformation’ day is an annual activity. Every year teachers at MFU join the activity to listen to an inspirational speech for a trendy education direction. In September 29th 2022,  MFU learning innovation institute by Dr.Nikorn Rongbutsri led MFU teachers to have a brainstorm session to let the teachers to reflect the problems regarding the use of technology in the classroom especially the use of teleconference tools which was a part of EdViCon ERASMUS project. Dr. introduced a brainstorming method called tree analysis. The analysis technique is to use a tree image as a structure
  • Engagement in Large Classrooms: Online or Face-to-Face
    The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has taken strategic initiatives to increase accessibility and engagement in educational activities through digitalization and offer the best engineering programs in Europe. The Erasmus+ EdViCon (Portable Educational Video Conferencing Systems) project together with the Danish DIREC project “Learning Technology for Improving Teaching Quality at Scale” contributed to reaffirming that “Lectures are very important” to the students of Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering courses. Students stated during interviews that they expect that the video conferencing systems, professors’ interactions, and opportunities to interact are critical in the case of both videoconferencing mediated and face-to-face classrooms.  To simulate a
  • Learning System Award 2023: uQualio awarded no.13/1000 LMS platforms
    The Craig Weiss Group places uQualio, the EdViCon elearning platform partner, as the 13. best LMS platform in a big comparison between a 1000 LMS platforms. Nonetheless, uQualio wins as the NextGen System of the Year! We continue to be happy to have uQualio provide their platform for the EdViCon training of education professionals. Read the full article about the Learning System Award by The Craig Weiss Group here
  • EdTech Denmark – EdViCon networking -and dissemination partner
    EdTech Denmark (ETDK) is an NGO and participates in this strategic partnership to lead the dissemination of the project. ETDK has previously collaborated with DTU in research and development with Danish EdTech professionals in academia, public service organisations, EdTech companies and e-learning service implementation organisations.  In addition to the overall dissemination, ETDK will part-take in the promotion of multiplier events, teaching/training activities and thereby contributes to the desired impact that the project seeks to achieve. Among the project’s multiple partners, ETDK holds the significance of a networking role. Through outreach to networks and communities, ETDK will ensure good dissemination of
  • Which collaboration between research and field around hybridization? 
    Teacher-researcher collaborations are generally joint in the context of research based on co-design. Indeed, researchers are increasingly called upon to collaborate with school stakeholders to design and conduct research.  The Covid-19 situation has shown the need for teachers to quickly develop and acquire new technological and pedagogical skills, as current events in the field show.  At the same time, educational research focuses on analyzing the changes that have taken place in teaching and learning practices in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. At Aix-Marseille University (AMU), we consider the interesting experience resulting from the collaboration between teachers and researchers for
  • uQualio awarded eLearning Platform of the Year 2022/2023
    The EdViCon eLearning Platform partner, Uqualio, has been awarded the eLearning Platform of the Year 2022/2023 by the Corporate Lifewire Global Awards. Over 90.000 businesses, professionals, magazine contributors and subscribers to Corporate Lifewire were invited to nominate companies and individuals that is experienced to championing in learning technology. From the shortlist of nominees that is based in service, experience, innovation and sustainability, Uqualio was chosen as the winner 2022/2023. We are happy that Uqualio is part of EdViCon to enable the project’s training for using video conferencing. The Corporate LiveWire is committed to provide business professionals in the corporate sector