Learning and Sustainability
The new ecosystem of innovation and knowledge
Dublin, Ireland

The aim of the 2011 EDEN conference is to highlight different ways and approaches, in order to integrate better the concept of responsible and sustainable development within learning, in its widest sense.

Conference Questions - Themes

• How can the use of ICTs in learning support the management of sustainability challenges?
• What learning patterns are important in building up a competitive but also sustainable knowledge?
• Creative (eco)-design of physical and virtual learning spaces: Ergonomy of classrooms and digital coursewares
• Sustainability and openness as business models in learning
• Smart e-learning solutions in support of increasing resource effectiveness
• Sustainable learning as human right – ICT contribution to empowering participation in learning communities
• Assessment of available knowledge and new methods, toolkits, approaches to provide solutions for sustainable learning
• Virtual mobility and collaboration in the web2.0 environment
• What to do in order to sustain the culture and community of e-learning?
• How to raise awareness about sustainability by e-learning in the digital knowledge societies?
• Online social interactions and the learning ecosystem
• Flexible learning strategies and institutional innovation supported by ICT-enhanced learning
• How can “atypical” learning forms help in creating a sustainable knowledge society?
• Sustainability of knowledge management: Changing lifecycles of learning by re-use of learning objects