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Best poster on LAK16 conference in Edinburgh

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During the 6th International Conference Learning Analytics & Knowledge in Edinburgh (LAK16) researchers of the Welten Institute won the award for the best poster. Maren Scheffel was awarded the price for her poster on The Dutch xAPI Experience that was partly based on ECO’s learning analytics model developed in WP2 and implemented in WP3.

The online version of the poster is available here.

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Image taken from LAK16 website

Author: Francis Brouns (Open Universiteit)

ECO reporting from India

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Between 15 to July 19, 2014 took place in Hyderabad (India) the International Congress IAMCR2014, the worldwide professional organization for excellence in the field of communication research.

ECO Consortium members Dra. Sara Osuna (UNED), professor Alfonso Gutierrez (University of Valladolid) and the consultant responsible for marketing and international comercialization Vicente Montiel (Tabarca Consulting) attended the Congress on behalf of our European consortium for the worldwiede presentation of ECO project.

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Dra. Sara Osuna, professor Alfonso Gutiérrez and consultant Vicente Montiel at the entrance of the Congress

ECO consortium coordinator, Dra. Sara Osuna and the consultant responsible for marketing Vicente Montiel, made ​​the presentation of ECO on Thursday afternoon with a large representation of entities and education professionals coming from all over the world.Sara Osuna_VicenteMontiel_ECOLearning
ECO coordinator, Dra. Sara Osuna (UNED) and the consultant and marketing responsible, Vicente Montiel (Tabarca Consulting), after the presentation in IAMCR2014

The presentation was received with great interest by the participants in the Congress. We presented the objectives, commitments and methodology that the members of ECO consortium are developing to make this project the reference in European MOOCs .

At the end of the presentation, and after a roundtable discussion with those attending it, synergies of collaboration with different institutions and universities very interested in our project were established.

From the Coordination of the project, we highly value the participation in the event and after the great received assessment we will continue our work with more enthusiasm if possible to reach the objectives.