R&D Projects on E-learning Infrastructures
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13. NaturalEurope: Natural History & Environmental Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries for Education
In an era where natural history and environmental education inadequacy in formal and informal contexts is becoming an increasingly challenging issue, harvesting the potential of European digital libraries appears as a very attractive option. However, an impressive abundance of high quality digital content that is available in Natural History Museums (NHMs) around Europe remains largely unexploited due to a number of barriers, such as: the lack of interconnection and interoperability between the management systems of NHMs, the lack of centralised access through a European point of reference like Europeana, as well as the inefficiency of current content organization and the metadata used.
12. pSkills: Programming Skills Development in Secondary Education by means of Modern Educational Programming Languages
The project aims at making programming courses in secondary education viable, attractive and effective by leveraging recent advances in education programming languages. It will develop appropriate curricula, collect and adapt the most appropriate education programming language environments, develop teachers' training material and students' training material and test it in the context of appropriate training scenarios. Exploiting a modern eLearning infrastructure, it will also provide a uniform access point to the above tools and materials so that they can be efficiently used in traditional classroom activities.
11. Organic.MedNet: Developing the Skills of Organic Agriculture Trainers for the Mediterranean
The overall aim of Organic.Mednet is to facilitate the transfer of innovative training practices and e-learning content to the case of vocational education of young and unemployed agricultural professionals, as well as to agricultural professionals in new EU members
10. IQTOOL: Innovative eLearning Tool for Quality Training Material in VET
Quality is becoming a strategic issue for web-based learning providers and users. The need for quality management in web-based learning has risen in European educational policy discussions as well as quality surveys and questionnaires targeted at students and teachers. The aim of the project is to develop an open source software tool integrated in LMS(s), which is suitable to assess the teaching quality management of eLearning training programs and training materials for supporting the application of the quality measurement tool for institutions dealing with vocational training and which therefore can promote the establishment and development of quality culture. The project implementation integrates testing of software and pilot training of the training material as well.
9. LOGOS: Knowledge-on-Demand for Ubiquitous Learning
The project contributes to the openness for ubiquitous learning of the large-scale repositories of digitised text, graphics, audio, video objects and to the process of their transformation into learning content, adequately enhancing and facilitating the knowledge building. The project addresses innovative development of the main components of the learning processes - resources, services, communication spaces. New functionality of the learning communication spaces will be achieved by integrated web-, digital television and mobile technologies, supporting cross-media learning content. New e-Learning management systems based on this integration will improve and extend the learning services within new consistent pedagogical scenarios. The use of annotated and adequately structured knowledge from digital archives will enable lecturers/authors to participate in 'open source' content development from massive, dynamically growing learning resources.
8. CHIRON: New Media Knowledge Village for Innovative e-Learning Solutions
The aim of the CHIRON project is to develop reference material presenting and analysing research outcomes, experiments and best practice solutions for new forms of e-learning, based on integration of broadband web-, digital TV- and mobile technologies for ubiquitous applications in the sector of non-formal and informal life-long learning. The ubiquitous learning activities deal with materialization of personalised life-long learning on-demand for all, anywhere, anytime. They require new organisational structures and relations between learning at educational institutions, in workplace, at home, at social venues, on the move etc. Ubiquitous learning /u-learning/ as a concept may potentially be viewed as a ‘next-generation’ e-learning. U-learning gives new opportunities for non-formal and informal vocational training of different users groups due to: richer access to vocational training facilities anywhere, anytime, in accordance with increasing occupational and geographical mobility of European citizens; furthe
7. KNOSOS: New Media Knowledge Village for Innovative e-Learning Solutions
The convergence of web and broadcast information gives new value and quality to the available educational services. The project will exploit the educational potential of the integration of web and digital TV technologies following the TV Anytime-Anywhere models defined by the TV Anytime Forum. This new technological reality requires very dynamic continuous update and acquisition of new knowledge and skills both for ICT professionals and users from humanities, arts, mass media etc.
6. ADONIS: Advanced on-the-job e-Training Solutions for e-Business for SMEs
The efforts in the project ADONIS will be focused in: covering the profiles and specific needs of the user target groups for working in the European e-Economy; orienting the learning technologies to specific requirements of the on-the-job-training life cycle; providing learning content oriented towards virtual enterprise activities. The project aims will be achieved through development of virtual network of local centres of expertise with related SMEs for their on-the-job e-training in e-Business.
5. ARCHIMED: Advanced Multimedia System Architectures and Applications for Educational Telematics
ARCHIMED is an R&D project. It is a part of the European Community programme Telematics. The research activities in the project are oriented towards development and experimentation of distributed teaching and learning telematic facilities for collaboration between educational institutions. This will allow them to share teachers and students as well as resources (courses, laboratories etc.) and to apply common solutions for content-independent generic distributed learning services.
4. PRISONER - HORIZON: Development of a Computer-Assisted Training Center for Prisoners
PRISONER was a development project and part of the HORIZON program. The ultimate objective of PRISONER was the development of a training information system in order to make an effective contribution to the professional, economic and social integration of former prisoners. The project was mainly focused on setting up a computer-assisted training center, developing an education methodology compatible with the type of technology used as well as the background and special needs of prisoners and the provision of vocational training in order to equip prisoners with professional skills and qualifications which will increase their competitiveness in the labour market after their release.
3. DEDICATED: DEvelopment of a new DImension in european Computer Aided Teaching and EDucation
DEDICATED aimed at the installation and European-wide connection of so called Local Training Centers (LTCs) as local centers of training excellence. The concept of LTCs allowed to introduce Advanced Learning Technology to the training in multiple CAD application areas on a European Community wide basis.
2. JANUS: Joint Academic Network Using Satellites
The aim of the JANUS project is to build a prototype of the telematic network that will be required by the future European Electronic Open University Network. Such an organisation is likely to be based on existing organisations including members of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. Thus the network to service such an institution would be a multi-campus Local Area Network (LAN).
The nature of inter-LAN links is such that they are permanently active, with a varying amount of actual traffic over a "base load" of network management traffic. This suggests that the network should be built on a basis of permanent connections (such as leased lines) rather than dial-up links, but where some of the permanent connections are of quite low capacity.
1. ELOQUENT: Specifications Determination of the methodology of developing foreign language applications using multimedia systems
ELOQUENT was a research project that belongs to the EEC program LINGUA. The major project objective was the development of parameters as well as the accomplishment of an educational system based on the principles of multimedia.
