ICT PSP Infoday Luxembourg Call 2011 – 2.4 eLearning ICT-PSP Call 5 2011 Objective 2.4 - eLearning Marc Röder Infso E6/eContent and Safer Internet Luxembourg,

ICT PSP Infoday Luxembourg Call 2011 – 2.4 eLearning

ICT-PSP Call 5 2011Objective 2.4 - eLearning

Marc Röder

Infso E6/eContent and Safer Internet

Luxembourg, 8 March, 2011


Theme 2: Overview of objectives

2.1 Aggregating Content for Europeana (BPN)

2.2 Digitising Content for Europeana (Pilot Type B)

2.3 - Raising awareness of Europeana and promoting its use (BPN)

2.4 eLearning – Accelerate the adoption of eLearning resources (Pilot Type B)


eContentplus (2005-2008)

• Target area „Educational Content“

• Aim: improve quality of learning– Make (learning) content more accessible, usable,

exploitable– Help teachers and learners use content more easily

• Evolution of objectives over 4 years– 2005: enrich metadata– 2006: use of content across borders– 2007: assess standards & specifications– 2008: use of cultural content for education


eContentplus results

• Annual spending of 8-12 million € in the area Educational Content

• 47 million € were / are invested in 20 educational projects

• eLearning projects are successful– Significant increase in quality and use of

educational content

– More intensive networking among stakeholders including Ministries of Education.

• But…


eContentplus results

• There is need for further work:– We need to support the use of

educational resources in different educational contexts

– In fact, there is a gap:• learning resources are available

• but they are not used by teachers and learners on a wide scale.


Theme 2 Objective 2.4 - eLearning

– Europe 2020: Building knowledge is key for economic growth

– Digital Agenda for Europe: Mainstream eLearning for modernisation of education and training

– eContentplus/TEL programme: Plenty of eLearning resources, eLearning technologies and standards available.


What do we mean by „eLearning resources“?

• Images, textbooks, eLearning packages, AV (…)• Not just anything, but quality educational

content:– What is the educational purpose of the object?– Is there a specific learning objective associated with it? – Is this learning objective documented?– aligned with a specific learning culture? – In what subject in school can it be used to teach what? – age group? specific learning need?– Metadata available (LOM?)


eLearning in schools – Why?

• Allows for better quality in Learning and teaching

• makes learning more interesting• supports new forms of learning • Can drive modernisation of education

and training (digital literacy) • Personalised learning

– check previous mistakes, re-iterate– adapt the learning path


eLearning - Current barriers

• Global, federated eLearning repositories exist but finding the right resources (learning outcome, age) is still difficult for non-expert users

• Teachers, pupils and parents with specific learning needs need help

• Pedagogical innovation is slow

• Implementation is difficult and costly


2.4 – What is our aim (1)

• Optimise the use of learning content by linking supply-side (content) with the demand-side (teachers, parents, pupils)

• Address both learning objects and associated pedagogy


2.4 – What is our aim (2)

• Aim: set up and roll out a socially-powered, multilingual portal as pilot platform for teachers, pupils and parents in order to

– accelerate the adoption of eLearning resources and make them widely used in national curricula

– test innovative eLearning solutions and exchange Best Practices

– monitor and assess impact of eLearning– generate a showcase of sufficient scale– Across borders, across languages, across different

educational systems


A socially-powered, multilingual Portal

Teachers

Pupils

Parents

eLearningResourceseLearningResources(critical mass)

Socially-powered,multilingual

Portal

acquire &

discuss

test &

improve

Events, Dissemination,Best Practices

Assess, measure IMPACT

Test in other countries,languages, cultures

Analyse situationand BARRIERS

Accele

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Schools / Pedagogy


2.4 – Pilot B Funding model

• It is intended to support one or more pilot actions for up to 8 M€ of EU contribution

• Pilot type B• We want to see big proposals.• EU contribution: 50% of direct and

indirect eligible costs• Indirect cost = 30% of personnel costs,

effective funding of personnel costs: 65%


Pilot Platform challenges

• In order to successfully set up and run this pilot platform, several challenges emerge:– How to motivate teachers and learners to

use eLearning resources?

– How to remove linguistic and cultural barriers?

– How to measure its impact?

– How to improve usability of existing repositories?


2.4 – Some recommendations

• Build on existing Learning platform(s), do not start from scratch.

• Integrate with existing Learning Repositories

• Target specific curricula and learning cultures in those countries taking part in the project


Questions?

Teachers

Pupils

Parents

eLearningResourceseLearningResources(critical mass)

Socially-powered,multilingual

Portal

acquire &

discuss

test &

improve

Events, Dissemination,Best Practices

Assess, measure IMPACT

Test in other countries,languages, cultures

Analyse situationand BARRIERS

Accele

rate

ad

op

tion

of

eLearn

ing

resou

rces

Schools / Pedagogy


Thank you

http://ec.europa.eu/econtentplus

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