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Projekty
Specialised An imated Interactive Learning
16 Grudzień 2002
The aim of the project is to promote learner autonomy and training in classrooms by means of the use of a specialy designed curriculum covered by educational sofware package.
S.A.I.L develops research strategies and research mentality through the use if ICT for children aged 9-11 years, making the students more independent and concious of what skills help them learn
It exposes teachers and teacher trainers to new teaching methods and test their effectiveness by creating an inclusive culture in the classroom. In this manner children with different learning styles and needs learn together, thus gaining maximum advantage from the multimedia facets of ICT imparting of generic learning skills. Students are enabled to find out for themselves what methods and media are their preferred learning tools.
The package will be accessible to schools, teacher training institutions and teachers themselves from the project website which will in turn sustain a forum of papers submitted by teachers who specialise or are interested in these new teaching methodologies and the use of ODL and Information and Communication Technology in education.
Duration: 24 months
It exposes teachers and teacher trainers to new teaching methods and test their effectiveness by creating an inclusive culture in the classroom. In this manner children with different learning styles and needs learn together, thus gaining maximum advantage from the multimedia facets of ICT imparting of generic learning skills. Students are enabled to find out for themselves what methods and media are their preferred learning tools.
The package will be accessible to schools, teacher training institutions and teachers themselves from the project website which will in turn sustain a forum of papers submitted by teachers who specialise or are interested in these new teaching methodologies and the use of ODL and Information and Communication Technology in education.
Duration: 24 months
Projekty
Learning at School and in the Network
16 Grudzień 2002
Research project on the logical and cognition aspects of the use of ICT.
The project aims
-to verify the formative effectiveness of learning methods which make extensive and intensive use of ICT, on the basis of activities that must first be agreed upon and then shared with the other project partners.
-to develop shared tools for description and assessment of ''children's competence in computer technologies''
-to focus on logical and cognitive aspects, test them in selected schools in the countries involved, and results will be shared on an international scale.
-to find guidelines shared by the teachers participating in the project on the use of communication technologies.
This project will produce :
-guidelines and a report on the results of the experimentation, written in the languages of the various partners as well as English as the international language. Both will be released in a printed version and in a web version
-a guidebook
-training program for teachers
The project is intended for primary school teachers and pupils, and will take into account any possible disability, accessibility to technology, equal opportunities between boys and girls.
The sharing of the work done up to now by the partners and then of results achieved by the experiments they have conducted in their countries can evidently guarantee quality and meaningfulness to the research action inherent in the project, thus providing a wider epistemological basis and a greater statistical relevance.
Duration: 36 months
-to verify the formative effectiveness of learning methods which make extensive and intensive use of ICT, on the basis of activities that must first be agreed upon and then shared with the other project partners.
-to develop shared tools for description and assessment of ''children's competence in computer technologies''
-to focus on logical and cognitive aspects, test them in selected schools in the countries involved, and results will be shared on an international scale.
-to find guidelines shared by the teachers participating in the project on the use of communication technologies.
This project will produce :
-guidelines and a report on the results of the experimentation, written in the languages of the various partners as well as English as the international language. Both will be released in a printed version and in a web version
-a guidebook
-training program for teachers
The project is intended for primary school teachers and pupils, and will take into account any possible disability, accessibility to technology, equal opportunities between boys and girls.
The sharing of the work done up to now by the partners and then of results achieved by the experiments they have conducted in their countries can evidently guarantee quality and meaningfulness to the research action inherent in the project, thus providing a wider epistemological basis and a greater statistical relevance.
Duration: 36 months
Projekty
Learning Environment for Physics Laboratory Activities
16 Grudzień 2002
The objective of the project is to develop an international, innovative learning environment based on ICT,extending physics laboratory activities to open and distant learning.
Collaborative activities will result in the development of an Internet-based public resource with a set of experimental modules including multimedia learning material, downloadable necessary computing procedures, programmes and sets of exemplary experimental data to be used together with inexpensive small-scale portable experimental set-ups and a CDROM version for standalone usage.
The project includes practical testing and teachers' training activities, using the material developed. Dissemination of this approach among the educators' community will be supported by an evaluation report on the didactic effectiveness and reception LEPLA.
LEPLA creates a Forum and a trans-national cooperation network to promote experience exchange in experimental physics teaching and educational usage of information technology.
LEPLA is targeted at teachers and students at secondary school and undergraduate university level in particular in contexts where experimental activities are absent or difficult to implement using traditional methods. Under funded educational institutions, distant learning and handicapped students will benefit from this approach.
Duration: 24 months
The project includes practical testing and teachers' training activities, using the material developed. Dissemination of this approach among the educators' community will be supported by an evaluation report on the didactic effectiveness and reception LEPLA.
LEPLA creates a Forum and a trans-national cooperation network to promote experience exchange in experimental physics teaching and educational usage of information technology.
LEPLA is targeted at teachers and students at secondary school and undergraduate university level in particular in contexts where experimental activities are absent or difficult to implement using traditional methods. Under funded educational institutions, distant learning and handicapped students will benefit from this approach.
Duration: 24 months
Projekty
Free Software Renaissance of gnu/linux in European Education Development On line Method
16 Grudzień 2002
The project aims at producing tools simplifying adoption of free sofware and encourage open-minded attitudes.
The project aims to create a positive and favorable environment for the usage of free software in education and to show that schools can consider alternative solutions to proprietary software.
As an output, the project will provide a CDROM, containing tested and documented pieces of software. Free sofware (GNU/Linux) offers a highly formative introduction to new technologies applied to education. The project will concern all teaching subject, localise software in each languages and evaluate their usability in each national context providing educational examples.
Most free software is made by skilled developers producing them where they work. Participants of Freedom test them in their schools and eventually ask for modification to adapt them more closely to their needs.
The tested programmes will be disseminated on the web as models. A CD-Rom will be produced giving teaching examples of the use of free software.
This project seeks to promote equal opportunity, also giving female students the possibility to access new technologies, generally taught in universities and schools of computer science, with a largely male-dominated student body.As modifications can be made on a non-profit basis, adaptations for blind or visually disabled people will be provided.
Duration: 36 months
As an output, the project will provide a CDROM, containing tested and documented pieces of software. Free sofware (GNU/Linux) offers a highly formative introduction to new technologies applied to education. The project will concern all teaching subject, localise software in each languages and evaluate their usability in each national context providing educational examples.
Most free software is made by skilled developers producing them where they work. Participants of Freedom test them in their schools and eventually ask for modification to adapt them more closely to their needs.
The tested programmes will be disseminated on the web as models. A CD-Rom will be produced giving teaching examples of the use of free software.
This project seeks to promote equal opportunity, also giving female students the possibility to access new technologies, generally taught in universities and schools of computer science, with a largely male-dominated student body.As modifications can be made on a non-profit basis, adaptations for blind or visually disabled people will be provided.
Duration: 36 months
Projekty
Learning Folders: Open Source online Educational Publishing and Support for Primary Schools
16 Grudzień 2002
The objective of Learning folders (Lefo) is the creation of an e-learning platform to provide an electronic study material exchange for teachers and learners, grades one to six.
It features uploading and downloading functions, a keyword search-engine, an experts answer scheme and communication features. The materials is also catalogued along the national curriculum of the country.
Lefo is centered around eWorksheet (Worksheet in HTML), allowing differents uses such as knowledge input, self-test, class-test and others. The eWorksheet are designed to help teachers with a more classical approach to adopt new student centered teaching and learning models.
Unlike most competing projects, it is build on basic gadget free technology to work also on older machines and low-speed or mobile connections. The usage of Lefo doesn't require specific computer skills. Educational content is available for free in an open software environment, which has a public licence. Learning folders have been designed to be flexibly modifiable according to the learners' and teachers' needs.
The project's main activity is to create 1000 worksheets in each of the project participants' languages (Italian, German, Slovenian, Swedish, Estonian and also in English) according to the specifications of the countries' national curriculum. Learning folders are expected to be used by a community of more than 100 000 actively participating by the end of the project.
Duration: 24 months
Lefo is centered around eWorksheet (Worksheet in HTML), allowing differents uses such as knowledge input, self-test, class-test and others. The eWorksheet are designed to help teachers with a more classical approach to adopt new student centered teaching and learning models.
Unlike most competing projects, it is build on basic gadget free technology to work also on older machines and low-speed or mobile connections. The usage of Lefo doesn't require specific computer skills. Educational content is available for free in an open software environment, which has a public licence. Learning folders have been designed to be flexibly modifiable according to the learners' and teachers' needs.
The project's main activity is to create 1000 worksheets in each of the project participants' languages (Italian, German, Slovenian, Swedish, Estonian and also in English) according to the specifications of the countries' national curriculum. Learning folders are expected to be used by a community of more than 100 000 actively participating by the end of the project.
Duration: 24 months
Projekty
On-line Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care
16 Grudzień 2002
to enhance the impact and effectiveness of continuing professional development in health and social care contexts by establishing an on-line programme for educators-facilitators
The aims of the project are the following:
-to establish a school of medical/health and social care facilitators to train and accredit teachers and trainers working in the field of medicine and related professional areas e.g. nursing, social care, management and administration
-to develop the role of educator-facilitator through a structured programme of professional development
-to support the educator-facilitators development programme with tutorials, training and development materials, access to specialist resources delivered telematically and creation of a virtual classroom
-to provide programme participants with accreditation options
-to establish ethical and security guidelines for telematic activity
Main activities will be development/adaptation of ICT tools to provide the structure for communication and delivery of CDP materials; developing system manuals, training materials, assessment and evaluation templates; implementing the programme in a variety of national and professional contexts;evaluating the impact of the programme on CPD activity;establish methodologies to support sustainability; disseminating the results of the project
Expected ouputs
-standard structures for individual group assessment, publishing, free-hosting questionnaires
-on-line system manuals, training packages and reference materials
The main target group are educators-facilitators, teachers, lecturers, trainers and other professionals in health and social care organisations.
Duration: 36 months
-to establish a school of medical/health and social care facilitators to train and accredit teachers and trainers working in the field of medicine and related professional areas e.g. nursing, social care, management and administration
-to develop the role of educator-facilitator through a structured programme of professional development
-to support the educator-facilitators development programme with tutorials, training and development materials, access to specialist resources delivered telematically and creation of a virtual classroom
-to provide programme participants with accreditation options
-to establish ethical and security guidelines for telematic activity
Main activities will be development/adaptation of ICT tools to provide the structure for communication and delivery of CDP materials; developing system manuals, training materials, assessment and evaluation templates; implementing the programme in a variety of national and professional contexts;evaluating the impact of the programme on CPD activity;establish methodologies to support sustainability; disseminating the results of the project
Expected ouputs
-standard structures for individual group assessment, publishing, free-hosting questionnaires
-on-line system manuals, training packages and reference materials
The main target group are educators-facilitators, teachers, lecturers, trainers and other professionals in health and social care organisations.
Duration: 36 months
Projekty
Electronically Enhanced Education in Engineering
16 Grudzień 2002
This project builds on the experience of the partnership in using the Internet to complement and enhance the learning experience within a high level engineering discipline.
Through a recent ADAPT project, Cranfield have developed an Internet shell: a specially designed set of linked web pages that enable teachers to load materials on to the Internet and enables learners to access these materials at appropriate times to enhance their learning.
This project will develop and test innovative forms for the display and manipulation of learning materials. That is they will develop 'learning objects' to be used in conjunction with the existing shell. Learning objects will be based on existing techniques such as streamed video and audio presentations, animated simulations and interactive applets.
The objects will be developed by the lecturers who will also develop the related pedagogical procedures that allow their effective use by the learners. The teaching procedures will make use of techniques such as the 'Tutor coaching Student' and 'Student coaching Tutor' which have been recently developed and demonstrated in the USA.
These learning objects and pedagogical procedures will be generic in nature and will be tested and demonstrated with specific high level courses in Mechanical Engineering.
Duration: 24 months
This project will develop and test innovative forms for the display and manipulation of learning materials. That is they will develop 'learning objects' to be used in conjunction with the existing shell. Learning objects will be based on existing techniques such as streamed video and audio presentations, animated simulations and interactive applets.
The objects will be developed by the lecturers who will also develop the related pedagogical procedures that allow their effective use by the learners. The teaching procedures will make use of techniques such as the 'Tutor coaching Student' and 'Student coaching Tutor' which have been recently developed and demonstrated in the USA.
These learning objects and pedagogical procedures will be generic in nature and will be tested and demonstrated with specific high level courses in Mechanical Engineering.
Duration: 24 months
Projekty
Developing Online Open Distance Learning E-models for vocational skills education
16 Grudzień 2002
The project seeks to facilitate the development of ''practical skills'' distance learning programmes and to develop best practice models.
E-learning materials are increasingly used to provide underpinning knowledge on training programmes. Such materials have been integrated into a range of courses for vocational learners. Howerver, in order to develop trainees' practical skill, such programmes still require participants' attendance at training institutions.
Addressing the practical nature of certain vocational skill requirements presents an exceptional challenge for educators wishing to use distance-based e-learning methods. There is little formal research on distance learning specifically targeted at practical skills training.
The project will offer a number of contrasting methods to deliver practical skills training.
The project will trial existing Internet technologies ranging from mixed multimedia web page content to web conferencing software. In addition, the project will evolve innovative learning activities and situations designed to develop practical skills, supported by internet technologies. Of prime importance is the evaluation of the techniques and technologies implemented so as to facilitate the emergence of best practice models. Criteria and quality indicators for practical training on the internet will be established. The models will be designed to improve employability.
Outputs: ODF courses with streaming video.
Target groups: secondary schools, adult education centres, ICT private companies
Duration: 24 months
Addressing the practical nature of certain vocational skill requirements presents an exceptional challenge for educators wishing to use distance-based e-learning methods. There is little formal research on distance learning specifically targeted at practical skills training.
The project will offer a number of contrasting methods to deliver practical skills training.
The project will trial existing Internet technologies ranging from mixed multimedia web page content to web conferencing software. In addition, the project will evolve innovative learning activities and situations designed to develop practical skills, supported by internet technologies. Of prime importance is the evaluation of the techniques and technologies implemented so as to facilitate the emergence of best practice models. Criteria and quality indicators for practical training on the internet will be established. The models will be designed to improve employability.
Outputs: ODF courses with streaming video.
Target groups: secondary schools, adult education centres, ICT private companies
Duration: 24 months
Projekty
University Virtual Resource Centre based on a Distributed Learning Environment
16 Grudzień 2002
The project represents an European dimension attempt for changing learning environment through ICT and ODL in higher education institutions.
The main objective of the project consists in setting up a qualitative learning environment in a network of European universities ensuring an open access to improved methods and educational resources, as well as the best practice applied by partners by outlining an innovative development of ICT-based educational products. This project is clearly oriented to development of innovative practices and services, having in view setting up a virtual resource centre composed of the Distributed Learning Environment (DLE), rising awareness of the impact of ODL and the use of ICT in education.
Among several remarkable outputs foreseen, creation of virtual laboratories crossed with some real devices / equipment is a challenging achievement. By its structure, the virtual resource centre is reproducible, allowing integration of cross-curricular approaches. It will foster collaboration between learners and educators, as well as stimulate multidisciplinary approaches.
Duration: 24 months
Among several remarkable outputs foreseen, creation of virtual laboratories crossed with some real devices / equipment is a challenging achievement. By its structure, the virtual resource centre is reproducible, allowing integration of cross-curricular approaches. It will foster collaboration between learners and educators, as well as stimulate multidisciplinary approaches.
Duration: 24 months
Projekty
Science Centre Education: Open Learning via Information Technology
16 Grudzień 2002
The objective of the project is to promote the work of science education experts and the use of out-of-school sources for informal learning.
The Open Science Info is a project based on four European science centres. The group are developing their interactive exhibitions towards open learning environments, to be used for distance learning using information and communication technologies.
The multidisciplinary content of modern science centre exhibitions is large and often unique. Unlike much of the information on the Internet the content is a reliable learning resource. The Internet is already a main way of disseminating information and mobile solutions are an R&D issue. The project will disseminate its results using the European wide organisation for science centres ECSITE.
Outputs:
-case studies and motivation of learning strategies
-mobile internet development
-website linked to 200 science centres and 1000 school-full scale exhibition with hands-on exhibit units
-database of science exhibition ODL solutions
Their target audiences are school groups, teachers and individual learners.
Duration: 24 months
The multidisciplinary content of modern science centre exhibitions is large and often unique. Unlike much of the information on the Internet the content is a reliable learning resource. The Internet is already a main way of disseminating information and mobile solutions are an R&D issue. The project will disseminate its results using the European wide organisation for science centres ECSITE.
Outputs:
-case studies and motivation of learning strategies
-mobile internet development
-website linked to 200 science centres and 1000 school-full scale exhibition with hands-on exhibit units
-database of science exhibition ODL solutions
Their target audiences are school groups, teachers and individual learners.
Duration: 24 months