HELIOS elearning and innovation 15122006

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e-Learning and innovation of learning systems
Claudio Delrio- SCIENTER
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Policy priorities and research themes

• To what extent eLearning is an effective means to
  improve Access to Learning opportunities?
• How much eLearning helping European citizens to
  achieve better Employability?
• In which way is eLearning contributing to
  Personal Development Citizenship?
• Which impact has eLearning on the
  Internationalisation of ET Systems in Europe?
• Is eLearning a facilitator of Organisational
  Change in eLearning users organisations?
• How and how much eLearning is supporting
  Innovation Processes in ET Organisations?

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e-Learning impact on Access to learning

• e-Learning has managed to go deeper instead
  that wider
• No one size fits all solution
• Spurring motivation to learn
• Overcoming access barriers
• Need to tackle at once several factors of
  deprivation
• Scarce sustainability of e-L projects

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e-Learning impact on Access to learning

• Do excluded groups really benefit from
  e-learning?
• Which part of e-learning investments is actually
  addressed to increasing access?
• Are strategies based on community access more
  effective than strategies based on individual
  access?
• Is there a concrete risk that e-learning policies
  and initiatives (private) can actually increase
  social divide?
• Is it provable that Human support is a key factor
  in effective learning access?
• Is there a trade off between quality of support
  and quantity of learners served?

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e-Learning impact on Employability

• It works better for those already at work
• Deemed most suitable for basic skills and less
  for soft/transversal skills
• Significant potential in the presentation of
  learning achievements (e-portfolio)
• Market the benefit of quality e-L towards the
  employers
• Better measurement of the ROI in terms of
  employability of learners

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e-Learning impact on personal development

• Need for better personalisation of e-L solution
• Encouraging humanisation of e-L (game-based,
  communities.)
• Potential for work-life balance
• Empathic and open online communities or groups
  of alikes?

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e-Learning and internationalisation

• Increasing exchanges based on physical and
  virtual mobility
• International and local
• To establish reliable systems of worldwide
  accreditation?
• To increase the recognition of qualifications
  obtained
• Consider ownership, open educational resources
  and inter-operability standards across boundaries
  
• Develop partnerships at all levels

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e-Learning and organisational change

• Change of vision/strategy
• Change in organisational culture
• Change in the way that the organisation operates
• Change in the way that the organisation is
  structured
• Change in the way training/learning is organised
• Change in social relations or interactions
  between personnel in the workplace (e.g.
  collaborative on-line communities, virtual
  leadership)

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e-Learning and innovation

• Is e-learning contributing to open up formal
  education to the wider world?
• Is e-learning increasing the ownership of
  learning experiences, i.e. the take up of
  responsibility by learners about their learning
  experiences within formal education contexts?
• Has e-learning increased the quality of learning
  provision into formal education settings?
• Has e-learning produced significant
  organisational change in ET institutions?
• Is e-learning more stimulating or more concerning
  the TT community?
• Has the use of ICT substantially renovated the
  way of teaching and learning in ET institutions?

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E-learning territories
Informal learning
e-Learning as a side effect in communities
Individual development throught e-learning
Virtual Professional networks
Non professional learning communities
E-L workplace
Intra-muros
Extended learning context
Inter-organisational development through
e-Learning
E-learning in VET
Evolved distance education
E-L in schools
E-L in tertiary education
ICT for virtual mobility
TTT via e-L
Formal Learning
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E-learning territories
Informal learning
e-Learning as a side effect in communities
Individual development throught e-learning
Virtual Professional networks
Non professional learning communities
E-L workplace
Intra-muros
Extended learning context
Inter-organisational development through
e-Learning
E-learning in VET
Evolved distance education
E-L in schools
E-L in tertiary education
ICT for virtual mobility
TTT via e-L
Formal Learning