The eLearning initiative

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The eLearning initiative

• A fast answer to the Lisbon Summit requests
• ...to become the most advanced and competitive
  knowledge-based economy in the world, with more
  and better jobs.....
• ...to adapt European education and training
  systems...
• The education part of and complement to eEurope
• A key enabler for the lifelong learning paradigm
• One of the three first priorities for the
  implementation of the Report on Future Objectives
  of Education Systems

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The eLearning Action Plan

• Four action lines
• Improving infrastructures and equipment
• A special effort in training for all, in
  particular for teachers and trainers
• Fostering European quality contents and services
• Supporting European networks and collaboration

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eLearning main objectives

• To integrate ICT in education and training
• exploiting ICT potential for quality
• exploiting ICT potential for innovation
• To ensure universal access to digital literacy
• To answer the new skills challenge

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eLearning guiding principles

• Leadership and direction of the public sector
• Co-operation and partnerships with the private
  sector
• A strong emphasis on social inclusion

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A call for proposalssix priorities

• European e-learning networks of excellence
• Better information for decision-making
• Virtual models for European universities
• New learning environments
• Teacher and trainer training
• Three key areas
• Science and technology
• Art and culture
• Modern languages

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A new initiative media literacy

• What literacy for the XXIst century?
• How can education systems prepare citizens for
• mass media
• a civilisation of images
• Internet
• a civilisation of networks
• a global dimension
• How can education systems provide all this in a
  new lifelong learning paradigm
• where learners must get in charge
• where learning boundaries dissolve school,
  work, leisure...

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A communication action NetdaysImage

• Watch it, Read it, Make it!
• Use of ICT for fostering creativity
• Use of ICT for communication
• Use of ICT for mutual understanding
• Use of ICT for preserving cultural diversity
• Use of ICT for preserving cultural heritage
• A common subject European cinema

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Four strategic studies

• Virtual models for European Universities
• Financing Internet access and use at schools
• New learning environments
• Cultural institutions as new learning environments

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Cultural institutions as new learning environments

• Conceptual framework
• An overview of the state of the art in Europe
• A selection of case studies
• A selection of best practice examples
• Problems and opportunities
• A case for action?
• Recommendations for action at European level

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Virtual museums and eLearning

• The need to integrate virtual museums in
  education
• As resource centres
• Unprecedented accessibility to cultural resources
• Preservation of heritage, starting at the local
  level
• Opportunity for innovative pedagogical approaches
• Tools for building a sense of and a respect for
  diversity
• As a concept
• The museum as a core for collaborative learning
• A new role for museums in school and in lifelong
  learning

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Activities under way

• A focus group with science museums
• Six pilot projects on art, science and music all
  including some kind of museum approach
• A call for proposals on media literacy,
  intercultural dialogue and quality approach to
  e-learning
• A working group with experts in media literacy
• A political document on media literacy within
  2002
• A new eLearning programme

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To know more

• For more information on the eLearning initiative,
• please contact us at
• by post eLearning
• B100 3/9
• European Commission, B-1049
  Brussels
• by e-mail elearning_at_cec.eu.int
• or see http//europa.eu.int/comm/elearning