EU funding programmes for technology enhanced learning

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EU funding programmes for technology enhanced
learning

• Spyros Pilos
• European Commission
• Training in action, Sestri Levante, 7th of June
  2007

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Who we are what we do

• European Commission Directorate General
  Information Society and MediaDirectorate Digital
  content and cognitive systems
• Making content accessible to all
• new ways of creating, finding and understanding
  content
• how to make easier the access to and the use of
  content
• cross-border use of content (inc.
  multilinguality)
• Programmes Initiatives
• FP6 - IST gt FP7 Digital libraries
• eContentplus Scientific information
• SaferInternetPlus Public Sector Information

research
non-research
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Research

• Framework programme 7
• (FP7)

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From FP5 to FP6 .
Focus technology ? learning process

• The learner at the centre
• researching understanding learning problems.
  
• Solutions generic ? individualisedmore
  realistic assumptions about the systemic changes
  needed to make the maximum out of ICT for
  learning
• Integrated approach
• pedagogical, cognitive, organisational,
  psychological and technological aspects
• Optimised research resources in key areas where
  impact is more likely
• Learning and Knowledge
• Learning and Cognition

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Technology Enhanced learningMain challenges for
FP7 identified during the consultation

• Support shift to user-centred solutions adaptable
  to individuals learning needs.
• Reinforce scientific knowledge base on how
  individual and people learn when the process is
  mediated by technologies
• Strengthen the pedagogical and cognitive
  foundations, on the top of technological and
  social aspects.
• Fostering a multidisciplinary approach
• Solutions that help people understand and master
  subject matters (in context), enabling them to
  transfer what they have learned to other people,
  problems and settings.

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• THE FP7 WORKPROGRAMME

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FP7 ICT - Challenge 4Digital Libraries and
Content

• Harnessing the synergies made possible by linking
  content, knowledge and learning
• Increase the availability of content and its long
  term accessibility
• More effective technologies for the creation,
  management and reuse of content and knowledge
• Scenarios for creative use of content,
  acquisition and development of knowledge -
  learning processes
• Key topics
• Digital Libraries
• Technology-enhanced Learning
• Intelligent Content and Semantics

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Technology enhanced learningwork programme for
2007-2008

• Objective ICT-2007.4.1
• Target outcome at medium term
• Responsive environments for technology-enhanced
  learning
• Target outcome at long term
• Adaptive and intuitive learning systems

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Technology-enhanced LearningResearch objectives
medium term

• Responsive environments for TEL, which
• accommodate personalisation to respond to
  specific learning needs and contexts
  (mass-individualisation)
• are capable of transforming learning outcomes
  into permanent knowledge assets
• enhance competence, skills and performance
• are pedagogically sound

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Technology-enhanced LearningResearch objectives
longer term

• Adaptive and intuitive learning systems that
• identify learner's requirements, intelligently
  monitoring progress,
• exploit learning and cognitive abilities letting
  people learn better,
• give purposeful and meaningful advice to both
  learners and teachers
• learning on your own or collaboratively

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Approach and Impact

• Approach
• Cross-disciplinary (cognitive, organisational,
  pedagogical, technological aspects)
• Provide a body of evidence as to which approaches
  are effective and under which circumstances
• Impact
• Faster and more effective learning, acquisition
  of knowledge, competences and skills
• Unlocking peoples and organisations ability to
  master knowledge and apply it
• Increased knowledge worker productivity
• More efficient organisational learning processes

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Budget and Funding Schemes-instruments

• Total budget 102 MEUR
• Call 1 52 MEUR - closed on 8 May 2007)
• Call 3 50 MEUR - closing in 2008 (indicative)
• Funding Schemes
• Cooperative Projects
• Networks of Excellence
• Coordination Actions/Support Actions

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• THE FP6 BASELINE

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FP6 Facts and figures

• 32 projects (two calls for proposals)
• Total EU-support 125 million
• Projects started between 01.2004 03.2006
• Participants
• more than 400 organisations in about 30 countries
  (in- and outside Europe)
• both suppliers and users of technologies for
  learning
• universities, training centres, multimedia
  publishers, research centres and industry
  (including SMEs).

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Research topicsCall 1
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Research topicsCall 4
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Call 1 Interoperability and standards

• Standards compliance and conformance testing are
  key elements required to accelerate market
  take-up of innovative technologies. TELCERT
  developed software tools and other resources to
  help authors, suppliers and standards
  organisations improve the interoperability of
  e-learning systems and materials.

UNFOLD was a co-ordination action aimed at
accelerating the adoption and further development
of standards for e-learning systems in Europe,
namely the IMS Learning Design specification. The
project set up communities of practice, and held
seminars and conferences to raise awareness and
to spur interaction between members of the
education and technology communities concerned.
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Call 1 Networks of Excellence
KALEIDOSCOPE brings together experts from many
disciplines, the network integrates cutting-edge
research in the fields of educational, social,
cognitive and computational sciences and emerging
technologies.

• The PROLEARN Network of Excellence integrates the
  key areas of research most relevant to
  professional learning in SMEs and larger
  companies. It aims at bridging the gap between
  research and education at universities and
  learning at the workplace.

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Call 4 Learning organisations, competence
building (1/2)
The goal of APOSDLE is to increase knowledge
worker productivity by supporting informal
learning and teaching activities in the context
of knowledge workers' everyday work processes.
(IP)

• KP-Lab will create a learning system aimed at
  facilitating innovative practices of sharing,
  creating and working with knowledge in education
  and workplaces. (IP)

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Call 4 Learning organisations, competence
building (2/2)
PROLIX aims to align learning management with
business processes in order to support
organisations in improving the competencies of
their employees. (IP)

• TENCompetence will further develop models and
  tools for the creation, storage and exchange of
  knowledge resources, learning activities,
  programmes and network data for lifelong
  competence development. (IP)

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Call 4 Collaborative learning, communities of
practice (1/2)
COOPER aims to support individual and collective
competency building in virtual project teams who
work together remotely and need to solve complex
problems.

• LEAD investigates network learning in classroom
  situations, i. e. the link between real-life
  group activities and computer support in
  collaborative problem-solving processes.

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Call 4 Collaborative learning, communities of
practice (2/2)
L2C will generate a framework for the effective
development of collaboration competencies, and
design new generation interactive and
experiential simulation games.

• PALETTE aims at improving learning in communities
  of practice by exploiting knowledge and
  competences of individual members, and by
  supporting social interaction and exchange of
  codified and tacit knowledge. (IP)

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Further information

• Technology-enhanced Learning
• Email infso-telearn_at_ec.europa.eu
• Web http//cordis.europa.eu/ist/telearn/index.htm
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• including a brochure with summary information on
  the 32 FP6 projects
• FP7 ICT
• Web http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict

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Non- research

• eContentplus

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eContentplus programmeaim and characteristics

• Overall aim
• to make digital content in Europe more
  accessible, usable and exploitable.
• Enabling role
• Help content stakeholders (providers and users)
  realise the full potential of digital content
• by creating better conditions for accessing,
  using and exploiting digital material
• ... based on which it will be possible to build
  added-value products and services across Europe

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eContentplus 2005-2008 Budget
149 Million euro
Call 2007
Call 2008
47 M
28 M
27 M
47 M
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
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What is funded

• Projects that
• aim at improving the usability and quality of
  existing digital content in specific contexts of
  use in order to create the conditions for the
  emergence of quality trans-European content based
  services.
• use proven state-of-the-art technical solutions,
• are geared towards innovation in organisation and
  in deployment (as opposed to purely technological
  innovation).

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Target Areas

• Geographic Information
• Educational Content
• Digital Libraries
• Reinforcing cooperation between digital content
  stakeholders

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Project types

• Targeted projects address specific barriers that
  prevent or limit access to and the use of digital
  content at any stage of the chain (production,
  exposure, discovery, acquisition and use). Key
  objective improve interoperability and usability
  of existing content.
• Best practice networks combining the consensus
  building and awareness raising network function
  with the implementation, in real life context, of
  the solutions discussed by the network. Key
  objective Promote the adoption of standards and
  specifications for making digital content in
  Europe more accessible and usable.

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Target areaEducational content
Content that can be used for learning in formal,
non-formal and informal contexts

• Best Practice Networks (4.1)
• Objective Implement standards and
  specifications of learning technologies on
  existing content. Contribute to adoption of
  standards and specifications across Europe.
• One of the expected results Emergence of a
  cooperation structure for facilitating
  interoperability in learning technologies in
  Europe.

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Best Practice NetworksHow will they work

• Each BPN
• identifies the learning technology standard(s) it
  wants to implement
• tries out one or more of the approaches discussed
  in the network to draw conclusions on their
  validity and adapts its approach, if necessary.
• involves standardisation or other relevant
  bodies.

The Commission organises clustering meetings as
appropriate

• The final output of the BPNs reflects both the
  results of its own large scale implementations
  and the results and recommendations from the
  clustering activities.

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Target areaEducational content
Content that can be used for learning in formal,
non-formal and informal contexts

• Targeted projects (4.2)
• Projects that deal with one or more of the
  following issues
• Facilitate the co-existence of professionally
  produced and user-generated educational content.
• Use digital libraries held by cultural
  institutions for education.
• Help users find educational content matching
  their needs.

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Call 2007

• Open in June
• Deadline for receipt of proposals
• 4 October 2007
• 1700 Luxembourg local time

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Further information

• Call documentation (work programme, guide for
  proposers etc)
• http//ec.europa.eu/eContentplus
• eContentplus helpdeskecontentplus_at_ec.europa.eu

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EU funding programmes for technology enhanced
learningThank you for your attention