Thomas McCusker

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Thomas McCusker
Introduction to SIGNOL

• Development Manager
• Getlearning.net
• Project Manager
• SIGNOL

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Jó napot
Welcome to all our delegates from Hungary
First Day presentation on SIGNOL project 10th
February 2004
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SIGNOL Case Study

• Funded under Sixth Framework Programme
• Part of e-Europe Plan
• Which has invested over Euros 800 million
• since 2000
• This has funded research in e-learning from
  schools
• to Universities

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eLearning Initiative

• Funded by the European Commission
• eEurope Programme Launched in 2000
• eLearning Action Plan 2001

The elearning Action Plan Designing Tomorrows
Education 2001
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SIGNOL

• Two year project 2003-2005
• Public-Private Partnership
• Sweden, Finland, Lithuania
• Secured Euros 600,000

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eLearning Initiative
The eLearning initiative of the European
Commission seeks to mobilise the educational and
cultural communities, as well as the economic
and social players in Europe, in order to speed
up changes in the education and training systems
for Europe's move to a knowledge-based society.

http//europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/ele
arning/index_en.html
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elearning Call

• eLearning Call for Proposals DG EAC/61/03
• 191 applications 32 approved
• Three Themes
• Peer Reviews
• Networks of Collaboration
• Observatories
• SIGNOL falls under Networks of Collaboration
• Two Measures
• Special Interest Groups
• Clusters of existing projects

The e-Learning Initiative has already launched
several pilot projects which it will soon begin
clustering together, and is publishing a study on
virtual campus deployment. The e-Learning
programme will continue this work under FP7.
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eLearning Initiative

• Networks of collaboration
• Special Interest Group
• Addressing Obstacles to elearning take-up

Special Interest Group for Networks On-line SIGNOL
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SIGNOL
The Impact eLearning has on an Institution
implementing and delivering eLearning

• Focus on Blended Learning and eLearning
• What does it mean for
• Staff Resources
• Curriculum time tabling
• Cultural Issues
• Strategic Development Plans
• Internal/External Networks

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Objectives

• Exchange experiences to-date
• Consolidate best practices
• Define and Develop common elearning models
• Costing elearning
• Delivery of blended/elearning

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Projcet Activities

• 6 Work Packages
• 4 Sub Packages
• 1 Pilot Programme
• 3 Sub Reports
• IT Report Networking
• Tactical Report (Costing,Resourcing Strategic)
• Pilot Analysis (Blended/eLearning)
• Collate to one main report (SIGNOL)
• Continuous Reports on Evaluation of project

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Work Package Framework
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Project Activities
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eLearning Opportunity

• Internet-based learning will grow to a 50
  billion market by 2009.
• (Piper Jaffray, Dec 99)
• E-learning saves 30 to 60 percent in costs over
  traditional classroom instruction
• Brandon Hall
• corporate eLearning market exceeded 23 billion
  in 2006, representing a CAGR of 68.8 percent from
  1999 through 2006.
• Western Europe will experience the fastest
  growth rate at 97.2 percent
• (IDC)