eLearning - Description of projects selected in 2005

Transversal actions

	BAZAAR - The Bazaar
	COLLAGE - Collaborative Learning Platform Using Game-Like Enhancements
	Fe-ConE - Framework for e-learning Contents Evaluation
	OLCOS - Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services

BAZAAR - The Bazaar

Drawing from years of experience the consortium members clearly see the need for developing and supporting a community for teachers and trainers. The project will provide information and services for teachers and trainers in the development, creation, exchange and use of e-learning materials. Particularly addressing the issues of standards and licenses, pedagogy, and tool selection. A sandbox will provide an opportunity for teachers and trainers to immediately use their new knowledge of e-learning. The sandbox is expected to be an innovative mechanism for exchanging and transferring good practices for e-learning.

The web presence and a series of seminars will support end-users and propose coherent and practical recommendations and services for teachers, trainers and learners to deal with the practical aspects of e-learning. In order to exert large scale influence the project will enhance social networking between teachers and trainers as well as among European projects and initiatives. It will also provide opportunities for discourse and communication between developers and users of e-learning applications

Project Description (PDF Document)
Start date - duration - grant: 01/01/2006 - 24 months - 252.641,81 €
Co-ordinating organisation: RayCom BV, Netherlands
Contact person: Raymond Elferink Raymond@raycom.com

COLLAGE - Collaborative Learning Platform Using Game-Like Enhancements

COLLAGE aims at using existing experiences in the field of mobile learning applications in Europe, so that existing best practices are integrated in an innovative, really state-of-the-art mobile learning support and information application.

Project Description (PDF Document)
Start date - duration - grant: 01/01/2006 - 24 months - 428.000 €
Co-ordinating organisation: Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece
Contact person: Sotirou Sofolikis sotiriou@ellinogermaniki.gr

Fe-ConE - Framework for e-learning Contents Evaluation

Fe-ConE aims at the promotion of e-learning by identifying key factors for the development / adoption of eLearning contents in the different socio-cultural environments in Europe, and on such a base to articulate and develop a decision making tool -self evaluation, to support e-learning for decision making on contents. In the first place such a tool is of use to e-learning content developers and in the second to the e-learning per se. The project is build on the premises that "learnability" is culturally bounded and that the success of e-learning is highly related to -if not found at, the intersection between the implied by the setting learning patrimony and the technology applied to achieve the desired learning outcomes. This area has not as of today received the attention it deserves so as to facilitate the transmission of the notion of e-learning from a global level to a glocal one -so as to make the notion more relevant for the users / learners needs and requirements.

Project Description (PDF Document)
Start date - duration - grant: 01/01/2006 - 24 months - 290.196 €
Co-ordinating organisation: Foundation for research and Technology - Hellas / Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (FORTH/IACM), Greece
Contact person: Kathy Kikis-Papadakis katerina@iacm.forth.gr

OLCOS - Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services

OLCOS's objectives are to make available information and learning services that will foster and support the creation, sharing and re-use of open e-learning content in and among the European member states. In order to achieve a dynamic growth in open e-learning content, OLCO will provide organisational and individual end-users with practical information required to create, share and re-use such interoperable content. In the realisation of these objectives, OLCO will emphasis that Open Content besides employing appropriate licensing schemes is essentially about collaborative e-learning practices that add value to open e-learning content (for example, through use cases, best practices, and lessons learnt).

Project Description (PDF Document)
Start date - duration - grant: 01/01/2006 - 24 months - 277.940,46 €
Co-ordinating organisation: Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., Austria
Contact person: Veronika Hornung-Prähauser veronica.hornung@salzburgresearch.at