Quality in E-Learning (European Weblog for E-Learning, Competence and more) : topic:Projekte

European Project: Quality Improvement through Self Evaluation (SEVAQ)

uehlers — 2007-09-19T06:51:00Z

SEVAQ is located within the framework of The Leonardo da Vinci Program and is therefore committed to the following general objectives:

* Improvement of skills and competences
* Improvement of the quality of and access to permanent vocational training.
* Promote and enforce the contributions of vocational training to the process of innovation.

Project Goals
Improving the quality of the vocational and educational courses that are offered through open- and distance learning, e-learning and blended learning.

Provide in a number of good practices concerning quality and provide in a multi-functional self-evaluation questionnaire in order to obtain valuable client feedback.
http://www.sevaq.com/

GREAT Initiative! Open Education Search: initiative supported by UNESCO

uehlers — 2007-09-18T06:39:00Z

The Hewlett Foundation, ccLearn (Creative Commons' educational division) and Google are working together to build an open education web-scale search, part of a larger effort to offer web users simple, overarching mechanisms for discovering open educational resources (OERs).

This tool aims to direct search engine traffic to the incredible diversity of OER repositories and communities. While such a tool would not replace the more specialized and sophisticated search sites and portals that the community already uses, it would expose a much wider public to the community's materials.

UNESCO, partner of the Hewlett Foundation in the promotion of the open educational content movement, sees in this initiative an opportunity to encourage OER adoption and specify legal and technical conditions for making educational resources openly available.

ccLearn is coordinating the project by collecting URLs for all existing OER sites and online materials. This collection of URLs will be available to anyone who wants it - either to build a new service, repository or portal, or to improve the reach of an existing site. In classic OER manner, the partners wish to pool the shared knowledge and resources, and provide the resulting collection of URLs as a free "kernel" that anyone can use.

The goal of this project is to increase the visibility and traffic to all specialized OER repositories. Web-scale search will increase awareness and utilization of OER by directing interested users to existing sites more successfully.

This project is therefore an important step for achieving large-scale access to and use of open educational resources.

FECONE-Project: Creating value for Learners

uehlers — 2007-06-27T14:28:00Z

It is good to see that pedagogy is focussed again. I think this project is an escellent example of how reflective learning can be build into content development and quality strategies.

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The project is based on the premises that learning is socially and culturally bounded and that the success of e-learning is highly related not just to the availability and the affordances of technology but also to the learning dispositions of the learners (i.e. the internalised social and cultural ways of valuing, engaging in and exploiting new learning), as well as the socio-cultural relevance of e-learning contents and pedagogies. The latter have not as of today received the attention they deserve in order to facilitate the operational transformation of the notion of e-learning from a global all-encompassing level to glocal ones, which are anticipated to be more relevant for the e-learners needs and requirements.

The specific focus of the Fe-ConE project is on e-learning contents; important questions that we seek to address are: How e-learning contents can be conceptualised given the transformative potentials of ICT in relation to education, training and life long learning? What are the challenges for designing e-learning contents that are inclusive (i.e. bias-free, socio-culturally sensitive, pedagogically flexible, customisable, and accessible)? What may be the implications in the design, diffusion and adoption of e-learning contents when taking into account the commonalities and differences in traditional and emerging learning dispositions across different European education and training systems and lifelong learning practices?

The Fe-ConE project at the current phase of its implementation is seeking to bring together experts, practitioners and interested individuals in a discussion/reflection forum which is anticipated to support the identification and deeper understanding of key factors and wider trends that may have an impact on the conceptualisation, design, evaluation, adoption and diffusion of quality e-learning contents across Europe. Focus areas of particular interest are: course contents and learning platforms, pedagogical methodologies, technologies and requirements for organizational change, and inclusive e-learning content development guidelines under the scope of pedagogy, instructional design and socio-cultural relevancy.

Approach

The approach being followed in Fe-ConE is grounded on a reflective methodology which integrates aspects of evaluation, development and transfer of knowledge.

The project design comprises of four interrelated stages. The first sets up an informal reflection forum which will evolve into a Community of Practice of content developers, the second aims at the review of existing e-learning resources and mapping of socio-cultural factors which are in turn validated with individuals engaged in the process of e-learning (users) in seven national contexts and leads to the development of the e-contents decision making tool.

The fourth stage concerns the testing of OS-based scenarios and that of the e-learning content tool for relevancy with end-users.

The research context is the European e-learning setting with a particular focus on the less-active in the e-learning practices regions of Europe (national context of Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and Lithuania), and reference point one of the most active e-learning national context (The Netherlands).
The target groups that will benefit directly from the proposed activity are: learners of e-learning schemes and, indirectly, stakeholders such as policy makers and e-learning facilitators will benefit as well.

MORE:
http://www.elearningeuropa.info/directory/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=7598&doclng=6

PROMOTION OF THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING...

uehlers — 2007-05-29T11:24:00Z

I just found a very interesting UNESCO initiative which we will now try to set up cooperations with and link it to our recently granted DAAD fund for organising eLearning workshops in the east African Region.
Here some more info:

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http://www.avlc-science.org/new/promotions.htm
Since 2002, UNESCO has actively pursued two cross-cutting theme programmes whose objectives are to engage all the disciplines under the organizations mandate in order to address pressing global problems. One of the themes is the eradication of extreme poverty and another is the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the promotion of science, culture and education. This website is on a programme that falls under the second theme.

The central activity of this programme is to train university staff to enable them convert lecture notes to e-learning format and hence improve on the quality of science and engineering education. In this connection, UNESCO adopted a multi-stage approach in which a needs assessment covering five East African universities was done and areas that needed attention were identified - chief of these being training in e-content development.

Various e-content training programme approaches have been mounted. First, a detailed e-content training curriculum was developed and used during training of trainers workshops. Other activities include facilitating the trained staff to organise national training programmes, and providing some of them with grants to develop e-learning materials in various subjects in science and engineering. This website gives highlights on these activities.

WINDS LA -- our new European Latin American Cooperation

uehlers — 2007-05-08T14:43:00Z

The WINDS-Latin America project
WINDS Latin America is a support action funded by the European Commission with the aim to deepen strategic Research and Development cooperation between Europe and Latin America in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.
WINDS-LA will mobilize exiting networks and research communities around the priorities of the European Union´s 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), resulting into a multinational and multistakeholder community that will involve EU and LA ICT
researchers, policy makers and users.

WINDS-LA will identify research issues of common interest and opportunities for cooperative R&D between EU and Latin America, setting the basis for the formulation of an EU-LA joint strategy for future research.

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The project is build around:
1. Information services on European and Latin American excellence, R&D actors, projects, results
2. Collaboration services that will facilitate the aggregation of research actors around specific themes and the preparation of collaboration projects
3. Three research conferences in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico and a final Conference in Brussels
4. An open consultation process that will lead to a consensus-based roadmap for future R&D in an LA-EU collaboration perspective

WINDS-LA Project Consortium:
MENON Network (Belgium), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain), University of Duisburg Essen (Germany), Pontificial University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico), Fundación Gestión y Desarrollo (Argentina)

Development of an Educational Model for Southern Africa

uehlers — 2007-05-08T12:19:00Z

This is an excellent example of a project with which cooperation is almost a must!

London (UK)/Pretoria(ZA), May 2007 -
Jon Gregson from the Imperial College London and Dolf Jordaan from the University of Pretoria work together on a two-year project that incorporates mLearning in postgraduate distance learning. Jon Gregson reports to CHECK.point eLearning on the details of this project and mobile learning in the African context.

Source: http://www.checkpoint-elearning.com/article/3926.html

U&I Learning Captures European Prize

uehlers — 2007-04-16T14:03:00Z

Ghent (BE), March 2007 U&I Learning, the Ghent-based eLearning integrator operating in Belgium and the Netherlands, has again been recognized for its outstanding accomplishments, being granted a silver European Seal of eExcellence award at the European Multimedia Forum (EMF). The EMF is an important European non-profit organisation that supports digital media industries.
Quelle: http://www.checkpoint-elearning.com/article/3788.html

Bildungsqualität Projekte und Vorhaben

uehlers — 2007-04-16T13:58:00Z

Projekt und Forshcungsvorhaben zum Thema Bildungsqualität. Eine Liste auf dem dt. Bildungsserver.

http://www.bildungsserver.de/zeigen.html?seite=5005

Kooperatives Online-Lernen beim VCRP

ferdi — 2006-08-29T19:02:00Z

Die Online-Qualifizierung für Hochschullehrende

Kaiserslautern, August 2006 - Virtueller Campus Rheinland-Pfalz (VCRP) wird künftig der Tatsache Rechnung tragen, dass sich in den letzten Jahren die Nutzung von Online-Kommunikations- und -Kooperationselementen besonders bewährt hat. Der VCRP hat sich daher das Ziel gesetzt, Lehrende bei diesem Thema zu unterstützen.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.de?aID=2898

Preis für nachhaltige Bildung

ferdi — 2006-08-29T18:55:00Z

Einsendeschluss für die Arbeiten ist der 30.11.2006

Landau, August 2006. Das Zentrum für empirische pädagogische Forschung
(zepf) der Universität Koblenz Landau, Campus Landau, startet gemeinsam mit der Schülerhilfe, Gelsenkirchen, den Deutschen Innovationspreis für nachhaltige Bildung.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.de?aID=2923

Ausbau des Qualifikationsniveaus in Europa

ferdi — 2006-08-04T19:55:00Z

Dafür muss verschiedenen Erfordernissen entsprochen werden, die von der Identifikation relevanter Qualifikationen bis hin zur Befähigung der Personen zum Erwerb relevanter Kenntnisse reichen. Europa sollte das Qualifikationsniveau seiner eigenen Erwerbsbevölkerung ausbauen. Dafür muss verschiedenen Erfordernissen entsprochen werden, die von der Identifikation relevanter Qualifikationen...

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.phppage=doc&doc_id=5944&doclng=3

KOBRA - Wer will sich beteiligen?

ferdi — 2006-07-11T09:18:00Z

Kompetenzerwerb mit aktivierenden Lernformen

Bielefeld, Juli 2006 - Das Projekt KOBRA wird aus den Mitteln des Europäischen Sozialfonds sowie jenen des Landes NRW im Rahmen der Programmlinie Innovation Weiterbildung NRW öffentlich gefördert. Das Vorhaben richtet sich an KMU und deren Mitarbeiter und unterstützt die Einführung von neuen Lernformen wie z.B. eLearning in Unternehmen. Dabei kooperiert es eng mit dem Webkolleg NRW.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.de?aID=2775

Projekt "KoBiQ" für kompetenzbasiertes Bildungsbroking

ferdi — 2006-07-11T09:13:00Z

Köln, Juli 2006 Der systematischen Gestaltung der Personalentwicklung kann die Geschäftsführung in Kleinen und Mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) häufig nicht die zeitlichen Ressourcen einräumen, die beispielsweise zur Steigerung der Weiterbildungsaktivität nötig wären. Abhilfe schaffen kann hier die Unterstützung der Geschäftsführung und der Angestellten durch ein bedarfsgerechtes Kompetenz-Management-System, wie es beim Projekt "KoBiQ"
der Qualitus GmbH in Kooperation mit dem WebKollegNRW entwickelt wird.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.de?aID=2765

APOSDLE's "learn @ work" Approach

New ways...

ferdi — 2006-06-30T08:50:00Z

APOSDLE's "learn @ work" Approach

New ways to work, learn and collaborate

Graz (Austria), June 2006 Lifelong Learning has become an essential ingredient for success within the knowledge society. The EU project APOSDLE will enhance knowledge worker productivity by providing learning support within the computational work environment.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.com?aID=2755

Ist die Zeit reif für eTesting?

ferdi — 2006-06-23T13:12:00Z

Erfahrungen aus der zahnmedizinischen Ausbildung

Bonn, Juni 2006 "Die Zeit ist reif", meint Frank-Christoph Langer, der als Mitarbeiter der Zahnklinik der Universität Bonn sieben Semester bei der Einführung eines eTesting-Systems mitgewirkt und jetzt unter www.etesting-forum.de ein Diskussionsforum eingerichtet hat.

http://www.checkpoint-elearning.de?aID=2722