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Katalog

e-Europe Go Digital

13 March 2007
Web sites to encourage and help the SMEs’ participation in the Information Society.
Web sites to encourage and help the SMEs?? participation in the Information Society.
Katalog

European Training Village

01 March 2007
The European Training Village (ETV) is an interactive platform for all people involved in vocational education and training (VET). The site provides up-to-date information on VET in Europe, forums for dialogue and collaborative working, library and databases, as well as on-line surveys.
Katalog

KnowledgeBoard

01 March 2007
Portal for the European Knowledge Management industry, providing a great deal of information as well as active Special Interest Groups and other community tools.
Artikler

Innovative technologies for learning

29 November 2002
Information and communication technologies are changing dramatically the way in which individuals live and work and organisations operate, creating the basis for the information society in which we live today. There is also a shift towards a more ambitious concept: the knowledge society.
Learning as the premises for knowledge and particularly Technology Enhanced Learning (e-learning) is recognised as essential to this transition and will soon become its engine. It is an enabling application area with a strong potential impact on the continuous education and training of individuals, on the quality of life and the competitiveness of European industry and will play a fundamental role in ensuring that the all-pervasive, and sometimes overwhelming amount of information available nowadays, is converted into relevant knowledge for the benefit of Europe's citizens and organisations.
Besides, e-learning is an emerging market sector in its own right which is going to be prominent in the upcoming years according to all forecasts. The outstanding quality of education and training systems in Europe, coupled with innovative and constantly improving application of information and knowledge technologies will ensure Europe's readiness to meet the growing demand for lifelong learning and to become a key player in this market.

The main application areas for e-learning technologies are:

Learning at schools
Technology Enhanced Learning is seen as an important vehicle to provide pupils and children with knowledge and skills necessary to make them active citizens of the information society. Even more, e-learning has a great potential to supplement the traditional acquisition of information about facts and techniques, providing new opportunities to explore higher level cognitive activities such as autonomy, creativity, problem solving and team work.
Learning at universities
Universities are using e-learning solutions as a source of added value for their students, improving off-campus, flexible, virtual learning through web-based resources, including continuous education. In order to respond to the changing education market, universities are entering into strategic partnerships and adopting new business models.
Learning at work
In the work place, greater emphasis is being placed on flexible, just-in-time education and training, empowering workers and providing the necessary skills and competence for rapidly changing business needs.
Lifelong learning and learning at home
Technology Enhanced Learning is considered an important enabler for adult education and e-inclusion, acknowledging the importance of informal and non-formal learning. New opportunities appear as the technology becomes a facilitator for sharing resources, creating communities of learning and communities of practice.

Research on learning technologies Funded by the European Commission

The European Commission has launched a number of action plans and other initiatives in order to create a critical mass of "resources" able to support, guide and stimulate research, technological development and innovation in education and training. ICT enabled education and training has long been a priority within the Framework Programmes for Research and Development. 300 research projects have been funded since 1988 through research on e-learning technologies funded by the European Commission, and a considerable amount of European expertise and know-how has been built up. Results are both new services, systems and standards, and networks of schools, research labs and other organisations involved in education and training.

International co-operation

The Education and Training Applications unit of the Information Society
Directorate-General, jointly with the Research Directorate-General, has been actively pursuing international co-operation. This has resulted in the exchange of speakers and experts and in the participation from a number of countries outside Europe in the IST projects, from North America, Australia and from Central and Eastern European countries. International co-operation is seen as a way of ensuring relevance and up-to-dateness of activities and is thus a clear win-win initiative.
More than 70 institutions from non-EU countries are participating in the IST education and training research activities, forming about 10% of the total of participants.
The IST programme also actively supports international initiatives such as EUMEDIS for the development of the Euro-Mediterranean information society or @lis , a programme aiming to reinforce partnership between the European Union and Latin America in the field of the information society.
Artikler

A Portal for Learning and Training in Industry

23 November 2002
The IT portal for Learning and Training in Industry is an entry point to 16 web-sites developing innovative tools and techniques, such as virtual reality environments, knowledge sharing environments and simulators. The portal is run by Kalif, a site that gives access to the projects. The objective of LTI portal is to improve knowledge management and learning not only in various sectors of industrial organisations, such as the maritime, aircraft, nuclear energy and transport sectors, but also in the designer world and financial services.

For instance, Tqmonline aims to develop and test IT-based environments for supporting personnel training on Total Quality issues. This Virtual Learning Environment are addressing the training needs of European automotive supply industries.

Also, the Know-Web site supports knowledge management within companies. The site operates on the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) and uses organizational memory modules to capture and represent knowledge, as tools for management of the organisational memory, as a mechanism for the retrieval of knowledge/information relevant to the given task, and a tool for management of efficient (internal and external) communication flow.


Artikler

Bildungsinitiative Networking: das Cisco Networking Academy Program in Deutschland

17 January 2003
Mit einem in mittlerweile 148 Ländern erprobten Bildungskonzept fördert Cisco Systems, weltweit führender Anbieter von Networking-Lösungen für das Internet, in Zusammenarbeit mit den Kultusministerien die praktische Qualifizierung der IT-Fachkräfte von morgen. Mit der Bildungsinitiative Networking können sich Schüler und Studenten in einem viersemestrigen Zusatzkurs zu zertifizierten Netzwerk-Spezialisten ausbilden lassen und so ihre Berufschancen entscheidend verbessern. Das Programm startete 1997 in den USA und wurde 1999 auch in Deutschland 13 Schulen in Hessen etabliert. Mittlerweile haben sich schon zwölf deutsche Bundesländer der Bildungsinitiative Networking angeschlossen, mit weiteren wird derzeit verhandelt.

Weltweit zählt die Bildungsinitiative Networking bereits über 10.000 Akademien und aktuell 286.000 Studenten. Ueber 4.000.000 Teilnehmer haben in 148 Ländern das Programm bereits erfolgreich absolviert und das international anerkannte Zertifikat "Cisco Certified Networking Associate" (CCNA) erworben. In Deutschland haben über 12.000 Schüler und Studenten an 265 Akademien die Spezialausbildung begonnen, 2.000 Absolventen markieren den Erfolg der Bildungsinitiative. Unterrichtet werden sie von fast 750 Lehrkräfte.

Für die didaktisch aufbereitete Methodik der Qualifizierung kann Cisco Systems auf sein bewährtes internationales Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP) zurückgreifen. Dieses Lehrprogramm wurde 1997 in den USA ins Leben gerufen und trägt in Deutschland den Namen Bildungsinitiative Networking. Es ist Teil der D21-Initiative der deutschen Wirtschaft und der Bundesregierung. Junge Leute sollen schon frühzeitig im Umgang mit Computern und Netzwerken für die nächste Generation der Internettechnologien systematisch geschult werden. Noch hat jede zweite IT-Fachkraft in Deutschland keine umfassende Ausbildung, sondern ihre Kenntnisse im Rahmen ihrer beruflichen Tätigkeit erworben. Das Programm richtet sich an Auszubildende in IT-Berufen wie IT-Kaufleute, Elektro- und Nachrichtentechniker sowie Schüler allgemeinbildender Schulen und Studenten angeschlossener Hochschulen.

Teilnehmende berufsbildende oder allgemeinbildende Schulen sowie Hochschulen werden zu Sonderkonditionen von Cisco Systems mit einem professionellen Computer Labor ausgestattet, das zum praktischen Unterricht der Netzwerktechnik befähigt. Lehrer können sich durch die Zusammenarbeit von Cisco Systems und den Kultusministerien der Bundesländer in speziellen Trainingskursen zunächst zu Cisco Certified Networking Associates (CCNA) und in der nächsten Fortbildungsstufe zu Cisco Certified Academy Instructors (CCAI) schulen lassen, um sich für die Vermittlung der Netzwerktechnik praxisnah zu qualifizieren. Cisco Systems stellt auch die Lehrmaterialien für die Vermittlung der IT-Ausbildung zur Verfügung.

Die Programmteilnehmer lernen Aufbau, Wartung und Management von Computernetzwerken in Theorie und Praxis kennen. Weitere Lernziele sind die Planung von Rechnernetzen sowie das Orten und Beheben von Fehlern in der Netzinfrastruktur. Dabei spielt neben dem klassischen Unterricht und praktischen Einheiten das E-Learning eine wichtige Rolle.

Gelernt wird mit einem multimedialen Lehrplan, dem sogenannten Curriculum, der durch Unterweisung am Computer und web-basierte Trainingseinheiten ergänzt wird. Das Lernen über das Internet hat eine Reihe von Vorteilen: die Lernenden haben bessere Zugriffsmöglichkeiten auf das Material, können Lernrhythmus und -umfang selbst bestimmen und in der Schule oder zu Hause lernen. E-Learning trägt viel dazu bei, dass das Programm bei Schülern und Studenten beliebt ist. Schließlich ist unbestritten einer der revolutionärsten und sicher auch schülerfreundlichsten Bestandteile von E-Learning, dass nicht mehr der Lehrende im Zentrum der Wissensvermittlung steht sondern der Lernende selbst.

Jedes der vier Semester behandelt einen anderen Themenschwerpunkt: Am Anfang steht die Einführung in die Grundlagen von Netzen, im zweiten Semester werden Router und Netzwerkkomponenten behandelt, gefolgt von Umgang mit LAN, Novell IPX und WAN im dritten Halbjahr. Abschließend erfahren die Teilnehmer alles rund um das Thema Netzprotokolle und ISDN. Voraussetzung für das multimediale Programm sind neben technischem Verständnis vor allem Englischkenntnisse, da die Unterrichtsmaterialien in englischer Sprache verfasst sind. Am Ende der Ausbildung steht nach einem Test das international anerkannte Zertifikat "Cisco Certified Networking Associate" (CCNA). Für die Teilnehmer ist dies eine wichtige Zusatzqualifikation für den Berufseinstieg.
Artikler

e-Learning among the priorities pointed by the eSkills Summit Declaration

27 November 2002
Held in Copenhagen in 16-18 october, the European eSkills Summit final Declaration considers eLearning as one of the key tools to foster e-Skills in Europe.
Devoted to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and e-business skills the Summit invites the European Commission "to promote within the eEurope 2005 initiative and the Sixth Research Framework Programme lifelong learning strategies and technologies for employees, in particular in the form of e-learning". The Member States are asked as well "to create the conditions for the sustainable deployment of e-learning".

Among other suggestions, the e-Skills Summit recommends the development of common cross-border qualification and certification guidelines to assist mobility of ICT and e-business professionals.

The Summit has been one of the key actions stemming from the EU Action Plan on Skills and Mobility
Projekter

Advanced Software for Teachig and Evaluation of Processes

20 November 2002
The project aims to design a multimedia framework to satisfy the needs of trainees in process based high technology companies.
The vision of ASTEP is to enable the development of a multimedia framework embedded within a European telematics network for the delivery, support and assessment of trainees for process-based high technology companies.

A set of course modules will be designed for the semiconductor fabrication, microsystem manufacturing, and high level design and test, which will be suitable for people of different educational ability, and different language.

Conventional course material is intended to be adapted to multimedia format thereby demonstrating the benefits of enhancing the learning process by this means. The effect of this method of learning will be assessed as a part of the investigation into the economic and technological feasibility of the network.

It is intended that the accreditation of qualifications, based on these courses will be investigated at National and European levels.
Projekter

Enhancing content production in a multilingual and multicultural environment

20 November 2002
Development of a global on-line network offering localised e-learning content and services in the fashion and clothing sector.
The business vision of eTelestia involves the development of a global multilingual online network for the provision of localised eLearning in fashion and clothing in six languages, using initially the eContent baseline of the Telestia offline modules, products of a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project. The consortium will model business processes and secure business partnerships during the project phase in order to commercialise, in the immediate post-project phase, the on-line global platform demonstrator of successfully localised e-learning products and services.
Projekter

On-line edutainment for children

20 November 2002
Four SMEs will set up a platform for the creation, localisation and commercialisation of multilingual on-line content for children.
As well as creating content, off-line legacy content (digital and non-digital) will be reused. The content will be multi-level, so that it can be exploited within one framework but also as individual content entities. By using state-of-the-art technology for the on-line clearing of copyright (using a B2B site for on-line licensing) and multiple and flexible commercial models, the project will enable the commercialisation of content, also for emerging platforms such as interactive television and mobile broadband. In order to obtain concrete results, the project will focus on content on one specific subject: Nature. The content will be centred around one character (Oscar the Balloonist). The content will be localised for different European regions and languages. Pilot projects in which the content is exploited in an economically viable way will be set up during the project.

As a result of the project, the companies will form a consortium that will act as a high-quality European Content Service Provider, proving that the creation and exploitation of quality content can be done by European SMEs.