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Proyecto educativo para que las escuelas de primaria descubran Internet
15 Janvier 2003
El proyecto Internet: El país de las Maravillas está ayudando a los alumnos españoles de Educación Primaria a descubrir Internet. Se trata de un programa educativo en el que el personaje de @licia propone, cada mes, el descubrimiento de un tema con alto valor pedagógico: el agua, el bosque, la fauna, la granja...
Para ello, @licia proporciona un relato breve, en forma de cuento. Al leerlo, los alumnos van descubriendo una serie de links hacia recursos educativos seleccionados, que les permitirán darse cuenta que navegar por Internet es sencillo y divertido, a la vez que aprenden contenidos interesantes.
Internet: El país de las Maravillas incluye versiones en las cuatro lenguas oficiales del estado español (castellano, catalán, euskera y gallego). El programa también propone una serie de actividades para las escuelas, así como un concurso y una serie de recursos para los profesores. Las actividades realizadas por los centros educativos pueden ser consultadas a través de la página web, lo cual ayuda a visualizar el trabajo pedagógico realizado por los alumnos.
El proyecto, que se apoya también en un libro y en un CD-ROM, cumple ahora su segundo año de ejecución.
Para ello, @licia proporciona un relato breve, en forma de cuento. Al leerlo, los alumnos van descubriendo una serie de links hacia recursos educativos seleccionados, que les permitirán darse cuenta que navegar por Internet es sencillo y divertido, a la vez que aprenden contenidos interesantes.
Internet: El país de las Maravillas incluye versiones en las cuatro lenguas oficiales del estado español (castellano, catalán, euskera y gallego). El programa también propone una serie de actividades para las escuelas, así como un concurso y una serie de recursos para los profesores. Las actividades realizadas por los centros educativos pueden ser consultadas a través de la página web, lo cual ayuda a visualizar el trabajo pedagógico realizado por los alumnos.
El proyecto, que se apoya también en un libro y en un CD-ROM, cumple ahora su segundo año de ejecución.
Articles
The Situation of ICT in the Candidate Countries
16 Janvier 2003
All candidate countries have undertaken a clear and tangible political commitment to facilitate the implementation of the Information Society.
The enlargement negotiations reached a successful conclusion during the Copenhaguen European Council Summit held on 12-13 December. The Europe of 15 Member States will become in May 2004 the Europe of 25 countries following the accession of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
A pertinent question related to e-learning perspective should be: what is the ICT situation in the candidate countries? The eEurope+ Progress Report, presented in June 2002, examine some ICT indicators and benchmark the implementation of the eEurope+ Action Plan in the central and eastern countries. A quick glance to the main results helps to draw the enlargement of Europe from the ICT point of view:
1. All candidate countries have undertaken a clear and tangible political commitment to facilitate the implementation of the Information Society. The candidate countries’ Information Society websites give useful information about the policies and initiatives currently undertaken.
2. Considerable progress is being made with the implementation of coherent and effective policy and regulatory framework. Over the last years, the candidate countries have made great strides in basic access to communications.
3. The costs of the Internet access vary widely in candidate countries. Costs are considered relatively high, and that means lower regular usage.
4. With a few exceptions, there is still a low penetration of computers in schools. In addition, there is substantial divergence between the countries for all three levels (primary, secondary, and tertiary)
5. In many countries, the lack of access facilities motivates that public access points remain a very important means of Internet access for the population at large.
6. Significant progress is made in the provision of public on-line services through e-Government actions in all of the candidate countries.
7. Overall, it can be said that there are considerable divergences between the candidate countries in absolute terms.
© European Commission
© European Commission
A pertinent question related to e-learning perspective should be: what is the ICT situation in the candidate countries? The eEurope+ Progress Report, presented in June 2002, examine some ICT indicators and benchmark the implementation of the eEurope+ Action Plan in the central and eastern countries. A quick glance to the main results helps to draw the enlargement of Europe from the ICT point of view:
1. All candidate countries have undertaken a clear and tangible political commitment to facilitate the implementation of the Information Society. The candidate countries’ Information Society websites give useful information about the policies and initiatives currently undertaken.
2. Considerable progress is being made with the implementation of coherent and effective policy and regulatory framework. Over the last years, the candidate countries have made great strides in basic access to communications.
3. The costs of the Internet access vary widely in candidate countries. Costs are considered relatively high, and that means lower regular usage.
4. With a few exceptions, there is still a low penetration of computers in schools. In addition, there is substantial divergence between the countries for all three levels (primary, secondary, and tertiary)
5. In many countries, the lack of access facilities motivates that public access points remain a very important means of Internet access for the population at large.
6. Significant progress is made in the provision of public on-line services through e-Government actions in all of the candidate countries.
7. Overall, it can be said that there are considerable divergences between the candidate countries in absolute terms.
© European Commission
© European Commission
Projets
Romanian-European eUniversity
16 Décembre 2002
RE2U project intends to promote a critical and responsible use of ICT aimed at supporting the innovative processes of the Romanian higher education system.
RE2U - Romanian-European eUniversity project aims at developing a European virtual university based on state-of-the-art innovative teaching and learning methodologies and emerging ICTs.
The project will model and implement an innovative teaching and learning
virtual system with significant potential to evolve into a stable body that
will be able to sustain itself by offering good quality eLearning content
and services at regional and European level.
The concrete objectives are as follows:
- to design and implement a platform that will foster the inter-institutional collaboration at national and international level;
- to establish the capacity of quality content production and services
provision in a national and international partnership context;
- to build a training system for the higher education teachers and trainers on the use of ICT for learning;
- to establish a quality system covering higher education institutions,
competencies, learning resources and services in line with the European initiatives;
- to accompany Romanian higher education institutions in their process of institutional, organizational, pedagogical and economic innovation.
Outputs:
- Evaluation of universities strategies for ICT integration in teaching and
learning
- Case studies on European virtual universities
- RE2U model
- Innovative teachers training system (training model, training modules on
design and implement e-learning content and on conducting e-learning
activities)
- Quality system (staff competences, content development, service delivery)
- Implementation of technical infrastructure and pilot run
- Final dissemination conference
Duration: 24 months
The project will model and implement an innovative teaching and learning
virtual system with significant potential to evolve into a stable body that
will be able to sustain itself by offering good quality eLearning content
and services at regional and European level.
The concrete objectives are as follows:
- to design and implement a platform that will foster the inter-institutional collaboration at national and international level;
- to establish the capacity of quality content production and services
provision in a national and international partnership context;
- to build a training system for the higher education teachers and trainers on the use of ICT for learning;
- to establish a quality system covering higher education institutions,
competencies, learning resources and services in line with the European initiatives;
- to accompany Romanian higher education institutions in their process of institutional, organizational, pedagogical and economic innovation.
Outputs:
- Evaluation of universities strategies for ICT integration in teaching and
learning
- Case studies on European virtual universities
- RE2U model
- Innovative teachers training system (training model, training modules on
design and implement e-learning content and on conducting e-learning
activities)
- Quality system (staff competences, content development, service delivery)
- Implementation of technical infrastructure and pilot run
- Final dissemination conference
Duration: 24 months
Projets
Collaboratories
16 Décembre 2002
The aim of the project is to provide infrastructures for collaborative work in child education.
In COLLABORATORIES project the major challenge is to find ways to support children in building and testing models collaboratively across European cultures and beyond. Our objectives are to provide infrastructure for collaborative work; to provide answers for guiding research questions: with whom, how and what kinds of knowledge should children learn at a distance and how best can they be supported in this learning; and to develop learning tools that can be transferable into other domains.
Activities:
· Learning platform that embeds 'active web' materials created by software authoring tool (Imagine), taking learners to the leading edge of what is possible with ICT.
· Llocalised versions of Imagine and guides for learners adapted to their own language.
· Networked laboratories to exploit the connectivity of the web for collaborative construction, setting up new multicultural, multilingual and multimodal approaches to computing, learning and communicating basic competences and creative constructions.
· Evaluating tools, methodology and activities to find 'whether', 'how' and 'why' learning and progress in collaborative skills can occur.
· Teacher training guides enhancing the knowledge and expertise in supporting activities.
· Disseminating 'active web' material in several European languages.
The main target group are students, teachers and teacher training institutions.
Duration: 24 months
Activities:
· Learning platform that embeds 'active web' materials created by software authoring tool (Imagine), taking learners to the leading edge of what is possible with ICT.
· Llocalised versions of Imagine and guides for learners adapted to their own language.
· Networked laboratories to exploit the connectivity of the web for collaborative construction, setting up new multicultural, multilingual and multimodal approaches to computing, learning and communicating basic competences and creative constructions.
· Evaluating tools, methodology and activities to find 'whether', 'how' and 'why' learning and progress in collaborative skills can occur.
· Teacher training guides enhancing the knowledge and expertise in supporting activities.
· Disseminating 'active web' material in several European languages.
The main target group are students, teachers and teacher training institutions.
Duration: 24 months
Projets
General Research and New Development in School Libraries As Multimedia Learning Centres
16 Décembre 2002
The objective of the GrandSlam project is to leverage the metamorphosis of school libraries from multimedia centres to Information and Learning Centres.
The project intends to focus on and qualify the ICT skills of Learning Centre staff together with developing the acceptance of E-learning as a vital tool for encouraging the growth of lifelong learning skills in both formal and community education.
The SLAM project (1999) demonstrated that the school library as a multimedia centre with a staff of media specialists and teacher school librarians, could become an essential focus for new learning styles.
GrandSLAM takes the multimedia centre as the starting point and develops the implementation of new learning principles to provide encouragement for active and individual learning at the heart of the curriculum.
A further objective is to encourage support and/or establishment of Regional Information and Learning Centres as support-centres to the local learning community, acting as a superstructure of the school library and supporting pedagogic development of the curriculum through courses and the availability of pedagogic expertise in a European transnational context.
The project will develop programmes and work experience for librarians, media specialists, teachers and managers working with the school library and looking to develop its use as an integral Information and Learning Centre.
Duration: 36 months
The SLAM project (1999) demonstrated that the school library as a multimedia centre with a staff of media specialists and teacher school librarians, could become an essential focus for new learning styles.
GrandSLAM takes the multimedia centre as the starting point and develops the implementation of new learning principles to provide encouragement for active and individual learning at the heart of the curriculum.
A further objective is to encourage support and/or establishment of Regional Information and Learning Centres as support-centres to the local learning community, acting as a superstructure of the school library and supporting pedagogic development of the curriculum through courses and the availability of pedagogic expertise in a European transnational context.
The project will develop programmes and work experience for librarians, media specialists, teachers and managers working with the school library and looking to develop its use as an integral Information and Learning Centre.
Duration: 36 months
Projets
Learning at School and in the Network
16 Décembre 2002
Research project on the logical and cognition aspects of the use of ICT.
The project aims
-to verify the formative effectiveness of learning methods which make extensive and intensive use of ICT, on the basis of activities that must first be agreed upon and then shared with the other project partners.
-to develop shared tools for description and assessment of ''children's competence in computer technologies''
-to focus on logical and cognitive aspects, test them in selected schools in the countries involved, and results will be shared on an international scale.
-to find guidelines shared by the teachers participating in the project on the use of communication technologies.
This project will produce :
-guidelines and a report on the results of the experimentation, written in the languages of the various partners as well as English as the international language. Both will be released in a printed version and in a web version
-a guidebook
-training program for teachers
The project is intended for primary school teachers and pupils, and will take into account any possible disability, accessibility to technology, equal opportunities between boys and girls.
The sharing of the work done up to now by the partners and then of results achieved by the experiments they have conducted in their countries can evidently guarantee quality and meaningfulness to the research action inherent in the project, thus providing a wider epistemological basis and a greater statistical relevance.
Duration: 36 months
-to verify the formative effectiveness of learning methods which make extensive and intensive use of ICT, on the basis of activities that must first be agreed upon and then shared with the other project partners.
-to develop shared tools for description and assessment of ''children's competence in computer technologies''
-to focus on logical and cognitive aspects, test them in selected schools in the countries involved, and results will be shared on an international scale.
-to find guidelines shared by the teachers participating in the project on the use of communication technologies.
This project will produce :
-guidelines and a report on the results of the experimentation, written in the languages of the various partners as well as English as the international language. Both will be released in a printed version and in a web version
-a guidebook
-training program for teachers
The project is intended for primary school teachers and pupils, and will take into account any possible disability, accessibility to technology, equal opportunities between boys and girls.
The sharing of the work done up to now by the partners and then of results achieved by the experiments they have conducted in their countries can evidently guarantee quality and meaningfulness to the research action inherent in the project, thus providing a wider epistemological basis and a greater statistical relevance.
Duration: 36 months
Projets
Free Software Renaissance of gnu/linux in European Education Development On line Method
16 Décembre 2002
The project aims at producing tools simplifying adoption of free sofware and encourage open-minded attitudes.
The project aims to create a positive and favorable environment for the usage of free software in education and to show that schools can consider alternative solutions to proprietary software.
As an output, the project will provide a CDROM, containing tested and documented pieces of software. Free sofware (GNU/Linux) offers a highly formative introduction to new technologies applied to education. The project will concern all teaching subject, localise software in each languages and evaluate their usability in each national context providing educational examples.
Most free software is made by skilled developers producing them where they work. Participants of Freedom test them in their schools and eventually ask for modification to adapt them more closely to their needs.
The tested programmes will be disseminated on the web as models. A CD-Rom will be produced giving teaching examples of the use of free software.
This project seeks to promote equal opportunity, also giving female students the possibility to access new technologies, generally taught in universities and schools of computer science, with a largely male-dominated student body.As modifications can be made on a non-profit basis, adaptations for blind or visually disabled people will be provided.
Duration: 36 months
As an output, the project will provide a CDROM, containing tested and documented pieces of software. Free sofware (GNU/Linux) offers a highly formative introduction to new technologies applied to education. The project will concern all teaching subject, localise software in each languages and evaluate their usability in each national context providing educational examples.
Most free software is made by skilled developers producing them where they work. Participants of Freedom test them in their schools and eventually ask for modification to adapt them more closely to their needs.
The tested programmes will be disseminated on the web as models. A CD-Rom will be produced giving teaching examples of the use of free software.
This project seeks to promote equal opportunity, also giving female students the possibility to access new technologies, generally taught in universities and schools of computer science, with a largely male-dominated student body.As modifications can be made on a non-profit basis, adaptations for blind or visually disabled people will be provided.
Duration: 36 months
Projets
Developing Online Open Distance Learning E-models for vocational skills education
16 Décembre 2002
The project seeks to facilitate the development of ''practical skills'' distance learning programmes and to develop best practice models.
E-learning materials are increasingly used to provide underpinning knowledge on training programmes. Such materials have been integrated into a range of courses for vocational learners. Howerver, in order to develop trainees' practical skill, such programmes still require participants' attendance at training institutions.
Addressing the practical nature of certain vocational skill requirements presents an exceptional challenge for educators wishing to use distance-based e-learning methods. There is little formal research on distance learning specifically targeted at practical skills training.
The project will offer a number of contrasting methods to deliver practical skills training.
The project will trial existing Internet technologies ranging from mixed multimedia web page content to web conferencing software. In addition, the project will evolve innovative learning activities and situations designed to develop practical skills, supported by internet technologies. Of prime importance is the evaluation of the techniques and technologies implemented so as to facilitate the emergence of best practice models. Criteria and quality indicators for practical training on the internet will be established. The models will be designed to improve employability.
Outputs: ODF courses with streaming video.
Target groups: secondary schools, adult education centres, ICT private companies
Duration: 24 months
Addressing the practical nature of certain vocational skill requirements presents an exceptional challenge for educators wishing to use distance-based e-learning methods. There is little formal research on distance learning specifically targeted at practical skills training.
The project will offer a number of contrasting methods to deliver practical skills training.
The project will trial existing Internet technologies ranging from mixed multimedia web page content to web conferencing software. In addition, the project will evolve innovative learning activities and situations designed to develop practical skills, supported by internet technologies. Of prime importance is the evaluation of the techniques and technologies implemented so as to facilitate the emergence of best practice models. Criteria and quality indicators for practical training on the internet will be established. The models will be designed to improve employability.
Outputs: ODF courses with streaming video.
Target groups: secondary schools, adult education centres, ICT private companies
Duration: 24 months
Projets
Science Centre Education: Open Learning via Information Technology
16 Décembre 2002
The objective of the project is to promote the work of science education experts and the use of out-of-school sources for informal learning.
The Open Science Info is a project based on four European science centres. The group are developing their interactive exhibitions towards open learning environments, to be used for distance learning using information and communication technologies.
The multidisciplinary content of modern science centre exhibitions is large and often unique. Unlike much of the information on the Internet the content is a reliable learning resource. The Internet is already a main way of disseminating information and mobile solutions are an R&D issue. The project will disseminate its results using the European wide organisation for science centres ECSITE.
Outputs:
-case studies and motivation of learning strategies
-mobile internet development
-website linked to 200 science centres and 1000 school-full scale exhibition with hands-on exhibit units
-database of science exhibition ODL solutions
Their target audiences are school groups, teachers and individual learners.
Duration: 24 months
The multidisciplinary content of modern science centre exhibitions is large and often unique. Unlike much of the information on the Internet the content is a reliable learning resource. The Internet is already a main way of disseminating information and mobile solutions are an R&D issue. The project will disseminate its results using the European wide organisation for science centres ECSITE.
Outputs:
-case studies and motivation of learning strategies
-mobile internet development
-website linked to 200 science centres and 1000 school-full scale exhibition with hands-on exhibit units
-database of science exhibition ODL solutions
Their target audiences are school groups, teachers and individual learners.
Duration: 24 months
Projets
Specialised An imated Interactive Learning
16 Décembre 2002
The aim of the project is to promote learner autonomy and training in classrooms by means of the use of a specialy designed curriculum covered by educational sofware package.
S.A.I.L develops research strategies and research mentality through the use if ICT for children aged 9-11 years, making the students more independent and concious of what skills help them learn
It exposes teachers and teacher trainers to new teaching methods and test their effectiveness by creating an inclusive culture in the classroom. In this manner children with different learning styles and needs learn together, thus gaining maximum advantage from the multimedia facets of ICT imparting of generic learning skills. Students are enabled to find out for themselves what methods and media are their preferred learning tools.
The package will be accessible to schools, teacher training institutions and teachers themselves from the project website which will in turn sustain a forum of papers submitted by teachers who specialise or are interested in these new teaching methodologies and the use of ODL and Information and Communication Technology in education.
Duration: 24 months
It exposes teachers and teacher trainers to new teaching methods and test their effectiveness by creating an inclusive culture in the classroom. In this manner children with different learning styles and needs learn together, thus gaining maximum advantage from the multimedia facets of ICT imparting of generic learning skills. Students are enabled to find out for themselves what methods and media are their preferred learning tools.
The package will be accessible to schools, teacher training institutions and teachers themselves from the project website which will in turn sustain a forum of papers submitted by teachers who specialise or are interested in these new teaching methodologies and the use of ODL and Information and Communication Technology in education.
Duration: 24 months