technology-enhanced learning

CEN WS-LT will formally kick off the project with a one day workshop in January (provisional date 16th of January 2013) in Brussels.

Virtual and physical meetings will be organised to work towards achieving a common reference framework for European textbook marketplaces by means of three main development phases:

• Public call for User Requirements Scenarios from a wide range of interested stakeholders
• Identification and evaluation of existing interoperability standards and specifications, and
  scoping the potential of developing of an abstract eTernity ecosystem
• Based on the state-of-art analysis, consider developing a shortlist of specifications supporting an
  eTextbook ecosystem. This will be made freely available to public and private initiatives seeking
  guidance on the design and development of truly interoperable textbook marketplaces
• The open eTernity technical meetings will be announced on this website

If you and a group of other people want to use digital media and networks to co-learn together, this handbook is a practical tool for learning how to self-organize peer learning, the so-called “peeragogy.” Material about conceptualizing and convening co-learning — the stuff about getting started — is located toward the top of the table of contents. Material about assessment, resources, use cases is located toward the bottom of the TOC. But you don’t have to read it in sequential order. Hop around if you’d like.

Understanding how co-learning works will help you do co-learning more effectively. So there's material about learning theories that support peer learning or that reveal useful characteristics of successful peer learning. For those who want to delve more deeply into the empirical research and scholarship, we’ve linked to a sister document — a literature review of learning theory related to peeragogy. For those who want to study more deeply about the aspects of peer learning summarized in articles, the handbook provides a list of links to related handbook articles, and a set of resources for further study.

This responds to several EU 2020 Strategy indicated in several Flagship Initiatives like "An Agenda for new skills and jobs", "An industrial policy for the globalisation era", "Innovation Union" and "Digital Agenda for Europe" and summarised in the two questions below:

• How can SMEs blue collar workers in less advanced industrial sectors keep the pace of innovation of technologically advanced ones?
• How can TEL-based training be positioned and improved, in order to have more impact on industrial sectors' innovation and resilience?

Five main challenges have been identified as fingerprints of the TELL-ME proposal:

• Human-centred manufacturing and the increasing need to consider human factors and workers wellbeing in the production processes;
• Service oriented Manufacturing and its increasing need to open, breed and govern globalised business ecosystems;
• Learning Ecosystems are the new frontier of collaborative value networks on a global and cross-sector market;
• Living Labs of SMEs and their need to constantly develop business-technical-social-market innovation via co-creation and inspirational environments;
• Learning at the Workplace and its need for fast, punctual and personalized life-long learning that takes account of fluency-driven approaches to training, and trends in using TEL and OER for self-regulated learning.