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Projekti
Promoting Consensus in assessing driving ability of PSN through common methodologies and normative tools
18 Decembris 2002
CONSENSUS is a feasibility study on developing a Thematic Network with emphasis using IT tools for Drivers with Special Needs.
CONSENSUS provides driving assessment and feasibility of constructing the Network itself and reaching consensus on pan-European level at medium term. CONSENSUS is a pan-European initiative to exchange practices, experiences and tools in the area of driving ability assessment of people with motor and light cognitive disabilities. Based on the identification of the pros and cons of each national or even local system, effort will be devoted to identify the feasibility and basic concept of a concise pan-European People with Special Needs (PSN) classification in relation to the driving task, on common sets of criteria for the relevant driving ability assessment, systems to apply these criteria and tools to measure them. The feasibility study will review the possible role of telematic tools within the common assessment framework, will greatly disseminate the agreed evaluation framework (by a pan-European workshop and IST-based communication media) and will identify areas (i.e. methodological gaps) that require further scientific research. To achieve this goal the feasibility study brings together 11 Partners (Authorities, Rehabilitation Centres, manufacturers) from 10 European Countries.
Objectives:
- To develop a Thematic Network on driving ability assessment of PSN, covering EU and Associated States, and make efficient use of IST technologies as a basis for network communications and concepts diffusion.
- To review in a concise way the relevant functional classifications, assessment practices and tools followed currently in 10 European countries and beyond.
- To develop specifications for telematic aids (such as shared databases, expert knowledge and/or pre-selection decision tools, driving simulators, virtual environments, etc) for their use within new optimised assessment practices.
- To propose a framework towards reaching consensus on common PSN functional classification schemes, assessment methods and tools, taking into account also the specified above IST aids and tools.
- To achieve consensus upon the proposed assessment framework and related findings not only between Network Members, but also within the relevant PSN society, their relatives, carers as well as rehabilitation aids and car manufacturers.
Work description:
The work starts with the formulation of the Thematic Network and its necessary support mechanism, which initially includes 11 Members (project participants) and will be open to new participations, encompassing many actors from different user group categories and European countries. A Group WWW and FTP site will be established and a variety of telematic tools will be employed to provide quick (real-time), reliable and cost-efficient communication between the Network members. Furthermore, a variety of telematic tools (such as databases, expert decision tools, rapid selection tools, driving simulators, virtual environment simulations, etc.) will be proposed for supporting the PSN driving assessment activities and their relevant requirements will be fully specified.
In parallel, a systematic review of existing PSN classification schemes, assessment procedures and tools regarding driving ability will be performed in all participating countries and beyond. Commonalities and gaps between the various national schemes will be recognised and a common methodology on achieving consensus on them will be formulated, making also use of the above specified telematic tools.
Network efficiency will be monitored and evaluated through 3 project meetings, an internal quality control review procedure of project deliverables and finally a pan-European workshop in Brussels, where project preliminary results will be presented, thus diffusing the relevant knowledge, stimulating debate and promoting the Networks expansion.
An effective project dissemination scheme is planned, through the use of dissemination means such as poster, pamphlets and electronic Newsletters, which will also try to get PSN user feedback on the proposed concept and gather particular users' experiences on the subject. Network viability will be also assessed, taking into account the added value that telematic tools may bring to network developed and diffused tools and services.
Finally, an efficient and economic project management and secretarial support scheme is proposed. Relevant resources minimisation and impact maximisation is mainly achieved by the extensive use of telematic tools for project management and communication.
Milestones:
- An IST Thematic Network on driving assessment of PSN, specification of appropriate knowledge management tools for it and viability scheme for its future extension.
- Compendium of PSN classification schemes, assessment methods and relevant criteria and tools in 10 European countries.
- Recognition of differences and gaps and action towards establishing consensus.
- Pan-European workshop on the issue.
Objectives:
- To develop a Thematic Network on driving ability assessment of PSN, covering EU and Associated States, and make efficient use of IST technologies as a basis for network communications and concepts diffusion.
- To review in a concise way the relevant functional classifications, assessment practices and tools followed currently in 10 European countries and beyond.
- To develop specifications for telematic aids (such as shared databases, expert knowledge and/or pre-selection decision tools, driving simulators, virtual environments, etc) for their use within new optimised assessment practices.
- To propose a framework towards reaching consensus on common PSN functional classification schemes, assessment methods and tools, taking into account also the specified above IST aids and tools.
- To achieve consensus upon the proposed assessment framework and related findings not only between Network Members, but also within the relevant PSN society, their relatives, carers as well as rehabilitation aids and car manufacturers.
Work description:
The work starts with the formulation of the Thematic Network and its necessary support mechanism, which initially includes 11 Members (project participants) and will be open to new participations, encompassing many actors from different user group categories and European countries. A Group WWW and FTP site will be established and a variety of telematic tools will be employed to provide quick (real-time), reliable and cost-efficient communication between the Network members. Furthermore, a variety of telematic tools (such as databases, expert decision tools, rapid selection tools, driving simulators, virtual environment simulations, etc.) will be proposed for supporting the PSN driving assessment activities and their relevant requirements will be fully specified.
In parallel, a systematic review of existing PSN classification schemes, assessment procedures and tools regarding driving ability will be performed in all participating countries and beyond. Commonalities and gaps between the various national schemes will be recognised and a common methodology on achieving consensus on them will be formulated, making also use of the above specified telematic tools.
Network efficiency will be monitored and evaluated through 3 project meetings, an internal quality control review procedure of project deliverables and finally a pan-European workshop in Brussels, where project preliminary results will be presented, thus diffusing the relevant knowledge, stimulating debate and promoting the Networks expansion.
An effective project dissemination scheme is planned, through the use of dissemination means such as poster, pamphlets and electronic Newsletters, which will also try to get PSN user feedback on the proposed concept and gather particular users' experiences on the subject. Network viability will be also assessed, taking into account the added value that telematic tools may bring to network developed and diffused tools and services.
Finally, an efficient and economic project management and secretarial support scheme is proposed. Relevant resources minimisation and impact maximisation is mainly achieved by the extensive use of telematic tools for project management and communication.
Milestones:
- An IST Thematic Network on driving assessment of PSN, specification of appropriate knowledge management tools for it and viability scheme for its future extension.
- Compendium of PSN classification schemes, assessment methods and relevant criteria and tools in 10 European countries.
- Recognition of differences and gaps and action towards establishing consensus.
- Pan-European workshop on the issue.
Raksti
e-Learning pour les déficients visuels
15 Janvāris 2003
L'aide que peuvent apporter l'informatique, les technologies numériques et les réseaux en ce qui concerne l'intégration scolaire des élèves handicapés fait partie intégrante des stratégies développées par le Ministère de l'Éducation nationale.
C'est le cas d'un projet développé dans l' Académie de Lille qui porte sur la création d'outils d'apprentissage pour les déficients visuels.
L'école régionale pour les déficients visuels de Loos utilise les TIC pour rendre ses élèves plus autonomes et faciliter leur intégration. Les techniques palliatives liées à l'informatique permettent à l'élève déficient visuel d'accéder aux documents, à l'information (manuels, romans, revues, documents numériques) plus rapidement et plus efficacement. Pour ces élèves (aveugles et amblyopes), c'est l'outil indispensable pour communiquer avec le monde ; c'est un facteur essentiel d'intégration scolaire, d'insertion sociale et de compensation du handicap.
Le site internet de ce projetcontact
Mél : a.lacherez@ac-lille.fr
C'est le cas d'un projet développé dans l' Académie de Lille qui porte sur la création d'outils d'apprentissage pour les déficients visuels.
L'école régionale pour les déficients visuels de Loos utilise les TIC pour rendre ses élèves plus autonomes et faciliter leur intégration. Les techniques palliatives liées à l'informatique permettent à l'élève déficient visuel d'accéder aux documents, à l'information (manuels, romans, revues, documents numériques) plus rapidement et plus efficacement. Pour ces élèves (aveugles et amblyopes), c'est l'outil indispensable pour communiquer avec le monde ; c'est un facteur essentiel d'intégration scolaire, d'insertion sociale et de compensation du handicap.
Le site internet de ce projetcontact
Mél : a.lacherez@ac-lille.fr
Raksti
Proyecto educativo para que las escuelas de primaria descubran Internet
15 Janvāris 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.
Projekti
Learning Folders: Open Source online Educational Publishing and Support for Primary Schools
16 Decembris 2002
The objective of Learning folders (Lefo) is the creation of an e-learning platform to provide an electronic study material exchange for teachers and learners, grades one to six.
It features uploading and downloading functions, a keyword search-engine, an experts answer scheme and communication features. The materials is also catalogued along the national curriculum of the country.
Lefo is centered around eWorksheet (Worksheet in HTML), allowing differents uses such as knowledge input, self-test, class-test and others. The eWorksheet are designed to help teachers with a more classical approach to adopt new student centered teaching and learning models.
Unlike most competing projects, it is build on basic gadget free technology to work also on older machines and low-speed or mobile connections. The usage of Lefo doesn't require specific computer skills. Educational content is available for free in an open software environment, which has a public licence. Learning folders have been designed to be flexibly modifiable according to the learners' and teachers' needs.
The project's main activity is to create 1000 worksheets in each of the project participants' languages (Italian, German, Slovenian, Swedish, Estonian and also in English) according to the specifications of the countries' national curriculum. Learning folders are expected to be used by a community of more than 100 000 actively participating by the end of the project.
Duration: 24 months
Lefo is centered around eWorksheet (Worksheet in HTML), allowing differents uses such as knowledge input, self-test, class-test and others. The eWorksheet are designed to help teachers with a more classical approach to adopt new student centered teaching and learning models.
Unlike most competing projects, it is build on basic gadget free technology to work also on older machines and low-speed or mobile connections. The usage of Lefo doesn't require specific computer skills. Educational content is available for free in an open software environment, which has a public licence. Learning folders have been designed to be flexibly modifiable according to the learners' and teachers' needs.
The project's main activity is to create 1000 worksheets in each of the project participants' languages (Italian, German, Slovenian, Swedish, Estonian and also in English) according to the specifications of the countries' national curriculum. Learning folders are expected to be used by a community of more than 100 000 actively participating by the end of the project.
Duration: 24 months
Projekti
Romanian-European eUniversity
16 Decembris 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
Raksti
The Situation of ICT in the Candidate Countries
16 Janvāris 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
Projekti
Collaboratories
16 Decembris 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
Projekti
General Research and New Development in School Libraries As Multimedia Learning Centres
16 Decembris 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
Projekti
Learning at School and in the Network
16 Decembris 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
Projekti
Free Software Renaissance of gnu/linux in European Education Development On line Method
16 Decembris 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
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