Fe-ConE Workshop

Vilnius, LithuaniaOctober 11th, 07

K. Kikis-PapadakisIACM/FORTH

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Fe-ConE: Framework for e-learning Contents Evaluation

Funded by: The eLearning Programme (Transversal Actions)

Duration: Jan 1st, 2006 – Dec. 31st, 2007 Partnership: IACM/FORTH (GR), IFS (AT), DPPSS

(IT), UITM (PL), Stoas (NL), Florida (ES), VDU (LT) Website:

http://promitheas.iacm.forth.gr/fe-cone/index.html Portal site: http://www.elearningeuropa.info/

community/index.php?page=forumtopic&f=2&t=24 Budget: 290,196 EUR

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The Fe-ConE WorkshopList of Participants

A. Partners Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of

Applied and Computational Mathematics - FORTH / IACM (GR)

Verein fuer Neues Lehren und Lernen –IFS, Institute for Future Studies (AT)

University of Rome La Sapienza, Dept. of Social and Developmental Psychology (IT)

University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow - UITM (PL)

Stoas Intermedia (NL) Florida Universitaria (ES) Department of Education at Vytautas Magnus University (LT)

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The Fe-ConE WorkshopList of ParticipantsB. CollaboratorsB1. Discourse Facilitators

Mr. Gr. Attwell Ms Cl. Belisle Ms. M. Lakkala

B2. Discourse Participants Mr. M. Vanbuel, BE Ms. N. Staevsky, BG Ms. E. Neocleous CY Mr. J. Bang DK Ms. A. Villems EE Mr. T. Johansson FI Dr. B. Ertl DE Mr. B. Misnevs LV Mr. A. Gambin IT Ms. M. Caruana Dingli MT Mr. A. Duarte PT Mr. T. Amon SI

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“Learnability is a culturally bounded activity”

Scope: promotion of the elearning notion in Europe consolidation of experiences for empowering the

elearning stakeholders design of instruments (in the form of a

framework) for the e-content designer and decision making tools for the end-user

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Axes of focus

How elearning contents can be conceptualized given the transformative potentials of ICT in relation to education, training and life long learning?

What are the challenges for designing elearning contents that are inclusive (i.e. bias-free, socio-culturally sensitive, pedagogically flexible, customizable, and accessible)?

What may be the implications in the design, diffusion and adoption of elearning 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?

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Research Perspectives

National Cultures Perspectives

Pedagogical Imperialism Perspectives

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Project Activities

Bibliographical Reviews Project Reviews Reflection Activities Discussion Forum Definition of socio-cultural variables Course Design Course Implementation Definition of Evaluation Framework Analysis of Course Related Data Articulation of Models/Frameworks

Definition of an Evaluation Framework Construction of tools (diagnostic in nature)

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Workshop

Vilnius, Oct 11, 2007

Networking with Satellites and Experts

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Aim of the Workshop

Exchange of experiences on elearning and e-contents(from an evaluation point of view)

Definition of Evaluation criteria for inclusive effective elearning/e-contents

Enhancement of Networking

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Country Representation

Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Latvia Malta The Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovenia Spain

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Session organization

General Session

The European elearning Scenery

Evaluation Considerations for e-contents and Future Trends A. Evaluation

B. Future Trends

Lessons Learned from the Implementation of theFe-ConE

Contributors

Dr. Kollias, Mr. Attwell, Ms. Belisle, Ms. Lakkala

Ms. Villems, Ms. Caruana Dingli, Mr. Misnevs, Ms. Staevsky

Ms. Marsh, Mr. Duarte, Mr. Bang,Dr. Ertl, Ms. Lazari

Mr. Johansson, Mr. Amon,Mr. Gambin

Ms. Helling, Mr. Pozzi, Dr. Kollias, Mr. de Leeuwe

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Preliminary Research Findings

Preliminary Evaluation perspective Evaluation of eLearning and eContents from the

perspective, of

1. The Learner

2. The “Teacher”

3. The Learning environment and didactical design

4. The Content

5. The Technology

6. The Educational System and Society(derived from the review of literature, contributions from the

collaborators and the Fe-ConE’s course)

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Interaction between the evaluation perspectives

- instruments- research context- results

interaction of “contents” with…

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A proposal for an Evaluation FrameworkDecision-management oriented approach

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Axes of focus

How elearning contents can be conceptualized given the transformative potentials of ICT in relation to education, training and life long learning?

What are the challenges for designing elearning contents that are inclusive (i.e. bias-free, socio-culturally sensitive, pedagogically flexible, customizable, and accessible)?

What may be the implications in the design, diffusion and adoption of elearning 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?