AIDA objective here is to provide access points to relevant web
sites that can be visited through following links. At this moment,
following links are just indicated with a short description about
its contents. AIDA is working in a suitable classification of links,
by sector, areas of interest and technologies in use. This classification
will be applied to this section as soon as possible
elearnspace site and blog explore eLearning, knowledge management,
networks, technology, and community. Many resources exist for
eLearning, yet a model of how the pieces fit together is often
missing. elearnspace has been organized to present a whole picture
view of elearning.
The CHECKpoint eLearning portal is online since June 2005. This
portal provides interesting information about eLearning market
such us information about emerging technologies and smart technologies
applied to implement new and more innovative approaches to learning,
up-dated information on trends and developments in TEL in both
the national and international market, major events and fairs.
Interesting newsletter
free of charge, with around 30.000 subscribers.
The eLearning Industry Group (eLIG) is a consortium of 43 leading
ICT and eLearning content providers site and blog explore eLearning,
knowledge management, networks, technology, and community. They
have, among their obejctives, to analyse and report on the related
impact on industry skills/training/jobs demand/supply and investments
and provide expertise and report to the Eruopean Commission on
actions to be taken to bridge teachers skills gap and help them
take advantage of eLearning as an innovative teaching tool.
The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities -
EADTU - is the representative organisation of both the European
open and distance learning universities and of the national consortia
of higher education institutions active in the field of distance
education and e-learning. Therefore it is one of the main voices
of the community for open and distance higher education and e-learning
in Europe.
IMS is a non-profit organization that includes more than 50
Contributing Members and affiliates. These members come from every
sector of the global e-learning community (hardware and software
vendors, educational institutions, government agencies, systems
integrators, multimedia content providers, ...). The Consortium
provides a neutral forum in which members with competing business
interests and different decision-making criteria collaborate to
satisfy real-world requirements for interoperability and re-use.
MOBIlearn is a worldwide European-led research and development
project exploring context-sensitive approaches to informal, problem-based
and workplace learning by using key advances in mobile technologies.
The MOBIlearn project consortium involves 24 partners from Europe,
Israel, Switzerland, USA and Australia. Their competencies are
integrated and extended by a Special Interest Group which includes
250 of the world's leading organisations, active in InformationTechnology.
PROLEARN is a 'Network of Excellence' financed by the European
R&D framework (Information Society Technology programme) and
dealing with technology enhanced professional learning. PROLEARN
mission is to bring together the most important research groups
in the area of professional learning and training, as well as
other key organisations and industrial partners, thus bridging
the currently existing gap between research and education at universities
and similar organisations and training and continuous education
that is provided for and within companies
MENON Network EEIG is an European organisation active in the
field of ICT in Education and e-learning. MENON is developing
e-learning market intelligence, through research data, observation
and analysis. The Network aims at the support of policy makers,
in order to better understand the ICT impact on education and
training systems, at helping the education communities, in order
to enhance the use of e-learning and, finally, at advising the
ICT industry, in order to develop multimedia and web-based learning
materials of better quality
EDEN was established in 1991 and one of the most comprehensive
European association in open, flexible, distance and e-learning.
EDEN objective is to foster developments in this constantly evolving
field through offering services in a non-hierarchical manner.
As a meeting place, EDEN assists a wide range of European institutions,
networks and individuals in becoming involved in professional
co-operation.
EduXchange aims at preparing the ground for a business framework
by providing a business model together with an implementation
roadmap, based on a Private Public Partnership scheme. At the
core of this business framework lays a European brokerage service
specifically devised to retrieve and transfer knowledge, generated
in an academic context, towards corporate training and learning
needs.
ORIENTE is an European network of researchers specialised in
the evaluation of ongoing research tackling educational, institutional,
organisational and symbolic aspects of new learning environments
mediated by ICT.
STAR Lab, the Semantics Technology and Applications Research
Laboratory, is a research lab at the Faculty of Sciences, Department
of Computer Science - of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. STARLAB
research is mainly situated in the field of Information Systems,
focusing on methodological design of information systems, text
retrieval and text enrichment, (semantic) web-based applications,
digital libraries, ontologies, integration and cooperation between
several Information systems.
ODL QC was founded in 1969 as the Council for the Accreditation
of Correspondence Colleges.
For 30 years the Council has helped to enhance quality in education
and training, and to protect the interests of learners, through
the accreditation of open and distance learning providers.
LTTC has been founded on the premise that emerging technology
has the potential to dramatically improve learning. The purpose
of this task force is to contribute to the field of Learning Technology
and to serve the needs of professionals working in this field.
Future Learning is an initiative at the university of Barcelona-DOE,
aimed at developing research in the educational, cultural and
socio-economic aspects of the use of ICT in learning settings,
with special emphasis on virtual learning and eLearning. Future
Learning promotes synergies with different disciplines in rethinking
knowledge conceptions and knowledge production in the multidimensional
spaces that define the European culture of the XXI century.
Directorate E
Interfaces, knowledge and content technologies -
Applications - Information market
Technology-enhanced Learning
