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Enhancing Learning with Technology
In today's highly competitive and global economy, education is no longer limited to the classroom. ICTs can both assist education in traditional settings and help people rise to the challenge of lifelong learning.
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"ICTs can make learning easier, more individualised and flexible" - Viviane Reding, May 2005
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ICT-based learning can be both interactive and collaborative, providing a more enriching and motivating learning environment both within and outside the classroom.
These new learning systems also allow learning to be personalised to your needs in terms of both content (what you learn) and method (how and when you learn it). Your education can be delivered when you want to access it, using whatever channel you choose: your PC, TV or even your mobile phone.
All of this is critical to lifelong learning, which is as essential to individuals' employment prospects as it is to the European economy as a whole. This 'repackaging' of educational content also creates economies of scales, creating new markets for the education and training industry.
This inevitably changes the way we design training and learning. Educationalists need to take into account new modes of learning and educational authorities need to provide the necessary support to those using new media in educational settings.
Further Details and Quicklinks
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- Relevant Policies
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- i2010: education is a public service, and so is targeted by the Inclusion, better public services and quality of life pillar of i2010. Hence the 2006 eLearning Conference.
- Wider context: Lifelong learning is one of the guiding principle's running through Europe's education and training policy. It is central not only to competitiveness and employability, but also to social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development;
- Relevant Activities
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Browse some relevant Example Projects or jump straight to the following sites:
- ICT Research: see the
Research & Innovation theme
for an introduction, or jump straight to the following sites:
- Digital libraries and content, one of the seven main challenges for ICT research from 2006-2013, will develop "new learning environments that are responsive, personalised and adapt to the learner's and teacher's needs...".
- Technology-enhanced learning (FP6 research, 2002-2006)
- The ICT
Policy Support Programme (2007-2013) is carrying on many
of the activities of the eTEN Programme (which ended in
2006) and the eContentplus programme (which ends in 2008):
- eTEN programme > eLearning: eTEN supports the development of eservices - one of its major themes focuses on high-quality education and training systems, creating content and services for reskilling workforces, and developing learning environments.
- eContentplus: this market-oriented programme is tackling the fragmentation of the European digital content market, focusing on areas where development has been slow, including educational cultural and scholarly content;
- eLearning programme: speeding up changes in education and training through mobilising Europe's educational and cultural communities, and economic and social players;
- Socrates > Minerva: promotes European ICT cooperation in education, including Open and Distance Learning (ODL).
- MEDIA Training: The training action line of the MEDIA programme provides training opportunities/funding in film creation (scriptwriting, development, production, distribution, marketing etc.). Special attention is given to training in the development of skills in new technologies: See page 81ff. of the "Where to be trained in Europe?"-guide (pdf).
- ICT Research: see the
Research & Innovation theme
for an introduction, or jump straight to the following sites:
- See Also
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From the Enhancing Education
Newsroom and
Library:
- Leaflet: Technology-enhanced Learning (pdf)
- Brochure: Information Society & Education (October 2006)
- Factsheet 5: Bringing knowledge within reach
- For the latest relevant news, publications and more from the Newsroom & Library, see right hand column, or select Education & Training when you subscribe to the Portal Newsroom Update;
Last Updated March 2007