PROLEARN - Professional Learning for EuropeResearch Issues and Application Scenarios
PROLEARN Network of Excellence
Martin [email protected]
L3S Research CenterUniversity of Hannover, Germany
Building upon the work ofall PROLEARN Partners
Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005
The meaning of NoEs (!?)
Overcome Fragmented
Research
Today, various communities exist eLearning Multimedia CSCL Semantic Web Digital Libraries Adaptive Hypermedia User Modeling Business Process Modelling …
Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005
PROLEARN – The User Perspective
Professional Learning
Personalisation and Adaptation
(context, preferences, company rules, business processes, goals, etc.
Provision of Learning Resources
(Web, Local)
Company
Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005
Professional Learning in SMEs
Companies realize that the well-educated employee is a major critical success factor.
Large companies found their own learning centers,while SMEs face obstacles:
expensive courses / high startup costs non-personalized delivery time-consuming travel of employees not adapted to specific business needs effectiveness unclear
Specific focus on technology enhanced learning solutions for SMEs is needed
Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005
Who‘s involved?
PROLEARN integrates 19 core and already more than 250
associate partners from academia and industry
Consortium L3S, DFKI, OU UK, Ariadne, FHG, WUW, CSI, EPFL, ETHZ, POLIMI, JSI, UPM, KTH, NCSR, INT, HEC, TUE, RWTH
6 Mill. Euro, 2004-2007 other projects involved, e.g.
KnowledgeWeb, REWERSE, Interop, E-LeGI, iClass and other European / International / National Networks and Projects, e.g. ELENA, TIME2LEARN, VISION, WGLN
associate participants BT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford,
IBM, France Telekom, Klett Verlag, IMC, Microsoft, OU NL, Simon Frazier Univ., Pittsburgh Univ., Swedish Educ. TV, etc.
Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005
(Some) Research Issues…
How can we enhance re-usability, how can we integrate learning object networks? Standards, Interoperability, Brokerage Networks
How do we improve the learning experience? Personalisation and Adaptation
How can we move beyond books, e.g. into mobile learning and labs? Interactive Media and Labs
How do we integrate learning, knowledge management and work? What are specific requirements and solutions for SMEs? Workplace Learning / Technology Enhanced Learning in SMEs
How do I find out about all these issues? How do I get involved? Roadmaps, Competence Center and Academy
Can we trust our partner in a distributed network, can we protect our data? Security and Privacy
Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005
RoadmapDissemination
PROLEARNs logical structure
PROLEARN Academy
PROLEARNVirtual
Competence Center (VCC)
Personalized Adaptive LearningInteractive Media
Online ExperimentsLearning Objects and Standards
Learning Management and BrokerageBusiness Models and ProcessesKnowledge Work Management
Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005
http://www.prolearn-project.org
Participate and discuss more
Continuous Workshop meetingsVCC, Interactive Media, Personalized Adaptive Learning, Brokerage and Learning Management, etc.see website
PROLEARN WS on future trends in professional learning, Oct. 10, Munich, Germany
Knowledge Work Management @ ICL 2005, Sept. 28-30, Villach, Austria
3rd Thematic Workshop – Interactive Media, November 9/10, Madrid, Spain
Etc.
Read more inW. Nejdl, M. Wolpers: European eLearning: Research Issues and Application Scenarios, ED-Media Invited Talk, June 2004
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