Practical Results of ELU Project

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Practical Results of ELU Project

• Authors
• Dr. István Simonics, Balázs Wagner, Tibor
  Szkaliczki
• eLearning Department
• New Technology Platforms for Learning- Revisited
  LOGOS Open Conference
• 19-20 January 2009, Budapest, Hungary

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Background Mission IST-4- 027866

• The project was approved within the Strategic
  Objective of eLearning for Enlarged Europe.
• ELU intended to research and develop both
  technology and methodology for using iDTV for
  tLearning applications
• The choice of tLearning was based on the
  assumption that iDTV will be used by more people
  than PC. Moreover, penetration of iDTV is led by
  TV operators while there is no similar promoter
  for home PC.

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Project Partners
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Consortium Profile

• Geographical
• 7 Partners from Enlarged Europe Countries
• 2 Partners from Israel
• 5 from France, Italy, Luxemburg and Greece
• Functional
• 6 Partners on the Technology side
• 7 Partners on the Content and Pedagogical side
• 1 Broadcaster (Czech Television)
• All are active in eLearning
• Duration
• 33 months 01/01/06-30/09/2008

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Strategic Activities

• Research
• Education
• Consulting Services
• Development Integration
• Virtual Reality Integration Gaming
• Cognitive approach in learning,
• Trainers Mobility,
• iDTV
• eCitizenship

Public Private Sectors
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Innovation Development

• International and European Strategy
• Fields of expertise eLearning, eGovernment,
  eHealth, eBusiness
• Artificial Intelligence
• Collaborative Knowledge Environments Networks
• Web Ontologies
• Virtual Organisations
• Ambient Intelligence
• Mobiles Applications, Large Band Applications
• Trust Security
• Knowledge Management

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ELU Motivation

• Interactive Digital TV (iDTV)
• High potential due to wide pervasiveness of TVs
• The challenge
• From a passive viewer to an active learner
• iDTV as a new medium for learning
• Previous failures (90s)
• High costs
• Immature technologies
• Using PCs HCI

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Characteristics of IDTV

• Personalisation to tailor interactive content
  to each individual viewer profile
• Digitisation refers to the technological
  advancements that allow better quality sound and
  picture
• Interactivity means that control moves away from
  the networks and is directly placed into the
  hands of potential consumer

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ELU Convergence
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Verification of ELU with different Content

• Six pilot applications were used for validating
  the system. Verification of the ELU system on
• Mathematics for Elementary School - MTA SZTAKI
  HU
• Statistics for MBA students SIIT LT
• ICT Basics UHK CZ
• Development of Traffic Skills UoL SL
• Basic Business course RTU LV
• Cultural Heritage CTU CZ

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Evaluation activities and tools

• Score Cards preparation was conducted in the
  following steps
• Localisation of Score Cards
• Preparing printed version of each Score Card
• Recruiting and training classroom observers
• Recruiting and training external experts
• Organising and managing data gathering
  activities
• Collecting and summarizing Score Card data
• Preparing and submitting a summary of the Score
  Card findings in English
• Trial session activities were concluded in
  several steps
• User group trial
• Recording the trial participants
• Observing the trial participants
• Interviews with trial participants

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Mathematics for Elementary School

• MTA SZTAKI with technical support of Antenna
  Hungaria
• Target group users 13-15 age pupils from
  elementary schools
• Language Hungarian
• Two course modules
• Probability theory The first lesson introduces
  the basics terms in probability theory, such as
  elementary (or simple) events, events with equal
  probability, the number of corresponding events
  and the number of all events, and the classic
  method of calculating probability. .
• Counting solutions The second lesson shows a
  calculation how to count the uncountable things
  using the methods and experiences of the basic
  probability theory. The length of course modules
  is approx. 20 minutes. The knowledge delivered by
  course modules can be acquired independently
  standalone.

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Statistics for MBA Students

• State Institute of Information Technology in
  Lithuania
• Target group 22 34, most of them are 24 years
  old 10 students of Vilnius Gediminas Technical
  University (VGTU)
• Language Lithuanian
• One training material
• Education Each member of the target group has a
  bachelors degree. Five of them are still in the
  MS studies. The studies lead to the Master's
  degree and it usually takes two years. Five of
  them were tested after their MS thesis defending
  .

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ICT Basics

• University of Hradec Kralove in Czech Republic
• Target group users 35 adults
• Language Czech
• Two course modules
• Internet The expected learning outcome,
  ability to find and book a holiday via Internet.
• Digital Photo The expected learning outcome,
  ability make and present digital photos to the
  family.

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Development of Traffic Skills

• University of Ljubljana in Slovenia
• Target group 15-45 students / employees
• Language Slovenian
• One training material

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Basic Business course

• Riga Technical University in Latvia
• 62 target group users
• students (16 to 25 years of age) 10
  participants
• young adults (25 to 35 years of age ) 19
  participants
• adults (35 to 45 years of age) 18 participants
• adults (over 45) 10 participants
• Language Latvian
• BASIC BUSINESS course modules
• BASIC BUSINESS module I the aim of the course
  module is to introduce learner to a basic
  business terms, how to run a small business
  providing an example from Latvia.
• BASIC BUSINESS module II the aim of the course
  module is to give advise about running a small
  business with example from Kenya, introduce
  learner to Supply and Demand functions and
  provide activities for their exploration.

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Cultural Heritage - King's Road

• Czech Technical University in Prague
• Target group 65
• Language Czech
• One training material
• Technologies Her/his room is equipped with
  standard CRT TV. S/he does not own or use
  computer or internet. S/he does not own mobile
  phone. S/he has problems with controlling more
  complicated functionality of electronic devices
  (e.g. tune TV channels).
• TV viewing patterns S/he watches TV
  occasionally. S/he watches only favourite TV
  programs. S/he has possibility to watch TV alone.
  S/he does not use teletext. S/he has no
  experience with enhanced television.
• Accessibility issues S/he is not able to follow
  several tasks in parallel. S/he is absent minded.
  S/he has sight problems. Therefore s/he dislikes
  small fonts. S/he is confused when an electronic
  device has slow feedback on her/his actions.

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