1st European eLearning Forum for Education Conference 22-23 November 2004, Brussels

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1st European eLearning Forum for Education
Conference 22-23 November 2004, Brussels

• Work of the European Commission on the use of
  ICT in education and training
• Maruja Gutierrez Diaz
• DG Education and Culture

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• A brief overview of European policy in the field
  of ICT for education since Lisbon
• Main actions and processes
• Some snaphsots of evolution
• Conclusions and perspectives

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A vision for Europeeducation to make it true

• For Europe to become the most dynamic and
  advanced knowledge-based society in the world,
  with more and better jobs, and increased social
  cohesion
• Education in Europe must also become the most
  advanced and dynamic education in the world
  realising the lifelong learning ideal
• eLearning is seen as a lever for change to the
  knowledge society and as a lifelong learning
  enabler

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eLearning in the EUthree policy development
contexts

• eEurope / eLearning
• An urgent action to build up the knowledge
  society foundations, with better co-ordination of
  EU actions
• Education Training 2010
• A shared work programme for adaptating European
  education and training systems to the knowledge
  society
• Framework Programmes for Research
• A long-standing support to the use of ICT in
  education

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eLearningthree implementation contexts

• eEurope / eLearning
• Fix short term objectives benchmark progress
  ensure fast deployment of infrastructure and
  basic services EU level action
• Education Training 2010
• Facilitate and foster stakeholders participation
  identify common concerns share good policies and
  practices MS level actionpreparation of the
  Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013
• Research Programmes
• Support and stimulate research on the use of new
  technologies to enhance education and on the
  required tools and infrastructures

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eEurope / eLearning and related programmes

• Identifying priority objectives and benchmarks to
  measure their achievement
• Improving communication and synergy between the
  diverse EU programmes and instruments
• Establishing eLearning as a priority in all the
  relevant ones eContent, eTEN, ESF - European
  Social Fund, ERFD - European Regional Development
  Fund
• Fostering information and communication amongst
  all stakeholders government, industry, society,
  academy

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eLearning in eEurope

• eEurope 2002a call for action
• Nearly 100 of schools connected in Europe
• From 25 to 17 pupils per connected PC
• eEurope anticipating enlargement A different
  kind of challenge
• eEurope 2005 One of three key priorities
• eGovernmenteHealtheLearning bringing about
  the knowledge society

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Benchmarking eEurope 2002Increasing connectivity
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SIBISIncreasing digital literacy
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Education Training 2010A shared work programme

• Three core objectives
• Enhancing quality
• Increasing accessibility
• Connecting to society
• A new working method open coordination
• Agreed indicators and benchmarking
• Periodical reporting
• A new approach to action
• Integrated lifelong learning programme 2007-2013

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Education and Training 2010 Success hinges on
urgent reforms - 1
Education and Training 2010 Joint interim
report of Council and Commission

• Rates of early school leavers still too high
• In 2002 almost 20 18-24 yrs had only lower
  secondary education
• Too few women in scientific and technological
  fields
• Still 2-4 times more men than women in science
• Completion of upper secondary education could be
  better
• In 2002 only 76 of 22 yrs old completed upper
  2nd school

COM (2003) 685 final, Official Journal 30 April
2004 2004/C 104/1
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Education and Training 2010 Success hinges on
urgent reforms - 2
Education and Training 2010 Joint interim
report of Council and Commission

• Young people failing to acquire key competences
• Nearly 20 of young people dont have key
  competencies
• Shortage of qualified teachers and trainers is
  looming
• 27 primary 37 secondary teachers are more
  than 50 yrs old
• Too few adults participating in lifelong learning
• In 2002 participation rate was only 8.5

COM (2003) 685 final, Official Journal 30 April
2004 2004/C 104/1
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eLearning in Education Training 2010

• An ICT working group
• Member States, education stakeholders such as
  EVTA, relevant organisations such as OECD, IEA
• Four policy recommendations
• Embed ICT policies and strategies into long term
  educational objectives
• Ensure new support services for education
• Empower educational actors and train them for the
  management of change
• Develop research, establish new indicators and
  provide access to results

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eLearning in the futureLifelong Learning (LLL)
programme
Integrated Programme Integrated Programme Integrated Programme Integrated Programme
Comenius School education Erasmus Higher education advanced training Leonardo da Vinci Initial and continuing VET Grundtvig Adult education
Transversal programme 4 key activities Policy development Language learning ICT Dissemination Transversal programme 4 key activities Policy development Language learning ICT Dissemination Transversal programme 4 key activities Policy development Language learning ICT Dissemination Transversal programme 4 key activities Policy development Language learning ICT Dissemination
Jean Monnet programme 3 key activities Jean Monnet Action European Institutions European Associations Jean Monnet programme 3 key activities Jean Monnet Action European Institutions European Associations Jean Monnet programme 3 key activities Jean Monnet Action European Institutions European Associations Jean Monnet programme 3 key activities Jean Monnet Action European Institutions European Associations
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The eLearning initiative

• The first education initiative following Lisbon
• Four action lines
• Infrastructure and equipment
• Training at all levels
• Quality contents and services
• European networking and co-operation
• Four years 2000-2003
• 27,2 million
• 65 pilot projects and 7 strategic studies

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The eLearning Action Planaction through
partnership
The eLearning Action Plan helps co-ordinate
community actions concerned with e-learning,
mobilising the educational and cultural
communities, as well as the economic and social
players in Europe Partnerships between
Commissions services acting in the eLearning
area Employment Information Society
Enterprise Eurostat Fostering public-private
partnerships eLIG, the eLearning Industry Group
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Facilitatingexchanges The eLearning Portal
elearningeuropa.info
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The eLearning Programme

• Four areas of action
• Promoting digital literacy 10 budget
• European Virtual Campuses 30 budget
• eTwinning of European schools 45 budget
• Transversal actions 7,5 budget
• 44 Million Euro for three years (2004-2006)

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eLearning in the Framework Programmes for
Research

• A long standing support, started 15 years ago
  with DELTA and ESPRIT
• A substantial investment in applying new
  technologies to education, from CSL to GRID
  computing (only the 5th FP under the IST
  programme invested 140 Meuro)
• A first attempt to improved cooperation the Task
  Force for Educational Multimedia Software in 1977
• A focus on technical issues, and on socioeconomic
  research need to strengthen pedagogical aspects

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eLearning evolutiona deep change

• Integration of ICT in education has moved
• From research to practice
• From awareness to take-up
• From pilot projects to mainstreaming
• From technological to cultural barriers
• But it still calls for political leadership

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E-Learning readiness index
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eLearning evolutionstill a long way to go

• Lack of a common understanding of basic concepts
  e-learning, digital literacy,
• Lack of comparable and timely data, of relevant
  output indicators and of adequate monitoring
  tools
• Lack of sufficient pedagogical research on the
  learning results of e-learning
• Investment in ICT has reached significant levels
  yet, there is no clear evidence of a
  satisfactory ROI
• Is the integration of ICT attaining its
  objectives ?

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eLearning policyneed for an integrated approach

• Between different learning levels Lifelong
  learning
• eLearning as a transversal issue, as a thread
  linking different levels of learning and
  different types of learners
• Between research and practice
• Fostering technological, pedagogical,
  socio-economic and, in particular, user-oriented,
  learning-oriented research
• Between supply and demand
• Building a solid demand, creating fair
  conditions for supply
• Standards, interoperability, IPR DRM,
  multilingual issues
• Fostering public-private partnerships

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eLearning perspectivesa reason to continue

• Better and wider use of e-learning should
  contribute to increased
• Empowerment people, institutions, companies
• Equity personal, social, geographical
• Productivity personal, social, economic
• Creativity innovation, imagination, change

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Thank you for your attention !
e-mail maruja.gutierrez-diaz_at_cec.eu.int