Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence

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Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence

• Professor Barbara Wasson
• University of Bergen, Norway

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Introduction

• European research network
• over 90 research units
• across 24 countries (23 Europe Canada)
• 1100 researchers (2/3) and PhD students (1/3)
• Universities, Industry and SMEs, Users groups
• Budget 9.350 M Euros
• Duration 4 years (2004-2007)

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Issues

• The networks members collaborate closely both in
  teams, individually and informally to establish
  an integrated, sustainable programme of
  scientific research for Technology Enhanced
  Learning (TEL).
• To bring new understanding and creativity to the
  field of Technology Enhanced Learning, ensuring
  it can contribute to European Commission
  initiatives, specifically through the Bologna
  Declaration and the Lisbon Agenda. These set
  goals for mobility, employability,
  competitiveness and dynamism.

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Addressing the Issues

• A strategy to drive the scientific field
  forwardthrough collaboration and convergence,
  through investigation and sharing of results
• Creation of Interdisciplinary teams from
  different countries, research backgrounds and
  fields
• Building technological and scientific platforms
  to support researchers by offering tools,
  services, resources and reference standards at a
  PhD level

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Addressing the Issues

• Developing an understanding of political and
  social issues important to the field within
  Europe and proactively creating and utilising
  communication channels between relevant
  stakeholders in education, industry (users and
  businesses) to inform and advise
• Devising and implementing dissemination
  strategies to engage and lobby academic
  institutions, user and industry representatives
  and non-governmental bodies
• Examining models of sustainability in order for
  TEL to have a global impact

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Scientific and strategic integration

• To build bridges between technology, computer
  science and, educational, social and cognitive
  sciences in order
• To provide better foundations to the evaluation
  of TEL
• To stimulate the sharing of prototypes and
  testbed
• To improve technology transfer and innovation
• To develop a shared understanding of the
  differences and commonalities at a conceptual and
  methodological level
• across disciplines
• across cultures
• research practices
• To build bridges between the different
  educational traditions

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Structure outline
Scientific coordination
Administrative coordinator
Cluster leaders
Contractor representative
Team leaders
Project leaders
Researcher / Phd Student
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Scientific Coordination
Scientific Manager Nicolas Balacheff, CNRS,
France
Executive (5 members) Core Group (22 members)
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Structure outline
Scientific coordination
Administrative coordinator
Cluster leaders
Contractor representative
Team leaders
Project leaders
Researcher / Phd Student
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Projects
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European Research Teams (ERTs)

• ERTs are integrating activities, which target
  networking European excellence at the level of
  specific research challenges. Long term
  collaboration is at the research team level
  (between research groups of member Institutes).

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Conditions for productive networked learning
environments
Production of educational formats
Technology enhanced learning in mathematics
Computer-Supported Scripting of Interaction in
Collaborative Learning Environments
Computer-based Analysis and Visualization of
Collaborative Learning Activities
Integrating Collaborative, Inquiry and
Experiential Learning
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Special Interest Groups

• SIGs are the basic community-building tools of
  Kaleidoscope. They allow individual researchers
  and PhD students from all the partner
  institutions to organize themselves around a
  problem or a project that they feel is at the
  forefront of the TEL research scene

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Computer Support for Collaborative Learning
Narrative and Learning Environments
Philosophy of TEL
Computer Supported Inquiry Learning
Artificial Intelligence in Education
Learning GRID
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Jointly Executed Integrating Research Projects
(JEIRPs)

• JEIRPs encourage the cross-fertilisation of the
  research of the partner institutions by focusing
  on the key issues of the fieldissues which are
  intrinsically multidisciplinary
• Usually 1 year
• Internal calls

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Learning Patterns for the design and deployment
of Mathematical Games
Digital Language Learning An Integrated
Perspective
Technology enhanced public spaces for
intergenerational learning
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Virtual Doctoral School
Shared Virtual Laboratory
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Users Group
Dissemination
Gateway
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10 Issues for a Research Programme

• combining collaborative learning, mobile learning
  and inquiry learning
• to question the underlying concepts and
  theoretical framework
• need for a comprehensive approach
• professional learning and training
• highly realistic and interactive simulations
• microworlds and role-play environments
• blended learning
• from practical to theoretical perspectives
• models to support its development and ensure its
  efficiency

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10 Issues for a Research Programme

• need for models
• of learning as an emergent process in complex
  systems
• computationally tractable, cost effective,
  efficient transfer
• empirically valid when confronted to actual use
• need for cognitive and technological foundations
• to design highly interactive learning objects
• for a new ecology of learning
• for models of context-as-construct to inform TEL
  design
• need for shared references
• domain specific evidence
• research based recommendations
• understanding of TEL from an epistemological
  perspective

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10 Issues for a Research Programme

• De-compartmentalization of
• learning practices
• examinations and assessment
• Constant need for tools for teachers and trainers
• TEL innovative authoring tools
• Learning management systems beyond text and PCs
• Models and methods to support complex process of
  adoption of TEL in the different learning contexts

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10 Issues for a Research Programme

• to build tools to enhance TEL as an experimental
  research field
• Frameworks for the description of the
  experimentation settings and processes
• ? methodological standards
• Frameworks for the description of experimental
  data to share, manage and compare data
• ? benchmark
• Tools and means to instrument the experimental
  situation so as to gather experimental data in a
  meaningful way
• ? testbed ...
• Infrastructure for
• ? the management and sharing of information
• the support of research collaborations in all
  phases

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Need for convergence to fight research
fragmentation

• Network
• Learning community (CSCL)
• Learning space (Grid)
• Content
• Simulation, augmented reality
• Semantically rich representation
• Ubiquity and mobility
• Interaction
• Reification of interactions
• Digital imprint of tacit knowledge

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An integrated vision
Amsterdam convergence workshop December 2006

• Document
• Simulations
• Microworld

• Knowledge
• Ability

Technology
inquiry learning
Learner

• Interactive
• Wireless
• Distributed
• Ubiquitous
• Trustable

collaborative learning
mobile learning

• Autonomous
• Socialized
• Collaborative

Situations

• School
• Informal learning
• Learning at work
• Training

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An open research network acrosscultures,
organisations disciplines
Become an Associated member
Any research unit, private or public
activity in the field of technology for human
learning
Access to the resources and to the community
building process
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