By Desiree Anera. Las grandes multinacionales tecnológicas están jugando un importante papel en la transformación del panorama educativo, tal y como se pudo constatar en la conferencia Education in the Digital Era que se celebró en Bruselas el 11 de diciembre de 2014. More...
Carolina Jeux-Conde interview on Education in the Digital Era
Ways of Earning College Credits for Prior Learning Assessment
By Patrick Harlenson. The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) advances Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) by means of various routines, and CAEL supports individual schools in setting prior learning credit arrangements with respect to grown-up learners. CAEL discoveries demonstrate that understudies accepting PLA credit keep up much higher graduation rates. More...
Learning Analytics: Challenges and Future Research Directions
By Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy Yousef. In recent years, learning analytics (LA) has attracted a great deal of attention in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) research as practitioners, institutions, and researchers are increasingly seeing the potential that LA has to shape the future TEL landscape. Generally, LA deals with the development of methods that harness educational data sets to support the learning process. This paper provides a foundation for future research in LA. It provides a systematic overview on this emerging field and its key concepts through a reference model for LA based on four dimensions, namely data, environments, context (what?), stakeholders (who?), objectives (why?), and methods (how?). More...
SGSCC (Serious Games for Social & Creativity Competence)
SGSCC workshop in Belgium SGSCC (Serious Games for Social & Creativity Competence) project is organed a dedicated workshop “Social competences & creativity as a stepping stone towards personal growth, social development and employability” on 17 December 2014 in Brussels, Belgium at VLEVA premises, focusing on the importance of social skills and creativity for people with disabilities which is fundamental to both social integration and professional self-realisation. More...
ENABLE (European Network Against Bullying in Learning and Leisure Environments)
ENABLE (European Network Against Bullying in Learning and Leisure Environments) is an EU-funded project to combat bullying and contribute to the wellbeing of young people through their social and emotional development. ENABLE is the first pan-European collaboration between public agencies and businesses to combat bullying. More...
ExpaMeco, Expansion of Media Content Use Cases: Exploiting Content-Technologies in Multimedia Products
ExpaMeco intends to build on top of the technologies developed in FI content to maximize its usability and exposure by web entrepreneurs and SMEs mainly in the market domains of: Social connected TV, Smart city services, Pervasive games and E-Learning and content services. More...
Proyecto EDIA. Trabajando con ABP
Proyecto EDIA publicará en los próximos meses recursos educativos para Primaria y Secundaria. El objetivo es principalmente crear comunidades de docentes que comparten y colaboran para crear y adaptar recursos educativos útiles para el aula. More...
Future INternet and Open Data EXpansion
FINODEX is a project born to provide new economic and societal value to the European society, through the promotion and the support of innovative ICT services based on FI-PPP technologies and the massive reuse of open data while involving the SMEs and Web entrepreneurs on their creation. More...
Life Long Learning in Applied Fields (LLAF)
Life Long Learning in Applied Fields (LLAF) is one of the selected TEMPUS IV Sixth Call programs that involves 16 different institutions located in 8 different countries collaborating to address the challenge of academic institutions to maintain their relevancy in the topics that they teach by developing new curriculum that has at its foundation the capacity to provide students with tools and skills for new professional developments and innovation, concentrating on communities of learners and on work within and with communities. More...
DISCUSS- European Platform for Communities of Practice in Lifelong Learning
DISCUSS project will bridge this gap by incubating communities of practice (CoP), helping to stimulate dialogue and exchange between beneficiaries and users of the LLL program: practitioners, researchers, experts, learners, stakeholders and decision makers. More...