LeHo – Learning at Home and in the Hospital – project is developing an online hub to provide tools and resources for those engaged or involved in home and hospital based education (HHE). The project is funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union. More...

The main goal of this Partnership, joining 5 EU countries, is to support the European Year 2012 for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity by means of creating a transference of different models of senior citizen’s learning and promoting the exchange of innovative methodological approaches between the involved partners. More...

CHEST (Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks) is a 30 month Collaborative project co-financed with support from the European Commission through Framework Programme 7. More...

The main objective of the project is the development and testing of an European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) and to improve the mobility of workers in the the construction sector by engaging them to create innovative content and structure of a web application with built-in qualifications comparison tool based on the transferred cascade training methodology and PALS tools. More...

Dissemination and exploitation of projects results are currently the major mechanisms to make more valuable and increase the impact of project results. Nevertheless , it is also indicated that there is a need for further improvement in the direction of cooperation between LLL projects and exchange with users that can significantly increase peer learning, capitalize on previous efforts, create synergies and develop new innovations. Moreover, there is a growing need for long-term collaboration among projects and target groups beyond the lifetime of projects.
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. The major results of the project will be: five CoPs, each one dedicated to major priorities of the Lifelong Learning Program, a state-of-the-art platform and collaborative tools which can be used by the CoP members to share project information and good practice, discuss and collaborate on common issues and get engaged through professional and social interactions. More...

The European University Association (EUA) has published a new study, entitled “E-learning in European Higher Education Institutions”, which aims to contribute to ongoing policy discussions on e-learning in Europe and to support universities in their efforts to further enhance and promote innovation in learning and teaching.
Survey ‘E-learning in European Higher Education Institutions’. More...

Das eLearning Unternehmen Skillsoft hat eine Reihe von Live-Pilotprojekten bei Kunden abgeschlossen, bei denen mithilfe von Big Data das Lernerlebnis adaptiver und individualisierter gestaltet wurde. Unter Anwendung der Big-Data- und Analyse-Kapazitäten von IBM Research konnten die Daten von 19 Millionen Skillsoft-Nutzern und 60.000 Lerneinheiten miteinander kombiniert werden. Mehr...

The Education in the Digital Era Conference took place on December 11th, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium. Ministers, leaders of educational institutions, and educational innovators convened to discuss the opportunities and challenges of adapting education to a faster changing, digital society and economy, shaping education's place and priority in the EU's sustainable growth agenda. More...

Europortfolio and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya as partners of the EPNET consortium held a workshop at Online Educa Berlin entitled "Open Badges and ePortfolios: Support for educational change." More...

Online Educa Berlin is widely known as the premier European event for technology-enhanced learning. The 20th edition of the conference took place on 3-5 December 2014.
The Post Conference report can be downloaded here.
Mark your calendar; the next edition of the conference will be on 2-4 December 2015. More...