Project Overview of
European Learning GRID Infrastructure (ELeGI)
Key Action: FP6 - IST - 2002 – 2.3.1.12 -
Technology-enhanced learning and access to cultural heritage
Acronym: ELeGI
FullName: European Learning GRID Infrastructure
Proposal/Contract N¼: 002205
Contracted by: European Commission
Start Date: 01-FEB-04
End Date: 31-JAN-08
Duration: 48 months
Abstract:
The European Learning Grid
Infrastructure (ELeGI) project has the ambitious goal to develop software
technologies for effective human learning. With the ELeGI project we will
promote and support a Learning paradigm shift. A new paradigm focused on
knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning
approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way will replace
the current information transfer paradigm focused on content and on the key
authoritative figure of the teacher who provides information.
We have chosen a synergic approach,
sometimes called Òhuman centred designÓ, to replace the classical, applicative
approach to learning. With consideration of humans at the centre, learning is
clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of
interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic Virtual
Communities: experimental research concepts integrating new powerful
developments of services in the Semantic GRID, the leading edge of currently
available and future ICT technologies, with highly innovative and powerfully
significant scenarios of human learning.
The ELeGI project has three main
goals:
- Goal 1 - To define new models of human learning enabling
ubiquitous and collaborative learning, merging experiential, personalised and
contextualised approaches.
- Goal 2 - To define and implement an advanced
service-oriented Grid based software architecture for learning. This will allow
us to access and integrate different technologies, resources and contents that
are needed in order to realise the new paradigm. This objective will be driven
by the pedagogical needs and by the requirements provided by the test-beds
(SEES) and informed by the experience gained through implementing the
demonstrators.
- Goal 3 - To validate and evaluate the software architecture
and the didactical approaches through the use of SEES and demonstrators. The
project will build extensively on advanced work already done, creating new
learning environments rather than creating new learning resources per se.
Project Objectives:
Goal 1
- OB1 - Study, define and experiment with the new paradigm
for formal and informal learning taking into account socio-cultural
constructivist, personalised, contextualised, experiential and collaborative
approaches
- OB2 - study, define, experiment and validate
methodologies, techniques and standards for representing and managing knowledge
construction in the learner during the learning process according to different
learning styles (individualised and personalised learning);
- OB3 - Study, define and validate methodologies for
evaluating the effectiveness from both the pedagogical and usability point of
view of these new learning approaches in different disciplines and contexts;
- OB4 - study, define and validate didactical learning
models for virtual scientific experiments which take the learnerÕs preferences
and collaborative aspects into account;
Goal 2
- OB5 - Design, develop and validate a GRID based software
architecture for exploiting the new learning paradigm;
- OB6 - Monitor and contribute to standards development
for learning systems, pedagogical models, GRID technologies, semantic and
knowledge technologies;
- OB7 - Study and evaluate how the development of the
semantic Web in general, and the semantic and knowledge GRID in particular,
will impact on the project software architecture and new learning paradigm;
- OB8 - Study, define and experiment with advanced
conversational processes and enhanced presence technologies for collaborative
learning in the new paradigm;
Goal 3
- OB9 - Experiment and validate learning approaches,
strategies, and technology infrastructure through different test-beds (SEES),
using feedback for re-engineering and refining the context;
- OB10 - Study and define strategies for the adoption of
these new learning approaches and related technology facilitating the paradigm
shift for the learning institutions;
- OB11 - Demonstrate and validate how GRID technology
facilitates the realisation of new learning paradigm and the implementation of
Virtual Learning Communities;
- OB12 - Demonstrate, customise and exploit new or
re-engineered learning systems and solutions for citizens and organisations;
- OB13 - Facilitate the exploitation of European cultural
and scientific resources though the Learning GRID infrastructure;