4. New Global Resources: Project COMETT, Sienna, Italy

-- by Jerry Ross, Editor, ODL


COMETT focuses on the relationship between education and training. It will produce state of the art, multi-media materials in conjunction with the PALIO Project: a European training program aimed at the development of modular specialized training supply for people who are involved in the design, development, management, marketing and evaluation of multimedia open and distance learning schemes to be implemented by/in companies, universities, and higher vocational training. Multimedia distance and open learning are not only the subjects of training to be developed, but also the way to organize delivery.

The PALIO Project derived from the merger of two selected proposals: PALIO from University of Sienna and DAM from University of Amsterdam. COMETT II is under the coordination of SATURN, the European Association for development of multimedia methodologies, products, and services. PALIO is intended to contribute to the creation of a European Infrastructure for Open Learning. The target learners are training officers and senior trainers in large companies, associations of enterprises, unions as well as university academic staffs. The main outputs from PALIO will be a minimum of 120 hours of multimedia training materials in project management, evaluation activities, and information management in a multimedia training scheme (English, Dutch, and Italian).

Partners in this effort are IBM Italia, Olivetti, Bull, Syseca, Abbey National, Bartilla, the Confederation of Italian Industry, the Italian university group (Sienna, Bologna, Milan, Roma, and Parma), The Italian Consortium of Distance Universities (CUD), and university groups from the U.K., Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Ireland. Training institutions include the Italian Ministry of Labour, the ILO International Center for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training, and other important training organizations in Europe.


Ed. Note: The above article originally appeared in Open and Distance Learning (Vol.1, Issue 2, July-August 1991), a newsletter of The Electronic University. It is redistributed by permission of the editor (and GLOSAS member), Jerry Ross.


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