EURIDICE Project EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators Piotr Ryszewski International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators The EURIDICE Project is financed within framework of UE programme eTEN (e-services supporting). The Project goals:  To establish an online multilingual e-learning service – EURIDICE Service;  To develop a pedagogical methodology to the educational environment;  To prepare e-learning courses in humanities;  To test accessibility of the service to disable people;

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators The Project partners:  NDAP, Warsaw, PL – project coordinator;  Fratelli Alinari, Florence, It – technical coordinator;  ICIMSS, Torun, PL;  Copernicus Library, Torun, PL;  Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL;  Leuven University, Leuven, BE;  Barcelona Virtual University, Barcelona, E;  Boras University, Boras, SE;  Vienna University, Vienna, AT;  E-ISOTIS, GR;

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators The EURIDICE Service consists of two elements: 1.EURIDICE Repository – resource of 10,5 thousand pictures (5000 Alinari Repository, 2500 Copernicus Library, 3000 NDAP); 2.EURIDICE-Moodle e-learning Platform;

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators Resources of the EURIDICE Repository:  archival photographs of social life;  photographs of art;  scans of archival documents (certificates of birth, maps, stamps, posters itp.);  scans of historic books and archival periodicals;

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators The EURIDICE-Moodle e-learning platform:  Popular, easy to use and free system of making and management of distance learning courses accessible in Polish version;

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators

Advantages of the EURIDICE Service:  Access to unique graphic materials, never published, from resources of cultural institutions;  Opportunity of making courses for unassisted learning in the web only or blended learning (course + study);  Multilingual searching interface (in Polish also);

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators Advantages of the EURIDICE Service:  Images presented at resolutions:  128x128 pixels (thumbnails);  480x480 pixels (for printing and downloading);  up to 2000x3000 pixels with unique zooming technologies (useful for people with vision impairments);

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators

Methodology for distance learning developed by educational institutions:  coordination of a common e-learning methodology;  Guidelines for e-learning of disable people;  development of the criteria and methodology for the assessment ;  monitoring and assessment of the pilots.

EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learning Courses for Educators Links:  the EURIDICE Project main website  the EURIDICE-Moodle website

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