1. Becta Community Programmes community e-learning Research July 21st 2002
Fred Garnett
Head of Community Programmes
Lifelong Learning Directorate

2. community e-learning research
Topics
Background
Overview
Research
Metadata for Community Content
CGfLs
Community Languages
Outcomes

3. community e-learning research
Background
NOF-CALL ICT Learning Centres
NOF-CALL CGfLs
UK online Centres
NGfL/ferl/cerl
Overview
From Access to Content
From e-learning to e-democracy
Access; 6,000 UK online centres
Digital Divide Content (96% Rubbish)

4. community e-learning research
Metadata for Community Content
Androgogy not Pedagogy
Self-directed learning
Learner-created Content
MD for Digitised Content
MD for Multimedia Content
MD for Peer-to-Peer Content sharing

5. community e-learning research
Community Grids for Learning
NOF-CGfL - 50 projects
General Guidance and Info Sheets
Dynamic Grid and/or VLE model
Content Re-purposing
Digital Tools?
Community of Community Grids

6. community e-learning research
Community Languages
DfES Community Languages Support List
Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujerati, Punjabi, Somali, Urdu, Vietnamese
mkdoc e-gif compliant CMS
Full functionality;text entry, search, site map
Issues - Hardware - Sound files
Joint Project with NIACE
Laptop Outreach Best practice Site

7. community e-learning research
Outcomes
Help Hand resources
Good Practice Guides
Metadata Research Reports
Laptop Challenge web-site
Community Challenge toolkit
Further collaborative work

8. community e-learning research
Theme
on-line communities are part of the political process of social change involved in moving to the Knowledge Democracy. They represent ways of bringing like minded people together through partnerships which will create the institutions for the new society. This involves identifying new channels of communications
As Hazel Henderson says “Technology is the essence of politics”

9. community e-learning research
Context
Move to the Knowledge Democracy 2020
Institutional (new infrastructure)
Web-based (new resources)
Technology as infrastructure - info “on tap”
The web is a publishing medium, people can be producers as well as consumers
Cyberspace

10. Becta Community Programmes community e-learning Research July 21st 2002
Fred Garnett
Head of Community Programmes
Lifelong Learning Directorate