1. Technology-enhanced Learning in Europe
Marco Marsella
Cultural Heritage and Technology-enhanced Learning Unit
Information Society and Media Directorate General

2. Overview of the presentation
DG INFSO
Digital Agenda
Historical elements
Some results
Future work

3. European Commission Information Society and Media DG
DG Information Society and Media
DIGITAL AGENDA FOR EUROPE
ICT RESULTS

4. Education and Training at EU level
Member States retain responsibilities - principle of subsidiarity
EU actions are geared towards improving the quality of our education and training systems
ICT in education and training at EU level:
Connectivity/Access (Broadband,etc.)
Quality content and services
Research and technological development
Best practices

5. Innovation in E&T through ICT
Improve effectiveness and efficiency
Build flexible and responsive learning environments
Meet different learning styles/needs
Engage and involve learners, teachers, parents, …
21st century skills

6. “Are the New Millenium Learners Making the Grade?”
“…it is the quality, rather than the quantity, of ICT usage that determines the contribution that these technologies make to students’ academic performance”
(OECD: Technology use and educational performance in PISA)

7. ICT for learning Catalyst for change
Empowering through richer and active experiences
Personalised opportunities
Assessment
Digital literacy & 21st Century Skills
Upskilling / re skilling
Alignment competencies/business needs

8. Some EU initiatives The European Digital Agenda
“Every European Digital”
Innovation and Skills
- Flagships Innovation Union/Youth on the Move/New skills for jobs
- Digital competencies and e-Skills
Life lifelong Learning Programme (LLLP)
- Transversal Key Action on ICT for Education and Training
Research and Technological development - TEL
The ICT Policy Support Programme (IST PSP - CIP)
- Wider uptake and best use of ICT by citizens, governments and businesses

9. The European Digital Agenda
Europe's strategy for a flourishing digital economy by 2020
Policies and actions to maximise the benefit of the digital revolution for all
Digital Single Market ;
Interoperability and Standards;
Trust and Security;
Very Fast Internet;
Research and innovation;
Enhancing digital literacy, skills and inclusion;
ICT for Societal Challenges;
International aspects

10. Action 68
Mainstream eLearning in national policies for the modernisation of education and training, including in curricula, assessment of learning outcomes and the professional development of teachers and trainers.”

11. Digital Agenda Assembly
Workshop “Mainstreaming eLearning in Education and Training
Change is necessary – inevitable – but difficult and too slow
Need to scale up, learn from each another
Be clear about the vision and the goals
Grassroots reforms
Top/bottom approaches …

12. Our contributions Provide stimulus and support
Demonstrate potential benefits and raise awareness
Support capacity building
Disseminate best practices
Engage and involve stakeholders
Create new opportunities for enterprises

13. Key data on learning and innovation through ICT at School in Europe
Eurydice, 2011
Although ICT as a subject or as a tool for learning within other subjects is recommended in almost all countries, international survey data reveal a different picture of classroom practice.

14. ICT in education in Europe
Less disparity between schools regarding ICT equipment
Lack of adequate learning software and support staff is still affecting students' instruction
Eurydice, 2011
In European countries, according to PISA
2009, at least 50 % of students were in
schools where one computer is available for
every two students.
On average, almost 55 % of students in the
fourth grade and 45 % of students in the
eighth grade have computers available during
their mathematics lessons.

15. Delivery of ICT learning objectives
Primary Level
A. ICT separate subject
B. ICT included in tech subject
D. ICT as tool for other subject
A+B+C
Source: Eurydice.

16. Delivery of ICT learning objectives
Secondary Level
A. ICT separate subject
B. ICT included in tech subject
D. ICT as tool for other subject
A+B+C
Source: Eurydice.

17. Recommendations or suggestions
A RANGE OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS BASED ON ACTIVE AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ARE WIDELY PROMOTED IN EUROPE
Primary education
Source: Eurydice.
Project-based learning
Personalised learning
Individualised/
student-centred learning
Scientific investigations
Online learning
Recommendations or suggestions
Support

18. Recommendations or suggestions
A RANGE OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS BASED ON ACTIVE AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ARE WIDELY PROMOTED IN EUROPE
Secondary education
Source: Eurydice.
Project-based learning
Personalised learning
Individualised/
student-centred learning
Scientific investigations
Online learning
Recommendations or suggestions
Support

19. Training Research projects
Training measures and research projects in areas covered by national ICT strategies
2009/10
ICT in schools
e-Learning
e-Inclusion
Digital, media literacy
e-Skills development
Training Research projects

20. Key data on learning and innovation through ICT at School in Europe
Eurydice, 2011
ICT ARE PLAYING A CENTRAL ROLE IN COOPERATION BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY AND TO ENGAGE PARENTS IN THE LEARNING PROCESS
ICT IS WIDELY PROMOTED BY CENTRAL AUTHORITIES AS A TOOL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING BUT LARGE IMPLEMENTATION GAP REMAINS
ICT IS OFTEN RECOMMENDED FOR ASSESSING COMPETENCES BUT STEERING DOCUMENTS RARELY INDICATE HOW IT SHOULD BE APPLIED
TEACHERS USUALLY ACQUIRE ICT TEACHING SKILLS THROUGH THEIR INITIAL EDUCATION BUT FURTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS LESS COMMON

21. Research and Innovation
R&I key to strengthen the transformative role of ICT in education and training
Global patterns from demonstration to adoption

22. RTD at EU level
European Community Framework Programmes for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration.
A collection of the actions at EU level to fund and promote research.
Participation from countries outside of the EU, enabling international co-operation, foreseen.

23. RTD on Technology-enhanced learning
Research aims at improving our knowledge of how ICT enhances learning and teaching.
The work on learning draws on different research disciplines (computing, technological, pedagogical, cognitive and psychological sciences)
Focus on how technology-enhanced learning can better facilitate the learning process, in different learning situations, for individuals or groups of learners, motivating and supporting people who learn on their own or collaboratively with others.

24. RTD on Technology-enhanced Learning
Target Groups
…….
Pedagogical aspects
Technical aspects
Cognitive aspects
Organisational aspects
Focus on the learning process
Intertwined relationship between learner and organisation

25. Main characteristics Researching & understanding learning problems
Realistic assumptions about the systemic changes needed to realise the potential benefits of ICT for learning
Focus on key areas where impact is more likely

26. Priorities 2000 – 2001
ICT-based solutions for lifelong learning (inclusion perspective), schools, virtual universities, advanced training systems;
Infrastructures for broad access to learning resources and services;
High Quality Educational Content: creation, access, maintenance and brokerage;
Consensus Building and Standardisation activities in CEN/ISSS Learning Technologies Workshop,

27. Priorities
The term Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) was introduced
Focus of research was less on integration of technologies but rather on how people learn - through technologies
Three main objectives:
Increase efficiency of learning - for individuals and groups
Facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge in organisations
Deeper understanding of the learning process
Two lines of Action
Interactions human learning and organisational learning
Links between human learning, cognition and technologies

28. Priorities
Technologically-mediated responsive environments for learning
learning environments which motivate, engage and inspire learners, and make it possible to personalise learning to respond to specific needs and contexts (mass-individualisation of learning).
Adaptive and intuitive learning systems
innovative systems that self-configure their operations to optimally assist and respond to the learner’s activities according to their understanding and experience of learners' behaviour. These systems are able to identify learner's requirements from monitoring progress in an intelligent way. They make best use of the individual learning and cognitive abilities of the learner and produce meaningful advice to both learners and teachers.

29. Priorities
The classroom of tomorrow – Large-scale pilots for the design of the classroom of the 21st century
Embedding learning experiences in organisational processes and practices and Combining creative, cognitive and computational processes for workplace learning
Adaptive and intuitive systems - affective and emotional approaches
Learning appliances and cognitive tutors
Focused interdisciplinary networks
Awareness building, roadmapping, evaluation, showcases

30. Where do we see potential impacts
Learning, through life, in extended organisations
improve return on investment on integrated solutions for learning
shorter time periods for learning, speeding up time to competencies (goal of 56% of organisations)
greater efficiency in business processes – speed up and cut costs of on-the-job learning, ease change processes in organisations
enable capitalisation of organisational intellectual assets

31. Where do we see potential impacts
Improve effective use of ICT-based learning
research into better conceptual models of technology enhanced learning
greater capacity to deliver individualised or personalised learning
Support HE sector in move towards lifelong learning
coping with increasing diversity in the student population and their modes of attendance
continuous professional development
competition on a global scale
Contribute to competitiveness of eLearning suppliers

32. Project portfolio 32 projects resulted from the 2 Calls in FP6
26 projects resulted from the first two calls for proposals under FP7
13 projects resulted from FP7 Call 5 (started July-October 2010)

33. Project portfolio
Technology blending learning and knowledge workplace
Supporting individualisation in learning/ adaptive systems, diagnosis and guidance
Engaging learners in science and maths
Creativity and learning
Serious games

34. Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom
Four year large-scale project starting in September 2010,
27 partners, including 14 Ministries of Education
Large scale pilots including a sizable number
of experiments in real world
to design, build and comprehensively test scalable learning and
teaching scenarios for the future classroom.
Funding from the European Commission of 9.45 million Euros

35. NEXT TELL
Conceptual framework + resources for designing and implementing formative ICT-enhanced learning
12 partners 6 MEUR
4 years – Sept 2010

36. STELLAR Network of Excellence
Integrating excellence, structuring research, move tel rtd agenda forward
Integrations instruments: leadership capacity, key researchers, doctoral academic capacity, community level capacity (stakeholders)
16 partners
Open archive

37. GALA Network of excellence
Games and Learning Alliance
NoE for Serious Games
30 Partners
6 MEUR
September 2010

38. TEL MAP POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING
Exploratory and roadmapping activities
Pan european observatory for innovation
Mind the map – building foresight capacity
10 partners, 2.5 MEUR

39. COSPATIAL
Collaborative technologies for learning social competencies by children who are typically developing and those with autistic Spectrum Disorders
Active surfaces and virtual learning environment
autism every day

40. Objective ICT-2011.8.1 Technology-enhanced learning
Technology Enhanced Learning systems endowed with the capabilities of human tutors
Educational technologies for science, technology and maths
Advanced solutions for fast and flexible deployment of learning opportunities at the workplace (targeting, in particular, SMEs) Computational tools fostering creativity in learning processes
Exploratory activities

41. Target outcome a) Technology Enhanced Learning systems endowed with the capabilities of human tutors
Foci: Advance systems’ capabilities to react to learners’ abilities and difficulties and systems’ understanding and use of the appropriate triggers (praise, constructive comments, etc.) influencing learning.
Characteristics:
use of systematic feedback based on innovative ways of interpreting the user's responses - particularly in relation to deep/shallow reasoning and thinking.
improve learners’ metacognitive skills, understand and exploit the underlying drivers of their learning behaviours.
Technologies: Natural language interaction (dialogues); rich and effective user interfaces; pedagogically sound; smart and personalised instructional design

42. Target outcome b1) Educational technologies for science, technology and maths
Supporting students to understand and construct their knowledge and meanings of scientific, technological and/or mathematical subjects.
Characteristics of the solutions:
- accompanying the learners through the complexity of a subject (technologically and methodologically)
How?
- activating and feeding curiosity and reasoning
- support the creative applications of the theory

43. Target outcome b2) Educational technologies for science, technology and maths
Supporting European wide federation and use of remote laboratories and virtual experimentations for learning and teaching purposes.
Output:
- Services enabling online interactive experimentations
accessing and controlling real instruments, or using simulated solutions
- Stimulus to the growth of the network of labs
Open interfacing components for easy plug-and-play of remote and virtual labs
Research characteristics: user interfaces mediating the complexities of creation and usability of experiments, in pedagogical contexts - in primary and secondary schools, universities, etc..

44. Target c) Advanced solutions for fast and flexible deployment of learning opportunities at the workplace (targeting, in particular, SMEs)
Context: networking/fostering (cross-) organisational learning and help SMEs to adopt and sustain effective learning attitudes.
Characteristics:
faster, situated, just-in-time up-/reskilling
lower the costs/efforts of production quality instructional material - in continuing education and training processes.
novel business training models – undertanding overcoming barriers to adoption - take up of the technologies
Focus: specifically on the needs of SMEs - in sectors without an established tradition in the adoption of learning solutions and - facing innovation and competitiveness challenges deriving from efficiency needs or new processes/products development.
Partnership: include SMEs /professional associations. SMEs users actively involved in pilots.

45. Target d) Computational tools fostering creativity in learning processes
Context: Creativity in the learning environments
Focus: innovative tools encouraging
nonlinear, non-standard thinking and problem-solving
exploration and generation of new knowledge, ideas and concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
Application: supporting people’s learning as well as the formation and evolution of creative teams
Approach: technological solutions that facilitate questioning and challenging, foster imaginative thinking, widen the perspectives and make purposeful connections with people and their ideas.

46. Target e) Exploratory activities
Looking ahead – specific exploratory actions – 10+ years horizon - for:
Fundamentally new forms of learning through ICT
Networking and test-beds:
Establishment of a pan-European network of living schools for validations, demonstrations
and showcases

47. Use of instruments, budget and call planning
60 Meur
Call: 8
opens 26/7/11 – closes 17/1/12

48. Looking ahead
Continue exploring links learning and innovation, creativity, productivity at workplace
Mobilising a more extended research community
Strengthening research capacity around emerging trends
Supporting technology transfer and take-up – from research to innovation – with validation, showcasing, best practices

49. To know more ICT research results
Technology Enhanced Learning Research
Digital Agenda for Europe

50. Thanks !