Partners
Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ITD-CNR), Italy (Project Coordinator)
The Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD) is one of the research institutes of the Italian National Research Council. Research undertaken focuses on: integration of ICT in various educational settings; issues related to different disciplines and themes; learning issues of particular social significance; study of technological innovation as a learning resource. Member of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence, ITD has lead several EC projects (ULEARN, eLearning initiative, 2001-2003; UTeacher, eLearning initiative, 2004 -2006).
Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
Trinity was rated by the EU as the number one research institute in Ireland in terms of citations with its teaching hospital St James’ as number five. Trinity College produces over 1900 publications annually. While currently undergoing restructuring Trinity College has 66 departments across 6 faculties and has currently over 1000 active research accounts and 800 self-financing activities. Trinity College Dublin has a strong track record in the use of its intellectual property, mostly related to the science, engineering, and medical disciplines, but increasingly in the social sciences and humanities.
Università Cá Foscari di Venezia (CIRDFA), Italy
Ca’ Foscari University conducts teaching and research in various disciples, including initial teacher education. Its Interfaculty Centre of Educational Research and Advanced Training supports scientific collaboration in teaching methodologies and teachers’ vocational training. National/international activities focus on training methodologies, professional profiles, tutorship, distance learning, planning methodologies, communities of practice.
Stockholm University (SU), Sweden
SU provides research-based vocational training. 14,000 students are enrolled per year, 3500 in distance education. The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) provides a variety of learning and research support services including the building of, and online access to, various e-resource repositories covering educational econtents, digital learning objects, streamed video, e-publications, and special disciplinary collections.
CLUEB (CLUEB), Italy
Clueb cooperative publisher associated to University of Bologna with a catalogue of 2,400 volumes, mostly monographs by university scholars. CLUEB is also active in digital publishing and distance learning. TE contents provider of Univirtual distance university, which in 2006-2007 provided 300 online courses to 4,800 students. CLUEB is currently shifting from traditional to prevalently digital online production.
Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNL), The Netherlands
Open University of the Netherlands is a leading academic institution whose Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) is steering major developments like the educational modelling language (EML), to become the IMS-LD specification (http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/ . CELSTEC brings expertise in lifelong learning networks, interoperability and intelligent tutoring systems. Its EU project participation include a range of programmes and projects, including TENcompetence http://www.tencompetence.org/ , MACE http://portal.mace-project.eu/ , iCoper http://www.icoper.org/ , Prolearn http://www.prolearn-project.org/ , Stellar, OpenScout. OUNL has an expertise centre for the professionalization of teachers in their own working environment, named “Ruud de Moor centrum” www.ou.nl/rmdc where collections of learning resources are made available and communities of teachers are supported. Basically, the centre is supporting the ‘life long learning’ of teacher practitioners. Furthermore, OUNL is active in a national and European context with the application of Open Educational Resources, including designing of suitable business models.
Universidad de Valladolid (UVA), Spain
The GSIC/EMIC group (Group of Intelligent and Cooperative Systems / Education, Media, Informatics, and Culture) is an interdisciplinary research group at the Universidad de Valladolid (UVA). Main research areas are e-learning applications and technologies, practitioner support and CSCL. Developers of Collage, an LD authoring tool which won the Kaleidoscope NoE 2006-2007 European CSCL Technology award.
Sofiyski universitet (NIS-SU), Bulgaria
Sofia University’s St. Kliment Ohridski School of Higher Education is the first of its kind in Bulgaria. The Centre of Information Society Technologies (CIST) is an interdisciplinary research and training institution dealing with the development and widespread use of ICT. The Centre aims to establish co-operation between academia and industry, SMEs, NGOs, public administration, local communities for promoting ICT use.
Editor: Erik Axdorph, Stockholm University
Source: Share.TEC
Updated: 08/05/10