Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education May, 1-4, 2002, Berlin

1. Networked Learning in a Global Environment Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education May, 1-4, 2002, Berlin New Media in Education:A German Government Program and its Implementation Hans G. Klaus Program Management Agency,Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Sankt Augustin/DarmstadtGermany

2. Contents • Program Characteristics • Call for proposals • Criteria for funding • Project selection process • Accompanying measures • Character of projects • Other related funding schemes • Hopes and expectations Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

3. New Mediain Education Higher Education School Vocational Training Online - Offline – IT in Education Innovation and Employment in the Information Society of the 21th century Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

4. Important target groups 44.000 schools 10 Mio. students at schools 700.000 teachers 1,6 Mio. apprentices 349 institutions of higher education 1,8 Mio. students at universities (1,3 university, 500.000 university of applied science) 1,6 Mio. faculty staff in education and science Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

5. Potential project proposers schools: publishers companies schools, local authorities vocational training: training institutes employer associations, trade unions universities institutions of higher education Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

6. Program objectives • support education and further education (life long learning) • improve supply of L-software (WBT, CSCL) quality, reusability, interactivity, didactical added value • improve/stimulate community-wide sustainable access and use of innovative it-supported learning and teaching (teachers, integration, rights management, marketing, distribution) • support structural change Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

7. Criteria for funding of e-learning • integration into workprocess or curricula • support self-organized, cooperative learning • implement web-based learning • improve existing quality of learning (added value) • modularity and reusability, transfer • secure evaluation, maintenance and distribution • help to reduce the „digital divide“ Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

8. Special requirements for funding • Schools • enhance it-qualification of teachers • establish efficient models for organization, service and financing • public-private partnerships • Vocational Training • coverage of complete professions, vocations • industry sector based concepts • Universities • fields of study with large number of students • specific learning interests of women Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

9. Project funding school vocational training higher education No. of project applications No. of projects funded amount of funding (Mio. €) 80 18 15 120 11 26 600 150 100 Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

10. Contents of projects school vocational training higher education (1 call) (1 call) (3 calls) arts, life science, German, history, geography, English, economics, regional development, religion information technology, automobile, textile, construction, health, (SME, craft) natural sciences, medicine, informatics, many other disciplines Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

11. Higher Education Call for proposals Accompanying measures support projects e-learning software surveys WLAN workshops Notebook university information days task force www.medien-bildung.net portal hotline committee Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

12. Workshop Topics • Virtual universities as a network • e-learning platforms • rights management • standardisation • didactics and evaluation • Gender mainstreaming • Cluster workshops für specific subjects Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

13. Procedure for project funding Schools Vocational Universities/HS Call for Proposals X X  Outline proposals X X X  Review BMBF/PT X X X  External review X X  applications X X X  Advisory board X X  PT/BMBF decision X X X  contracting X X X Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

14. Other related funding schemes schools: • InfoSCHUL • Schulen-ans-Netz • SEMIK • Marktplatz für Schulen • internet services vocational training: • SENECA • L3 Lernet(BMWi) higher education: • MedicDAT • VS – Vernetztes Studium Chemie • Virtuelle Fachhochschule Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

15. Thoughts to think about „Government cannot be stronger or more tough-minded than its people. It cannot be more inflexibly committed to the task than they.“ (Adlai Stevenson) „Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.“ (Mark Twain) Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

16. Type of e-learning scenario telelearning/WbT ca. 100 % trad. Teaching ca. 95 % cooperative learning ca. 90% teletutoring ca. 70 % inter-university learning ca. 60 % CbT ca. 40 % Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

17. Projects by fields of study Program Management Agency for New Media in Education

18. School of tomorrow Infrastructure Contents IT knowledge Access to PCs and Internet Education of students and teachers MM/IT Learning moduls/material Program Management Agency for New Media in Education