George Metakides November 22 2006

1. Digital Technologies in Education European Policy and Programs George Metakides November 22 2006

2. Lisbon strategy The most dynamic & competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010; sustainable economic growth; more and better jobs; greater social cohesion; respect for environment Research ERA Growth and Jobs Education Innovation

3. Jobs, Skills & Competitiveness “Show me a skilled individual, a skilled company, or a skilled country and I will show you an individual, a company or a country that has a chance to be successful. Show me an unskilled individual, company or country and I will show you a failure in the 21st century. In the economy ahead, there is only one source of sustainable competitive advantage - skills. Everything else is available to everyone on a more or less equal access basis. ( L.Thurow,)

4. FP7 2007 –2013 | Specific Programmes Cooperation – Collaborative research Ideas – Frontier Research People – Marie Curie Actions Capacities – Research Capacity + JRC (non-nuclear) JRC (nuclear) Euratom

5. FP7 Financial Perspectives 2007-2013 Duration: 7 years 2004 prices (M€) + 2% predicted inflation = current prices Ramped annual funding – gradual increase from FP6 Indicative figures

6. FP7 budgetIndicative percentages

7. People specific programme – Marie Curie Actions • Continuity of previous Framework programme • Focus on structuring & simplifying • Initial training of researchers • Marie Curie Networks (Open to third-country nationals) • Life-long training and career development • Individual Fellowships, Co-financing of regional/national/international programmes • Industry-academia pathways and partnerships • Industry-Academia Knowledge–sharing Scheme • International dimension • Outgoing & Incoming International Fellowships, International Cooperation Scheme, Reintegration grants, Support to researcher ‘diasporas’ • Specific actions • Mobility and career enhancement actions, Excellence awards

8. Cooperation specific programme –Budget indicative %

9. Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Research 5082 5579 6119 6933 7967 8926 9914 50521 ICT 1202 1512 1114 1710 9110 1142 1323 1107 FP7 Budget Situation • Budget situation for FP7 (still not final) • Budget figures:

10. ICT in FP7: State of Play • Orientations, objectives and structure • Budgets and mechanisms within each priority research topic • Drafting first Work Programme texts • Consolidation & improvement • Opinion by IST-C and adoption by the Commission • First Calls for proposals Operational Issues • Model contracts and procedures • Guidance for proposers and evaluators • Development/adaptation of IT tools • Information and communication actions Annual Work programmes under FP7 End JUL End OCT DEC?

11. Applications Research‘Providing the knowledge and the means to develop a wide range of ICT-based services and applications’ • ICT meeting societal challenges • Health; inclusion; mobility; environment; governments • ICT for content, creativity and personal development • New media and content; learning; digital cultural assets • ICT supporting businesses and industry • Business processes; collaborative work; manufacturing • ICT for trust and confidence • Identity; authentication; authorisation; privacy; rights

12. ICTs and Learning : Taking stock! • Limited Impact perception of uneven successes. Needed organizational changes underestimated General re-thinking needed on how to: • Effectively integrate ICTs into the learning process • Emphasis on Pedagogy and organisational changes • Research – scattered results, fragmented approaches within and across disciplines and tendency either towards niche solutions or one-size fits all • Difficulties of impact on educational systems and ability to drive systemic change .

13. The challenges • Better understanding of learner, learning context, cognitive and social processes • Support move to user-centred design processes • Integrating ICTs into educational systems and learning processes • Demonstrating how ICT can deliver benefits in terms of learning effectiveness and efficiency (Metrics?)

14. WP 2007-2008 Objectives : DL + TEL Digital Libraries • Medium term: • a) Large-scale European-wide digital libraries • Long term: • b) Radically new approaches to digital preservation Technology enhanced Learning • Medium term • c) Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning (formal / informal) • Long term • d) Adaptive and intuitive learning systems

15. eContentplus 2005-2008 – Objectives Overall aim “to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable, facilitating the creation and diffusion of information, in areas of public interest, at Community level”. Enabling role Help content stakeholders (providers and users) realise the full potential of digital content • in areas with a public interest, which would not develop or would develop at a slower pace if left to the market • by creating better conditions for accessing, using, reusing and exploiting digital material • based on which it will be possible to build added-value products and services across Europe

16. Technology enhanced learning • Responsive environments for TEL, which • accommodate personalisation to respond to specific learning needs and contexts (mass-individualisation) • are capable of transforming learning outcomes into knowledge assets • enhances competence, skills and performance • Adaptive and intuitive learning systems able to • identify learner's requirements, intelligently monitoring progress, • exploit learning and cognitive abilities letting people learn better, • give purposeful and meaningful advice to both learners and teachers, learning on your own or collaboratively

17. Technology-enhanced learning- New Paradigm • Mixing informal and formal learning • New architectures & tools for learning platforms • Early experiments on personalisation of learning • Integration of learning with knowledge management – individual and organisational learning, including approaches to competency management • Models and systems supporting learners in learning together – collaboration, games, communities of practice • Understanding how ICT-enabled learning can tackle specific problems – attention deficit, motivation and engagement – eg using games, neuroscience

18. FORMAL - INFORMAL

19. FORMAL / INFORMAL • Emphasis on individual: ‘empowered individuals’ • learning happenning as part of everyday life • Big demand for lifelong learning embedded within informal learning context • But supply is overwhelmingly formal education and training Supply not matched with demand ! Demand includes proper certification(role of schools?)

20. Γνώσεις και δεξιότητες +επαγγελματική κατάρτιση Για πολλούς Γνώσεις και δεξιότητες Για λίγους Εξέλιξη της Εκπαίδευσης 21ος 18ος μαζικοποίηση 5ος ΠΧ 11ος

21. ‘Εξατομικευμενη’ Μαθηση Massification 18th 20th 11th 21th 5th BC Personalisation Για ολουςΓια λιγους