Friday, June 30, 2006
The Grand pre-Opening in Dipoli
on Monday July 3rd at 13.00
Workshop on Skills for Employability - Leveraging the Power of eLearning
The third EU eLearning Conference is getting close, but the pre-conference workshop organised by the eLearning Industry Group eLIG in collaboration with NoE Prolearn is even closer. The workshop will take place in Espoo Finland and is hosted by Lifelong Learning institute Dipoli, at the same place where the main conference will be opened by Commissioner Figel on Tuesday July 4th.
All key stakeholders are invited to join the workshop: European Commission, Member States representatives, Employment Agencies, Public and Private Education Providers, Industry representatives from the corporate and SME sectors and academia. Already more than 130 participants have registered.
The workshop will discuss 11 case studies and European R&D roadmap for Technology Enhanced Professional Learning.
In particular the workshop will focus on:
- What training & education strategies including, upskilling, lifelong learning, competency driven education, portfolios, open educational resources etc should be promoted by the Commission and adopted by the member states?
- How can the ICT and Content industry contribute and what types of partnerships are needed to drive adoption further?
- What kind of R & D in Technology Enhanced Professional Learning is required to contribute to employability and competitiveness in Europe?
The conclusions and recommendations of the workshop will be presented during the EU eLearning Conference 2006.
On the main conference Web-site you will find the basic information about the workshop.
The workshop is also presented on eLIG Web-site.
All that said I am inviting you to go to our workshop Wiki where
- you can find most up to date information
- all registered users can post comments about the workshop
- you will find the workshop agenda with links to presentations
Join the discussion!
Thursday, June 29, 2006
EU eLearning Conference 2006
The 15th Annual EDEN Conference took place in Vienna less than three weeks before the Conference in Espoo. The two conferences are linked in many ways as the EU presidency is moving from Austria to Finland. One of the workshops at EDEN was dedicated to giving an insight into the preparations of the forthcoming EU eLearning Conference organised by the European Commission DG Education and Culture, DG Information Society and Media, in collaboration with the Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli at Helsinki University of Technology and the Ministry of Education, Finland.
This year will be the final year for various EU education programmes, such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and eLearning. Several important parts of the eLearning programme will find continuation in the new Lifelong Learning Programme (2007-2013). The conference in Espoo will mark the shift from a separate eLearning programme to a more integrated approach of ICT supported lifelong learning. The shift was introduced and discussed during the workshop at EDEN2006 and the discussion will continue in Espoo during the three Learning Café sessions that will contribute to the Commission's communication on the use of ICT to support innovation and lifelong learning. The communication will be adopted later this year.
Join the discussion at the Conference either on site or online.
Tapio Koskinen
EU eLearning Conference host
new member of EDEN Executive Committee
The 15th Annual EDEN Conference took place in Vienna less than three weeks before the Conference in Espoo. The two conferences are linked in many ways as the EU presidency is moving from Austria to Finland. One of the workshops at EDEN was dedicated to giving an insight into the preparations of the forthcoming EU eLearning Conference organised by the European Commission DG Education and Culture, DG Information Society and Media, in collaboration with the Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli at Helsinki University of Technology and the Ministry of Education, Finland.
This year will be the final year for various EU education programmes, such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and eLearning. Several important parts of the eLearning programme will find continuation in the new Lifelong Learning Programme (2007-2013). The conference in Espoo will mark the shift from a separate eLearning programme to a more integrated approach of ICT supported lifelong learning. The shift was introduced and discussed during the workshop at EDEN2006 and the discussion will continue in Espoo during the three Learning Café sessions that will contribute to the Commission's communication on the use of ICT to support innovation and lifelong learning. The communication will be adopted later this year.
Join the discussion at the Conference either on site or online.
Tapio Koskinen
EU eLearning Conference host
new member of EDEN Executive Committee
