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UNITE Project - Unified eLearning environment for the school:

General objectives and Riga 3rd Secondary School’s Case Study

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Sources used

• UNITE documentation• UNITE portal• Annual report

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Presentation structure

• Project’s Data• Preconditions• Goal & Objectives• Consortium• Network of Schools• Workpackages• Workpackages’ dependences• Workpackage structure• Additional information

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Project’s Data

• Programme: FP6• Call : IST Call 4• Strategic Objective :

– 2.4.13 Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe

• Type of Project : STREP• Duration : 30 months• Start : 01.02.2006• Finish : 31.07.2008

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Preconditions

Source: UNITE documentation

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Goal and Objectives

• Goal:– to contribute to the improvement of European-wide education in

secondary schools based on common, innovative principles in technology, in pedagogy, and in learning scenarios, tested by a well-defined validation framework

• Objectives– to allow the daily use of the UNITE platform in the schools’

classrooms– to provide a solid theory for the UNITE eLearning scenarios– to enhance the learning experience by the use of ICT

Source: UNITE Annual report

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The consortium (first part)

Participant organisation namePart.

Shortname

Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (Germany) Fh-IGD

Extreme Media Solutions Ltd. (Greece) EMS

Tribal Education and Technology (UK) CTAD

Ellinogermaniki Agogi S.A. (Greece) EA

Landesinitiative Neue Kommunikationswege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V (Germany)

LiNK

Centre of Information Society Technologies (Bulgaria) CIST

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The consortium (continued)

Participant organisation namePart.

Shortname

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovenia)

UL-FSS

Centre of Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia (UK)

CARE

Kaunas University of Technology, Informatics Faculty (Lithuania)

KTU

Riga Technical University (Latvia) RTU

University of Cyprus (Cyprus) UCY

University of Malta, Faculty of Education (Malta) UoM

University of Split, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Education (Croatia)

UoS

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The consortium (whole structure)

IGD

EMS

CTAD

LiNK

RTU

CIST

KTU

CARE

UCY

UL-FSS UoS

EA

UoM

UNITE platform

Riga 3. sec. school

GESŠ Trbovlje

BSEEBSEE

KE VIKE VI

Linn GroveLinn Grove

134 school134 school

National High School National High School

Elementary s. SpinutElementary s. Spinut

Margaret Mortimer Margaret Mortimer

Stella Maris Stella Maris

KTU GymKTU GymKTU GymKTU GymKTU GymKTU GymThe English SchoolThe English SchoolThe English SchoolThe English School

RTU

UNITE platform

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UNITE Consortium - geography

Source: UNITE portal

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Workpackages

Source: UNITE documentation

WP WP NameWP01 State of the art analysis and User Requirements

WP02/03 UNITE technical platform

WP04 Pedagogical framework

WP05 UNITE eLearning scenarios

WP06 Network of schools

WP07 Validation

WP08 Socio-economic evaluation

WP09 Dissemination

WP10 Exploitation plan

WP11 Project management

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Workpackages’ dependences

Source: UNITE documentation

WP4 WP6 WP7 WP10

WP5 WP8

WP2/3

WP1

WP9/11

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Work package structure

WP2WP3

WP4 WP7

WP8WP6

WP 9,10

WP1WP5

Source: UNITE Annual report

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UNITE portal www.unite-ist.org

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Conclusions

• UNITE combines:– technical expertise in the areas of eLearning and

mobile learning– pedagogical expertise in the areas of group learning

and exploratory learning– expertise in the conceptualization of re-usable

eLearning content and the creation of Europe-wide eLearning repositories

– access to a wide range of different types of schools all over Europe

– advanced methods of continuous validation and socio-economic evaluation

Source: UNITE Annual report

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to be continued

Riga 3. sec. school

RTU

UNITE platform