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Open Access Strategies through EU4ALL

Lydia Montandon (Atos Origin)

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Table of content

1. EU4ALL overview

2. Mission and vision

3. The challenge: how to promote innovation

4. Social Innovation perspective

5. Exploitation strategy > open access

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www.eu4all-project.eu

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EU4ALL Goal

Special attention to people with disabilities and elderly people

Re-usable, extensible, flexible, open, standard-based

Content, support, access services

A set of components and services to support the Lifelong Learning paradigm in higher education institutions for people with special needs

EU4ALL Offers

<< How to enable all students, including students with disabilities, or with special needs, to access Higher Education studies, from enrolment to examination and graduation >>

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EU4ALL Target

Target

LearnersTeachersTutorsAdministrative staff Content providers Learning designers

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EU4ALL Partners

UNED [Spain] Indra Software

Labs [Spain] Atos Origin [Spain]

E-Isotis

[Greece]

The Open University [UK] The University of York [UK]

eXact Learning

Solutions [Italy]

CIRPS [Italy]

DPItalia [Italy]

Fraunhofer Institute for

Applied Information

Technology FIT [Germany]

EADTU

[Netherlands]

Centre for Social

Innovation [Austria]

Polytechnic University

Leiria [Portugal] Polytechnic University

of Valencia [Spain]

Tribal Education

[UK]

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EU4ALL aims to be the reference in technology enhancing Accessible Lifelong Learning

Vision

Vision and Mission

Support lifelong educational and training organisations in providing accessible e-services to their students and professionals, including aged and disabled students…

Mission

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The EU4ALL solution is a flexible, open, standard-based set of components and services that can easily be integrated in existing Learning Environments to support the Accessible Lifelong Learning paradigm.

Existing Learning

Environment(.LRN, Moodle,

SAKAI, etc.)

ePortfolio

Guidance4ALL

Content Adaptation

End-User Services Server

Device Model

Content Personalisation

Metadata Repository

User Model

Recommender System

3rd party Authoring Tools (e.g. open source)

eServices (Information, Management tools, etc)

The EU4ALL system

Large Scale evaluation

of prototypes

Problem

EU4ALL offers technical innovation where social innovation is still

needed!

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Diffusion of Innovation, but…

- It helps with the planning of dissemination activities- First estimate of target groups for communication - But it is not predictive- Lack of practical guidelines

- How to find the early adopters?

Social Innovation perspective …

Rogers, 2003

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Social Innovation Phase Level of Institutional accessibility practice

Social Innovation Phases

Medium

Substantial

Outstanding

Intervention

Intervention / Institutionalisation

Institutionalisation/ Professionalisation

Professionalisation

Low

T2

T3

T4

T1

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EU4ALL exploitation strategy

The social innovation perspective allows us to determine the dissemination and exploitation strategy…

Offer the right service in function of adopter’s level of “accessibility”

preparedness

Who? > target group

Diagnose & prioritise

What? > offer

Specific packages

How? > channels

Communities of Practice

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Potential Early

Adopters

National norms and policies are influencing decisions regarding accessibility (e.g. UK)

HE institutions already offering online education

Open and distance education institutions in general that combine both high number of SWD and technological learning services

Institutions with a higher number of SWD, … they feel a real need to improve their services

Prioritise

Find the early adopters

• The strategy consists in approaching the most promising institutions first

• Start with direct contacts, find institutions with a positive attitudes towards innovation, open to change

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EU4ALL offer > open access

• Support the enrolment of new disabled students > recommendations, guidance, tools for students & staff

• Support the adaptation of content to make it accessible according to the user profile

• Consultancy in technical and organisational development

Core SW Components

& Services ArchitectureRecommendation

GuidelinesTraining

DemonstratorsVideos Consultancy

Open Sourc

e

Additional Components& Services

Good Practices& Community

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• The priority is to focus on the HEI segment • The proportion of disabled people corresponds to

about 20% of the population • Political and social pressure on HEI

Publications& Web site

Market & Channels

Targeted countries: 16-20 mio

Social Networks& CoP

Direct contacts & Customers

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EU4ALL Community of Practice

Accessible Lifelong Learning > EU4ALL Framework

What is EU4ALL?

Are your services Accessible?

Get Started

Be guided to the Solution

Feedback

And help us improve for the benefit of All

Why EU4ALL?

Understand the basics

Case Studies

Pilots results

Partners

See who is behind

Demonstration

Take a tour

Multimedia

You can choose the format

Training

Online and Face2Face

Guidelines

Processes, steps to follow

Lessons Learnt

FEEDBACK service

Community Forum

Common Knowledge

Diagnose

Consultancy

Download

Sustain

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Example of community where EU4ALL could be promoted

www.it-tude.com

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www.exelearning.org

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EU4ALL complementary outcomes

A repository of

learning methodologies

access needs

cognitive requirements

assessment procedures

Ontologies of services

Market information

Socio-economic and legal studies

Online Forum at TELeurope

www.eu4all-project.eu/forum

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EU4ALL Workshop

Thank you for your attention!

Lydia Montandon

Atos Origin, Spain

lydia.montandon@atosorigin.com

Questions?