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UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION IN TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED

LEARNING

Roumen NikolovSofia University

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SU - Educational and Scientific Centre of the Country Over 35,000 students

80 Bachelor’s and over 200 Master’s degree programmes

Over 3000 teachers and researchers

Very important role for the development of the country

Challenges: economic and social changes, new models of education, new role of universities, brain drain

European Space of Higher Education

Sofia University – to become a National and Regional Centre of High-Technologies, Innovations and Entrepreneurship

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Programmes in the frame of which we develop projects

PHAREPHARE

INCO – CopernicusINCO – Copernicus

Socrates, Socrates, MinervaMinerva

LeonardoLeonardo da Vinci da Vinci

EU Framework Programme 5EU Framework Programme 5

EU Framework Programme 6EU Framework Programme 6

… … and and OtherOtherBilateral CooperationBilateral Cooperation

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More than 40 eLearning related projects

6 (out of 10) projects from Sixth Framework RTD Programme7 (out of 15) projects from Fifth Framework RTD Programme5 (out of 7) projects from Fourth Framework RTD Programme (INCO COPERNICUS)Almost any other RTD project has an eLearning componentMany other national and international eLearning related projects - Internal at Sofia University, Ministry of Education and Science, EC (PHARE, Socrates - Minerva, Leonardo, Comenius), World Bank, Industrial, Bilateral with other Universities, etc.

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6FP NoE Project KALEIDOSCOPE “Concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies”, 6FP IP Project TENCOMPETENCIES: Building The European Network for Lifelong Competence Development (under negotiations)6FP STREP Project UNITE: Unified eLearning Environment for the School (under negotiations)FP6-2004-IST-NMP-2 PRIME “Providing Real Integration in Multi-disciplinary Environments”6FP SSA Science.and.Society.7 Project PARCEL “Participatory Communication Activities on E.Learning” FP6 SSA 016020 ATVN-EU-GP “Academic Internet Television Showcases the Best of Good Practice Activities”6FP IP Project GUIDE “Creating an European Identity Management Architecture for eGovernment”, http://www.guide-project.org 6FP BulRMCNet “Bulgarian Network of Research Mobility Centres”6FP Project E4: Extended Enterprise Management in Enlarged Europe (under negotiations)FP6 MOBILITY-2004-SSA REKS “Researchers in European Knowledge Society”

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5FP IST-2002-5.1.15 (2002-2005) MECITV Project: “Media Collaboration for Interactive TV” 5 FP IST Project "DIOGENE: A Training Web Broker for ICT Professionals" - http://www.diogene.org/5 FP 2001/C 321/17 (2002-2005) GEM-Europe Project: “Global Education in Manufacturing”5 FP IST Project "WebLabs: new representational infrastructures for learning", http://www.weblabs.eu.com5 FP IST-1999-20852 (2000-2002) "Best Practice Pilot for the Promotion and Implementation of Teleworking Tools at European SMEs of the Service Sector (PROTELEUSES)" 5FP Innovation and SMEs IPS-2001-41103 PROMOTOR+ Project: “Collaborative Validation and Transfer of Regional Support Measures for Start-ups and Growth in Five NACs Regions“5FP IPS-2000-056 (2001-2003) EIM – CEE Project: “Euro Innovation Manager – Central and Eastern Europe”

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5 FP IST-1999-21148 (2000-2002) "Best Practice Pilot for the implementation of Integrated Internet Based Remote Working Places for Virtual Teams developing their work at SMEs (IWOP)" 5 FP IST-1999-12646 (2000-2002) "A Picture of Social Observation of Call Centre (TOSCA)" - http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/tosca/5 FP IST-2001-32790 (2001-2002) WG-ECUA+: European COTS Working Group Extension - http://www.esi.es/ecua/5 FP IST-2001-34488 (2002- 2004) EXPERT Project: “Best Practice on E-project Development Methods” 5 FP IST-2001-37460 COCONET “Context Aware Collaborative Environments for Next Generation Business Networks” 5FP IST Project EUNITE - EUropean Network on Intelligent TEchnologies for Smart Adaptive Systems - http://www.eunite.org/5 FP IPS-1999-950097 (2001-2002) INNOCONS: Increasing The Awareness On Innovation In The European Construction Sector - http://www.innocons.org5FP IST-02-8-1B (2002-2003) AFORO Project: “Agro-Food Roadmaps. A vision and work plan to implement future RTD trends for the transformation of agri-food industries into digital companies” 5 FP Innovation and SMEs Thematic Networks, BIGEAR NET Thematic Network on Stimulation of Business Innovation and Growth from Exploitation of Academic Research"

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6FP project Kaleidoscope “Concepts and Methods for Exploring the Future of Learning with Digital Technologies”

Kaleidoscope - a Network of Excellence which brings together European teams in technology-enhanced learning. Its goal is to integrate 76 research units from around Europe, covering a large range of expertise from technology to education, from academic to private research. altogether, it is a community of more than 800 researchers in 23 countries which have joined in their efforts to develop new concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies.

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Kaleidoscope ActivitiesBackbone Activities Academy-Industry Digital Alliance Advanced Training Institute Shared Virtual Laboratory Virtual Doctoral School Users Group European Research Teams Computer-based Analysis and Visualization of Collaborative Learning Activities (CAViCoLA)Computer-Supported Scripting of Interaction in Collaborative Learning EnvironmentsConditions for productive networked learning environmentsIntegrating Collaborative, Inquiry and Experiential Learning (CIEL)Learning and Technology at WorkPhilosophy of Technology Enhanced LearningProduction of educational formatsTechnology enhanced learning in mathematics

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Kaleidoscope Activities (Cont)Jointly Executed Integrating Research Projects Digital Language Learning: An Integrated PerspectiveLearning Patterns for the design and deployment of Mathematical GamesTechnology enhanced public spaces for intergenerational learning (La Piazza)Special Interest Groups Artificial Intelligence and educationComputer Support for Collaborative LearningComputer Supported Inquiry LearningLearning GRIDNarrative and Learning EnvironmentsCompleted activities - Jointly Executed Integrating Research Projects Building Visual Interactive Blocks for Tangible MathematicsConditions for productive learning in network learning environmentsInteraction & Collaboration Analysis' supporting Teachers & Students' Self-regulationMobile Support for Integrated LearningPersonalised and Collaborative Trails of Digital and Non-Digital Learning ObjectsSemantic Web and E-LearningImpact of technology-enhanced learning on roles and practices in Higher Education

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TENCompetence ProjectDevelopment of an European 'Infrastructure' for lifelong competence developmentDevelops and integrates new pedagogical & organisational models for lifelong competence developmentInfrastructure is based on integrated open source componentsTo be used by any individual, school, team or organisation to develop competencesProject doesn't start from scratch, but build on existing methods, open standards & open source tools

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TENCompetence dataEU IST–Technology Enhanced Learning Integrated ProjectWeb site: www.tencompetence.org 4 years: December 2005 – December 2009Substantial Pilots:

training for digital movie productioncontinues training for health care workersUNESCO-IHE water management Nile regionAntwerp lifelong learning city

Building a growing network of associated partners

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The main objective of the PRIME project is to give business professionals in strategic manufacturing a Learning Environment where they can experiment with new ideas and learn how to handle the entire life cycle of products and processes for all stakeholders of the organization. PRIME proposes to achieve this by enhancing current work environments with a new paradigm based on the creation of a Virtual Business Environment (VBE) using technologies from the field of virtual environments and serious gaming. A serious game consists of applying the engagement factors of gaming within work environments. One of the most successful forms of virtual environments is the flight simulation used as an integral part in the training of aviation pilots.

PRIME - Providing Real Integration in Multi-PRIME - Providing Real Integration in Multi-disciplinary Environmentsdisciplinary Environments

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PRIME Learning Anywhere and Anytime

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ReDisInfoIST re-qualification of disabled persons

Leonardo da Vinci ProgrammeCZ04BF NT-168025

http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/redisinfo

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eLearning at Sofia University- practicing what we preach

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Basic Data – eLearning at FMI, Sofia University

Experience –12 yearsMore than 60% of the courses in Computer Science at MSc level are in eLearning formatTeacher TrainingARCADE – a LMS platform developed at FMIExtending the eLearning experienceeLearning based industrial training initiatives

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Regional Cisco Academy

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StevensMSIS Program- http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/msis/Importing IT Management Competence at Sofia University

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eLearning Perspectives Emerging Technologies for Learning

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Trends

Semantic Web in eLearningPersonalisation of (e) LearningMobile learningAmbient Technologies in LearningComputational modeling and advanced human-computer interaction solutionsVirtual social networksBroadband, broadband home

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A tendency

Shift from being digital consumers to becoming digital producers and publishers.

Needs for new instructional strategies

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Example: M-LearningSee: Get Mobile (http://www.getmobile.org), M-learning website (http://www.mlearning.org).)

M-learning new tools that tutors can add, combined as required, to their teaching resources. Some of these tools are:

• SMS (text messaging) as a skills check, or for collecting feedback

• audio-based learning (iPods, MP3 players, podcasting)• Java quizzes to download to colour-screen phones• specific learning modules on PDAs• media collection using camera-phones• online publishing or blogging using SMS, MMS (picture and

audio messages), cameras, email and the web • field trips using GPS and positional tools.

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Thank you for your attention!