Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund European seminar on ICT in Teacher Education Stord, Norway, 2 - 8 august...

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International Collaboration

Bodil ASK & Harald HAUGEN

Bodil.Ask@hia.no Harald.Haugen@hsh.no

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Presentation Plan:

• European Programmes

• Projects

• Collaboration

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DG XII

Research

DG XIII

TelematicsDG XXII

Education

SOCRATES IILEONARDO DA VINCI

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TRENDS

1. Technology and use

2. The development of Internet

3. The European Dimension

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5th Framework Programme• http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/home.html

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http://www2.echo.lu/telematics/education/en/present/vfp/sld001.htm

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Socrates II Second Phase of the Community action programme in the

field of educationObjectives:

To contribute to the development of quality education by– strengthening the European dimension in education– promoting cooperation in education– helping to remove the obstacles to such cooperation– encouraging educational innovation (C. Hermant)

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Programme structure

• School Education (Comenius)

• Higher Education (Erasmus)

• Other educational pathways (Adult ed.) (Grundtvig)

• Language learning (Lingua)

• ODL and ICT in the field of Education (Minerva)

• Observation and innovation

• Joint actions• Accompanying

measures

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Comenius - School EducationAction 1: School Partnerships for European

Educational Projects, including teacher exchange and visits

Action 2: Education of the children of migrant workers, occupational travellers, Travellers and Gypsies/Intercultural Education

Action 3: In-service training, seminars and courses for teachers and educators

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ODL & ICT in the Field of Education (MINERVA)

Purpose:

• promote improved UNDERSTANDING of ODL and ICT in education• raise awareness of the need for pedagogical

considerations in DEVELOPMENT of products• promote ACCESS to improved methods, educational

resources and project experiences (C. Hermant)

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MINERVA ACCESS - through

interconnection of services and systems providing

information for teachers, decision-makers and other actors involved.

• Online databases, networking of resources/ directories (C. Hermant)

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Starting international collaboration

• JITOL, a DELTA-project, 1992-94 – Just In Time Open Learning (through electronic networks)

– 12 partners, 8 countries, coord. by NeuropLab in France

– 3 fields / professions (medicine, consort/adm, ICT)

– paving the grounds for lifelong learning programmes

• Software and infrastructure fragile at the time– dedicated software, new developments (no www!)

– low capacity PCs and networks

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NITOL• Norway-net with IT for Open Learning

– Norway-net introduced by a former minister of ed.• NOT a physical network, but an organisational principle

– Open Learning copied from JITOL

• National off-spring from JITOL– as part of ’user trials’ Spring ’94

• As part of national programmme– national strategic plan for IT in education

– building on SPINN, SIRNET and Winix

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NTNU & HiST

HiAHSH

Collaboration between 4 higher educational

institutions

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Collaboration - on organisation and administration on course development / modules between researchers / experts between students between student / teacher / researcher

NITOL basic principle

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JITOL

MECPOL

NITOL

NITOL II

Do ODL

International collaboration on ODL

EONT

DEMETER

SHARPEuroCompetence

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Projects I & IIM E C P O L & Do ODL

Development of ICT based learning material International exchange of expertise Models to support ODL developers Integration of ICT based material in future

teaching and learning; teachers as facilitators

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MECPOL• Models for European Collaboration and Pedagogy

in Open Learning; 1995 - 98– 8 partners, 3 countries, Norwegian project co-ordination

– Further development & internationalisation of the NITOL-concept

– Valuable contacts, feed-back and joint development

– Basis for new proposals and new projects, national and international

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M E C P O LCentral issues Models for institutional collaboration

organisation, agreements, exhange, economy

Pedagogical models for ODL; Survey & recommendationsExchange of experiences and products

Co-ordination of R & D activities

Dissemination of findings and results

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Do ODL

• Dissemination of Open and Distance Learning; 1996 - 98

– 8 partners, 5 countries, Norwegian project co-ordination

– Further development & testing of the MECPOL models

– ‘Information Day’; concept for local dissemination

– Virtual, international exchange of courses and students

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Partners in MECPOL and DoODL

Sør-Trøndelag CollegeNTNU

Stord/Haugesund College

Agder College

Sheffield University Hanzehogeschool

Technological Educational Institution

Helsinki Business Polytechnic

National Technical University of Athens

Lancaster University

Binary Logic

Maribu

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Projects III & IV

• EONT- an Eksperiment on Open learning using New Technology

– 7 partners, 6 countries, Greek co-ord, 1995-97– important software development; Hyperwave,

• DEMETER - Distance Education Methods in European Teacher Education and Research

– 11 partners, 9 countries, Swedish co-ord., 1996 - 98

– joint course development for teacher training• environmental studies

• international culture

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Projects V & VI• SHARP - SHArble Representation of Practice, 1997-99

– 6 partners, 3 countries, English co-ord, 1997-99

– central objective: integration of video in Internet based ODL; Weborama, database of video clips (Athens)

• EuroCompetence– 6 partners in 4 countries, Norwegian coord. 97-99

– ‘European dimension’ central issue

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Collaboration between institutions

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Institution 1Institution 2Institution 3Institution 4

Different coursesoffered fromdifferentinstitutions

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Commoncomponent

Specialisedmodule I

Specialisedmodule II

CourseInstitutions

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I

IV

Inst. IInst. IIInst. IIIInst. IV

IV

III

II

I

IV

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Shared Course pool

Sør-Trøndelag CollegeNTNU

Stord/Haugesund College

Agder College

Sheffield University Hanzehogeschool

Technological Educational Institution

Helsinki Business Polytechnic

National Technical University of Athens

Lancaster University

Local Course pools

Binary LogicMaribu

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Institutional benefits

• better / wider choice of courses for students• professional and pedagogical development in an

international, professional environment• models and experience for new R&D activities• basis for a series of ‘papers’ and presentations• international network of professional contacts

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Institutional development

• Professionally– Discussions of learning environments in general

– Personal & professional development, individuals and groups

– New ideas, inspiration - and economic basis for R&D

– ‘Respect and honour’ among colleagues; increased attention

• Organisational– International perspective and understanding

– ODL as part of internal organisation and study programmes

– Exchange of experiences between partner-institutions

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Collaboration in R & D• Professional interests

– common challenges and interests

– benefits and synergy of joint development

– limited resources, few specialists

• National and institutional interests– coping with new challenges in education

– funding and sharing of resources

– access to new knowledge and products

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A European Networked University

• From limited projects to a permanent structure; • Open up for other institutions to join the activity, to

benefit from acquired experiences• Establishing an organisational structure for

– increased activities, more students, other subjects . . .

– independant economy, permanent secretariat

• Courses still ‘belongs’ to the individual institution

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Relevant Internet-addresses

• MECPOL http://www.idb.hist.no/mecpol/

• Do ODL http://www.idb.hist.no/doodl/

• SHARP http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/sharp/

• EuroCompetence http://www.tisip.no/ec

• NITOL http://www.idb.hist.no/nitol/

• NWU http://www.nvu.no