Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education May, 1-4, 2002, Berlin

Networked Learning in a GlobalEnvironment

New Media in Education:A German Government Program and its Implementation

Hans G. Klaus

Program Management Agency,Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Sankt Augustin/Darmstadt

Germany

1. Program Characteristics

2. Call for proposals

3. Criteria for funding

4. Project selection process

5. Accompanying measures

6. Character of projects

7. Other related funding schemes

8. Hopes and expectations

Contents

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School Vocational Training

Higher Education

New Mediain Education

Online - Offline – IT in Education

Innovation and Employment in the Information Society of the 21th century

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Important target groups

44.000 schools

10 Mio. students at schools

700.000 teachers

1,6 Mio. apprentices

349 institutions of higher education

1,8 Mio. students at universities (1,3 university,

500.000 university of applied science)

1,6 Mio. faculty staff in education and science

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Potential project proposers

schools: publishers

companies

schools, local authorities

vocational training: training institutes

employer associations, trade unions

universities institutions of higher education

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Program objectives

• support education and further education (life long learning)

• improve supply of L-software (WBT, CSCL) quality, reusability, interactivity, didactical added value

• improve/stimulate community-wide sustainable access and use of innovative it-supported learning and teaching (teachers, integration, rights management, marketing, distribution)

• support structural change

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• integration into workprocess or curricula

• support self-organized, cooperative learning

• implement web-based learning

• improve existing quality of learning (added value)

• modularity and reusability, transfer

• secure evaluation, maintenance and distribution

• help to reduce the „digital divide“

Criteria for funding of e-learning

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Special requirements for funding

Schools

• enhance it-qualification of teachers

• establish efficient models for organization, service and financing

• public-private partnerships

Vocational Training

• coverage of complete professions, vocations

• industry sector based concepts

Universities

• fields of study with large number of students

• specific learning interests of women

Project funding

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school vocational training higher education

No. of project applications

No. of projects funded

amount of funding (Mio. €)

80

18

15

600

150

100

120

11

26

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school vocational training higher education

(1 call) (1 call) (3 calls)

Contents of projects

arts, life science, German, history, geography, English, economics, regional development, religion

information technology, automobile, textile, construction, health, (SME, craft)

natural sciences, medicine, informatics, many other disciplines

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Higher Education

Call for proposals Accompanying measures

e-learning software

WLAN

information days

support projects

Notebook university

workshops

portal

task force

surveys

hotline

committee

www.medien-bildung.net

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• Virtual universities as a network

• e-learning platforms

• rights management

• standardisation

• didactics and evaluation

• Gender mainstreaming

• Cluster workshops für specific subjects

Workshop Topics

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Schools Vocational Universities/HS

Call for Proposals X X

Outline proposals X X X

Review BMBF/PT X X X

External review X X

applications X X X

Advisory board X X

PT/BMBF decision X X X

contracting X X X

Procedure for project funding

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Other related funding schemes

schools: • InfoSCHUL• Schulen-ans-Netz• SEMIK• Marktplatz für Schulen• internet services

vocational training: • SENECA• L3 Lernet(BMWi)

higher education: • MedicDAT• VS – Vernetztes Studium Chemie• Virtuelle Fachhochschule

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Thoughts to think about

„Government cannot be stronger or more tough-minded than its people. It cannot be more inflexibly committed to the task than they.“

(Adlai Stevenson)

„Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.“

(Mark Twain)

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Type of e-learning scenario

telelearning/WbT ca. 100 %

trad. Teaching ca. 95 %

cooperative learning ca. 90%

teletutoring ca. 70 %

inter-university learning ca. 60 %

CbT ca. 40 %

14,7%

12,9%

12,1%

11,3%

10,2%

8,1%

6,7%

6,2%

6,0%

3,8%

3,7%

2,2%

2,1%

0,0% 2,0% 4,0% 6,0% 8,0% 10,0% 12,0% 14,0% 16,0%

engineering

informatics

medicine

social sciences

natural sciences

economics/business

mathematics

media sciences

humanities

teacher training

arts/music/sports

law

key qualifications

% of project funding

Projects by fields of study

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School of tomorrow

Infrastructure IT knowledge Contents

Access to PCs and Internet

Education of students and teachers

MM/IT Learning moduls/material