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Knowledge management and life long education in scientific matter
Anna Moreno,Casaccia 7 aprile 2005
About ENEA (www.enea.it)
ENEA is the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment is a public undertaking operating in the fields of energy, environment and new technologies to support competitiveness and sustainable development
ENEA mission for the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Promotes, fosters and supports innovation technology processes in the national production system, especially in small and medium sized enterprises;
Collaborates with regions and local administrations to promote productive development of local resources, through joint actions;
Promotes technical and professional training, also through ad-hoc agreements with national and international universities.
European Innovation scoreboard and number of patents in Italy (2003)
European innovation scoreboard
High technology UEB patents
High technology USP patents
Knowledge management and technological transfer
The virtuous circleKnowledge-Education-Training-Innovation
Knowledge and technological transfer
“There is nothing that brings the man to be suspicious as
the little knowledge”Francesco Bacone
Education and training in Europe and Italy (1 di 2)
Percentage of University degree
Percentage of basic education
Percentage of professional training Education and training in total
Education and training in Europe and Italy (2 di 2)
Level of education and job place
Job and education level
The size of Italian SME (Small and Medium Enterprises):1 worker with technical university degree every 130 enterprises
Italian SMEs cover the 97% of the national production
The Italian paradox and the “knowledge islands”
There is a good quality of scientific production and a large number of good quality University and research centers, but there is a low number of patent and low technological transfer capability
Knowledge sharing
Inhabitants in Europe
100 Billion Nerve Cells
Million Billion Connections
2 Million Miles of “Wires”
1.5 Liters in Volume
3.3 Pounds in Weight
10 Watts of Energy
100 Billion Nerve Cells
Million Billion Connections
2 Million Miles of “Wires”
1.5 Liters in Volume
3.3 Pounds in Weight
10 Watts of Energy
The best network: the human brain
Information, training, diffusion and technological transfer
The information is useful if the right one arrives to the right people in the right moment
The adults learning and training is useful only when is designed with the adults themselves and by them can be managed
The diffusion is efficient only if it arrives to any level of the organization
The technological transfer is efficient only if it is sustained by the right information, learning and diffusion process.
Internet User
Internet: an instrument to be used with intelligence
Percentage of internet in Europe
Total number of internet hosts (Netsizer)
January 1999 44.282.000January 2001 101.308.000March 2003 ~ 250.000.000
Increase: > 50 Mio. p.a.
Search for 'Organic Chemistry' – ~1.940.000 hits
Search for 'Organic Chemistry' – ~ 2.370.000 hits
Number of hosts and search engines
The New York Times reports that the limits of current search engines’ indexing ability means that they have access to less than one percent of all the pages on the Web.
Up to 500 billion pieces of content are hidden from the search engines, according to search specialist BrightPlanet.com.
What does the press say
The Minimum Data Set for the presentation of the content
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The origin of the ENEA e-learning
platform
The platform was launched in 1996 thanks to a National ADAPT project funded by the FSE (European Social Funding)
The project was devoted to the continuing education and qualification of workers.
Has become a door open to and from the SMEs world
The ENEA e-learning platform
mission
To promote the sustainable development through the diffusion of scientific culture and technological transfer
To provide scientific knowledge to anyone, anywhere and at anytime
The users must be free to learn what they want, when they want, and where they want
The ENEA web site as a link between research and productive world
ICT ResearchDr. Flavio Fontana
Research in the field of e-learning
Dr. Maria L. Bargellini
Research in the field Of Environment, En
Information, learning, technological transfer
Services for SMEs and PA
Public andPrivate fund
PMI
PMI
PMI
PMIPMIPMI
PMI
PMI
PMIPMIPMI
The isolation of SMEs
The wish to be in a network
The network promoted by the ENEA e-LEARN platform
Stage
Scuole superiori
Istituti formazione
Università
Istituti diricerca
Assegni di ricerca
Tesi di laurea
ENEAE-LEARN
Highschool
Trainingistitution
University
Research institute
Researchgrant
Thesis works
ENEAE-LEARN
The IEEE P1484 Learning Technology Systems Architecture (LTSA)
The IEEE P1484 Learning Technology Systems Architecture (LTSA)
ENEA platform doesn’t cover assessment, this function is left to a third part such as High Schools, Universities and Enterprises themselves. The assessment must be based on the learner’s knowledge and on the needs of the commitment and is not based on the time that people have spent in training
About ENEA’s Platform
Nowadays the users are more than 20.000
The courses are 43 and they will sensibly increase during this year
The courses are free Many agreements have been signed
with Universities, Schools and local training organizations
The actual home page (http://odl.casaccia.enea.it): a user frienly
interface
The services
The actual offer (1 of 2)
The actual offer (2 of 2)
Future development
Many courses are under development: Biological agriculture, Natural fight against parasites and infesting
plants, The UN convention on climate change Energy manager and energy save Reclaiming of disposal land Cultural heritage Radon protection Fuel cells …
Uniquely of the ENEA experience
ENEA experience in e-learning didn’t start from an already made platform filled with courses without any logic;
the requirements of the users have been carefully interpreted and the platform has been developed and it’s still developing following their needs
ENEA usability laboratory (U-lab) has developed a very friendly interface for non expert users
The U-lab has created simple tools such as web lessons and web seminars which allow to a real life long education on scientific and technological themes
The main characteristic of the ENEA ODL (Open Distant Learning)
“Open” means that the knowledge can be acquired by different classes of users, at different time and in different places:
The courses can be utilized both in synchronous and asynchronous mode.
The course is structured in sections, modules and lessons. Each module is self consistent so that the user can follow a
personalised learning process; it means that different users with different background knowledge can study only what they need and are not obliged to study modules that they already know or that they are not interested in.
At the end of each module there is a self evaluation section in order to give the users the opportunity to evaluate their level of comprehension. The test at the end of the modules is usually a test with multiple choice answers.
The learning object standard for the ENEA ODL (Open Distant Learning)
The modules are divided in lessons with explicit titles. For instance instead of : “lesson 1”, “integrated resources of STEP model”.
The lesson has a length that allows the user to study (not only to read) in an average of 20 minutes. It means that the text has to be between 800 and 1500 words depending on the subject difficulty.
The index allows the user to easily follow the learning process he has chosen.
In order to facilitate the on line study different colours have been used in order to highlight the main concepts;
Links to other parts of the modules facilitate the connection between different concepts
Images, clip art and cartoons are used to draw the attention on the main concepts and facilitate the process of memorization
Links to other modules or courses as well as links to other web site related to the subject are useful in order to promote the enlargement of the knowledge in an automatic way.
The Minimum Data Set for the presentation of the content
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Description of the course
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Requirements
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Time required
Story of the course
Teacher
name:
address:
e-mail:
interview:
Example of one course: http://192.107.71.126/cascade
Example of a self test evaluation
Sex of the Users
Age of the users
Users occupation
Satisfaction about the contents
Comprehension of the learning material
Connection during the week
Connection during the day
Interest to print instalments
Conclusions Italian enterprises system is such that a very
user friendly e-learning platform has to be used The gap existing between the scientific world
and the production can be overcome only if the knowledge is freely accessible to anyone
A standard model of courses has been built for facilitating the life long education of workers
ENEA is open to international collaboration for the development and the share of other contents
Conclusions
“... Science is, above all
communication”Josiah Williard Gibbs,
physician