PROLEARN - Professional Learning for EuropeResearch Issues and Application Scenarios

PROLEARN Network of Excellence

Martin Wolperswolpers@l3s.de

L3S Research CenterUniversity of Hannover, Germany

Building upon the work ofall PROLEARN Partners

Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005

The meaning of NoEs (!?)

Overcome Fragmented

Research

Today, various communities exist eLearning Multimedia CSCL Semantic Web Digital Libraries Adaptive Hypermedia User Modeling Business Process Modelling …

Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005

PROLEARN – The User Perspective

Professional Learning

Personalisation and Adaptation

(context, preferences, company rules, business processes, goals, etc.

Provision of Learning Resources

(Web, Local)

Company

Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005

Professional Learning in SMEs

Companies realize that the well-educated employee is a major critical success factor.

Large companies found their own learning centers,while SMEs face obstacles:

expensive courses / high startup costs non-personalized delivery time-consuming travel of employees not adapted to specific business needs effectiveness unclear

Specific focus on technology enhanced learning solutions for SMEs is needed

Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005

Who‘s involved?

PROLEARN integrates 19 core and already more than 250

associate partners from academia and industry

Consortium L3S, DFKI, OU UK, Ariadne, FHG, WUW, CSI, EPFL, ETHZ, POLIMI, JSI, UPM, KTH, NCSR, INT, HEC, TUE, RWTH

6 Mill. Euro, 2004-2007 other projects involved, e.g.

KnowledgeWeb, REWERSE, Interop, E-LeGI, iClass and other European / International / National Networks and Projects, e.g. ELENA, TIME2LEARN, VISION, WGLN

associate participants BT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford,

IBM, France Telekom, Klett Verlag, IMC, Microsoft, OU NL, Simon Frazier Univ., Pittsburgh Univ., Swedish Educ. TV, etc.

Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005

(Some) Research Issues…

How can we enhance re-usability, how can we integrate learning object networks? Standards, Interoperability, Brokerage Networks

How do we improve the learning experience? Personalisation and Adaptation

How can we move beyond books, e.g. into mobile learning and labs? Interactive Media and Labs

How do we integrate learning, knowledge management and work? What are specific requirements and solutions for SMEs? Workplace Learning / Technology Enhanced Learning in SMEs

How do I find out about all these issues? How do I get involved? Roadmaps, Competence Center and Academy

Can we trust our partner in a distributed network, can we protect our data? Security and Privacy

Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005

RoadmapDissemination

PROLEARNs logical structure

PROLEARN Academy

PROLEARNVirtual

Competence Center (VCC)

Personalized Adaptive LearningInteractive Media

Online ExperimentsLearning Objects and Standards

Learning Management and BrokerageBusiness Models and ProcessesKnowledge Work Management

Martin Wolpers, PROLEARN Unfold workshop 2005

http://www.prolearn-project.org

Participate and discuss more

Continuous Workshop meetingsVCC, Interactive Media, Personalized Adaptive Learning, Brokerage and Learning Management, etc.see website

PROLEARN WS on future trends in professional learning, Oct. 10, Munich, Germany

Knowledge Work Management @ ICL 2005, Sept. 28-30, Villach, Austria

3rd Thematic Workshop – Interactive Media, November 9/10, Madrid, Spain

Etc.

Read more inW. Nejdl, M. Wolpers: European eLearning: Research Issues and Application Scenarios, ED-Media Invited Talk, June 2004