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European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI)

The European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) project has the ambitious goal to develop software technologies for effective human learning. With the ELeGI project we will promote and support a learning paradigm shift. A new paradigm focused on knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way will replace the current information transfer paradigm focused on content and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides information.

We have chosen a synergic approach, sometimes called "human centred design", to replace the classical, applicative approach to learning. With consideration of humans at the centre, learning is clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic Virtual Communities: experimental research concepts integrating new powerful developments of services in the Semantic GRID, the leading edge of currently available and future ICT technologies, with highly innovative and powerfully significant scenarios of human learning.

The ELeGI project has three main goals:

• Goal 1. To define new models of human learning enabling ubiquitous and collaborative learning, merging experiential, personalised and contextualised approaches.
• Goal 2. To define and implement an advanced service-oriented Grid based software architecture for learning. This will allow us to access and integrate different technologies, resources and contents that are needed in order to realise the new paradigm. This objective will be driven by the pedagogical needs and by the requirements provided by the test-beds (SEES) and informed by the experience gained through implementing the demonstrators.
• Goal 3. To validate and evaluate the software architecture and the didactical approaches through the use of SEES and demonstrators. The project will build extensively on advanced work already done, creating new learning environments rather than creating new learning resources per se.

Homepage: http://www.elegi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Groups: Learning Societies Lab, Grid and Pervasive Computing Group
Themes: ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Grid and Distributed Computing, Knowledge Technologies, Learning Technologies, Web Science
Dates: 1st February 2004 to 31st January 2008

Partners

• SCHLUMBERGESEMA (now ATOS)
• CENTRO DI RICERCA IN MATEMATICA PURA ED APPLICATA (CRMPA)
• CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE ON METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEARNING & KNOWLEDGE (CEMSAC)
• UNIVERSIT� MONTPELLIER 2
• TELINDUS
• UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREW
• UNIVERSITY OF GRANZ
• THE OPEN UNIVERSITY (UK)
• COUNCIL FOR THE CENTRAL LABORATORY FOR THE COUNCIL RESEARCH
• HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE (University of Stuttgart )
• THE RUHR-UNIVERSIT�T BOCHUM
• KAUNAS TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
• COMMUNICATION & SYSTEMES - SYSTEMES D'INFORMATION
• FRIEDRICH ALEXANDER UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN-NUMBERG
• HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
• RESIST
• FACULTES N.D. DE LA PAIX, NAMUR
• CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
• UNIVERSIT� DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L�ADOUR-IUT DE BAYONNE
• CENTRALE RECHERCHE SA
• EUROPEAN MICROSOFT INNOVATION CENTER

Funding

• EU

Principal Investigators

• hcd

Other Investigators

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• Dr David E Millard
• ft

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