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EU funding (€6,879,040): Large-scale pilots for collaborative OpenCourseWare authoring, multiplatform delivery and Learning Analytics Hor1 Jan 2016 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"

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Large-scale pilots for collaborative OpenCourseWare authoring, multiplatform delivery and Learning Analytics

A major obstacle to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of education in Europe is the lack of widely available, accessible, multilingual, timely, engaging and high-quality educational material (i.e. OpenCourseWare). The creation of comprehensive OpenCourseWare (OCW) is tedious, time-consuming and expensive, with the effect, that often courseware employed by teachers, instructors and professors is incomplete, outdated, inaccessible to those with disabilities and dull. With the open-source SlideWiki platform (available at SlideWiki.org) the effort of the creation, translation and evolution of highly-structured remixable OCW can be widely shared (i.e. crowdsourced). Similarly to Wikipedia for encyclopaedic content, SlideWiki allows (1) to collaboratively create comprehensive OCW (curricula, slide presentations, self-assessment tests, illustrations etc.) online in a crowdsourcing manner, (2) to semi-automatically translate this content into more than 50 different languages and to improve the translations in a collaborative manner and (3) to support engagement and social networking of educators and learners around that content. SlideWiki is already used by hundreds of educators, thousands of learners. Several hundred comprehensive course materials are available in SlideWiki in dozens of languages. In this large-scale trial project, we will further mature the SlideWiki technology platform, integrate it with a state-of-the-art MOOC delivery platform and perform four large-scale trials in (1) secondary education, (2) vocational and professional training, (3) higher education and (4) community-driven open-education. Each of these large-scale trials will be performed with hundreds of educators and thousands of learners in countries all over Europe. A particular focus of the technology development and testing in the trials will be the suitability for academics, teachers and learners with disabilities.


Funded Companies:

Company name Funding amount
Accedes. Entornos y Servicios Accesibles SL €96,425
Athina-Erevnitiko Kentro Kainotomias Stis Technologies TIS Pliroforias, TON Epikoinonion Kai TIS Gnosis €684,250
Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza €104,000
Etaireia Eleytheroy Logismikoy Logismikoy Anoiktoy Kodika €107,750
Ethniko Kentro Dimosias Dioikisis & Aftodioikisis €85,925
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG e. V. €1,129,000
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER €450,375
IHK BILDUNGSZENTRUM HALLE-DESSAU GmbH €125,750
INSTITUT FUR ANGEWANDTE INFORMATIK (INFAI) e. V. €789,000
Institut Mihajlo Pupin €281,750
RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN €165,000
Scuola Di Robotica €137,750
STICHTING VU €480,250
The Open University €811,948
Universidade Federal DO RIO DE Janeiro €0.00
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid €459,000
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia €358,963
University of Southampton €611,905

Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/688095

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