This document summarizes Fabio Nascimbeni's presentation on e-learning innovation, creativity, and possibilities for cooperation between the EU, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It notes there are two "Europes" with different e-readiness levels and learning cultures. While education is a national matter, EU initiatives promote ICT use in learning and student/teacher exchange. FP7 funds e-learning R&D projects focusing on technology-enhanced learning. The presentation debates how e-learning enables lifelong learning and relates to innovation. It differentiates e-learning models and argues innovation, not e-learning itself, should be the goal. Networks like LEARNOVATION facilitate dialogue between research, policy,

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Fabio Nascimbeni
MENON Network - Learnovation Roundtable
E-Learning, innovación, creatividad:
lecciones aprendidas desde Europa y
posibilidades de cooperación entre Unión
Europea, América Latina y el Caribe

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THIS PRESENTATION ORIGINATES FROM:
• MENON: research and innovation network (DE, FI, HU, IT, GR,
UK) active since 10 years in supporting innovation in learning in
Europe and worldwide
• Learnovation: research project (LLL Programme, DG EAC)
aiming at facilitating the emergence and dissemination of of
innovation paradigms in European learning (with special attention
to ICT use)
• Past experiences: MESO, eWATCH, L-Change, DELOS,
HELIOS, eSKILLS Studies…

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E-LEARNING IN EUROPE
• “2 Europes” exist: northern EU countries and mediterranean counries
– Different political scheme
– Different e-readiness level
– Different “learning cultures”
• On the one hand Education is a national matter, on the other many EU
exchange practices schemes exist
• EU initiatives: ECTS, Erasmus (virtual mobiliy), EU CV and e-portfolio, …
• Some cases of good performers (Estonia, Portugal…)
• European Commission propoting ICT use in learning
– MINERVA, eLearning Programmes, LLL Programme
– FP7 (research), TEL - Technology Enhanced Learning
– eCONTENT+ (digital content exchange)
– eSKILLS Initiaive

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E-LEARNING IN FP7 (R&D)
From the ICT Workprogramme, Challenge 4: Digital Libraries and Content, Objective ICT-
2009.4.2: Technology-Enhanced Learning:
• Learning in the 21st Century: large-scale pilots for the design of the future classroom
(exploring both technology and teaching practices, for teachers and students, their
orchestration for specific, justified age groupings or subjects)
• Reinforce the links between individual and organisational learning, and creativity:
innovative solutions embedding learning experiences in organisational processes and
practices, through systems embracing talent, knowledge, workflow, collaborative innovation
and competency management.
• Innovative adaptive and intuitive systems for learning featuring affective and emotional
approaches, including related new forms of assessing learning outcomes as well as
feedback/guidance mechanisms (innovative diagnostic techniques) to the learner and the
teacher.
• Revolutionary learning appliances (including toys) and advanced cognitive tutors, able to
promote specific cognitive processing or abilities.
• Focused interdisciplinary networks on specific emerging trends (e.g. serious
games/mobility and learning), linking a limited set of established excellences and learning labs,
and including appropriate mechanisms for cross-fertilisation between disciplines.
• Awareness building and knowledge management on the results of EU RTD projects in the
field.
Deadline: 26 October 2009, 49 M€ available

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THE DABATE: QUESTIONS AND…
• Looking at ICT and lifelong learning territories
• Analysing innovation paradigms and their relations with policies
• LEARNOVATION Roundtable
• How can learning and technology concretely combine to produce
an innovative Europe?
• How eLearning enables Lifelong Learning?
• How eLearning relates to innovation?
TENTATIVE ANSWERS

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1. DIFFERENTIATION OF e-LEARNING MODELS
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ↔ KNOWLEDGE BUILDING
INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE
TO LEARN
↔ COMPANY INITIATIVE TO
TRAIN
INFORMAL LEARNING ↔ STRUCTURED AND
CERTIFYING TRAINING
INITIATIVE
WITHIN THE COMPANY OR
FOR THE COMPANY STAFF
ONLY
↔ INTER-ORGANISATIONAL

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2. eLEARNING NOT AN AIM IN ITSELF,
LEARNONG INNOVATION IS THE AIM
INNOVATION
LLL ICT
(e)L

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3. SMEs DO NOT DEMAND TRAINING,THEY FACE
PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES
GENERAL RECOMMENDATION:
e-LEARNING MUST BE INTEGRATED IN BROADER AND MORE
APPEALING SUPPORT SERVICES DIRECTLY ADDRESSING
SMEs PRIORITIES
IMPLEMETATION TIPS:
• FLEXIBILITY DURING LIFE-SPAN
• INTERACTION WITH RELEVANT LOCAL INITIATIVES
• VISIBILITY IS NOT A MARGINAL ISSUE
• TIME TO “OWN” INNOVATION

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4. TOP DOWN OR BOTTOM UP ?
• BALANCE TOP-DOWN & BOTOM-UP APPROACHES
• ADDRESS SOCIETAL OBJECTIVES
• EVERY PARTNER SHOULD INVEST
• INVOLVE STAKEHOLDERS IN ALL PHASES

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5. E-LEARNING TERRITORIES
Evolved
distance
education
Formal Learning
Informal learning
Intra-
muros
Extended
learning
context
Non
professional
learning
communities
e-Learning as a side
effect in communities
Virtual
Profession
al
networks
Individual
development
throught e-learning
TTT via e-L
Inter-organisational
development through
e-Learning
e-L workplace
e-L in
tertiary
education
e-learning in
VET
e-L in
schools
ICT for
virtual
mobility

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THE LEARNOVATION ROUNDTABLE
9 Consolidated European Networks, representing more than 1500
Organisations (Universities, Business Schools, Research Centres,
Enterprises, Associations) - Students, Teachers, Trainers Researchers,
Professionals, Innovative Project Leaders, …
- Multi-stakeholder and multi-sector observatory of trends
- Platform for dialogue between research policy and innovative practice
- Facilitate coordination and synergy among policy makers
- Facilitate transfer of research results and successful pilot project into
widespread practice and policy mainstream

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Cooperation EU-LAC
• www.WINDS-LAC.eu
(with focus on the Caribbean)
• www.PRO-IDEAL.eu
(AR, BR, CH, CO, UY)
• www.red-vitalis.org
(focusing on Information society)

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Thank you!
fabio.nascimbeni@menon.org