Using Wireless Technologies for Context Sensitive Education and Training
Project Partners
All the partners have developed competence in EU projects in the IST programme, the Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates and Gruntvig and related programmes. Ericsson and Giunti have been contracting partners in major EU projects, London Metropolitan University is a frequent player both as a contracting partner and as a partner, Corvinno, the University of Plovdiv and ECLO have worked together with Ericsson on a number of Ericsson-led projects besides other projects of their own.
The partnership is carefully balanced between a telecommunications multinational corporation, a major Italian software and publishing corporation, a European association based in Belgium, two leading European universities, and a university-business foundation. Geographically the partnership is well balanced with two representative from North Western Europe (Ireland and the United Kingdom), two from Southern Europe (Italy and Bulgaria), two from the new accession countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary and Bulgaria), one from Central Europe (Belgium).
The structure and functioning of cooperation and communication within the partnership are as follows. The project Board of Management consists of :
Mrs Judy Nix (Ericsson) Ireland (Chair)
Mr Support (The European Consortium for the Learning Organisation) Belgium
Dr András Gábor (The Information Technology Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Hungary
Professor Nevena Mileva (University of Plovdiv) Bulgaria
The Board of Management will be charged with:
Setting schedules, workloads and deadlines for the work of each partner
Establishing quality control measurements for all products and processes
Monitoring budget expenditure against targets
Exercising quality control and approval of all interim and final reports and products.
The project Board of Management will meet 3 times a year in the countries of the partners.
Ericsson Education (Ireland) | Education services were delivered in 110 countries in 2005 by Ericsson Education Ireland with 48,288 training days being delivered which is 17% of Ericsson Education's business globally. Global responsibility is held for eBusiness Solutions which incorporates eLearning, Virtual Classroom Training, mLearning and Learning Management Services Ericsson Education Ireland is a European leader in mobile learning. It was the contracting partner and administrator of the two Leonardo da Vinci projects, From elearning to mlearning and Mobile learning: the next generation of learning. It was a founder member of the World Mobile Learning Alliance and has organized two international conferences in mobile learning in Dublin, one in September 2003 and the other in September 2005. Ericsson has extensive experience of transnational cooperation through its role as contracting partner in a series of Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates Minerva projects, giving it experience of working harmoniously with institutions of all kinds from all parts of Europe. |
The European Consortium for the Learning Organisation (Belgium) | ECLO is The European Consortium for the Learning
Organisation, a global organisation devoted to the sustainable
development of all aspects of learning and personal and management
development. It brings together leading academics, corporate executives and consultants from different countries, institutions, cultures and backgrounds and provides them with unparalleled benchmarking and networking opportunities. The members, who communicate through the array of network activities, learn from each other, develop relationships and use this knowledge to manage more effectively and increase their competitive edge. ECLO currently has over 60 members who are actively involved in the network, and through its network partners, hundreds of others throughout the world. Among its members you will find universities, corporations, SMEs, business schools, public organisations and independent consultants. Although primarily a European organisation, with members from 10 European countries, we also have members in America, Australia, Russia and China. |
The Information Technology Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary) | The Information Technology Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA-ITF) is a non-profit making organisation which has been endowed by, in line with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the KFKI Computer Systems Corporation in 1992. The Foundation is supervised by the Board of Founders. The Board comprises representatives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), the National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB) as well as the KFKI Computer Systems Corp. The activities of the Foundation are managed by the Director of the Foundation who employs full-time IT professionals with wide experience and reputation in information system engineering, strategic planning, business analysis, project management and on other informatics and information technology related fields. The mission of the Foundation is to advance the Hungarian IT industry in order to make it more conform to the European requirements. In the framework of this primary objective, the Foundation
In order to carry out the above main activities as well as to maintain the necessary operating conditions, the MTA Information Technology Foundation is legally allowed to undertake contractual works.
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London Metropolitan University (UK) | London Metropolitan University has over 34,000 students, including almost 7000 international students from 155 different countries. The Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) has 9 full-time staff and a network of over 20 associated staff; it has conducted research projects in collaboration with approximately 17 UK and 20 European universities. The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL) is a £3.4 million UK Government project that sits within LTRI. RLO-CETL is a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham and London Metropolitan University; with the latter being the lead site. The RLO-CETL includes a team of 3.5 full-time equivalent staff that conduct research, design, development and evaluation in the area of mobile learning and reusable learning objects. The mobile learning team work on high quality interactive multimedia learning objects for mobile devices, user studies, authoring tools, context aware architectures and user generated content. RLO-CETL take a duel approach to mobile learning design and context: augmenting context and building models of context. In the first view, our mobile learning objects are used to scaffold users’ active learning in context. The second view explicitly models context so that the resulting models can offer personalised and adaptive content. This interaction-based approach to context sensitive learning continually derives what intervention is appropriate and provides relevant services to aid learning |
University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria) | The University of Plovdid is one of Bulgaria’s largest universities situated in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city. There are eight faculties of the University of Physics, Mathematics and IT, Chemistry, Biology, Economics and Social Sciences, Law, Languages and Literature, Education. The University has a firm commitment to the use of technology in education and has extensive technology facilities. 900 lecturers and staff work at the university and of the 550 lecturers 30 are full professors, 163 associate professors, 230 PhD, 360 assistant professors. Over 8 thousand full-time students and some 5 thousand part-time students receive their training at the university. |
DEIS - Department of the Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland) | DEIS Department of the Cork Institute of Technology will participate in the project as the official external evaluators of the project. They have an international reputation in educational evaluation, distance education evaluation and the evaluation of eLearning. DEIS is well placed for this role as much of the literature written by DEIS is evaluative in nature, and as it will be external to the project so it can play the role of an external evaluator. Other institutions who will participate without receiving support from the Socrates grant are :
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