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Research on ICT for learning before FP6
FP6 research is based on work carried out in educational technology and multimedia research since the third Framework Programme for R&D, launched in 1988. More than 250 projects were funded and a considerable amount of European expertise and know-how has been built up.
Under the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5, 1998-2002), around 100 projects of various types have been funded with a total budget of almost EUR 140 million.
What was funded under FP5?
- Networks and applications to support collaborative learning and teaching in schools
- Experimental services and applications for virtual universities
- Methods and tools to enhance and facilitate lifelong learning anywhere and anytime empowering individuals with personalised learning solutions
- Advanced training systems to support professional training and to demonstrate the benefits of just-in-time and on-the-job training
- Open and interoperable systems and tools enabling education and training centres, companies or service providers to implement and maintain learning management services
- Pioneering research for the future of learning, integrating emerging technologies and cognitive science
- Consensus building: initiatives to support, guide, stimulate and disseminate knowledge and innovation in the education and training sectors, within and beyond the research community.
Key results of projects funded under FP5
One strand of projects developed electronic platforms and brokerage systems for exchanging and trading multimedia components for learning, the so called 'learning objects'. Technology in conjunction with interoperability standards allows teachers and learners authoring courses and other material by accessing, tailoring and combining digital learning resources from large public and private repositories of educational content.
Other projects created learning environments for seamless, location and time independent access of teachers and learners to learning resources such as modeling software and remote laboratories. The projects developed demonstrators in science areas as diverse as water management, climate control, bioinformatics, medicine, astronomy, seismology, space science and robotics.
Under the so-called 'School of Tomorrow' action line of the programme, several projects have worked on new approaches to the use of technology in various teaching and learning situations occurring in the traditional classroom setting. Their developments support, for instance, more practical, more interactive and more collaborative learning experiences.
For learning at the workplace, novel tools and systems were designed in order to support management training and human resources development. Some projects resulted in virtual and blended learning spaces for technical domains like aeronautics or mechatronics.