CALIBRATE - Calibrating eLearning in Schools
The work of CALIBRATE enables schools to easily locate and access a wider and more diverse collection of learning resources at a European level.
- Strategic objective: Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe
- Project type: Specific targeted research project (STREP)
- Start date: 1 October 2005
- Duration: 30 months
- EU funding: € 3 305 000
- Number of partners: 17
- Project coordinator: EUN Partnership AISBL, Belgium
- Contact: Mr. Jim Ayre
CALIBRATE brought together eight Ministries of Education (including six from new EU Member States) to carry out a multi-level project designed to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.
The work built on the results of previous IST projects under the 5th Framework Programme (CELEBRATE, ITCOLE and VALNET) and was designed to help strengthen the integration of the ICT research effort in an enlarged Europe.
CAILBRATE's main achievements are:
- Development and promotion of an open source technical architecture to support content exchange/collaboration between Ministries of Education and other owners of educational repositories;
- Development and promotion of an open source learning toolbox that supports the collaborative use of learning resources. It provides the users with an environment for group centred work and knowledge building activities and with course building tools of the type found in more conventional learning content management systems;
- Research and testing of new approaches that improve semantic interoperability related to the discovery and evaluation of learning resources;
- Validation of research results in up to 100 schools using an advanced validation methodology.
CALIBRATE also brought together a number of other European Schoolnet (EUN) projects and initiatives that build a wider framework and lay the foundations for the implementation of a new European Learning Resource Exchange, accessible to all interested Ministries of Education participating in the EUN and other public and private sector owners of educational content repositories.