ELeGI - European Learning GRID Infrastructure
ELeGI aimed at supporting a paradigm shift to learning considered as knowledge construction that combines experiential, contextualised and collaborative approaches in a personalised and ubiquitous way. The work plan was to define and implement a software architecture bringing together Grid, semantic and knowledge technologies.
- Project type: Integrated Project
- Start date: 1 February 2004
- Duration: 41 months
- EU funding: 7.472.000 €
- Number of partners: 22
- Project co-ordinator: Atos Origin, Barcelona (ES)
- Contact: Mr. Pierluigi Ritrovato
The ELeGI project set out to develop software technologies for effective human learning, promoting and supporting a learning paradigm shift. The focus was to change from learning as information transfer, based on content and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher, to learning as knowledge construction using experiential and collaborative approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way.
In the concept of 'human centred design' of learning applications, learning is clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic virtual communities. The project focused on experimental research based on this concept and integrated the leading edge of currently available and future ICT, including the powerful developments of services in the Semantic GRID, with innovative scenarios of human learning.
The main goals of research carried out under ELeGI were:
- To define new models of human learning enabling ubiquitous and collaborative learning, merging experiential, personalised and contextualised approaches.
- To define and implement an advanced service oriented Grid based software architecture for learning, allowing to access and to integrate the different technologies, resources and contents that are needed to support the new learning paradigm.
Development work in ELeGI was driven both by pedagogical needs and by requirements provided by various test-beds, and informed through experience gained through implementing demonstrators on virtual scientific experiments, e-assessment, and socially mediated learning.