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Informal learning recognition through a cloud ecosystem
Learning and teaching processes, like all human activities, can be mediated through the use of tools. Information
and communication technologies are now widespread within education. Their use in the daily
life of teachers and learners affords engagement with educational activities at any place and time and not
necessarily linked to an institution or a certificate. In the absence of formal certification, learning under
these circumstances is known as informal learning. Despite the lack of certification, learning with technology
in this way presents opportunities to gather information about and present new ways of exploiting
an individualâs learning. Cloud technologies provide ways to achieve this through new architectures,
methodologies, and workflows that facilitate semantic tagging, recognition, and acknowledgment of informal
learning activities. The transparency and accessibility of cloud services mean that institutions and
learners can exploit existing knowledge to their mutual benefit. The TRAILER project facilitates this aim by
providing a technological framework using cloud services, a workflow, and a methodology. The services
facilitate the exchange of information and knowledge associated with informal learning activities ranging
from the use of social software through widgets, computer gaming, and remote laboratory experiments.
Data from these activities are shared among institutions, learners, and workers. The project demonstrates
the possibility of gathering information related to informal learning activities independently of the context
or tools used to carry them out
Informal learning recognition through a cloud ecosystem
Learning and teaching processes, like all human activities, can be mediated through the use of tools. Information
and communication technologies are now widespread within education. Their use in the daily
life of teachers and learners affords engagement with educational activities at any place and time and not
necessarily linked to an institution or a certificate. In the absence of formal certification, learning under
these circumstances is known as informal learning. Despite the lack of certification, learning with technology
in this way presents opportunities to gather information about and present new ways of exploiting
an individualâs learning. Cloud technologies provide ways to achieve this through new architectures,
methodologies, and workflows that facilitate semantic tagging, recognition, and acknowledgment of informal
learning activities. The transparency and accessibility of cloud services mean that institutions and
learners can exploit existing knowledge to their mutual benefit. The TRAILER project facilitates this aim by
providing a technological framework using cloud services, a workflow, and a methodology. The services
facilitate the exchange of information and knowledge associated with informal learning activities ranging
from the use of social software through widgets, computer gaming, and remote laboratory experiments.
Data from these activities are shared among institutions, learners, and workers. The project demonstrates
the possibility of gathering information related to informal learning activities independently of the context
or tools used to carry them out
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A Learner-Centred Approach for Lifelong Learning Powered by the Blockchain
The emergence of Blockchain technology promises to revolutionise not only the financial world, but also lifelong learning in many different ways. Blockchain technology offers opportunities to thoroughly rethink how we find educational content and training services online, how we register and pay for them, as well as how we get accredited for what we have learned and how this accreditation affects our career trajectory. This paper explores the different aspects of lifelong learning that are affected by this new paradigm and describes an ecosystem that places the learner at the centre of the learning process and its associated data. More specifically, we outline the ways that ePortfolios, accreditation and tutoring can evolve within this learner-centred ecosystem and we discuss the various benefits that this evolution bears for lifelong learners
Mapping and analysing prospective technologies for learning â Results from a consultation with European stakeholders and roadmaps for policy action
EU policies call for the strengthening of Europeâs innovative capacity and it is considered that
the modernisation of Education and Training systems and technologies for learning will be a key
enabler of educational innovation and change. This report brings evidence to the debate about
the technologies that are expected to play a decisive role in shaping future learning strategies in
the short to medium term (5-10 years from now) in three main learning domains: formal
education and training; work-place and work-related learning; re-skilling and up-skilling
strategies in a lifelong-learning continuum. This is the final report of the study âMapping and
analysing prospective technologies for learning (MATEL)' carried out by the MENON Network
EEIG on behalf of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies. The report synthesises the main messages gathered from the three
phases of the study: online consultation, state-of-the-art analysis and a roadmapping workshop.
Eight technology clusters and a set of related key technologies that can enable learning
innovation and educational change were identified. A number of these technologies were
analysed to highlight their current and potential use in education, the relevant market trends and
ongoing policy initiatives. Three roadmaps, one for each learning domain, were developed.
These identified long-term goals and specific objectives for educational change, which in turn led
to recommendations on the immediate strategies and actions to be undertaken by policy and
decision makers.JRC.J.3-Information Societ
Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally-Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere
This paper summarizes the major findings of a three-year research project to investigate the Internet's impact on Russian politics, media and society. We employed multiple methods to study online activity: the mapping and study of the structure, communities and content of the blogosphere; an analogous mapping and study of Twitter; content analysis of different media sources using automated and human-based evaluation approaches; and a survey of bloggers; augmented by infrastructure mapping, interviews and background research. We find the emergence of a vibrant and diverse networked public sphere that constitutes an independent alternative to the more tightly controlled offline media and political space, as well as the growing use of digital platforms in social mobilization and civic action. Despite various indirect efforts to shape cyberspace into an environment that is friendlier towards the government, we find that the Russian Internet remains generally open and free, although the current degree of Internet freedom is in no way a prediction of the future of this contested space
Rethinking informal learning
[EN]Informal learning has been always an important source of knowledge, perhaps the most important at the workplace, but its own informal nature has caused difficulties to be recognized and introduced in the âofficialâ ways of training and certification.
TEEM conference has paid special attention to the problems associated with informal learning from the first edition of this
event, and now this track continues with this significant tradition with the aim of rethinking the informal learning basis
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