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EU Projects in the 5th Framework Programme

Current projects, mostly from The Flexible University Cluster. The descriptions are taken from the projects web sites. More up-to-date information can be found there.

CANDLE

The objective of the project CANDLE is to use the Internet to improve the quality and reduce the cost of ICT teaching in Europe by using web and multimedia technology, and to enable co-operation between universities and industry in creating and reusing learning material and improving the quality of delivery. However, the proposed system is not designed to constrain the freedom of academics and trainers to develop their own courseware. This flexibility is ensured through the use of component architectures, toolkits and pedagogical frameworks that allow individual teachers to combine course objects to create their own courses designed to meet their learner's particular needs. The results of the project will also be made available under the "open courseware" license.

ECTS Catalogue

The project aims to promote student mobility (like Erasmus exchanges) by establishing an European on-line catalogue of ECTS courses and institutions. The catalogue strives to offer truly objective information by indexing the ECTS descriptions only. Partners will implement the system on their ECTS catalogues and offer it later to all higher education institutions in Europe. The system will neither require work at the institutions nor changes to the institutions' catalogues included in the index. The project is funded by the EU in the education programme Socrates, as a complementary project under the Erasmus action.

OR-World

The objective of the project OR-World is to respond to today's increased education need and develop a World Wide Web based framework for sharing high-quality learning material between universities, educational institutes, self-learners, and interested companies, in different countries. The framework will involve user-friendly components as tools for constructing interactive media elements such as animations, simulations, text, video, and audio, as well as their hyperlink structure.

PEARL

The system being developed in the PEARL project will deliver practical experimentation where students work together over the Internet (or Campus Intranet), much as they would in a teaching laboratory. They will be able to interact with the remote experiment, change parameters and in some cases modify and design experiments. They will discuss their actions and what they anticipate will happen, and observe the results and analyze them.

UNIVERSAL

UNIVERSAL will demonstrate the feasibility of an open exchange system for course units between institutions of higher education across Europe. The system will embrace offers, enquiries, booking and delivery of course units. The key innovation will be the creation of an open market by introducing a brokerage platform with a standard way of describing the pedagogical, administrative and technical characteristics of course units.

Virtual Orthopaedic European University (VOEU)

The objective of VOEU is enhanced student-teacher interaction in Orthopedics. This shall be achieved by the development of enhanced multimedia learning material that will be accessible on-line (through Internet/Intranet) or off-line, by enhanced remote learning and interaction in a virtual class, and by enhanced skill acquisition and evaluation thanks to surgical simulators.

WINDS

The WINDS (Web based INtelligent Design tutoring System) project contributes to the reorganization of higher education systems concerning design. It develops a new methodological approach to teaching design. It formulates and experiments principles and methods for the integration of knowledge and design expertise at European level. It develops systems able to guarantee flexible access to knowledge and design techniques.