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The project will
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ACTION
LINE III.5.3 KA3 PIONEERING RESEARCH
| Component
of Action line III.5.3 objective |
How
the project contributes |
| To lay the foundations for the future provision, access
and management of knowledge. |
- MOBIlearn, according to the pioneering nature
of the action line, starts exploring new paradigms and interfaces
for technology supported learning in a mobile environment, using
some of the potential of ambient intelligence.
- Following the guidance of the IST Advisory
Group (ISTAG) Report on the Sixth Framework Programme "Integrated
Project" (IP), MOBIlearn has been conceived as a bridge between
FP5 and FP6. Its primary objectives are consistent with FP5, and
in addition it uses the FP6 IP concept to go beyond today's user
models and market models.
- The ISTAG report identifies also a number
of topics for future IP: MOBIlearn has been designed as a possible
precursor of “Intelligent Networks and Devices Initiative
- in motion” (INDI-in-motion).
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| Modelling
of very-large, scaleable and interoperable knowledge spaces, including
tools supporting contextualisation and visualisation, and intuitive
personalised interfacing with the user |
- MOBIlearn will prepare the ground for substantive
work, in FP6, on modelling three large knowledge spaces, each
of which has distinct and well-established metadata schemas and
emerging ontologies. These are relevant to European organisations
and individual citizens (including disabled people, whose need
for personalisation is large).
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| Validation of the technology is expected in challenging
applications in various business and societal contexts, in particular
e-commerce, e-media, e-learning and e-culture, with emphasis on anywhere,
anytime services. |
- MOBIlearn aims at dovetailing emerging mobile
technology and eLearning with the creation of knowledge spaces
accessible using mobile devices.
- Real user trials complete the validation
of this new mobile learning application within three selected
knowledge domains (i.e. business administration, cultural visits,
basic medical information)
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| High-impact
projects aiming to consolidate ongoing research efforts in emerging
fields (especially advanced knowledge and interface technologies),
to aggregate cross-disciplinary know-how and to develop exploitable
software components. |
- MOBIlearn will consolidate the results of
fourteen previous successful research projects on advanced knowledge
management and interface technologies.
- MOBIlearn is a high-impact European-wide
project in terms of partnership, that is international (partners
coming from nine EU countries and countries outside EU, including
the USA and Australia) and multi-sector (mobile operators of four
countries, leading European software production companies, World-class
mobile devices manufacturers, market analysis consultants, publishers
and content providers).
- MOBIlearn, according to its research areas,
aggregates cross-disciplinary know-how, with partners experts
in pedagogy, adaptive interfaces, collaborative learning, business
modelling, e-learning technologies, context awareness.
- MOBIlearn will develop a software architecture
for mobile learning composed by interoperable standard-based components
that will be exploitable separately and as a single entity.
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| Application-driven work must strive to transform emerging
technology breakthroughs into compelling showcases |
- The showcase areas chosen will have particularly
high visibility, both in terms of levels of intrinsic interest
(e.g., the use of World Heritage sites for the museum element)
and the intention of the partners (some of Europe's leading organisation)
to publicise their involvement on a large scale. For each of the
three showcase areas, MOBIlearn research is directed to meeting
the needs of users, i.e., 'learning pull' rather than 'technology
push'. The work will be application-driven, with the use of production-evaluation
cycles, according to ISO 13407 (Human-Centred Design Processes
for Interactive Systems) standard.
- Real user trials, while completing the evaluation
from external users’ perspective, support the creation of
MOBIlearn showcase, for further exploitation.
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ACTION III MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AND TOOLS
| Component
of KA3 objective |
How
the project contributes |
| Developing knowledge technologies to support the realisation
of the EU objectives as set out at the 2000 Lisbon Council: "to
make Europe the world's most dynamic and most competitive knowledge-based
economy and society". |
- eEurope is a major instrument to attain
this objective. MOBIlearn, as part of IST, will provide "mobile-enabled"
key technologies for knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation.
- MOBIlearn will help Europe to retain its
leadership, because, operating in new emerging fields/markets
(post PC...), it builds on sectors where Europe is also well positioned
(that is rich content and service provisioning and Mobile and
Wireless).
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| Contributing
to the realisation of the vision of an ambient intelligence landscape,
by further advancing, in particular, technologies for natural and
intuitive human interfaces |
- MOBIlearn contributes to this objective
with the creation of a pioneering application of ubiquitous learning,
which includes also context awareness tools to exploit context
and to capture learning experience.
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| Contributing to the development of the objectives and
ambitions of the eEurope and eEurope+ initiative, especially in the
areas of e-learning, cultural resources, digital content and cultural
and linguistic diversity. |
- MOBIlearn contributes to the eEurope Action
Plan, in particular to Area 10 – “European digital content
for global networks”.
- The MOBIlearn project targets the development
of part of new basic skills as defined at the European Council
meeting in Lisbon (i.e. IT skills, technological culture and entrepreneurship).
- The MOBIlearn integrated project is proposed
at European level also considering the Commission Communication
of the Lisbon Council, which recognises that, if the e-learning
initiative is to be a complete success, it must be backed up by
a concerted European approach to prepare the education and training
of tomorrow.
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