E-learning user group gets off the ground

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(2003), "E-learning user group gets off the ground", Education + Training, Vol. 45 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2003.00445gab.014

E-learning user group gets off the ground

E-learning user group gets off the ground

Europe needs to make full use of the expertise and best practice available in e-learning technology, participants at a meeting to launch a new user group for European organizations involved in developing high-technology learning in schools concluded. The group, named Celebrate, aims to bring together educational publishers and content owners, public and private-sector developers of educational software and national and regional organizations interested in the sector.

Ulf Lundin, director of the European Schoolnet, the project co-ordinator, commented: "It is intended that Celebrate will act as a catalyst for the European e-learning content industry by providing a forum for schools and national school networks producing open source material, commercial content owners and publishers, and developers of information and communication technology learning platforms. European Schoolnet will also build on its existing relationships with international initiatives such as Canada Schoolnet and the Learning Federation in Australia, to ensure that Europe not only exploits global standards related to the design of learning objects but also makes use of expertise and best practice related to this field from around the world."

Celebrate was born from a project of the same name, financed by e7 million of European Commission money, which is providing some 500 schools in six European countries with access to affordable digital and online education. The group has 22 partners in nine EU member states, plus Norway, Israel and Hungary.