A vision of desirable eLearning and eInclusion development trends in Latvia Dr. Andrejs Ermuiža,...

A vision of desirable eLearning and

eInclusion development trends in Latvia

Dr. Andrejs Ermuiža, lead researcherUniversity of Latvia

Institute of Electronics and Computer Science,

Riga, Latvia, [email protected]

Dr. A. Ermuiža, eBaltics, 2005 2

Content of presentation

My interests in the urgent problem and offered approach Vision desideratum about ICT application in Latvia Status quo in the areas of social inclusion and education What we should have?

Access to internet in all regions of Latvia Origination of motivations and opportunities for eInclusion Preparation of eContent for different branches Strategy directed to eLearning profile and individualization Overcoming of language barriers


My interests and proposed approach to relate eLearning with eInclusion

I am apply myself to solving problems of risk averting in safety-critical systems.

I think that in these both areas (1 – inclusion, 2- risk averting) are some common features: we must maintain monitoring of individual objects (persons):

(1) process of solving problems of social inclusion (using eLearning) as improvement in some features is similar with

(2) Process of averting critical states in safety-critical systems.But the missions in these processes are different: Wellbeing progress due to improving inclusion in 1-st case protection the objects and their environment in 2-nd case


Common features for both processes

Earmarking preferable groups of objects for monitoring

Planning distribution of resources between groups in accordance with their preferences

Individualized monitoring of each object in the group


The Vision desideratum about ICT applications

Access to knowledge bases for in all regions of Latvija An appropriate knowledge portal of eContent for

eLearning about operational (ready to use) knowledge in different areas (like ‘’How Stuff Works’’ in USA) for qualitative decision making

Facility of personalised learning for anybody and flexibilty in terms of:

Place Time Pace and style

Disposable profiled knowledge base for different learner needs

Organized tutorship for eLearning monitoring with benefits Accesability of mobile equipment for individual languge

and skills learning


Example of www.howstuffsworks.com using for

operational purpose

Assume that you must go to one of Asian states You know that there may be risk to catch SARS Where you can get information (new knowledge) how

to prevent this risk? One of possible ways - you visit

www.howstuffsworks.com and get helpful instructions how to protect yourself from SARS

Conclusion:The set of new knowledge makes eContent


What ought to be eLearning in my point of view?

eLearning combines learning with technologies to facilitate the learning process

Tutors and learners communicate using e-mail or discussion forums and specalized means for registration and records keeping

There must be personalized monitoring for each learner which may be automatized by using software agents

Of prime importance is the content of the eLearning materials – its availability in the mother tongue of learner

eLearning uses operational knowledges in multiple formats in a variety of media from simle pdf files to animations and video


A model of eLearning with agents as fulcrum of process personalisation

Database

GroupWise Agent

Learners

Agents

eContent

Tutor

GroupWise Agent

graph

Communicationvia

e-mailVoIP


Possible categories of learners

Pupils Students Lifelong learners Foreign language learners Unemployed Prospective businessmans and

entrepreneurs


Profiles and stages of learning

Each category of learners demands to apply own profile and sets of learning scenarios which is prescribed by tutors and agents interaction

The process of eLearning consists of several stages with increasing complexity

Succesion of stages depends from abilities of learner which make possible to select and promote more talented learners


Why ought to be essential software

agents using? The eLearning process must be standardized and

automatized in order to increase its efficiency The facilities of tutors for monitoring is less than in

case of standardized software agents using The induvialised approach for monitoring is hard to be

implemented without standardization and without software agents using


Topicality of eInclusion in Latvia

Shortcomings that raise exclusion in Latvia for some categories of residents (inhabitants):

Hight unemploiment rate especially in the rural regions – the teleworking could be improve this situation

Lingual barriers between certain groups of inhabitants

Insufficient information how to start business processes and bureaucracy barriers to obtain it

Lack of motivation eLearning due to inacccesability and misunderstanding


How eLearning may be useful for eInclusion?

Social inclusion demands personalised approach and monitoring as like as eLearning

For social inclusion it may be useful to earmark preferable groups for their monitoring and for resource distribution planning

The eInclusion is especially important for young people and those with poor motivation


Pros and cons of Latvian system of education

(-)Difficult access to obtaining knowledge: small motivation for studies (low salary in

perspective) High tution fee Unpopular livelong education

(+) there exists portal of explanatory dictionary (

www.termini.lv a.o.) A great number of students in the universities Opportunities to study in different countries Motivation to reach knowledge based society


Advantages and disadvantages of existing technological progress for

eLearning

(+) Most of active inhabitants have cellular phones Via cellular phones one may have access to internet Technological progress of cellular phones is in boom

(-) Low percentage of home internet users in Latvia Lack of eLearning services for internet users no eLearning services to master a language or any skills using

cellular phones Potentialities of cellular phones finger-board is limited


Pros and cons of conventional ICT application

(+) Possibility to obtain operative knowledge Possibility to operative cooperation in wide areas

(-) Necessity to have on-line access to internet Necessity to know all the tricks of internet using Necessity to know english Lack of links between knowledge and context No ways and means for individualized eLearning


What kind ought to be eContent for eLearning?

It must be available in the mother tongue of learners and within limits multilingual to master alanguage

It must contain graphical information besides textual one

The involment of scientists (think-tanks) for knowledge expertise is highly desireable

There may be goods advertising incomes from business companies


Conclusions The eLearning is very important for inclusion and

must be combined with eInclusion in order to reach knowledge society

For efficient and all-inclusive eLearning implementing there is needful multiprofiled latvian eContent building which has to based on operational knowledge using

As potential method for knowledge access there may be considered services of cellular phones


References

www.termini.lv www.howstuffworks.com www.content-willage.org/europe catching up in e-Learning http://www.cordis.lu/ist/workprogramme/wp0506_en/2_5_11.ht

m ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/productivity-paradigm.pdf

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