CELEBRATE aims to give schools access to a large-scale pilot of an online content repository, that includes a critical mass of LOs and components (combinations of multimedia assets) that can be used to create LOs. Schools can contribute LOs via the pilot database, as well as receive them. The project will also explore a methodology using LOs for educational activities and services, as well as learning materials.
New Generation Learning Content Management Systems

A key aim of the project is to investigate how LOs can be handled by a new generation of Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) from a variety of different vendors and to test the interoperability of these systems in a real-life demonstrator. It is intended that CELEBRATE will act as a catalyst for the European eLearning content industry (the entire value-chain including content owners, publishers, broadcasters, national school networks and technology platform vendors).

The project's evaluation activities particularly analyse the extent to which new, more flexible forms of content development and distribution (based on reusable LOs) impact upon the learning process and support a new pedagogy for eLearning in schools based on constructivist learning models. In particular, the project will assess how the use of LOs encourages the development of key digital age skills such as collaborative working, creativity, inter-disciplinary awareness, adaptiveness, intercultural communication and problem-solving.

Creation of Demonstrator Portal

Apart from being CELEBRATE's project coordinator, European Schoolnet is the technical leader of the project, directing the creation of LOs and the demonstrator portal activities. In financial terms, this is the largest project yet undertaken by European Schoolnet. It includes 22 public and private sector partners - ministries, national broadband pilots, content owners, publishers, LCMS vendors and universities.

The Celebrate project will enable the EUN to consolidate its expertise in these areas and thus to position itself in a market which is said will influence and accelerate the use of ICT in education and eLearning in Europe.

Contact:
Clara Navas - clara.navas@eun.org
Santi Scimeca - santi.scimeca@eun.org

Partners

• Digitalbrain plc - UK
• Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - UK
• European Collaboration for Science, Industry and Technology
• Exhibitions - Executive Office (ECSITE) - Belgium
• Giunti Multimedia srl (GMM) - Italy
• Interactive Labs srl (Giunti Ilabs) - Italy
• Hachette Multimédia - France
• Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione per l´Innovazione e la Ricerca
• Educativa (INDIRE) - Italy
• Educatio Tarsadalmi Szolgaltato Kozhasnu Tarsasag - Hungary
• Makash (Advancing CMC Applications in Education, Culture and Science) - Israel
• National Board of Education (Opetushallitus) - Finland
• Norwegian Board of Education - Norway
• Ministry of Education and Research - Norway
• Sun Microsystems - Belgium
• The Open University - UK
• Pôle Universitaire Européen de Nancy-Metz - France
• Fundación Universidad Empresa (FUE - UNED) - Spain
• Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (USTL - TRIGONE) - France
• Universiteit van Amsterdam - The Netherlands
• University of Helsinki - Finland
• University of Turku - Finland
• Werner Söderström Corporation - Finland