"Multimedia Educational Software" Task Force: Call For Expression of Interest

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

"Multimedia Educational Software" Task Force

Brussels, June 9th, 1995

Call For Expression of Interest

Note of Information

Please, find in Annex 1, the text of the "Call for expression of interest" published on next June 15th, in the Official Journal. The following documents should help you to participate in this call, if you wish.

1. The Questionnaire "Information on Respondent" is joined in ANNEX II.
2.The Form "Expression of Interest" is joined in ANNEX III.
3. The Questionnaire and the Form have been designed for easy and quick filling in.
To facilitate the exploitation of answers, you are kindly requested:

to type your answer;
to complete the Questionnaire "Information on Respondent";
for each of your suggestion, please fill in a separate "Expression of Interest" Form.

4. Please, mail all the questionnaires and forms in TWO copies before the official deadline JULY 25th, 1995. 5. Please, find below, a list of examples. They have been numbered in order to facilitate the exploitation of the answers. Of course, the list is not exhaustive and items "Others" have been foreseen. Please do not forget to put in the "Expression of Interest" answer box, the relevant reference number characterising your suggestion. For instance, indicate the reference 1.5 if your suggestion deals with RTD programmes and more precisely on "Development and adaptation of the content of educational multimedia software, which is distributed on telematic networks". Indicate the reference 2.3. if your suggestion deals with the "Support for the creation and production of multimedia educational software" but neither the item 2.1. nor 2.2. apply

LIST OF EXAMPLES

I. Ideas in the Field of Research, Development and Demonstration (RDD)

1.1.: New tasks to be carried out within the framework established by the decisions concerning specific technological research and development programmes (TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, targeted socio-economic research).
1.2.: Tools and methods for creating and producing multimedia pedagogical applications, aimed principally at reducing costs and lead-times.
1.3.: Improve access to digitized sources, and their use in production of multimedia educational software.
1.4.: Assist the taking into account of linguistic and cultural differences in the design of multimedia educational software.
1.5.: Development and adaptation of the content of educational multimedia software, which is distributed on telematic networks.
1.6.: Linking education and training institutions in experimental networks.
1.7.: Development and demonstration concerning multimedia applications and presenting a particular interest at European level in the fields of education and training, whatever their content may be ( history, music, geography, mathematics, etc) or the section of the public for whom it is intended (general public, teachers, training centres, enterprises,)
1.8.: RDD Activities on the integration of multimedia educational software in education and training whether destined for individual or group use. For example, in specific professional contexts such as tele-working and tele-placement or for specific section of the public such as handicapped people.
1.9.: RDD Activities on the current learning environments in which multimedia software is used for education and training.
1.10.: RDD Activities on learning methods enabled by the use of multimedia tools, and on the pedagogical methods which are most appropriate for different user profiles.
1.11.: Activities aiming to examine the process dimension of education from the point of view of quality and standards.
1.12.: Other RDD Activities.

II. Support for the creation and production of multimedia educational software

2.1.: Support of the creation of training modules intended for the designers of multimedia education software.
2.2.: Support for European cooperation, between those who have content available for use in multimedia, creators, producers, editors and users in the areas of design, production and cultural adaptation (language used, content).
2.3.: Other support activities.

III. Stimulating the use of multimedia educational software

3.1.: Stimulating the use of educational software which schools, colleges, universities or training centres could exchange at European level, either by telematic networks or other methods.
3.2.: Integrating multimedia educational software into different European training and education systems (by level, subjects, and professional activities concerned).
3.3.: Quality issues in the delivery of Education and Training, using multimedia software.
3.4.: Other stimulation activities.

IV. Awareness-raising and diffusion

4.1.: Improve, at European level, information on - and evaluation of - products and services available (quality, and possibilities for use)
4.2.: Encourage cooperation and experience-exchange between European user organizations.
4.3.: Improvement of initial and continuous training of teachers and trainers in the manipulation and use of multimedia tools for pedagogical purposes.
4.4.: Facilitate access by various categories of users to multimedia educational software (whether this is by telematic networks or on a local basis).
4.5.: Other awareness-raising activities.

V. Other Activities.

ANNEX I

MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE:
CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Announcement published in the Official Journal of the European Union issued June 15th, 1995

The Commission recently set up a "Multimedia Educational Software" Task Force, whose job is to identify joint projects of industrial interest which will mobilize the relevant partners in the Member States.

Funding will be available from European programmes which have already been adopted, such as the 4th framework programme of research and technological development (Telematic Applications, Information Technologies, Targeted Socio-economic Research) and the education and training programmes (Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci), and from programmes currently being adopted (Media 2, INFO 2000, Raphael).

This call is addressed to all individuals, institutions or undertakings involved in producing, using or disseminating multimedia educational software. The aim is to gather ideas for initiatives of European interest which, in the short and medium term, could help develop the European market in such software, improve its quality and adapt it to the needs of users, including children. These joint projects could strike a particular chord in 1996, which is to be the European year of lifelong education and training.

Replies must arrive before the 25th of July 1995 in 2 copies at the following address:

ANNEX II

MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

INFORMATION ON RESPONDENT

                          Organisation references

Name of organisation:...........................................................................................

Address:........................................................................................................

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Postcode:........................................ Country:......................................................


Name of the contact person:..............................................................................

Title..........Name...........................................Forename..........................................

Telephone:     Country code...................... Area code.................Local number .......................

Fax number:    Country code...................... Area code......................Local number ..................

E-mail:......................................................



                          Type of organisation


Educational establishment:                NO      YES             (please circle)

Training establishment:
     * External Training provider         NO      YES
     * In-house Training department       NO      YES

Organisation and companies involved in the design, development, production, distribution, 
evaluation of multimedia educational software.

     design:        NO       YES             development:       NO      YES
     production:    NO       YES             distribution:      NO      YES
     evaluation:    NO       YES             others (specify): .................................................

Other type of organization (please specify): ...................................................................
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ANNEX III