Horizontal E-Learning Integrated Observation System

The Horizontal E-Learning Integrated Observation System (HELIOS) was selected in 2004, and funded from 1 January 2005 until 31 December 2006 by the European Commission - DG Education & Culture under the eLearning programme.

The HELIOS web site is at http://www.education-observatories.net/helios

Summary

HELIOS aimed, in collaboration with the European Commission, to establish and consolidate a sustainable observation platform able to dynamically monitor the progress of e-Learning in Europe vis-à-vis policy objectives and to forecast future scenarios of e-Learning evolution, thus closing the gap between the large amount of "fragmentary" data existing today about e-Learning policies, practices, research and market and the need for understandable, usable and coherent policy-related information by European national and local policy makers.

HELIOS aimed at observing the state of development of eLearning and the impact of eLearning on the following thematic policy priorities:

• Access to learning
• Employability
• Personal development/citizenship
• Internationalisation of Education and Training
• Organisational change
• Innovation of Education and Training

HELIOS therefore set up a reporting mechanism that produced reports every four months based on desk research and on a set of extensive surveys carried on with the support of Cedefop's electronic training village.

Outcomes

HELIOS organised 6 seminars and produced 6 thematic reports on the following themes:

• eLearning and Access
• eLearning and Employability,
• eLearning and Personal Development-Citizenship,
• eLearning and Internationalisation of Education & Training,
• eLearning and Organisational Change,
• eLearning and Innovation of Education & Training.

Reports can be downloaded at http://www.education-observatories.net/helios/reports/ More information on the seminars can be downloaded at http://www.education-observatories.net/helios/Seminars/

The Executive Summary of the HELIOS Yearly Report 2007 ‘e-Learning for Innovation’ presents the final results of the HELIOS Project is available at http://www.menon.org/menon/publications/HELIOS%20thematic%20report-%20Access.pdf

Partners

• MENON - Belgium - Co-ordinator
• SCIENTER - Italy
• LF, Lambrakis Research Foundation - Greece
• Alphametrics - UK
• ISFOL, Istituto per lo Sviluppo della Formazione dei Lavoratori - Italy
• EDEN - Hungary
• FIM-NewLearning,Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Germany

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