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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
 
As a subset of e-learning, ‘tLearning’ or ‘learning through interactive digital television’ (IDTV) can prove highly beneficial to regions where access to internet-enabled computers is significantly low. Research reveals that the large majority of today’s households own a television rather than a computer. In the context of Latin-America these numbers are even more critical: while 95% of the Brasilian households have a television, less then 20% owns an internet-enabled computer. For the lowest economic classes (D and E) access to computers or internet is even lower than 2%. The exploitation of this potential is therefore undeniably important for the implementation of relevant educational policies. It is in this context that BEACON aims to go beyond the present state of the art of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).
 
BEACON is a specific targeted research project on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) that will develop innovative t-learning pilot services related to social inclusion in the State of Sao Paulo ([[Brazil]]) on the basis of pioneering research on interoperability between the European (DVB) and the Brazilian (SBTVD) Digital Terrestrial Television standards and the definition of a pedagogically sound methodology for distance learning through digital television. Ultimately the project will result in the establishment of a Brazilian-European Consortium that will manage the exploitation of the assets and the services implemented by the project.


== Outcomes ==
== Outcomes ==

Revision as of 21:13, 22 May 2009

The Brazilian-European Consortium for DTT Services (BEACON) project was selected in 2006, and funded from 1 January 2007 until 31 March 2010 by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority IST.

The BEACON web site is at http://www.beacon-dtt.com/


Summary

As a subset of e-learning, ‘tLearning’ or ‘learning through interactive digital television’ (IDTV) can prove highly beneficial to regions where access to internet-enabled computers is significantly low. Research reveals that the large majority of today’s households own a television rather than a computer. In the context of Latin-America these numbers are even more critical: while 95% of the Brasilian households have a television, less then 20% owns an internet-enabled computer. For the lowest economic classes (D and E) access to computers or internet is even lower than 2%. The exploitation of this potential is therefore undeniably important for the implementation of relevant educational policies. It is in this context that BEACON aims to go beyond the present state of the art of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT). BEACON is a specific targeted research project on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) that will develop innovative t-learning pilot services related to social inclusion in the State of Sao Paulo (Brazil) on the basis of pioneering research on interoperability between the European (DVB) and the Brazilian (SBTVD) Digital Terrestrial Television standards and the definition of a pedagogically sound methodology for distance learning through digital television. Ultimately the project will result in the establishment of a Brazilian-European Consortium that will manage the exploitation of the assets and the services implemented by the project.

Outcomes

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