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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