EU –Projects on IT in Education with the ViS:AT as a project partner:
ATLAS@CERN: Learning with Atlas@Cern
Calibrate: Learning resources for schools
CerOrganic: Certify-Organic: "Quality-Certified Training of Farmers on Organic Agriculture"
Collage: Collaborative and Mobile Learning Platform Using Game-line Enhancements
COSMOS: An Advanced Scientific Repository for Science Teaching and Learning
Discover the Cosmos: e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom
Discovery Days: Advanced Technology meets Science and Culture: Using advanced technological applications to improve visitors
experience in museums, science centres and archaeological sites
ECB/Ingenius: European Coordinating Body / Ingenius
EDRENE: Education Repository Network
eQnet: Quality Network for a European Learning Resource Exchange
eSkills: ICT Skills
Games in Schools: Game Based Education
iClass: Intelligent Distributed Cognitive-based Open Learning System for Schools
Inlot: In the Lab of Tomorrow: A business case of using wearable computers and intelligent sensors in science education
Inspire: Innovative Science Pedaggogy in Research and Education
iTEC: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom
Key-Co-Net: European Policy Network on Key Competences in School Education
KLiC: Kicking Life into Classroom
LOT: Lab of Tomorrow
LRE: Learning Resource Exchange for Schools
MELT: Metadata Ecology for Learning and Teaching
Metaschool: Towards Teacher Competence on Metadata and Online Resources
OER: OER – The Pollen Project
Organic.Edunet: A Multilingual Federation of Learning Repositories with Quality Content for the Awareness and Education of
European Youth about Organic Agriculture and Agroecology
Open Discovery Space: Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the
adoption of eLearning resources
Open Science Resources: Towards the Development of a Common Digital Repository for Formal and Informal Science Education
P2V: Peer Learning Toolkit for Schools, Policy, Inspection
Pathway: The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching
PriSciNet: Networking Primary Science Educators as a means to provide training and professional development in Inquiry Based
Teaching
pSkills: Programming Skills Development in Secondary Education by means of Modern Educational Programming Languages
RUeNTER: RURALeNTER: Capacity Building through ICT in Rural Areas
SEE Science: Boosting innovation through capacity building and networking of science centres in the SEE region
Spice / Scientix: Scientix: The Community for Science Education in Europe
SPICE: Creating a Science Pedagogy Innovation Centre for Europe
STEPS: Study of the impact of Technology in Primary Schools
U4energy: The European School Challenge: Contest „How to save Energy“
Wirtschaftliche Brücke: Sprachoffensive
Contact Information:
Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture, IT Systems for Educational Purposes
Elisabeth Zistler, elisabeth.zistler@bmukk.gv.at
Phone: 0043 (1) 531 20 - 35 39, Fax: 0043 (1) 531 20 - 35 35
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IT in Education
EU Projects on the Use of IT in Education
Information about EU Projects Results and Products
Europe focuses on
education and, hence,
promotes numerous
projects, which are
accessible free of charge
to everybody and
everywhere!
Pedagogical Scenarios
Practical Guidelines Step
by Step
Training materials
additional:
Workshops
Thousands of
resources are available
on different web portals
for free or on "Creative
Commons".
ViS:TV
numerous
documentation and
presentation videos of
the Virtual School
http://www.virtuellesch
ule.at/vis-tv
Our Target Groups:
Teachers
Students
Teacher trainers
Museum educators
Researchers
In our projects
we develop:
Learning objects
Learning modules
Learning courses
Learning scenarios
Educational pathways
and many more.
VIS:AT – an efficient partner in EU projects
The Virtual School Austria has participated in EU projects since 1997 on the use of IT in education and is an
efficient partner in developing digital teaching and learning resources and innovative mobile applications –
together with more than 293 different partner organizations from more than 27 countries:
Learning paths for museums, science centres and schools: pre-visit – visit – post-visit
Access and investigate the unique scientific content in European science centres and science
museums with the innovative tools provided by the OpenScienceResources project!
The OSR-portal http://www.orsportal.eu offers numerous educational resources, e. g. learning
scenarios and learning objects on science-oriented questions, animations, lesson plans, videos etc.
Get to know physics by “MoX – mobile experiments”, mobile applications including information, simulations,
experiments and many more related to physical phenomena.
Inquiry-based learning: Learning natural science by the use of innovative sensors in everyday objects
Below there are a few examples of the variety of the materials created in our projects:
Particle physics, particle accelerator, …
The ATLAS@Cern project is connected to the ATLAS experiment of the European Organization for
Nuclear Research (CERN), where research on particle physics is done by means of the world´s
greatest detector for particle collisions. The LearningwithATLAS web portal
http://www.learningwithatlas-portal.eu, an experimental lab for pupils, teachers and visitors of
natural-scientific museums, includes 43 learning scenarios, numerous learning objects and resources
on particle physics and natural science. Gain information about the most important subranges of modern physics
everywhere and quickly by moCERN, which gives support with 22 mobile learning applications:
http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil
CERN Blended Learning Course: http://www.virtuelleschule.at/moodle
Astronomy, mathematics, physics, …
COSMOS offers about 80.000 digital learning resources on astronomy, physics and mathematics for
classroom, among others:
Cosmos Portal: http://www.cosmosportal.eu, containing high quality learning objects and learning
scenarios on astronomy, mathematics and physics (e. g. interactive labor booklets)
Manuals and training documents on http://www.virtuelleschule.at/moodle
Mobile COSMOS (MoCo) – mobile applications: http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil
Discover the Cosmos, the follower project of Cosmos und Atlas@Cern, offers tools and services (e. g.
robotic telescopes, image processing for astronomic data, analytical tools for particle collissions) as
well as access to all content portals: http://www.discoverthecosmos.eu
KLiC enables students to combine scientific research and activities of everyday life (playing, sports,
etc.) by use of innovative tools like intelligent sensors that are integrated in everyday objects (e. g.
clothing, ball, wrist strap, etc.). Information on tests with sensors, videos and inquiry-based
scenarios (http://www.ea.gr/ep/klic/scenarios.asp), including learning objects, work sheets and
lesson plans, on science-oriented topics (e. g. velocity and acceleration while parachute jumping,
during roller coaster rides, etc.) are available for all who want to kick life into the classroom.
Training modules for beginners and advanced: Learning of computer knowledge
RUeNTER offers possibilities to education and training in the field of information technology and
communication (ICT) and facilitates access to ICT services to persons of all ages, however, especially
to people in rural regions.
RURALeNTER training portal: http://www.ruralenter.eu
RUeNTER moodle course: http://www.virtuelleschule.at/moodle
What are e-content, copyright, WAI, ..:? Basic information for all
With the Wiki-manual “Smile of eLearning” http://www.virtuelleschule.at/wiki which was compiled
in cooperation with teachers and experts from educational institutions, INSPIRE offers information
about topics like “What is a learning object?”, the application of learning objects in lessons and
educational methods, the influence of learning objects on the pupils’ motivation, etc.
Scratch self learning course, construction of animations, simulations, …
The project "pSkills" deals with the development and collection of curricula to computer languages.
The free graphic computer language SCRATCH is used here, furthermore learning scenarios and
training scenarios are available. Children, youngsters and program beginners learn to program in an
easy way, to develop games, interactive stories, animations and many other multimedia
applications. http://www.virtuelleschule.at/scratch
Metadata, Social Web, eContent-Database – Teacher Training
Training for bio-consultants on organic farming, agro-ecology, …
CerOrganic provides a quality-certified training program for bio-consultants and instructors in the
field of agro-ecology, based on the European Framework for Quality Assurance (EQARF). The
CerOrganic training program combines traditional teaching methods and ICT-based pedagogical
methods with online teaching resources and enables bio-consultants to acquire the necessary skills
for advising farmers on organic agriculture.
CerOrganic training portal for teacher trainers: http://cerorganic.moleportal.eu/
Blended learning course for Austrian bio-consultants: http://www.virtuelleschule.at/moodle
METASCHOOL provides an innovative training program, consisting of 21 modules, for teachers and
ICT-custodians on subjects in connections with the organization, the exchange, the use and re-use of
digital learning resources, which can be accessed online by learning repositories:
http://www.ea.gr/ep/metaschool/training.asp
Mobile Learning – Learning independently of place and time
“Mobile learning” means learning at any place with portable devices, like notebooks / netbooks, tablet
PCs, PDAs, mobile phones or smartphones (flash able). Find more information:
http://www.virtuelleschule.at/mobil
Online-collections of educational resources on organic agriculture, agro-ecology
With Organic. Edunet, access and use of digital educational content in the field of biological
agriculture and agro-ecology gets easier. The Organic.Edunet web portal
http://portal.organicedunet.eu/ contains more than 10.000 learning resources like learning
scenarios and learning objects for the use in classroom.
Organic.Edunet confolio: http://confolio.virtuelleschule.bmukk.gv.at
Further information on results and products from EU projects can be found on:
http://www.virtuelleschule.at