International Project Meeting at SJTU E-Learning Lab: ROLE General Assembly
From June 7th to June 9th, the e-learning lab of Shanghai Jiao Tong University welcomes the leading European research teams in Technology-Enhanced Learning on its premises to attend the ROLE General Assembly. The FP7 Integrated Project ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) is a 4-year-project investigating pedagogical and technological frameworks for truly personalized learning.
The General Assembly kicked off with a presentation of Prof. Shen about the history and current research of the e-learning lab and the SJTU School of Continuing Education. Then, each workpackage presented ongoing work and raised topics for discussion. The direction of further work was laid out in the internal project Reflect (targeting evaluation), Enchantment (increasing developer outreach) and Gunpowder (next ROLE technology-development milestone).
The ROLE project aims to develop a framework for truly learner-centered personal learning environments (PLEs) consisting of a mix of preferred learning tools, learning services, learning resources and other related technologies and empowering the user for true lifelong learning across institutional boundaries. During the project time ROLE delivers and tests prototypes of highly responsive Personal Learning Environments, ensuring effectiveness, flexibility, user-control, and mass-individualization.
The General Assembly included a visit to the SJTU School of Continuing Education, and a discussion with students and teacher to allow the ROLE partners to get a deeper understanding of Chinese learning and teaching culture, and of modern Chinese distant education.
The e-learning lab of SJTU welcomed partners from
- Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Information Technology - FIT, Germany
- RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Technical University of Graz – TUG, Austria
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- Uppsala University, Sweden
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL, Switzerland
- University of Leicester, United Kingdom
- Open University UK – UKOU, United Kingdom
- Festo Lernzentrum Saar GmbH, Germany
- IMC Information Multimedia Communication AG, IMC – Germany
- The British Institute for Learning and Development – BILD, United Kingdom
- Centre for Social Innovation – ZSI, Austria
For more information on the ROLE project, please visit the project’s website at http://www.role-project.eu. If you want to contribute your ideas and solutions on how personal learning environments can be used to improve efficiency and effectiveness of life-long learning approaches, please cooperate with us by joining the ROLE Alliance Program.