Title:	E-LEARNING IN EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES OF IMPLEMENTATION
Author(s):	Florin D. Salajan
ISBN:	978-972-8924-42-3
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen)
Year:	2007
Edition:	V I, 2
Keywords:	European e-learning, eLearning Programme, European Union higher education, European Union education policy, educational technology.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	299
Last Page:	306
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study conducted by the present author on the implications of the European Commission’s eLearning programmes for the higher education systems of the European Union’s Member States. The study takes a look behind the scenes of the eLearning Programme and other eLearning actions under other European programmes by tapping into the perceptions of academics at universities in the EU (in three principal countries – Germany, Portugal and Sweden and six secondary countries – Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom) who have participated in or have knowledge of the logistical and administrative burdens of European elearning projects. Through a series of in-depth open-ended interviews conducted on location, via the telephone or the web, the study investigates the interactions of academics and researchers with the European funding programmes in elearning. A number of interviews with members of the Commission offer an inside look into some of the practices that go into the drafting of the programmes and confer a “humanistic” perspective to the stern letter of the legal documentation. The personal accounts are used to build a “composite picture” of common themes related to the processes involved in developing and conducting e-learning projects under the eLearning Programme and other European programmes, shedding new light on the levels of initiative that go into the actual preparation of e-learning projects.
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