Traduction de «Distance education technology » (Anglais → Français) :

ACTION 5: "MINERVA" OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION

5". open and distance learning" means any form of flexible education, whether or not involving the use of information and communication technologies.

information and communication technologies and open and distance education and learning.

Facts and Figures on the Open and Distance Teaching Universities in Europe In annex to the Communication, extensive information is given on the different Open and Distance Teaching Universities in Europe, associated in the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), which has been established in 1987 by the Principals of the European open and distance teaching institutions of higher education, and provides a structure for multilateral collaboration, in particular in the fields of course and credit transfer, joint c ...[+++]ourse development and the development of new educational technology for higher distance education/.

Modern Technology for Education An important part of the Communication is devoted to the impact of new information and communication technologies on the development of distance education.

Centred on schools (there are more than 300 000 pre-school, primary and secondary education establishments in the Community), which are one of the main places for exchanges and contacts between the various people involved in education, and implemented by means of projects and transnational cooperation networks, Community measures in the field of education could be based on the following points: - encouraging cooperation between education establishments by means of, for example, mobility and exchanges of young people, providing them with the opportunity to encounter different environments; - making teachers and other people involved in e ...[+++]ducation more aware of the European dimension in education during their training and, to this end, encouraging cooperation and exchanges between training institutes in different Member States; - developing language teaching, thereby increasing mobility vis-à-vis other countries and the possibility of communicating with other cultures, strengthening Community action to this end on the basis of experience acquired through the Lingua programme, and encouraging the development of teaching materials; - encouraging greater exploitation of the possibilities offered by distance education and multimedia systems to help young people adapt to occupational developments or, where necessary, retraining, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge; - promoting educational innovations and their dissemination by encouraging the establishment at European level of networks of researchers into education and training requirements and methodologies; provisions to this end are set out in the proposal for the fourth framework programme of Community activities in the field of research and technological development; - strengthening exchanges of information and experience relating to the education systems and methodologies of Member States, their reforms and innovations, and thereby profiting from the considerable knowledge acquired through the work of the ...