ELeGI: The European Learning Grid Infrastructure

Matteo Gaeta (1) , Pierluigi Ritrovato (1) , Saverio Salerno (2)

1 CRMPA - Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata [Salerno]
2 Università degli Studi di Salermo

The purpose of this paper is to describe the ELeGI Project1. ELeGI has the ambitious goal of developing software technologies for effective human learning and promoting and supporting a learning paradigm shift. A new paradigm focused on knowledge construction using experimental based and collaborative learning approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way will replace the current information transfer paradigm focused on content and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides information. We have chosen a synergic approach, sometimes called "human centred design", to replace the classical, applicative approach to learning. With consideration of humans at the centre, learning is clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic Virtual Communities: experimental research concepts integrating new powerful development of services in the Semantic GRID, the leading edge of currently available and future ICT technologies, with highly innovative and powerfully significant scenarios of human learning.

Keywords: learning grids; technology enhanced learning (TEL); grid technologies; grid architectures; grid infrastructures; complex problem solving

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Technology for Human Learning

Matteo Gaeta, Pierluigi Ritrovato, Saverio Salerno. ELeGI: The European Learning Grid Infrastructure. 3rd International LeGE-WG Workshop: GRID Infrastructure to Support Future Technology Enhanced Learning, Berlin, Germany. 3 December, 2003, 2003, Berlin, Germany. pp.9. ⟨hal-00190460⟩