The SEGAN (Serious Games Network) will create a Community of Practice on the Serious Games subject. The main objective is to create a stable (but expanding) consortium to exchange ideas and experiences related to Serious Games. This network will be supported by virtual tools and face to face events, in order to increase the visibility and awareness of the benefits and impacts of Serious Games for learning, and contribute to its uptake and efficient use.

This network methodology is mostly based on the design and development of the tools that support the Community of Practice and develop it into a full grown European Association. Therefore tasks relate, on one side, on the development of the Community (research, design and develop) and, on the other side, focus on the dissemination of the network and getting new members to join. In parallel there will be the project management and quality assurance.

Status: Ongoing

Project Website: Coming soon

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Remote-labs access in Internet-based Performance-centred Learning Environment for Curriculum Support
Programa ERASMUS: Acción Multilateral – 517836-LLP-1-2011-1-ES-ERASMUS-ESMO

The aim of the project is the definition and development of a telematics based European infrastructure and organisation for ICT curriculum providing a range of co-authoring, co-learning, simulation- and laboratory practice-based learning facilities.

The RIPLECS project aims at adapting the DIPSEIL system to enable real-world experiments remotely in an e-learning context of “Information and Communication Systems (ICS)” curriculum: Identification of user needs in practical ICT education and translation into functional specifications of Remote-labs access in Internet-based Performance-centred Learning Environment for Curriculum Support (RIPLECS).

Status: Ongoing

Project Website: http://riplecs.dipseil.net/index.php

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The Serious Sports project aims to develop a digital sports game and reusable framework that will offer sports/fitness coaches the opportunity to simulate the physical conditioning, training content and structure in different (training) seasons for a European-wide sparring sport.

The project will seek to provide resources and self-assessment techniques as part of this digital sports game to support coaches, vocational teachers and others involved in sports through game based learning and reinforcement techniques.

The project also intends to research, enhance and promote the use of game based learning in all areas of sport and support the recognition and evaluation of social, communication and organizational skills acquired in all possible learning scenarios.

Status: Ongoing

Project Website: Serious Sports

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The SME 2.0 project intends to establish online training for European Small and Medium Enterprises based on the transferred methodology from SMELearning LdV project (smelearning.eu), with strong focus on the special characteristics and needs of the SMEs. The training will be delivered through a successful collaborative e-learning solution, developed in the TENEGEN LdV project (tenegen.eu ), to support heavy collaboration and knowledge sharing among the managers and employees of European SMEs, and to recognize the business potential of the newest open source web based tools, and establish a space for a business oriented community of practice.

Status: Ongoing

Project Website: http://sme2.prompt.hu/en

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The aim of the SIMS project is to transfer skills required to be a Social Media Networker to the ECQA training & certification process. This will provide a technological and methodological strategy for online learning assessment, recognition, facilitation and qualification for this job role.

The project includes:

• Development of an online accredited programme of study for the job role of a social media networker.
• Piloting of the programme in all participating member states of the project and refinement of the programme based on systematic feedback.
• Dissemination of the project results via a range of channels including a major conference and special issues in journals.
• Ensuring the sustainability of the project and its outputs through the European Certificates Association and other bodies.

Status: Ongoing

Project Website: Coming Soon

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For additional information on the ECQA, see the ECQA website and DEUCERT blog

This project involved the design of an informative web site for the GreenHealthcare Programme – the aim of which is to promote the project and encourage participation from Healthcare establishments around Ireland. Work was performed on behalf of project partners – Clean Technology Centre Cork.

Status: Completed September 2011

Project Website: http://www.greenhealthcareprogramme.ie

The Ed4Life Structured PhD programme is a support for PhD students to achieve the best possible experience of graduate research and training and to make a substantial and original contribution to knowledge through original research outputs.

DEIS was commissioned to design a logo for the Ed4Life Programme as well as shooting a brief video overview with one Hugh McGlynn that is now online.

URL: http://www.cit.ie/ed4life

Status: Complete September 2011

The aim of the European Innovation and Certification Association Online Training School (EU Certificates Campus) was build an online learning system for training organisations from 14 European countries. This has since progressed to the European Certificates and Qualification Association, a non-for-profit association, which joins institutions and several thousands of professionals from all over the Europe and abroad by providing a world-wide unified certification schema for numerous professions. The EUCERT project was instrumental to the setting up of the ECQA.

Status: Completed

Project Web Site: http://www.eu-certificates.org/

For additional information on the ECQA, see the ECQA website and DEUCERT blog

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The NDLR is a HEA funded pilot project between 21 HEA funded partners. The NDLR project is establishing a framework to enable the development and sharing of digital learning resources between the seven Universities of Ireland and the Institutes of Technology. DEIS is involved in creating learning resources for the repository under the subject of educational technology for higher education. Resources created so far include:

• animations illustrating pedagogical concepts
• instructional videos
• infographics to explain complex processes
• mobile-friendly educational resources targeted by QR Codes
• podcasts

DEIS has also created a community site for the Technology Enhanced Learning Community of Practice and continues to maintain and produce a range of learning objects for the project as a whole.

NDLR – Local Innovation Projects (LIPS)
The Local Innovation Projects (LIPs) are institutional projects funded by the NDLR to allow for the creation of reusable resources to support teaching and learning. LIPs projects created by DEIS during the 2010/11 funding period include a video tutorial to teach core skills in the Tourism, Hospitality and Culinary sector; an interactive Maths resource for reinforcement; and demonstrations on the use of Web 2.0 tools in Education.

NDLR – Learning Innovation Community Support Projects (LInCS)
The Learning Innovation Community Support Projects (LInCS) are collaborative projects between the Universities and IoTs to develop larger scale reusable learning resources. LInCS projects created during the past funding year include “Exercise to Music and Anatomy and Physiology Assessment Tools” which was coordinated by DEIS. The key concept of this project was to address the need for Rich Media Learning Resources in the area of Sports and Health.

Click here to view some of the resources created in Cork Institute of Technology.

Project Website: To find out more about Cork Institute of Technology’s NDLR projects, visit the NDLR web site here.

DEIS is the primary technical partner in this major trans-national project which aims to develop a Social Networking Platform and integrated digital repository solution to support language learning in the Public Sector. Partners in this project include Salamanca University Spain and ECLAP along with a number of Central and Eastern European partners.

Status: Ongoing

Project Website: http://dev.myelvin.org/

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Promotional Video: This was a promotional video developed for the project pilot.