Conferences
First Conference 22-23 November 2004 in Bruxelles
100 experts and school representatives were invited to discuss good pedagogical use of ICT in schools. The project covered transportation, accommodation and meals for these 100 participants. Additional participants had to pay these expenses themselves.
Each of the ELFE-schools was invited to send two free participants to this conference and each ETUCE-union was invited to send one representative with hotel and transportation paid (within a limit).
Programme and presentations can be downloaded from the list below.
One school from each country gave a presentation of their innovative work using ICT in education. You can see these presentations by selecting 'Schools Involved' from the menu on the left.
Second ELFE Conference: 21-22 November 2005 in Copenhagen
68 experts and teachers' union representatives from 23 countries discussed the ELFE findings and suggestions for a Union-policy on the use of ICT in schools and suggestions to EU-policy on the same matter.
Program and presentations can be downloaded from the file list below.
2nd Conference: Papers and Speakers' presentations
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| Presentation by Eileen Brennan Freeman Eileen Brennan Freeman is Senior Researcher at CRITE - Centre for Research in IT in Education, Trinity College, and a teacher at Greendale Community School, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5, Ireland |
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| Presentation by Hans Laugesen: ELFE-project: Aims and Approach Hans Laugesen is ELFE project coordinator, employed by GL, Denmark as International Secretary and Educational Policy Officer |
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| Presentation by Tjeerd Plomp: ELFE findings: analysis of practices and experiences in schools Professor Tjeerd Plomp is ELFE project evaluator. He has recently retired from Twente University, Holland |
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| Presentation by Claus Gregersen: ICT in education - changing working methods and work load for stude Claus Gregersen, teacher at Herning Gymnasium, Denmark, is a former ministerial inspector and advisor on ICT in education in upper secondary schools. |
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| Presentation by Ulf Fredriksson: the draft ETUCE policy paper on ICT in Education Ulf Fredriksson, for many years educational advisor in Educational International is now employed at The European Commission's Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning (CRELL), Ispra, Italy. |
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| Presentation by Elsebeth Sorensen (and Gunilla Jedeskog): Teachers and Innovative use of ICT - A Mar Elsebeth Sorensen and Gunilla Jedeskog are pedagogical experts in the ELFE-project. Elsebeth Sorensen is Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication, Aalborg University, Denmark. Gunilla Jedeskog is a Senior Lecturer at Linköping Univ., Sweden |
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| Tjeerd Plomb: ELFE Summary of project and findings This text summary is the version that was distributed at the opening of the 2. ELFE Conference. |
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| Ulf Fredriksson: Draft ETUCE policy paper on the use of ICT in Education This version is the text that was presented as a working paper at the opening of the 2. ELFE Conference. After the debate during the Conference the paper will be amended and an edited version will replace this draft. |
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| How learning is Changing, 9 recommendations by EENet The recommendations by EENet/Becta were cited by Eileen Brennan Freeman during her presentation at the conference. |
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| Report from the Second ELFE Conference |
1st Conference: Speakers' presentation
| Presentation by Ms. Maruja Gutiérrez Díaz Ms. Díaz is Head of Unit Multimedia for Education, Training and Culture, DG Education, EU Commission |
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| Handout by Dr. Joke Voogt |
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| Presentation by Dr. Joke Voogt Dr. Joke Voogt comes from Twente University, The Netherlands |
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| Presentation by Dr. Bernard Cornu Dr. Cornu is the Head of ICT Department of INRP (National Institute for Pegagogical Research), Lyon, France |
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| Presentation by Dr. Daithí Ó Murchú Dr. Daithí Ó Murchú is director of instructional design at Hibernia College, Ireland |
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| Presentation by Dr. Ola Erstad Dr. Erstad comes from Oslo University, Norway |
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| Presentation by Hans Laugesen Hans Laugesen is the project coordinator for ELFE |
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| Presentation by prof. Tjeerd Plomb Preliminary observation after the ELFE school visits by the ELFE-project's external evaluator/critical friend, prof. Tjeerd Plomb, Twente University, the Netherlands. |
1st Conference: Invitation, registration and programme:
| Draft agenda in English Draft agenda for the first ELFE conference 22.-23.11.04 in Bruxelles |
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| Draft agenda in French |
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| Invitation letter to First Conference in English |
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| Invitation letter to First Conference in French |
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| Invitation to ELFE schools in English |
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| Invitation to ELFE schools in French |
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| Report from the First ELFE conference |