Policy Context and Legal Framework

Regional policy of IT support in schools

Implementation and Management Approach

The implementation has been following a progressive trend, starting from pilot experiments, and expanding thanks to best practices shows followed by call for proposals.

Technology solution

The technology used is a role-based access control Learning Management System to foster secure exchange of audio files and a set of classic portable MP3 devices for recording and listening.

The whole system is relying on an Open Source PHP/My SQL learning management system, "ILIAS Open Source", and on low-cost mp3 portable players.

Impact

The added value lies in the creation of autonomous working moments for audiences who were until then prevented from accessing to any kind of personal homework tools. The impact, which is still currently assessed by an advisory group of experts, is especially sensible in pedagogical and psychological fields:

- The pupils are much more confident when starting a new task since the audio record of the lesson is acting as a ‘security net’ that can be referred to as many times as necessary.

- Pedagogically, the access to the contents allows the child to undertake the activities with the same chances as his peers and to go through the whole learning process.

Track record of sharing

Four public meetings and explanation web pages have been developed

Lessons learnt

Lesson 1 - The project is quickly efficient;

Lesson 2 - it is not pedagogical-context sensitive, since it deals with universal needs;

Lesson 3 - It does not ask for previous state the art expertise and can be developed with tiny budgets.