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L3 Lifelong Learning - Continuing Education and Training as a Basic Need
Lead manager: CEC Karlsruhe, the European research centre of SAP AG, 18 sub-projects
Funding: 0 14.62 million
The funding period for this project ended on December 31, 2002.
The objective of this project - which has been concluded - was to create an organizational and technical infrastructure in the form of an e-learning service centre for lifelong continuing education and training (CET). The aim here was to supplement existing, effective forms of learning with new forms of learning. This led to a concept for an integrated multimedia-based service for education and training. Rather than directly targeting learners, the CET service infrastructure developed in the project was aimed right from the start at CET institutions which cultivate contact with learners as their customers. Blended learning - the mixing and educationally constructive supplementation of innovative and tried and tested forms of learning - is the fundamental principle behind the L3 service infrastructure.
This infrastructure was set up and tested in a pilot model. Several learning centres which are operated by established CET facilities - including the CJD Maximiliansau, the Dortmund and Dresden Berufsförderungswerke, the DGB Bildungswerk in Düsseldorf, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences and the Free Academy in Bonn - were affiliated with the new service centre.
The L3 project generated numerous products through its various participants. The findings from this project will be used in several other projects such as the WIBA-Net and ALBA projects which are funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research; the Virtual Medical Campus (VMC 2003) project which receives its funding from Austria's Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture; and the DASSIE and ADP projects in South Africa which the Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) funds. Work is currently underway on expanding the L3 master concept, using products from the project's technology partners for the technical foundation.
