Our main objective is to help define a shared agenda for progressing towards a mature, well-established and sustainable TEL discipline, featuring:

1.    COHERENCE & SYNERGY: Improving coherence within the TEL research groups and various disciplines

• How should we best enhance synergy and cross-fertilisation, avoiding overlap, in TEL R&D and stakeholders’ consultation activities?
• What are the main channels, requirements, methodologies, and tools, for collecting relevant information about TEL research, technologies, TEL-industry, Education providers, and market needs?
• What are the main TEL challenges for the upcoming years and how can these be identified, assessed, and faced in a harmonized way?

2.    FACILITATION: Shared bodies of knowledge, and shared methodologies and instruments

• How to establish a de facto reference point and knowledge brokerage mechanism on TEL “intelligence” in Europe?
• How can we facilitate the provision of resources and opportunities to address the challenges and trends within TEL, providing recommendations to enhance TEL impact?
• In what ways can technology support the other objectives as well as wider communication of, participation in and adoption of TEL research? What development is required in this area? What has already been done (e.g. STELLAR Thesaurus, TLRP-TEL AnswerGarden, LearnLab Wiki)? How should such initiatives be supported? How can they be evaluated?

3.    ADOPTION: Anchoring with industry, education, business, policy makers, and other stakeholders, including those beyond the TEL field

• What needs and concerns have the stakeholders with respect to TEL research, implementation, adoption and sustainability?
• How to develop understandings in the broader non-academic community of the role, purpose and progress of the field of TEL
• What structural measures are required at the national and European level for supporting the maturation of the TEL discipline (organisation, funding, special actions, events, etcetera)?

This will be achieved by engaging existing TEL projects (i.e. Stellar, Gala, TELMap, and TLRP TEL), current networks and groups for research and networking, in a think-tank about TEL. Every project will provide a comprehensive view from its main topic, namely: TEL from Stellar, TEL and eGames from GALA, TEL and roadmapping from TELMap, and TEL and Teaching and Learning from the UK TLRP.

Last updated 328 days ago by Daniel Burgos.ATOS