CANDLE : AN EUROPEAN E-EDUCATION PROJECT TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING ON THE INTERNET

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CANDLE (Cooperative And Network Distributed Learning Environment) is a new European project supported by European Telecommunications Schools members of EUNICE, and others partners as: BT, IOE, Siemens, . . . The project is supported by the EC within the IST Program. The objective of this project is to use the Internet to improve the quality and reduce the cost of ICT teaching in Europe by using web and multimedia technology, and to enable co-operation between universities and industry in creating and reusing learning materials and improving the quality of delivery. However, the proposed system is not designed to constrain the freedom of academics and trainers to develop their own courseware. The use of component architectures, toolkits and pedagogical frameworks that allow individual teachers to combine course objects to create their own courses designed to meet their learners particular needs. The results of the project will be course modules and complete courses on ICT topics, as well as tools to support the creation, delivery and organization of courses. The results will be available to all European universities, industry as well as small and medium enterprises under the “open courseware” license CANDLE is supported by the European Commission (IST-5 Framework Program), code: IST–1999-11726.