Kaleidoscope

The Kaleidoscope project deals with concepts and methods for studying future learning using digital technologies. A crucial challenge for e-Europe is the transformation of information into usable and manageable knowledge, which individuals, societies and institutions can learn and share in various ways across Europe, and which overcomes cultural differences. Despite the rapid proliferation of communication networks, the abundance of digital content and the rise of ubiquitous computers, the people of the knowledge society are still unable to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by these technologies to enhance their quality of life. Too many existing e-Learning environments mainly produce old and therefore limited learning paradigms usable for a technology belonging to a bygone era. They are incapable of producing a fundamental transformation in the ways in which people learn and construct knowledge. Social theorists have long warned of the dangers of a post-modern world: fragmentation, nuisance, loss of identity and society, and various problems associated with globalization. The Kaleidoscope project believes that proactive research can steer digital technologies towards a greater benefit for European citizens and that on the basis of relevant topics of a socio-technological nature, a closer collaboration between researchers from a wide range of fields, which includes designers, educators, semioticians, computer science scientists, sociologists and economists. This will place the learner at the center of what we do. But learning is situated. The "learner" is not a single entity: he or she learns at school, at home, and at work: the learner shifts throughout his or her life. Each domain requires that we conceptualize new concepts and methods for the design and implementation of well-adapted learning environments. Thus, Kaleidoscope's competencies must include the main domains that contribute to the development of e-Learning in the long term, from psychology and education to technology with its various components from software to hardware research, system and knowledge organization, networking, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence.

Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Grant Holder, Faculty of Humanities, E-learning lab, Department of Communication
Raudaskoski, P. L., Project Participant
Sorensen, E. K., Project Participant
Ryberg, T., Project participant
Buus, L., Project participant
Øhrstrøm, P., Project participant
Bygholm, A., Project participant
Nyvang, T., Project participant
Larsen, M. C., Project Participant
Vargas Brenes, R., Project participant
Coto Chotto, M., Project participant
Møller, B., Project Coordinator
Vuust, J., Contact person