Ecoles européennes / European Schools Bureau du Secrétaire général /Office of the Secretary General

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Sponsored by the Slovenian Presidency

 

1.       Introduction

The fourth edition of the eLearning Awards of the European Schools will take place this school year. The aim of these awards is to recognise and reward innovative uses of Information and Communication Technology in Education (ICTE) whilst showcasing teachers’ professionalism and pupils’ creativeness. This project should be in a form that could easily be shared on Learning Gateway.

As lead partners of the event in 2008-2009, the Distance Teaching Working Group and the central office again invite teachers, pupils and schools to submit their ICTE projects to the Central Office of the European Schools.

The eLearning Awards will reward the best four examples of innovative uses of ICT in European schools and will include an award in each of four categories including teachers, primary pupils, secondary pupils and Schools. Examples of previous winners can be found on Learning Gateway.

This year’s eLearning Awards are sponsored by the Slovenian Presidency.

eLearning Awards submissions are to be posted to the Learning Gateway. The deadline for project submissions is 19 April 2010.

Projects will be evaluated by the Distance Teaching Working Group and an external expert. The main criteria against which projects will be evaluated are project execution, contents, didactics, innovation, creativeness and pedagogical usefulness, e.g. of Class server or Studywiz exercises or digital videos for visual presentations.

Award winners will be invited to attend an eLearning Awards ceremony in their School.

2.       Rules

Primary and secondary pupils and teachers of the European Schools may validly enter the eLearning Awards competition.

Submissions may concern part of a school, a set of resources or a project or activity. Project submissions must be posted to the Learning Gateway by 19 April 2010. Evaluation is Internet-based, i.e. the evaluation team will accept neither CD-Roms nor printed documents.

A project can only be submitted once and in one category.

Projects are welcome in all languages taught in the European Schools but summary information in one of the three vehicular languages must be appended to all submissions. All submissions must include key information about the project and its organisation.

All valid projects will stay online on the Learning Gateway with exception of a contrary opinion from the jury.

 

3.       Technical requirement

The web-address of Learning Gateway is: https://portal.lg.eursc.org/  

4.       Legal and Ethical Issues

All projects must comply with existing EU copyright legislation. Short quotes are allowed provided that the source is clearly referenced. Use of photographs and video, sound and other multimedia files is allowed only if (i) they were originally developed by the applicants; (ii) the owner explicitly authorised their use; (iii) they come from a freely accessible source, e.g. ClipArt, YouTube or; (iv) they are not inherently core project contents.

Project submissions for the eLearning Awards remain property of the school/pupil(s) or teacher(s). The evaluation team reserves the right to make the material freely available on the Learning Gateway for educational purposes.

Projects may contain no statement, fact, information or quote that may damage or harm any individual or group of individuals. Projects may contain no statement, fact, information or quote that may encourage the persecution of individuals on account of race, opinion, nationality, gender, occupation or other beliefs. Project submissions that encourage crime or the violation of legislation are similarly banned.

5.       Project Disqualification

The members of the jury reserve the right to disqualify any project partly or wholly submitted after the deadline or failing to comply with any of the stated rules. Any project including contents not complying with these rules may be disqualified by the evaluation team.

6.       Awards

This year’s eLearning Awards are sponsored by the Slovenian Presidency. At the time of drafting the present document, the prize list was not final, but the intention is to award the prizes below:

 

		Description
Primary pupil	1st prize	Netbook PC 9"
	2nd prize	Portable videoconsole (NINTENDO DS)
	3rd prize	Portable videoconsole (NINTENDO DS)
Secondary pupil	1st prize	Netbook PC 9"
	2nd prize	MP4 portable player-ipod touch
	3rd prize	MP4 portable player-ipod touch
Teacher	1st prize	Netbook PC 9"
	2nd prize	Multimedia external hard disk-drive
	3rd prize	Multimedia external hard disk-drive
School	1st prize	Portable beamer Sony
	2nd prize	Diplomma
	3rd prize	Diplomma