Links Up - Learing 2.0 for an Inclusive Knowledge Society

Project manager:
Dipl.-Psych. Thomas Fischer

Project participants:

Dipl.-Inf. Fred Neumann, Dipl.-Chem. Jens Geyer, Dipl.-Psych. Thomas Kretschmer

Duration: 01.11.2009 - 31.10.2011

Sponsored by:
KA 3 ICT, Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)

Participating institutions:
Arcola Research LLP (UK)
eSociety Institute, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (NL)
Servizi Didattici e Scientifici per l'Università di Firenze (PIN UNIFI) (IT)
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (AT)
European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) (UK)

Contact:
Fischer, Thomas

Links-up – Learning 2.0 for an Inclusive Knowledge Society - Understanding the Picture

Links-up is research project about how ‘Web 2.0’ technologies – e.g. social networking software – are changing the face of education and training for disadvantaged people. The project puts together a picture of the ‘landscape’ of ‘Learning 2.0 for Inclusion’ by reviewing what has been done in the academic and research field, and by practitioners working on the ground in projects that have been using Web 2.0 to work with disadvantaged groups. It uses a series of ‘action research’ experiments, collaborating with ‘host’ projects working in the field, to evaluate the added contribution Web 2.0 can make to practices that use learning to support social inclusion.