Knowledge technologies and ubiquitous learning Current work and joint activities with MTA SZTAKI

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Knowledge technologies and ubiquitous
learningCurrent work and joint activities with
MTA SZTAKI

• Radoslav Pavlov Danail Dochev
• Institute of Mathematics Institute of
  Information
• and Informatics BAS Technologies BAS
• radko_at_cc.bas.bg dochev_at_iinf.bas.bg

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Analytical surveys for the National Agency for
Development of ICT /1/

• A. Typical problem situations in the Cyberspace
• Problems in the information access to Internet.
• Privacy in Internet.
• Problems of information and network security.
• 4. Problems with business applications in
  Internet.
• 5. Approaches and methods for prevention of
  unauthorized access and attacks on Internet.

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Analytical surveys for the National Agency for
Development of ICT /2/

• B. Information Society Technologies for Knowledge
  Processing and Management
• 1. Semantic Web Technologies.
• 2. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• 3. Agent Technologies.
• 4. Knowledge management in e-business.
• 5. Security issues of Intelligent Web
  Services.

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Analytical surveys for the National Agency for
Development of ICT /3/

• C. New Information Technologies and Interactive
  Environments for Vocational and Life Long
  Learning
• Distance Learning and e-Learning
• E-Learning Standards
• New Learning Models for Technology-Enhanced
  Learning
• Context-oriented Learning Technologies
• Environments for On-the-job Training

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Preparation of 3 PHARE projects

• 1. Cultural Tourism /Applications of Web
  Technologies E-tourism Portal for Bulgarian
  North-East Black Sea/
• 2. Labour Market Initiatives e-learning for
  Tourism SME Enterpreneurs
• 3. Labour Market Initiatives ICT Skills
  e-Training

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e-Government Foresight

• Work in Expert Group for Bulgarian e-Government
  National Strategy Foresight
• 6 Working Meetings, 4 Workshops with Foreign
  Consultants (incl. Hungary)

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Conferences - EDEN /1/

• 12-th EDEN Annual Conference The Quality
  Dialogue, Rhodes, 15-18 June03
• Paper
• Danail Dochev, Radoslav Pavlov, Maria
  MonovaZheleva Principles, Quality Requirements
  and Solutions for On-the-Job e-Training in SME
• The work presented in this paper was partially
  funded by Leonardo da Vinci project
  HU/01/B/F/PP-136029 ADONIS Advanced On-the-job
  e-Training Solutions in E-Business for SMEs

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Conferences - EDEN /2/

• The paper presents the basic implementation
  phases of e-Learning environment for on-the-job
  training /OJT/ and addresses requirements,
  principles and criteria providing an effective
  and qualitative development. It discusses the
  training platform, its design principles,
  methodological aspects of learning, development
  and integration of teaching materials.
• The training platform covers
• Learning by doing (practice-based OJT)
• Learning by practising partial skills
  (instruction-based OJT).
• Learning by systematic feedback and reflection /
  self evaluation (study-based OJT).

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Conferences - EDEN /3/

• Design principles
• Content eligibility - tailored to the needs of
  target group.
• Sound instructional design.
• Engagement/Interactivity support
• Navigation Support.
• Motivating the learner.
• Feedback and Evaluation Support..
• Esthetical Quality
• Record Keeping - recording of user performance.
• Support of local languages.
• Personalisation - support for different learning
  styles
• Scalability in terms of content aggregation and
  delivery

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Conferences /4/

• International Workshop on Knowledge Technologies
  and Ubiquitous Learning, Varna, 24-26 June 2003
• Programme Committee Members and Participants from
  IIT-BAS, IMI-BAS, LT-BAS, MTA SZTAKI etc.
• Proceedings (R. Pavlov, D. Dochev eds.) in
  print
• The workshop included open discussions on Joint
• European LdV projects ADONIS and KNOSOS

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Current Joint EC Projects /1/

• LdV project ADVANCED ON-THE-JOB e-TRAINING
  SOLUTIONS IN e-BUSINESS FOR SMEs /ADONIS/ (2002
  2004)
• Participants John von Neumann Computer Society,
  MTA SZTAKI, IIT-BAS, IMI-BAS, Technical Univ.
  of Crete, Multimedia Systems Center (Greece),
  FINSA Consulting (Italy)
• The work of IIT-BAS covers the operation of
  Internet-based environment for On-the-Job
  training.
• The work of IMI-BAS covers the improvement of
  the developed multimedia courseware.

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Current Joint EC Projects /2/

• LdV project New Media Knowledge Village for
  Innovative E-learning Solutions /KNOSOS/
  (2002-2005)
• Participants Technical Univ. of Crete, MSH
  (France), MTA SZTAKI, IIT-BAS, BMC,
  Eurotelematika (Bulgaria), KURT, Galanis SA
  (Greece).
• The work of IIT-BAS concerns architectural
  question of the environment to be developed and
  specification of the coursware structural
  characteristics.
• The work of BMC /Project leader R. Pavlov/
  concerns the analysis of e-Learning standards and
  development of vocational training specifications.

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Next joint projects /1/

• 6 FP SSA project Networking Centres of High
  Quality Research on Knowledge Technologies and
  Applications /HUBUSKA/
• (2004 2006)
• Participants MTA SZTAKI co-ordinator,
• IMI-BAS, IIT-BAS, University of Klagenfurt,
  Novitech (Slovakia).
• The project is in negotiation phase.

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Next joint projects /2/

• HUBUSKA topics
• Generic issues of knowledge technologies.
• Semantic web approaches to organisation, access,
  processing and use of context-sensitive
  information.
• Methods and tools for development of
  semantic-enabled systems and services for
  multimedia content, interoperability,
  re-usability
• Technology-enhanced learning with ubiquitous
  applications of integrated web, digital TV and
  mobile technologies

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Next joint projects /3/

• LdV project CHIRON for development of Reference
  material REFERRING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR
  UBUIQUITOUS LEARNING (2004-2005)
• Submitted by MSH (France), Technical Univ. of
  Crete, COREP (Italy), FINSA Tech. (Italy), MTA
  SZTAKI, EduWeb (Hungary), IMI-BAS, ASDIS
  (Bulgaria)
• Under reviewing

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Next Conference

• AIMSA2004 - 11th International Conference
  Artificial IntelligenceMethodology, Systems,
  Applications
• Varna, 2 4 September 2004
• Conference Chairman
• Prof. Dieter Fensel, Univ. of Insbruck
• Chairman of the Programme Committee
• Prof. Cristoph Busler, Executive
  Director,Digital Enterprise Research Institute
  (DERI)National University of Ireland, Galway
• Topics general AI, focus on Semantic Web
  methods, tools and applications