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The Fifth Meeting of the EU/US cooperation in Multimedia, in Education and Training took place in Sintra, Portugal, between 19th and 20th May 2002The Steering Committee for the EU-US cooperation in multimedia in education and training met in Sintra, Portugal on May 19 and May 20 for two days of planning and coordination. The host of the meeting was Roberto Canerio from the Catholic University of Portugal and the Department of Labor, Portugal and the hosting organization was INOFOR. There were 23 participants from the European Union and 14 from the United States (list of attendees and their affiliation). The main business of the meeting was conducted in the first plenary session and in the three working groups: eLearning Futures, Learning for Life and Schools of the Future. The groups were charged with coming up with specific, fundable proposals for scholarly collaborations which could include workshops, mobility programs, or other activities, whose aim would be to bring together researchers from the EU and the US in areas of common interest which would benefit from collaboration between the EU and the US. The presentation given during the working group on eLearning Futures was titled Transatlantic Co-operation in Research on Technology Supported Learning. Learning for Life focused on the research and practice of learning for life domains. The working group Schools of the Future highlighted that the mission is to establish a research agenda that capitalises on EU and US perspectives and where a rationale for collaboration can be articulated. Additional presentations were made: NCSA’s Knowledge and Learning Center, Strategic Study on eLearning in Portugal, the Learning GRID, EU-US Similarities and Differences in eLearning and Show Me. These recommended continuations of existing activities, the organisation of specific workshops, the development of a special issue of the Communications of the ACM with articles co-authored by US and EU authors, the development of NATO style meetings to define research agendas, and a proposal for a Gordon Conference on EU-US collaborations in addressing issues of the school of the future. The sixth meeting of this group is planned for the US in December 2002
or January 2003. The seventh meeting of the group is tentatively planned
for Sweden in June 2003. Agenda:
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