News

The project has ended but collaboration for enhancing e-learning history continues. The final report of eHLEE E-learning History. Evaluating European Experiences (eds. Anttonen, Onnela & Terho) is available as a pdf-file in three parts:

TOC & Introduction
Part 1: Institutional Approaches
Part 2: Experiments and Pedagogies

12.6.2006
E-learning history, the present and the future. On Monday June 12th, eHLEE organises a videoconference on the possibilities and experiences concerning e-learning history. The conference can be followed and also later seen at the Internet streaming server:
http://hy-stream.it.helsinki.fi/ok/

The programme: Please note: All times announced are GMT!
10.00: Welcome. Henri Terho, University of Turku:
Introducing eHLEE and the results of the project
Comments and discussion

10.30: Sirkku Anttonen, University of Turku:
Identities in European History, experiences and evaluation of the
pilot course Comments and discussion

11.15: Paula Simoes, University of Coimbra:
Using the LMS Ping Pong in 'Introductory course for the joint
two-year master program: Roads to Democracy(ies)?', between
University of Coimbra and University of Uppsala.
Comments and discussion

11.45: Tapio Onnela, Finnish Virtual University of History, University of
Turku:
E-learning in history: strengths and weaknesses
Comments and final discussion

31.5.2006
Evaluation report available. The pilot course Identities in European history produced by eHLEE has been externally evaluated by Professor Sabine Liebig assisted by Antony Day in Karlsruhe Pädagogische Hochschule Germany. The evaluation report is available as a <pdf-file>

31.3-1.4.2006
Final project meeting in Turku.

10-11.2.2006
Fifth project meeting in Alcalá.

20.1.2006
Identities in European history -course ends. The course turned to be a great success with many lively and interesting discussions. In the last phase of the course, students had the opportunity to discuss with Dr. Teija Tiilikainen, who was a member of Finnish delegation working with the European Constitution. As an expert, Dr. Tiilikainen commented on students’ group presentations. The course will be evaluated externally by researchers at KPH (Karlsruhe Pädagogische Hochschule). A report will be available online at the beginning of April 2006.

10.10.2005
Identities in European History. The pilot course of the project begins. We ended up having 73 students from 15 universities attending. The students were divided into six subgroups for their first study phases. There was great enthusiasm in the groups from the very beginning! Students were considering especially important the chance to study in an international setting.

15.9.2005
Working Papers 1: Thematic approach to evaluating e-learning history. The first publication of the project including the guidelines for analysis of elearning history is available online. [See section publications.]

2-3.9.2005
Fourth project meeting in Karlsruhe.
Project meeting in Karlsruhe concentrated on commenting and improving the course area for the virtual pilot course of the project. We are facing interesting tasks in the near future with international history students gathering to study together a 5+ ECTS course on History and European Identities.

17.6.2005
CLIOHnet plenary meeting.
eHLEE was presented at the CLIOHnet plenary meeting in Pisa.

23.5.2005
History and international collaboration.
Henri Terho presented eHLEE in the Finnish national CLIOHnet meeting in Turku.

13-14.5.2005
Third project meeting in Pisa.
Third project meeting by the magical leaning tower of Pisa was concentrating on the matters of the pilot course. Course structure and the names of the phases were modified and it was decided that there will be internal and external evaluation of the course. There was also discussion about the importance of tutor training. The first part of the training will be held on May-July and the second part on September. Also discussion about the follow-up projects was launched.

11.2.2005
New Information Technologies and the future of the humanities.
David Sephton of Primrose Publishing presented eHLEE in the Czech national Cliohnet meeting.

4.–5.2.2005
Second project meeting in Bologna.
It was very inspiring to meet all the partners first time after Uppsala meeting. Partners presented their situation concerning case studies.The abstracts of the cases will be later put on the eHLEE www-pages. Course structure was also discussed. Partners presented their ideas and current planning stage for the pilot course. The course was renamed as Identities in European history. The meeting schedule was updated. There will be project meetings in Pisa (May 2005), Karlsruhe (Sep. 2005), Alcalá (Jan. 2006) and Turku (Apr. 2006).

2004
Agricolan Tietosanomat
Theme number of Finnish ejournal Agricolan Tietosanomat covered the issues of elearning history with three project members articles. Click on: [http://agricola.utu.fi/tietosanomat/numero3-04/].

11.12.2004
Virtually Medieval?
Henri Terho and Tapio Onnela presented eHLEE in international two-day meeting on Medieval history.

5.–6.10.2004
Concertation meeting in Brussels.
Project coordinators Tapio Onnela and Henri Terho are presenting eHLEE to other project coordinators of the eLearning programme.
http://www.e-concertation.org/cantus/doorstep.htm

3.–4.9.2004
First project meeting in Uppsala. Project was officially launched.
All the partners met for the first time in lovely Uppsala. The meeting was very succesful and many important issues was discussed. The project will produce publications about e-learning history. Also a pilot course about culture and identities in European history will be made. The meeting schedule was set. There will be project meetings in Bologna (Feb. 2005), Pisa either Turku (Apr. 2005), Karlsruhe (Sep. 2005), Alcalá (Jan. 2006) and Pisa either Turku (Apr. 2006).