欧盟学校教育信息化发展现状 ——访欧盟iTEC“未来教室”项目负责人威尔·埃利斯博士

State of European Union ICT in Education in K-12 Schools

威尔·埃利斯(Will Ellis)博士是欧洲知名的教育信息化专家，欧盟 校园联盟iTEC项目负责人，一直致力于欧盟学校信息化的一体化进程。他曾任英 国政府教育传播与技术协会(Becta)高级经理，负责为英国制定国家教育技术发展 战略。在Becta任职期间，他监督制定了英国教育工具与资源的技术标准、实施细 则、内容可访问性、版权与许可和内容生态建设方案，还组织了英国教育培训与 技术展评奖活动。他是信息技术与学科科学技术高级管理者，具有组织教育机构 采购、执行软硬件、学习资源与技术支持服务的管理能力。他在课程开发、成人 培训、教师培训与评价等拥有多年的培训与教学经验，对交互式电子白板、学习 平台和数字学习内容的应用于开发具有深刻的理解与独到见解。此外，威尔·埃 利斯博士是一位少见的教育信息化实践专家，强大的教育信息化项目规划、实施 和评估能力使他高质量完成了欧盟FP7资助的iTEC研究项目。在他的领导下，iTEC项目(2010-2014)设计了独具 特色的未来教室环境，形成了学习情境设计、学习活动设计等促进未来教室环境广泛应用的方法，在欧洲20个国 家建立了2684个未来教室。由于iTEC项目取得成功，他多次受邀到欧洲、亚洲、美洲的10多个国家汇报研究进 展和项目经验。 在访谈中，威尔·埃利斯博士与我们一起回顾了欧盟教育信息化一体化发展进程中的典型项目，并进一步分 析了非营利组织(如校园联盟)在欧洲教育信息化发展进程中的角色和作用。作为iTEC项目的负责人，详细介绍了 iTEC项目未来教室的设计方案、设计流程、推广情况和效果评估。在谈及iTEC项目的启示时，他认为建设教学 创新研发中心，以工程思维推动项目发展，重视项目评估是教育信息化项目推动和实施的三个最重要内容。

Dr. Will Ellis， who is an international renowned export in ICT in education within Europe Union， worked with European Schoolnet leading the European Commission funded iTEC Project. In the past few years， He devoted himself to European integration of ICT in education. He previously held the post of Senior Manager within Becta， the UK Government Agency responsible for educational technology strategy. He oversaw national strategy for learning tools and resources including the Learning Platform Services procurement framework， delivered to support schools purchase VLEs. He also held responsibility for the annual BETT Awards which celebrate innovation and quality in learning technologies and led a programme of work on content technical standards including the development of interoperability specifications for interactive whiteboard content， VLEs and resource discovery. He is an advanced practitioner in ICT in education with astonishing ability in planning， implementing and evaluating of project. Under his leadership， iTEC developed innovative future classroom with 6 learning zones， formed learning scenario designing and learning activities designing methodology to scale up future classroom， and piloted with 5000 students in 2684 classrooms cross 20 European countries. Because the success of this project， he was invited to more than 10 countries in Europe， Asia， the Americas reporting research progress and experience. In this interview， Dr. Will Ellis reviews several typical projects in ICT in education supported by European Union and introduces the role of nonprofit organization in the process of ICT in education. As the manager of iTEC， he gives a detail explanation on design proposal， process， promotion and evaluation of future classroom. When asked about the implications on iTEC， he suggests that teaching innovation center which focuses on new styles of teaching， engineering thinking which are used in project design， and open evaluation which are used as a driving force are vital to the project implementation.