New Technologies for implementing Learning Future Scenarios: The European Learning GRID Infrastructure Project

The purpose of this paper is to describe the ELeGI (www.elegi.org) Project . ELeGI has the ambitious goal of developing software technologies for service oriented effective human learning and promoting and supporting a learning paradigm shift. A new paradigm focused on knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way will replace the current information transfer paradigm focused on content and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides information. We have chosen a synergic approach, sometimes called “human centred design”, to replace the classical, applicative approach to learning. With consideration of humans at the centre, learning is clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic Virtual Communities created and deployed using GRID technologies.