Online education in UE, technologies and methodologies: state of the art

Abstract

A study about the evolution of online education technologies and methodologies in the framework of the European research projects in this field is presented. The e-learning research proyects carried out in the V EU Framework Programme (1998-2002, having into consideration the Projects database of CORDIS) are analysed and presented in a tabular way. A set of methodological and technical variables have been established and the possibility of indentifying some kind of knowledge clusters is pointed out. The result of the research consists of a real state of the art in the ambit of European e-learning technologies and methodologies, in which some future research trends can be guessed.