About eMapps Initiative
eMapps.com is a STREP funded under the European Commission’s FP6 IST Call 4 Priority 2.4.13: Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe.
The project focuses on communities of creative, networking children within the 9-12 age range in the new EU Member States and has produced some significant breakthroughs related to innovative ways of learning, using computer games and mobile learning in schools. Its focus is upon the eLearning application area.
The main objectives of eMapps.com are:
- to build communities of creative, networking children in the NMS, generating their own cultural content and communicating with peer groups in other countries;
- to contribute to the growth of a community of teachers who are aware of the potential for change through ‘schools without walls’ and who exchange knowledge and experience through communication with counterparts in other NMS countries;
- to develop adaptable interactive tools (primarily games played on a mobile platform) with which to deliver learning objectives and which help to integrate the use of ICT in the delivery of the school curriculum;
- to establish processes and facilities for teachers and children to access relevant digital content available through a variety of sources while playing the eMapps.com games - and to make the multilingual and multicultural local content created during the games to be shared and repurposed for use in the wider eLearning context of schools and children in NMS;
- to create a child’s living map of Europe, based on geography, history and heritage, accessible through mobile devices, which can be continuously expanded as an important and rich content resource for schools in NMS and elsewhere;
- to design and implement effective training and multiplier mechanisms for future;
- exploitation of the eMapps.com outcomes by schools and teachers;
- to influence education policy makers at national and regional levels in New Member States.
Contributors to the eMapps.com learning object repository can choose either to make their objects publicly available without any licence restrictions or to apply a Creative Commons Licence.