Eurelea
eureleA is the European Award for Technology Supported Learning, formerly the European eLearning Award. This is a Europe-wide competition that has been awarding outstanding examples of teaching and learning with digital media since 2004. Since 2004, more than 600 projects from 21 countries have been assessed at eureleA - and the jury selected six award winners each year.
The competition took place from 2004 to 2007 as part of the international e-learning fair Learntec in Karlsruhe. In 2008 and 2009 the award ceremony took place at CeBIT in Hanover. In 2009 the financial crisis caused a collapse in sponsorship funds, so that the 2010 competition could not take place. For 2011 the eureleA was advertised again, the award ceremony took place again at the Learntec.
Award criteria
Technology Supported Learning
A prize will be awarded for each dimension among the submissions
Top performance in terms of project impact: sustainability, reach in the organization and the cost / benefit ratio are evaluated.
Top performance in project management: control and documentation of the e-learning projects, but also the evaluation of the effect and the transferability to other scenarios play the main role.
Excellence in media didactics: Appearance and aesthetics, multimedia, interactivity and adaptation to the target group are the criteria here.
Outstanding technical implementation: technical innovation, compliance with standards for learning modules and applications as well as usability and accessibility are the yardstick by which this is measured.
These four dimensions of excellence in e-learning are first checked on the basis of electronically submitted documents. It is therefore important that the submitters document as clearly and concisely as possible where they see the particularly good performance in each of these four dimensions for their project.
From the submissions assessed by several expert jurors, the three or four best examples in each dimension are then carefully assessed by a senior jury - and a winner is determined who remains a secret until the evening of the award ceremony.
While all participants in the final round can consider themselves very good projects - as finalists in a Europe-wide competition - this is of course particularly true for the winners. The award-winning projects can henceforth adorn themselves with the title “Best Practice in eLearning” and advertise with it.
public relations
Every year a eureleA goes to a project that has made a particular contribution to the public discussion about e-learning and its use. These can be journalistic publications as well as studies, manuals, blogs and portals. The evaluation takes place in the dimensions
Horizontal reach: expansion among e-learning professionals, status in the community
Vertical range: Interaction between the various user groups - can a beginner also use professional knowledge?
Media didactics: text quality and images, is the choice of language adapted to the target group?
Knowledge and research depth: How big was the workload for the submitted project?
organization
The eureleA is organized by the ICe - Institute for Computers in Education at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences - Technology and Economics. Since 2010, the partners have been the Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress GmbH and Learntec, while eureleA was funded by the state government of Baden-Württemberg from 2004 to 2007.