Rural Learning for Development: Experiences from Europe

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Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Main Conference Introducing the challenges for lifelong learning and development in rural areas ...........................................27 The Essence of Being Rural: Reality and Vision .................................................................................................27 Rural development using Elearning: How learning technologies can help in the adjustment to a knowledge economy ....................................................................................................................................... 33 Rural school education and educators’ training.......................................................................................................39 Rural Education In Peru: The Role Of Families In Schooling In Andean Communities .............................. 39 Innovative Life Long Learning Approaches Through Romanian Rural Education Project .......................... 49 Creating Virtual Learning Communities of Rural School Teachers ................................................................ 59 Two Distance Education Projects for Sustaining the Training of Teachers in Remote Rural Areas: the Romanian Experience...................................................................................................................................... 69 Providing Training and Support to Rural School Teachers through New Technologies ..............................79 Higher and adult education in rural Europe ............................................................................................................91 The Role of Regional Universities and Research Centres in Economic and Human Capital Development: The case of Crete .......................................................................................91 Pursuing Higher Education in the Heart of Europe University of Applied Sciences Burgenland Campus Pinkafeld.............................................................................................................................. 99 Innovation, Education and Partnership in Peripheral Rural Ireland ............................................................. 103 Usability and Ergonomics Considerations on e-learning of Older Adults ................................................... 115 Personal and professional empowerment in rural areas ......................................................................................127 One career pathway from a remote rural school to a professional careerr................................................ 127 From Distance Learning to Blended Learning A programme Incorporating Multiple Objects to Facilitate eLearning – Examples from V-learn.ie ......................................................................... 131 Career Guidance for Schools: A different Approach ..................................................................................... 143 Rural Development in Serranva de Ronda, Andalucia: Projects and Activities .......................................... 149 Empowering the farmer and the tourism small entrepreneur ...........................................................................161 The YPAITHROS project .................................................................................................................................... 161 The Impact of Education on the Productivity of Farmers: A Survey Analysis ............................................ 167 Virtual Communities of Practice for SMEs: Opportunities and Implications for the Tourism Sector in Rural Areas ...............................................................................................................177 Approaches for learning and development in rural Europe ................................................................................185 Lifelong Learning, Empowerment and the Internet ....................................................................................... 185 VideoBridge: Learning where we live, learning what we want .................................................................... 195 The Problem Solving Methods To Support Teacher’s and Student’s Life Long Learning ....................... 197 Robotics-Enhanced Constructivist Learning: The TERECoP Project .......................................................... 207 Rural communities and governance ........................................................................................................................215 E-Government and Simulating Rural Regions: Towards Microsimulation-Based Socio-Economic Spatial Decision Support Systems ......................................................................................... 215 Establishing an Eco-efficiency Analysis Program for the Area of the Aegean ............................................ 225 Post-socialist community action in Lithuania ................................................................................................... 235 E-Government services for the development of small & medium enterprises in rural areas: the rural-EGOV approach .................................................................................................................................. 245 Bridging the digital gap ..............................................................................................................................................251 The One Laptop per Child Project:Providing Children around the World with New Opportunities to Explore, Experiment and Express Themselves .............................................. 251 The RURAL WINGS project: Bridging rural Europe’s digital divide and introducing a new learning culture to remote and isolated areas ..................................................................................... 257 Creation of Telecenters to Support Learning, Entrepreneurship and Access to Information Society, in Isolated Areas: The TELEACCESS Project ......................................................... 263 Interactive Services and Scenario Specifications for Satellite-enabled Education ...................................... 273 The C@R Project: Rural Living Labs for the Collaborative Creation of Services - Enhancing Rural Development by People Working and Living in Rural Areas .............................................................. 285 Workshops Bringing and managing change – the community empowerment Rural Wings workshops ............................297 The Rural Wings Scenarios of Use: Tools empowering Change Agents in the Rural Communities ....... 297 Technology Enhanced Music Education in Remote Areas: Supporting the Teaching of Wind Instrument in Rural Areas through the Virtual European Music School (VEMUS) ......................... 313 WebRadio and WebTV: Giving a Media Voice to the Local Community ..................................................... 319 A Model to Strengthen the Community Voice in Ireland’s Local Development Process: The ADOPT Model .............................................................................................................................................. 321 The interplay of local tradition and rural development initiatives in Ireland: A case-study .................... 331 Simulation Learning Experiences in Rural SMEs ............................................................................................. 347 Enhancing Social Capital as well as Human Capital in Remote Rural Communities .................................. 351 The Educational Role of the Culture Association of a Remote Small Rural Community .......................... 363 Lifelong Learning in rural Greece - the local voices workshop ..........................................................................367 The contribution of Laboratorial Centre of Natural Sciences (EKFE) in the promotion of laboratorial teaching of Natural Sciences in Chios ..................................................................................... 367 The Science Museum of Chios as a challenge to enrich the scientific and cultural life of the inhabitants of the island of Chios and the wider area of Voreio Aigaio ........................................... 369 Pupils’ Learning Experiences n the Primary Schools of the Greek Countryside ....................................... 375