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Two Decades of E ‐Learning Policy Evolution at EU Level: motivations, institutions and instruments
Author(s) -
Salajan Florin D.,
Roumell Elizabeth A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1465-3435
pISSN - 0141-8211
DOI - 10.1111/ejed.12144
Subject(s) - lifelong learning , action plan , consolidation (business) , european union , european commission , political science , public administration , policy learning , member state , commission , dimension (graph theory) , public relations , member states , sociology , business , management , economics , accounting , law , computer science , mathematics , machine learning , pure mathematics , economic policy
This article records and documents the historical development of e‐learning policies at EU level by conducting a discourse and content analysis of four key e‐learning policy documents drafted and implemented by the E uropean Commission over the past 20 years: Learning in the Information Society: Action Plan for a E uropean Education Initiative (1996) , the eLearning Action Plan (2001), the eLearning Programme (2003) and the Lifelong Learning Programme (2006). The themes teased out from the analysis reveal a gradual consolidation of e‐learning policy at EU level, indicating the emergence of an increasingly coherent and formal approach to supporting e‐learning initiatives for the benefit of actors at Member State level. The forging of a ‘ E uropean dimension’ in e‐learning projects represents the hallmark of these EU policies, but it remains to be seen whether the EU institutions will continue to devote similar attention to and place particular focus on e‐learning as a distinct policy priority in the years to come.