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57 Knowledge Public R&D 4. MOOC for Ministry of MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) have revolutionized the No - 0.010 0.001 Provision of broad-band Internet to
and the Adult Education Education way university courses are offered through the www, for the first time all Greek areas under reasonable
digital breaking geographical, financial and social barriers. cost
economy
The proposal entails all steps towards the development (also
examining synergies with very famous representatives like edX and
Coursera) of the first Greek MOOC, aiming at lifelong education for
adults.
58 Social Education and 5. Open Source Ministry of Computer labs in Schools are usually based on proprietary Operating Partly The Ministry of 0.010 0.0005 1. lack of an long term initiative to
Infrastructur Training School Education Systems (OS). Education and support Open Source solutions in
Religion supported a
e Computer Labs, The main reasons for this are: large scale pilot School Computer Labs
a step to the Teachers familiarity with these OS (and related Software) and program to As a result decision makers tend to
Open Systems Inadequate promotion and support of Open Source solutions. create a hybrid cloud adopt expensive proprietary
era Students on the other hand tend to adopt Open Source Software infrastructure in solutions instead.
easily (sometimes even better than proprietary SW) School Computer An EU initiative will easily cover
The aim of the project is twofold: Labs using such needs.
a) to minimize the cost of adoption of ICT in education, using Free/Open Source
Free/Open Source Software (Ubuntu 2. lack of familiarity and training of
b) to promote adoption of Open Source Software and thus give EU a and Linux decision makers,
competitive advantage in Computer Science and SW development Terminal Server Old decision makers tend to decide
Project),
Both are very important , especially in the new era of instead of traditional based on brand familiarity. This
handheld/mobile devices as many of them are based on Open proprietary OS based way, proprietary brand familiarity is
Source systems (a multi Billion € market) solutions. passed to students and so on.
As a result almost A new culture can easily be
1.000 school labs are adopted by young students
based on
Open Source
solutions and Greece
now has one of the
largest LTSP
implementations in
the world :
http://www.ltsp.org/st
ories/
59 Social Education and 6. Upgrade Ministry of upgrade of the technological infrastructure of technological Partly The latest upgrade 0.100 Lack of finance.
Infrastructur Training technology Education applications sectors of vocational schools of the technological
e infrastructure in i.e infrastructure of
vocational computer labs vocational schools
schools automation labs was made in the
engineering labs early 2000s. The
etc need for upgrading
the technological
infrastructure is
immense.
60 Social Education and 7.a) Bioclimatic Ministry of Bioclimatic upgrade, utilization of renewable energy, energy Relative fund is 0.200 0.08 Lack of finance.
Infrastructur Training and energy Education- independence schools expected from
e renovation of Building NSRF 2014-2020
existing school Infrastructure 0,06 bn
buildings
61 Social Education and 7.b) New school Ministry of Bioclimatic design, utilization of renewable energy, energy Possible fund is 0.200 0.08 Lack of finance.
Infrastructur Training buildings with Education- independence schools expected from
e bioclimatic and Building NSRF 2014-2020
energy design Infrastructure
and the Adult Education Education way university courses are offered through the www, for the first time all Greek areas under reasonable
digital breaking geographical, financial and social barriers. cost
economy
The proposal entails all steps towards the development (also
examining synergies with very famous representatives like edX and
Coursera) of the first Greek MOOC, aiming at lifelong education for
adults.
58 Social Education and 5. Open Source Ministry of Computer labs in Schools are usually based on proprietary Operating Partly The Ministry of 0.010 0.0005 1. lack of an long term initiative to
Infrastructur Training School Education Systems (OS). Education and support Open Source solutions in
Religion supported a
e Computer Labs, The main reasons for this are: large scale pilot School Computer Labs
a step to the Teachers familiarity with these OS (and related Software) and program to As a result decision makers tend to
Open Systems Inadequate promotion and support of Open Source solutions. create a hybrid cloud adopt expensive proprietary
era Students on the other hand tend to adopt Open Source Software infrastructure in solutions instead.
easily (sometimes even better than proprietary SW) School Computer An EU initiative will easily cover
The aim of the project is twofold: Labs using such needs.
a) to minimize the cost of adoption of ICT in education, using Free/Open Source
Free/Open Source Software (Ubuntu 2. lack of familiarity and training of
b) to promote adoption of Open Source Software and thus give EU a and Linux decision makers,
competitive advantage in Computer Science and SW development Terminal Server Old decision makers tend to decide
Project),
Both are very important , especially in the new era of instead of traditional based on brand familiarity. This
handheld/mobile devices as many of them are based on Open proprietary OS based way, proprietary brand familiarity is
Source systems (a multi Billion € market) solutions. passed to students and so on.
As a result almost A new culture can easily be
1.000 school labs are adopted by young students
based on
Open Source
solutions and Greece
now has one of the
largest LTSP
implementations in
the world :
http://www.ltsp.org/st
ories/
59 Social Education and 6. Upgrade Ministry of upgrade of the technological infrastructure of technological Partly The latest upgrade 0.100 Lack of finance.
Infrastructur Training technology Education applications sectors of vocational schools of the technological
e infrastructure in i.e infrastructure of
vocational computer labs vocational schools
schools automation labs was made in the
engineering labs early 2000s. The
etc need for upgrading
the technological
infrastructure is
immense.
60 Social Education and 7.a) Bioclimatic Ministry of Bioclimatic upgrade, utilization of renewable energy, energy Relative fund is 0.200 0.08 Lack of finance.
Infrastructur Training and energy Education- independence schools expected from
e renovation of Building NSRF 2014-2020
existing school Infrastructure 0,06 bn
buildings
61 Social Education and 7.b) New school Ministry of Bioclimatic design, utilization of renewable energy, energy Possible fund is 0.200 0.08 Lack of finance.
Infrastructur Training buildings with Education- independence schools expected from
e bioclimatic and Building NSRF 2014-2020
energy design Infrastructure
