2.4. The European Network of Excellence for Technology
Enhanced Learning (STELLAR)
The European Network of Excellence for Technology Enhanced
Learning represented a
continuation of prior European efforts to build networks of
excellence to promote learning and instruction in the European
Community. STELLAR was predicated on the view that in today’s
knowledge society, people are faced with new challenges
and career transitions (e.g., between companies, between formal
institutional learning and informal learning, between
learning for personal growth as well as for work). STELLAR
addressed several existing problems: (a) significant fragmentation
with regard to the use and development of advanced
learning technologies, (b) disjoint scientific and educational research
communities, and (c) a fragmentation of disciplines.
These same problems exist outside Europe, and the works of
this network are still available and ongoing through the two
sites indicated above.