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E-HELP - GENERAL INFORMATION

The European History e-learning project (E-Help) was a Comenius 2.1 Project (Training of School Educational Staff). Established in October, 2004, the overall aim of e-help was to encourage and improve the use of ICT and the Internet in history classrooms in Europe.

The Huropean History e-learning project set out to empower European history teachers to take the teaching and learning of history into the 21st century. Designed to enlighten and initiate history teachers into the pedagogic possibilities of ICT in the history classroom, E-Help would, through a website, online forum and residential course (yet to be decided on), enable history teachers to exploit the revolutionary potential of ICT.

E-Help was designed as a three year, three-phase project:
Phase 1 began by identifying and evaluating existing good practice, examining the potential of the technology to revolutionise current methodologies. We researched and produced online curricula and assessment modules designed to enable European history teachers, whatever the language competences of their students, to teach history issuebased themes of importance beyond the boundaries of the nation state.
Phase 2 saw the launch of our e-help website and online forum which shared our work and began to create a pan-European community of history teachers with an interest in exploiting the potential of ICT.
Phase 3 will consolidate our project by preparing the first in a series of residential conference designed to bring European history teachers and history teachers trainers together to learn the skills that will make this revolution possible.

In short E-Help set out to:
(1) Research, evaluate and present evidence of good practice in the use of ICT and the Internet in European History Classrooms.
(2) Produce and manage a multilingual website and discussion forum to support the project and its aims.
(3) Create innovative online history resources for teaching a European dimension with a range of “past-present” historical issues in a multilingual/second language context.
(4) Deliver a residential course in the use of ICT and the Internet in the history classroom.