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(a) Who will use these outputs / products / results and how will the consortium reach them?
''Please describe the intended users who will benefit from the project during the lifetime of the project, and after the project has finished. Explain how these users will be reached''

Short term target-groups. Describe the target group(s) that will be reached during the life of the project
The results will be used by policy-makers, e-learning experts, educational leaders in schools and colleges,  teacher trainers and innovative teachers.

Policy-makers:
Policy-makers including local, regional, national and European political decision-makers are a main target group. We will provide these with valid, in-depth information on ICT-enhanced learning for secondary and post-secondary education. The outputs, mainly the Handbook, the country/region reports and the Exemplars, will provide them with a ready insight into what has been done in this area, along with the opportunities, barriers and critical factors which exist. The influence maps will provide them with an in-depth understanding as to the importance of, amongst other factors, the policy context. In particular, an analysis of past successes can make a significant contribution towards better decision-making in the future by this key target group.

Educational leaders in schools and colleges:
Educational leaders will find crucial elements that can be used to best deploy ICT-enhanced learning - especially since VISCED will also look at non-European initiatives and so help European initiatives to build on previous experience and gathered know-how which is not necessarily their own or even close to their own experiences.

E-learning experts:
The e-learning research community will leverage on the inventory and country reviews for further research.

How will this group / these groups be reached and involved during the lifetime of the project?
Policy advisors: There are four countries (Estonia, Finland, Greece and UK) where VISCED partners are advisors to government agencies.

Several key e-learning experts will be invited to be on the International Advisory Committee and will be reached at international conferences including Online Educa and LATWF. The VISCED wiki will have widespread penetration through web access (over 2000 readers expected and 50 contributors outside the project team). We expect RSS syndication of the VISCED blog to at least 100 other blogs and a direct reading audience of several hundred for our targeted Newsletter delivered via email.

Educational leaders will be reached via networking from partners and at national and international conferences.

Innovative teachers will be reached via networks from some partners (UK, Greece, Sweden) and at international conferences, in particular the EDEN Open Classroom conference. At least 12 teachers will be directly involved in the pilots.

Students: Our Swedish partner is a Gymnasium with a wide range of nationalities among its pupils - and we have four other pilot schools in UK and Greece. At least 100 students will be directly involved with experience of innovative ICT-based pedagogy.

The final Handbook will be on the web and also in printed form. Surprisingly perhaps, recent experience has taught us that attractive printed Handbooks remain very popular with experts.

Long term target groups. Describe the target group(s) that will be reached after the project is finished
Policy-makers, e-learning experts and innovative teachers: A wider range of policy-makers, e-learning experts and innovative teachers will be reached after the end of the project, in many more countries and institutions.

Students: There is also benefit to students - the resource itself offers opportunities to teachers and students in schools for collaborative work (including internationally) and school twinning, particularly because of the global coverage of the inventory including to tropical countries, the southern hemisphere and Caribbean and Pacific islands.

How will this group / these groups be reached?
Conference presentations, to all stakeholders: For many years, several of the experts in the project have been invited to make regular appearances at conferences and workshops, whether the event is during a project or not. In such events they speak about their current or recent work. This is likely to continue.

Journal articles for advisors and experts: Journal articles published after the project but produced during the project or soon after the project completes are a key route.

Via the wiki: The wiki will also continue, for at least three years after the project completes.

Word of mouth: Innovative teachers associated with the project will spread the word via their networks.

Projects with students: The wiki is a wonderful facility on which to build collaborative project activity, building out from the five pilot schools.

(b) How will the impact of this project be sustained beyond its lifetime?
Senior staff in partners will continue to speak and publish on ICT in education as they have been for many years. Experience from our staff on other projects suggests that there is at least two years of relevant presentations to be made after the end of a given project.

The VISCED consortium will commit to host the wiki for at least three years after the end of the project.

The consortium will look for funding opportunities in specific areas to deepen results - for example thematic studies in m-learning, podcasting etc - or extend them to cognate domains - e.g. colleges for adult (post-21) learners.

The consortium will look for collaborative opportunities with other projects - such as with follow-on projects to Re.ViCa - in particular ICT-enabled teacher training straddles the Re.ViCa domain (HE) and the VISCED domain (schools and the teachers in them).

VISCED will foster a community of practice built round the wiki. This is perhaps the best guarantee of long-term sustainability - even if hard to achieve. To help this, VISCED will have discussions with key stakeholders active in educational wikis to see if a higher degree of interworking and collaboration can be achieved between the main educational wikis - WikiEducator, EduTech wiki (Tecfa), Benchmarkwiki (UK HE Academy), etc - and the organisations behind them (e.g. Commonwealth of Learning) as well as with Wikipedia itself. Technical moves towards the "Web of Data" (e.g. DBpedia - http://dbpedia.org) will help.