ETOILE: Environment for Team, Organisational and Individual Learning in Emergencies

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Summary: ETOILE (Environment for Team, Organisational and Individual Learning in Emergencies) is an academia-industry collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the ESPRIT Programme, IT for Learning and Training in Industry theme. The aim of ETOILE is to produce tools and techniques for the development of advanced team training systems suitable for a wide range of industrial applications. It explores the utility of new technologies (distributed systems, intelligent agents, virtual reality) and aims to improve team performance through tools to support the learning of shared mental models and of team competencies by individual team members, i.e. to support the team in learning to work well together.

Key Facts

Website: http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/etoile/

Funder: European Commission

Type of Activity: Collaborative Research

Grant holder: Julie-Ann Sime (Educational Research)

Dept/Research Groups: Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology, Educational Research

Project Description

Principle Investigator/Project Manager - Dr. Julie-Ann Sime Researchers: Dr. Michael Pengelly, Dr. Mike Dobson, Dr. Michael O'Donoghue, Mr. Walter Onyino. Funding: European Commission ESPRIT Programme, from Sept. 1998 to May 2001, about £200,000 of 3 million Euros.

Aim: The aim of ETOILE is to produce tools and techniques for the development of advanced team training systems suitable for a wide range of industrial applications. It explores the utility of new technologies (distributed systems, intelligent agents, virtual reality) and aims to improve team performance through tools to support the learning of shared mental models and of team competencies by individual team members, i.e. to support the team in learning to work well together.

Objectives: To produce an instructional design that will promote learning in individual team members and in the team as a whole. To design and prototype learner support tools to help the team and its members construct, acquire and modify shared mental models. To evaluate the prototype applications, the tools and the training effectiveness of the final applications.

Keywords: pedagogical framework, learner modelling, meta-cognition, team training, reflective learning, dynamic simulation, evaluation, CPD, emergency response, decision-making under stress, shared mental models.

Partners: TECNATOM (Es), Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics (De), STN Atlas Elektronik (De), Iberdrola (Es), Labein (Es), Metro Bilbao (Es) and Lancaster University (UK).

Project partially funded under the European Commission, ESPRIT Programme, contract 29086.

Research Significance

Business/Industry - participatory, collaborative research into training practice

Purpose of Research

Collaborative Research

Project Funder

European Commission - £200,000