Bucharest, January 12, 2010 – Multimedia courses, videoconferencing, animations, simulations. Such courses may take place in universities, through the PAELIS project, which provides students and teachers access to an eLearning portal. This facilitates the know-how and knowledge transfer between students and teachers in order to bring added value to the educational process, thus making it more flexible and efficient.

The project, developed under a partnership between SIVECO Romania and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, is co-financed by the NP II (National Plan), Program 5 - Innovation, under the contract no. 67/2007 concluded with AMCSIT.

The eLearning Portal enables carrying out interactive sessions with help of multimedia facilities and/or of those of videoconferencing type, while within the digital courses one can integrate most types of educational resources known: Microsoft Office documents, movies, images, animations, simulations and other interactive materials. The application suite (audio - video conference, sharing applications, common navigation, slideshows, chat and message board etc.) facilitates teamwork and collaborative projects.

The portal - based on a powerful eLearning platform - has an additional benefit, being SCORM compatible (a collection of standards and specifications for computer-assisted training). The system has a friendly interface and is accessible to all categories of users, regardless of the IT knowledge they hold.

"Through the eLearning portal developed within the PAELIS project, education institutions can adapt their educational offer to the labor market requirements. The cutting-edge technology adopted by the universities in the educational process represents an important differentiator taken into account by many young people upon enrollment", said Catalin Stefan, Technical Project Responsible within Romania SIVECO.

From this type of portal can also benefit any other national or international university, the system providing support for teaching/learning educational process, collaboration, knowledge and courses management, and administrative activities.

"Today’s students need mobility, flexibility and quick access to information. Due to the convenience provided by the learning and collaboration modules, the new eLearning portal developed within the PAELIS project meets these expectations. It assists the teaching staff in the transfer of knowledge and offers the possibility to mix the synchronous and asynchronous educational activities, according to each discipline specifications", said prof. dr. ing Ana Maria Joşceanu, Project Responsible, within Center for Technology Transfer for Process Industries, Polytechnic University of Bucharest.