Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a three-year European Union funded project starting in October 2013 with a budget of 1.7 million Euros. The project brings together the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) and online education communities. It aims to develop new online learning processes using FIRE facilities and eLearning technologies, introduce FIRE tools and concepts like experiment-driven research to higher education, and make FIRE platforms more accessible and usable for learning through guidance.

1. Forging Online Education through FIRE
www.ict-forge.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for
research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 610889
PROJECT DATA
Start Date: 01/10/2013; Duration: 36M
EU Funding: 1,7M€
CONSORTIUM
CONTACT
John Domingue (The Open University)
info@ict-forge.eu

2. www.itc-forge.eu
Within the FORGE project we will:
• Study and develop new processes and approaches to online learning based on
the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearning technologies.
• Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE portfolio of facilities
and tools.
• Introduce the learning community to the concepts of Experimentally Driven
Research.
• Increase the overall accessibility and usability of FIRE facilities through the
layering of how-to-use guides over the FIRE platforms.
Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project bringing the FIRE and
eLearning worlds together. FORGE will align FIRE (Future Internet Research and
Experimentation) with the ongoing education revolution. This project will specify
development methodologies and best practices for offering FIRE experimentation facilities
to learners and to the learning community in general. FORGE relates to communications
and IT, as well as to other disciplines including the physical and social sciences. It will lead to
a strong connection between the learning community and existing FIRE platforms and
supporting tools.
LAB COURSE DESIGN FRAMEWORK
RESULTING WIDGET & iBOOK
World wide online access to high performance
testbeds under Future Internet Research and
Experimentation (FIRE) for online education.