**Minutes of the first SIG meeting, 27 April 2009 (USI, Lugano)**

Stefano Tardini, Andrea Helbach, Per Bergamin (telephone call with Hervé Platteaux on April, 24)

Main goal of the SIG : promote research on eLearning in Swiss Higher Education Institutions (HEI)

Other goals:

• provide a list of national and international funding opportunities for research in eLearning
• promote exchange of information (research interests, partner searches, research proposals, …) in the Swiss eLearning community at the higher education level

Proposed actions to be taken in the next months: Sketch a map of current research in eLearning in Swiss HEI (Universities, UAS, Polytechniques). Aim of this activity is to identify the current trends in research on eLearning, identify the needs of Swiss HEI, and identify some topics for possible future research.

• The map does not need to be complete, it has to stress which are the ‘hot’ topics
• Start collecting available data
• Present first data to potentially interested/interesting institutions (CRUS? KFH? SNF? Others?)
• If these institutions are interested, complete the map
• Organize an event to present results
• On the basis of the results obtained, work on a program to be launched (NRP? Other possibilities?)

Next meeting will be in Bern at the end of May (see http://www.doodle.com/8zyc5qxc9w585hiq), with the following provisional agenda:

• Presentations of our research activities and interests
• Agree on the “boundaries” of the map (what do we exactly mean with “research on eLearning”? i.e.: what kind of research? how do we define eLearning?)
• Define the procedure for drawing the map: methodology and time

As agreed in the meeting some slides to research topics of the “UAS eLearning Group” (Fachkommission FeL der KFH): http://www.ifel.ch/ausbildung-und-wissenstransfer/konferenzbeitraege/praesentationen/praesentation-fel-klausurtagung-26-01-09.pdf/