Open Discovery Space

Fashion Retail Academy improves access to e-learning

January 22, 2013

In order to meet the demands of a continuously increasing number of students who want to access online learning courses from their personal computers or PDAs, Fashion Retail Academy upgraded its wireless internet network. Approximately 1.000 web-connected devices at any one time can be supported by the new wi-fi system, which enables 700 pupils to access the Academy’s digital services via their laptops, smartphones or tablets. Please click here for further information.

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Open Discovery Space

Open Discovery Space addresses the challenge of modernising school education by engaging teachers, students, parents and policymakers in a first of its kind effort to create a pan-European eLearning environment to promote more flexible and creative ways o

Open Discovery Space plays a key role in supporting the take-up and use of digital educational resources in schools and revolutionises communities of practice in eLearning.

Open Discovery Space is a vibrant
community-oriented social platform
that delivers:
• A pan-European social support network for teachers by teachers.
• The largest collection in Europe of eLearning resources, scenarios and activities.
• State of the art tools - adaptable to local needs, languages and culture - to enable teachers to discover, collaborate , exchange and share resources and best practice across Europe.

Open Discovery Space supports the 2012 ‘Opening Up Education’ initiative of the European Commission DG Education and Culture and UNESCO’s 2012 Paris OER Declaration (OER: Open Educational Resources).

For more information: www.opendiscoveryspace.eu