Open Discovery Space

TEL MAP European Project launches survey on innovative learning practices in the European classroom

May 10, 2013

Recently this week of May, The TEL Map European Project funded by the European Commission, launched a survey documenting and detailing potential measures to improve supported innovative learning practices. TEL Map is a coordination and support programme under the ‘Technology Enhanced Learning programme. The idea of the project is to explore new initiatives in learning,… » read more

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ICT to be placed at the forefront of the school primary curriculum?

May 2, 2013

Recently this April, the publication of The Rose Report led by Sir Jim Rose, former director of inspection for Ofsted, concluded that Information Communication Technology should be placed at the forefront of the United Kingdom primary school curriculum. It has been proposed that communication technology should be placed on the same pedestal of the main… » read more

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Education

Virtual Classroom Unites Rural Students from Greece and Cyprus

March 18, 2013

When Gaydo and Agios Spiridonas Nicosia started a Open Discovery Space inspired collaborative project using folk songs and poems to learn about Byzantine Border Protectors little did either school know that they were about to change the educational experience of one little girl on a depopulated rural island in Greece. But this is exactly what… » read more

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Education, English, InfoSociety, Languages & Culture

LAK 2013 – Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference

The third edition of Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference will take place in beautiful Leuven, Belgium, between 8 and 12 of April 2013. LAK 2013 will address the rapid expansion of the use of technologies in supporting learning, both in established institutional contexts and platforms, and in the emerging landscape of free, open, social learning… » read more

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Education

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ODS Summer School 2013 – Teachers guide to OER

February 4, 2013

ODS Summer School 2013 -Teachers guide to OER – will take place in Split, Croatia, from 9th to 13th September 2013. The School is organised by the Croatian Academic and Research Network – CARNet, a national leader in ICT based education and e-learning. The aim of the ODS summer school is to inform teachers about… » read more

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Education, English

LACRO 2013 – Workshop on Learning Objects Analytics for Collections, Repositories and Federations

  LACRO 2013, the Workshop on Learning Objects Analytics for Collections, Repositories and Federations, will take place in Leuven, Belgium, on April 9, 2013. The workshop is organised jointly with International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference 2013, taking place in Leuven, between April 8 and April 12, 2013 (LAK 2013 – for more details please… » read more

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Education, English

LINQ 2013 Conference

January 22, 2013

LINQ is the leading annual European conference for Learning Innovations and Learning Quality. This year the conference will take place on the 13th and 14th of May in Rome, Italy and its motto will be “Innovations and Quality: The Future of Digital Resources“. LINQ will facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between experts, practitioners… » read more

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Education, English, InfoSociety

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