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Project Manager:Nikolas Athanasiadis
INTRASOFT19, 3km Markopoulou-Peania Avenue, B1
GR-19002, PeaniaAthensGreece
Tel. +35 24410122186E-mail:
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www.opendiscoveryspace.eu
The Open Discovery Space Project is funded by
CIP-ICT-PSP-2011-5, Theme 2: Digital Content,
Objective 2.4: eLearning Objective 2.4
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 spaceUnleashes the innovation potential
of european education
Open DiscOvery spacewww.opendiscoveryspace.eu
Open Discovery SpaceODS comes at the right time to showcase and
raise awareness of the benefits of eLearning
- Khalil Rouhana, Director, European Commission.
ICT offers Europe’s schools unprecedented opportunities to
improve teaching and learning for students of every age. The EU and
the Member States have undertaken a number of actions over the
years to harness the innovativepotential of European education. To
date, however, such efforts have suffered from fragmentation and
short-termism.
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 of
learning by improving the way educational content is produced,
accessed and used.
Open Discovery Space creates a multi-lingual, community-oriented
social platform that will encourage teachers, students and parents
to discover, discuss, share, shape and acquire Europe’s rich array
of teaching, learning and research materials.
Open Discovery Space cultivates sharing and collaboration,
making the teacher the core node of a creative community
- Dr. Sofoklis Sotiriou, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Greece.
Open Discovery Space advances the key goals of the Digital
Agenda for Europe: Action 68 by:
• Creating an atmosphere conducive to the use of ICT in teaching
and learning.
• Encouraging the co-production and use of eLearning resources
by teachers, students and school communities.
• Supporting the development of user-friendly ICT-enabled
teaching and learning tools.
• Ensuring that publicly funded educational material is freely
available.
• Genereting opportunities for sharing educational resources
across European languages and cultures.
A Europe open to digital content, open to personalised learning
and open to collaborative learning networks.
Open Discovery Space gathers teachers, students and parents to
create new communities of schools across Europe that together will
drive the promotion and uptake of innovative ICT-enabled teaching
and learning practices.
Open Discovery Space envisions a Europe in which learners of
every age are able to use eLearning resources to tap into, share,
shape and reshape Europe’s rich array of existing educational
material.
Open Discovery Space motivates teachers across Europe to create
innovative digital learning resources and teaching practices. The
project uses a bottom up, collaborative method to drive the uptake
of digital learning resources and inspire teachers to develop and
use innovative, ICT-enabled teaching practices.
Open Discovery Space is an influential engine of change and
innovation in education by introducing collaboration and use of
digital resources in the learning process
- Antonis RAMFOS, Director of Research and Innovation, INTRASOFT
International.
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).
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 spacewww.opendiscoveryspace.eu
