The I-TUTOR (Intelligent Tutoring for Lifelong Learning) project started in January 2012 with the aim of developing a multi-agent based intelligent system to support online teachers, trainers, and tutors. The Intelligent Tutoring for Life Long Learning (I-TUTOR) project aims at developing an intelligent tutoring system, to be applied in open source learning environments, able to monitor, track, analyze and give formative assessement and feedback loop to students within the learning environment, and give inputs to tutors and teachers involved in distance learning to better their role during the process of learning. The software is developed in java thus could be easily implmented and re-used in most of the common free platforms for eELearning. Project website. More...

Nordic OER is a Nordic network to promote open education and collaboration amongst stakeholders in all educational sectors. The network has members from all Nordic countries and facilitates discourse and dialogue on Open Education but also participates in projects and development programs. The network is supported by the Nordic OER project co-funded by Nordplus. Website. More...

Open Education Europa recently updated the European MOOCs Scoreboard for January 2014, documenting a 19% global growth in the total number of MOOCs.
A new semester is starting for most universities in Europe, and even though the internet is less bound by the norms of space and time, it seems that January is a popular time for online courses to start as well. The global count of MOOCs grew by 19% this month, compared to 3% in December. More...

The European University Association (EUA) launches its 7^th TRENDS project, part of its flagship series of research analysis of developments in European higher education. TRENDS 2015 will focus on how the Bologna Process and other recent policy changes have contributed to fostering new forms of learning and teaching. Previous TRENDS reports. More...

The 2013 Education and Training Monitor provides information on the progress of EU member states on specific indicators relating to education and work. It allows for comparison between countries and highlights the effects of policy efforts. More...

The PEEP Project is an ongoing programme which aims to provide a policy on how electronic portfolios can best be used by European educators for recording their professional development. In the modern world demands on educators are shifting. In order to complete with the best in the world Europe's educators need to take part in life-long learning, constantly improving their knowledge and skills. Project website. More...

SMART Project’s (Supporting dynamic MAtching for Regional developmenT) main goal is to create a model to identify the real training needs in different professional sectors, and to adapt the existing training offer to that identified needs, improving the employability of the users of that tools, using online personalized training paths. Project website. More...

The Open Education Challenge was launched on 22 January 2014 at BETT 2014. The Challenge invites innovators in education to submit their idea for a chance to get seed funding, support and coaching to launch a startup.
The Open Education Challenge launches today, opening up a new opportunity for entrepreneurs and innovators in the field of education. The Challenge will identify 10 promising ideas to participate in the first ever European Incubator for Innovation in Education. More...

DigiSkills aims to bring together and further develop content, services, pedagogies and practices for lifelong learning in school/university/adult population, formulating specific scenarios of use of learning tools and platforms which will be tested with real users from eight countries and evaluated in terms of their impact, with a particular attention to institutional as well as pedagogical innovation and change. More...

France Université Numérique (FUN), a new platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs), has kicked off its first courses, with more to come in the next few weeks.
FUN offers 28 courses in eight different fields such as health, management, and digital technologies.  Over 100.000 users have registered to the website, and 50% of them logged in on the first day of class.
The first eight courses started last week, and another five courses will start on January 27:

• Concepts et méthodes en épidémiologie, du CNAM
• Comprendre l’exercice de la Justice : panorama des institutions juridictionnelles, de l’Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II
• Internet les autres et moi, de Certificat Informatique et Internet
• Données et services numériques dans le nuage et ailleurs, de Certificat Informatique et Internet
• Ville durable, de l’Université Montpellier 2 (début le 28 janvier)

Comment choisir ses cours en ligne ? por lemondefr. More...