Flexible, Open and Social Learning or short FOS (which means light in Greek) is an OER course that aims to help academics and other professionals who teach or support learning to develop their understanding of new pedagogical approaches in the area of flexible, open and social learning within a diverse distributed development community in order to make informed changes to their practice and therefore enrich their students learning experience. More...

In order to stress the importance of stories, Kipling once said that “if history were taught in the form of stories it would never be forgotten”. Digital storytelling is also a form of narration highly relative to contemporary digital era. Interactive multimodal texts are constantly been created whilst current users develop a variety of literacies and skills in the process. More...

The Open Facilitator Project is a collaborative initiative by the Centre for Excellence for Learning and Teaching, the Open Knowledge Foundation and an independent colleague. Its goal is bringing facilitator voices together and studying them in a systematic way. More...

In Greece we have a national celebration on the 28th of October, when we celebrate and remember the resistance that Greece showed against the invasion of Italy during the 2nd World War. As a teacher I deliberately undertook the school celebration in order to use it for the History lesson. More...

Οι μαθητές χωρίστηκαν σε ομάδες .Δόθηκε σε κάθε ομάδα φωτοτυπία από ένα σχέδιο λαβύρινθου,σχέδια βελών .Οι μαθητές σε συνεργασία έπρεπε να βρουν τη διαδρομή του λαβύρινθου ,να ζωγραφίσουν και να κόψουν τα βέλη και να τα τοποθετήσουν διαγράφοντας τη διαδρομή που είχαν βρει προηγουμένως.Μετά έδιναν οδηγίες σε μαθητή άλλης ομάδας να ακολουθήσει αυτές τις οδηγίες χωρίς να βλέπει,έχοντας τα μάτια κλειστά. More...

Students with learning support issues often have problems saving and retrieving their digital work. This causes problems when they have to share it with their educators. To solve this problem we started using on-line co-working spaces that look like on-line exercise books. More...

We implement a new learning environment on higher education. Instead of using the time in-class for lectures we gave online lectures to the students using videos, social network, webinars and interactive e-contents and use the time in-class to promote debates, synchronous communication with students from Brasil and other interactive learning activities. More...

Digital storytelling is a path towards acquiring various skills and literacies, as its author(s) and narrator(s) engage in many experiential activities and tasks in order to achieve their goals. This practice highlights a digital application designed by 3rd grade students attending a pilot experimental primary school in Greece. More...

More and more enterprises offer their employees attractive options to arrange both family and work. Against the backdrop of European freedom of movement for workers, our students as employers want to be attractive for “High Potentials” from all over Europe. More...

Two years ago I discovered Centropa - a Jewish historical institute dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewish family stories. Centropa offers a web-based educational program and encourages teachers to teach European-Jewish history of the 20th century in an interdisciplinary way. On their website www.centropa.org a teacher can find educational material - videos, biographies or photos - which is innovative and international. More...