FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) is a 2-year, EU-Funded (FP7) project, carried out by 13 partners across 8 countries. The primary aim is to produce a European-wide training programme that will help researchers, postgraduate students, librarians and other stakeholders to incorporate Open Access approaches into their existing research methodologies. More...

Developing new ways for students and educators to share. The main purpose of licensing educational material under open licences is to allow for anyone to use, re-use or re-purpose them.
However, despite a strong movement in recent years to publish such material, OER reuse is still not a common practice in Higher Education, schools and enterprises. More...

The DIV.ED project focuses on the complex topics of diversity, acceptance and tolerance applied to the academic learning context.
Its main output is a university module to be tested, implemented, evaluated and exploited in four partner countries (Austria, Germany, Lithuania and Portugal) before being disseminated and exploited Europe-wide also with other target groups in different educational environments - including (ICT-supported) informal learning. More...

Neuro-Ludus is a video game released to help youth and adults to improve their information processing skills so that can more effectively acquire and more efficiently deployed essential digital skills. More...

The European Multiple MOOC Aggregator (EMMA), a large-scale piloting of MOOCs on different subjects and in different languages, is about to unveil its first batch of MOOCs. The registration for the first MOOCs will be opened at the beginning of October. More...

UNESCO and the Education Fast Forward Foundation are organizing an online Oxford Debate on Mobile Learning from Thursday 18 until Friday 26 September, 2014. More...

The Living Lab is a participatory research method in which partners actively explore and test out the new tools and provide feedback for ongoing improvements. Both OER providers and institutions recognizing OER are invited to join the Lab. More...

In our current society there is a strong need for citizens to work on their employability and to develop key competences (European Commission, 2006, van Woensel (ed), 2008). Developing those competences should starts during formal education, but maintained throughout working life. It requires a change in current educational and a move towards lifelong learning. Individuals need to actively look for learning opportunities. More...

Structured wikis combine the flexibility advantage of traditional wikis with the possibility of presenting structures and relationships in a partly automated fashion.
Link to the article OpenSym2014 - Open Educational Resources Track. More...

The international Journal for Innovation and Quality in Learning INNOQUAL has recently published a Special Issue on Quality in Massive Open Online Courses. This paper was published in the issue's category "Quality in MOOCs". More...