The Education in the Digital Era conference & ongoing online discussion (in Twitter #EdDigEra and in Facebook group) has identified Open Education as one key practice that has the potential to help involved actors in all levels achieve combined three strategic aims:

1. Enhance the quality of education
2. Empower both educators & learners
3. Improve access equality to education. More...

Are MOOCs just another way of teaching? An innovative business opportunity? A societal revolution? EMOOCs 2015 will invite key actors and speakers of the MOOCs wave to share, develop and confront their views and insights, and to explore new paths beyond the single view of MOOCs today… It is a unique opportunity to inspire and develop new ideas and perspectives with top players of MOOCs and Edtech today. More...

Education in the Digital Era Open Webinar I: "Moving towards Open Educational Practices!! Share your OEP and open the way to other educators to follow your example!" More...

PRAISE is a social network for music education with tools for giving and receiving feedback. It aims to widen access to music education and make learning music more accessible and more social. At its heart PRAISE will provide a supportive, social environment using the latest techniques in social networks, online community building, intelligent personal agents and audio and gesture analysis. More...

The ICT-DRV project consortium – composed of organisations involved into professional driver training from all over Europe - explores opportunities and challenges of technology-based training methods within the initial and continuous/ periodic vocational training of professional drivers. More...

LeTeEm aims to encourage young European students to develop employability through creative thinking, curiosity and enquiry, critical thinking, social and communications skills, confidence and practicality. More...

All those educators who would like to share their Open Educational Practices (OEP) or learn about possible ways to start working on this direction are welcome to participate and consider to contribute their OEPs. Find more info about the ways that you can send your OEP experiences here. More...

Within the overall framework of Unesco’s strategy on Open Access (OA) to scientific information and research, the international organisation has just made a complete set of nine Open Access modules for researchers and library schools available online. More...

  The Directorate of Education and Training with social partners will soon start reviewing the national structure of upper secondary VET programmes. 
The Ministry of Education and Research has assigned the directorate to conduct a review of upper secondary VET. The aim is to improve quality and attractiveness by strengthening the link between VET and skill needs of the labour market. More...

Necessity of college degrees is beginning to be questioned. With youth unemployment in Europe at 24% in 2013 and thousands of graduates leaving university every year without jobs to go into, there seems to be a missing link somewhere between education and employment. More...