The team of Open Education Europa portal inaugurates a new initiative: the Open Education Europa Tour; Building the Open Network of European Education Pioneers via a series of open interactive workshops/webinars that will take place online or face to face in different parts of Europe. More...
Using OER as a step towards Open Education
Student build their storytelling artefacts with OER resources and share them with open licenses. The best artefacts are published in the local section of the Spanish educational repository, Agrega. More...
Open classroom to the world! Learning coding together with internal visitors
Visiting different schools is valuable for visitors, at the same time it is even more valuable to the school and students. Our school gets every year around 60 interested groups from 25 different countries – teachers, politicians, students and researchers, media: newspapers, TV and even different businessman’s from Japan to USA that want to see how we use technology in our lessons. More...
OER Research Hub publishes data reports on the impact of OER use on teaching and learning
The OER Research Hub three reports cover the analysis of responses by formal and informal learners, and also educators. Responses from each survey were combined into a larger dataset to allow for comparison and in-depth examination. The final dataset is comprised of 7,498 cases –44.4% informal learners, 28.4% formal learners, 24.3% educators and 2.9% librarians. More...
Open Education Europa Teachers Contest launched!
The Open Education Europa portal has just launched a contest aiming at collecting and sharing innovative teaching practices taking place in Europe.
Excellence in education requires a constant drive and passion for improvement, and professional development. Sharing is the heart of Education. The Open Education Europa portal is announcing the Open Education Europa Teachers Contest. More...
Free online #webinar on The Impact of Open Education @Edtechie
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. The OER Research Hub has been investigating the impact of OERs, using eleven hypotheses, and a mixed methods approach to establish an evidence base. This talk explores the findings relating to teaching and learning. The findings reveal a set of direct impacts, including an increase in factors relating to student performance, increased reflection on the part of educators, and the use of OER to trial and supplement formal study. Read more...Education Department announces open educational resources hire
By Stefanie Botelho. The Education Department is making good on its promise to make online content openly licensed and free to teachers, parents and administrators who want to use it for educational purposes. More...
The Open Access Interviews: F1000 Founder Vitek Tracz
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Open Access Interviews: F1000 Founder Vitek Tracz
Richard Poynder, Open, Shut?, 2015/09/23
Fifteen years ago Vitek Tracz launched Biomed Central and in so doing gave open access the boost it needed into the mainstream. More...
Questions about online ‘openness’
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Questions about online ‘openness’
Jenny Mackness, 2015/09/22
Some good questions for an open education practitioner. More...
OPENNESS: A challenge for Education, an opportunity for teachers! Let's work together!!
I'm happy to see you here in our community of European Education Pioneers!! That means that you have completed successfully the introductory pre-session activities to create your profile account in the Open Education Europa Portal and to join this community:-). More...