A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources”. Open Discovery Space addresses various challenges that face the eLearning environment in the European context. Open Discovery Space Web portal that was developed during the project is socially-oriented platform through which the teachers, students and parents are be able to discover, adopt, discuss and adjust resources to their needs and interests. Consortium of this ambitious project consists of 51 organizations – participants from 25 European countries. Each partner had a goal to expand this idea and develop their national repositories that will supply the ODS portal with information and materials.
Open Discovery Space serves as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it demonstrates ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It promotes community building between numerous schools of Europe and empower them to use, share and exploit unique resources from a wealth of educational repositories, within meaningful educational activities. In addition, it demonstrates the potential of eLearning resources to meet the educational needs of these communities, supported by European Web portal: a community-oriented social platform where teachers, pupils and parents are able to discover, acquire, discuss and adapt eLearning resources on their topics of interest. Finally, it assesses the impact and document the whole process into a roadmap that includes guidelines for the design and implementation of effective resource-based educational activities that could act as a reference to be adopted by stakeholders in school education.
The main aim of the project was to accelerate the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the rich educational content base created through EU funding and from national initiatives. Further, it aligned the efforts and initiatives of a large number of relevant stakeholders around Europe, stimulating and increasing user demand.
ODS addresses various challenges that face the eLearning environment in the European context. The interface has been designed with students, teachers, parents and policy makers in mind. ODS fulfilled three principal objectives.
Firstly, it empowered stakeholders through a single, integrated access point for e-learning resources from dispersed educational repositories. Secondly, it engaged stakeholders in the production of meaningful educational activities by using a social-network style multilingual portal, offering eLearning resources as well as services for the production of educational activities. Thirdly, it assessed the impact of the new educational activities, which served as a prototype to be adopted by stakeholders in school education.
Project consortium:
- Intrasoft International Sa, Luxembourg
- Ellinogermaniki Agogi Scholi Panagea Savva Ae, Greece
- Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
- Computer Technology Institute & Press Diophantus, Greece
- Brunel University, United Kingdom
- Jyvaskylan Yliopisto, Finland
- Universidad De Alcala, Spain
- Greek Research And Technology Network S.A., Greece
- Institut Telecom, France
- Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany
- European Distance And E-Learning Network Lbg, United Kingdom
- Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Sero Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom
- Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V, Germany
- Signosis Sprl, Belgium
- Bundesministerium Für Unterricht, Kunst Und Kultur, Austria
- Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland
- Hogskolen I Oslo, Norway
- Psochios Ioannis & Sia Oe – Agro-Know Technologies, Greece
- Fondation Euractiv, Belgium
- Unisoft Romania Sa, Romania
- Universita Degli Studi Di Trieste, Italy
- Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
- Nucleo Interactivo De Astronomia, Portugal
- Ou Miksike, Estonia
- Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg Vzw, Belgium
- Universal Learning Systems Ltd, Ireland
- Universidad De Cadiz, Spain
- Pau Education Sl, Spain
- Hrvatska Akademska I Istrazivacka Mreza – Carnet, Croatia
- Padagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Germany
- Anoikto Panepistimio Kyprou (Open University Of Cyprus), Cyprus
- Digipro Computer Consultants Ltd, Cyprus
- Univerzitet Metropolitan u Beogradu
- Pedagogical Institute – Ministry Of Education And Religious Affairs, Greece
- Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse Iii France
- Technical University Of Crete, Greece
- Siveco Romania Sa, Romania
- Knowledge Markets Consulting Gmbh, Austria
- Universidad De Vigo, Spain
- National Research Network Association Bulgaria,
- Bundesgymnasium Und Bundesrealgymnasium Schwechat, Austria
- Metasolutions Ab, Sweden
- Sveuciliste U Zagrebu Fakultet Elektrotehnike i Racunarstva, Croatia
- Uab Metbaltic Lithuania
- United Nations Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organization –Unesco, France
- Ilisimatusarfik Ugreen Greenland
- Universitaet Wien, Austria
- Università Degli Studi Di Scienze Gastronomiche, Italy
- Centre For Research And Technology Hellas, Greece
