FUNecole participates in an Open Discovery Space Project

51 organizations from 23 countries gathered in Athens, Greece, on 23 -25th of April for the kick off of Open Discovery Space

Open Discovery space is to one of the most visible European Commission projects. Open Discovery Space will engage students, teachers, parents and policymakers in a first of its kind pan-European effort to address the key challenges facing the European eLearning environment.

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/apps/projects/factsheet/index.cfm?project_ref=297229

FUNecole Creative Learning Environment is the only application that supports ICT literacy both in primary and secondary levels within the Open Discovery Space project.

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Open Discovery Space eLearning Project will unleash the innovation Potential of students, teachers and schools.

Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources

Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. Open Discovery space will promote 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 will demonstrate 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 will be able to discover, acquire, discuss and adapt eLearning resources on their topics of interest. Finally, Open Discovery Space will assess the impact and document the whole process into a a roadmap that will include 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.