1. ICT PSP 2011, 5th call, Pilot Type B, Objective: 2.4 eLearning
Duration : 1/4/2012 – 31/3/2014
Budget: ~ 15,3 Million Euro
51 Partners from 23 countries

2. e-learning Futures
The future is… mobile and ubiquitous and interactive and social and open, ….

3. Open Discovery Space for eLearning in Schools
Rationale: Mainstreaming the use of LR
“A good education system should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives…” Illich (1971) ODS plays a key role in supporting the take-up and use of digital educational resources in schools and revolutionises communities of practice in eLearning

4. Motivation and Context
Action 68: Member States to mainstream eLearning in national policies
“The benefits of eLearning are enormous”
However, “Today eLearning is not sufficiently present in Member States' education and training policies.”
EU’s mandate to support Member States in their efforts to modernize education and training systems by:
“enabling and inhibiting” factors, relevant experiences and barriers to adoption of eLearning across Member States

5. Open Discovery Space Aims
To facilitate the implementation of the Action 68 of the Digital Agenda for Europe and to effectively modernize education in the EU, for all subjects and skills. ODS aims to unleash the innovation potential of Europe in the production of novel educational and training activities through efficient use of ICT combined with effective stakeholder engagement. To address the challenge of modernising school education by engaging teachers, students, parents and policymakers in a first of its kind effort to create a pan‐European e‐learning environment to promote more flexible and creative ways of learning by improving the way educational content is produced, accessed and used. 5

6. Open Discovery Space Vision
Empower stakeholders with an integrated access to unique eLearning resources from dispersed educational repositories.
Engage stakeholders in unleashing their innovation potential in the production of meaningful educational activities through the use of a socially‐empowered multilingual portal offering eLearning resources as well as services for the production of educational activities.
Assess and evaluate the impact of generated innovation in the production of meaningful educational activities, which could act as a reference to be adopted by stakeholders in school education.

7. Collaboration with EC funded projects and initiatives

8. Conceptual Architecture

9. ODS: E-Learning for Schools
Integration of e-Learning into European schools
Piloting across whole Europe with involvement of 2,000 schools and 10,000 teachers
Centralized and local social communities
Competences and needs for teachers

10. Open Discovery Space User-Centric Scenario

11. Learning Design Tools

13. Contests for Students and Teachers

14. Open Discovery Space Community building
Methodology for the effective introduction of innovation in schools
Build a group of digitally-literate teachers - change leaders who will share leading eLearning practices
Open Discovery Space Educational Design
Design a number of scenarios for the practical implementation of the proposed Educational Design through the use of the Open Discovery Space Portal in real-life classrooms

15. Awareness and curiosity of individual teachers
ODS Innovation Model
Awareness and curiosity of individual teachers
Try out in class; reflect in CoP
Scale-up to national level; sustain usage
Phase 1: Stimulating – veel input vanuit Task 1.2

17. Open Discovery Space Schools Community
Phase A – involvement of 100 eMature schools to support the requirements elicitation process (WP2),
Phase B – involvement of 500 additional schools that will be involved in the pilots, WP5 (9 months duration) and
Phase C – involvement of additional 1400 schools in the framework of the large scale validation activities, WP11 (9 months duration).

18. Open Discovery Space Outcomes
Documented guidelines for the design and implementation of  effective resource-based educational activities
A large community of schools communities in EU
Provision of a large collection of unique resources from advanced educational repositories
A socially-empowered multilingual portal which will facilitate the discovery, enable to use and provide monitored-for-impact use of digital materials

19. Teachers are key actors
In our view, the teachers are the key actors in facilitating this change towards more Open Education in our schools and they should be encouraged and empowered to be the “agents of change”. This can be achieved by several actions: by enabling and motivating the teachers to introduce innovative learning concepts and design including the use of ICT, by offering appropriate and effective teacher training, by providing more independence and control on the educational process, e.g. over the curriculum and school management, by allowing for more social context-relevant or personalised forms of learning, and by fostering sharing and collaboration.

20. The teaching profession should have an appropriate input into the policy‐making process
Educational policy development and mainstreaming should crucially involve contributions from a wide range of cross-sectoral stakeholders (economic, political and social) to ensure consistent alignment with other national strategic policies.

21. Overall Impact of Open Education
to contribute to the modernization of school education,
to support teachers, students and their parents in acquiring digital competences,
to stimulate demand for innovative eLearning resources,
to engage teachers and pupils in innovative educational practices
to generate a showcase of sufficient scale across boarders, cultures and languages.

22. Consortium