open education movement

open education movement,Open educational resources Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. Although some people consider the use of an open file format to be an essential characteristic of OER, this is not a universally acknowledged requirement. The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated by a desire to curb the commodificationof knowledge[1] and...

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Chronicle of the annual congress of European Schoolnet # Eminent2014

The annual congress of European Schoolnet (EUN) , EMINENT ( Experts Meeting in Education Networking ), held in Zurich this month, has had as its central theme this year "assessment of key competencies: paradigm shifts". In addition to reviewing policies and innovation projects in European education, the proposal has been to focus the conference on exploring the notion of evaluation and current affairs on this, as outlined in the Communication of...

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The latest advances in technology and education that were in SIMO 2014

The past 16, 17 and October 18, Madrid hosted the II edition SIMO Education . Organized by IFEMA in collaboration with Education 3.0 , the show has had a full program of activities which have combined exhibitions, workshops, panel discussions and presentations, as well as presenting pioneering experiences of using technology in the classroom. This scenario has been used to relate different educational experts and technology, publishing, teaching...

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EDUCATION SIMO 2014

From Thursday 16 October to Saturday 18 is held in Madrid SIMO EDUCATION 2014 . Under the theme "Teaching in a Digital World", is aimed at education professionals. It offers a wide and interesting program with lectures, workshops, seminars, roundtables and experiences of using technology in the classroom. Among the various conferences especially oriented to compulsory education, SIMO Education program will feature speeches by renowned author...

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Support for undertaking projects to improve learning

From the 4th to October 18, 2014, clusters composed of centers or educational units supported by public funds of at least two different autonomous communities or cities may apply for support to develop and implement projects to improve learning. With this aid is intended to encourage the implementation of organizational and methodological changes that increase the number of students completing compulsory education and continue further studies. Are...

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Connectivity schools

Teachers and program designs based on the use of digital educational resources with increasing intensity and frequency activities. In most cases access to these resources is done in school and the entrance to the network, for the students to access content occurs simultaneously. Chances are, at that moment, in the center is conducting a similar activity for another class group and therefore, is competing for the use of a valuable shared resource:...

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