Projects

Online Learning and Fun is a  large-scale research project  whose  aims is to examine learners’ views about fun in learning supported by technologies in Higher Education. Due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, many schools and universities  have adapted their curriculum to promote online learning. Con

is a Network of Excellence Professional Learning whose aim is to expand professional learners engagement with the best of European Interactive Media Research. PROLEARN investigates and advances issues especially relevant for professional training in SME's and larger companies, including brokerage

is a Collaborative Open Learning research community for cocreating knowledge, skills and practices with new technologies and methodologies. This community was founded in 2000 by Dr. Okada in Brazil and became an international network in 2006 during the OpenLearn project developed by The Open Unive

stands for "Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training" and is a project co-funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus Programme. The project started in September 2009 and has a duration of three years. OpenScout a

is the OU's Open Content initiative for making educational resources freely available on the Internet, with state of the art learning support and collaboration tools to connect learners and educators. The OpenLearn project started in 2005 with a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Open App project is an initiative of Rumpus Centre. It focuses on Open Educational Resources (OER) to be designed by youth based on ‘open schooling’ approach to foster skills for Responsible Research and Innovation. It is funded by Brazil government and supported by 360 in 360 Immersive Exper

is a network to explore the potential of argument analysis experiments on the net. Our objectives are to: (i) investigate how complex debates of topical interest can be more effectively communicated, navigated and analysed when mapped in software tools; (ii) advance the state of the art in pract

helps e-learners construct interpretations of open content courseware. It supports the Open Content movement for enabling students and educators to access material, in order to then learn from it, and reuse it either in one's studies or one's own courses. The core efforts to date has focused on en

is about Equipping the Next Generation for Active Engagement in Science and to promote more Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). It focuses on secondary schools and teachers' professional development. Its aim is to engage educators and learners to participate actively in socio-scientific issu

is an Adaptive Trust-based e-assessment system for learning. With teaching and learning increasingly being delivered online, there is a growing need for robust and trustworthy online assessments. For this reason, The Open University (OU) is part of the EU H2020-funded TeSLA project, which aims to de

support participants to develop inquiry skills for responsible research and innovation for envisioning and contributing to improvements in their cities. Several initiatives on collaborative inquiry-based learning – “co-inquiry” –  have been emerging in Higher Education and Secondary schools. Most o

is a project about Inclusive Open Schooling through Engaging and Future-oriented Science. It is a sustainable model for enabling more secondary schools to adopt open schooling by embedding science-action in the core curriculum through fun participatory approaches. A science-action makes science mor

are Visual Interfaces for Systematising and Interpreting Online Notes. Problem: A key issue for students in online courses is to make sense of large amount of information from various resources and develop thinking skills on the web. OU students’ comments revealed that “there is a wealth of resour

offers Adopting Standards for European Educational Content. It is an eContentPlus action of the EU focused around standards for interoperability for sharing learning materials. There are many standards in the field of learning: around objects, around syndication and search, and even to help define

is a Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning. Its aim is to propagate scientific inquiry as the approach for science learning and teaching in combination with today's curricula and teaching practices. weSPOT will create a Working Environment with So