To choose suitable resources for personal competence development in the vast amount of open educational resources is a challenging task for a learner. Starting with a needs analysis of lifelong learners and learning designers we introduce two wayfinding services that are currently researched and developed in the framework of the Integrated Project TENCompetence. Then we discuss the role of thes...

Designing educational experiences is an imaginative art. As designers, we anticipate and fabricate activities, resources, and conversations that will bring learners’ inquiry to fulfillment, enabling their growth toward desirable skills, intuitions, and understandings. As Whitehead suggests, success in this art requires highly developed tools, and the computer, in its protean flexibility, is the...

Mathematical creativity is acknowledged as a backbone lifelong competence necessary to be fostered in all students. However, this is not an easy task to accomplish, due not only to a lack of appropriate technologies enabling the creative design of digital educational resources for creative mathematical thinking (CMT), but also to the absence of insightful methodologies to support creative desig...

Over the past years, a number of international initiatives that recognize the importance of sharing and reusing digital educational resources among educational communities through the use of Learning Object Repositories (LORs) have emerged. Typically, these initiatives focus on collecting digital educational resources that are offered by their creators for open access and potential reuse. Never...

aim: the aim of this study is to identify a framework of needed expertise for publishing academic electronic textbooks according to the characteristics of this kind of books. therefore the final result focuses on needed experts through the consensus method. method: delphi technique using the researcher made questionnaire was done in four rounds. the research population was composed of forty exp...

Educational on-line resources are expanding in their application beyond delivering courses to providing venues in which members of professional communities of practice meet to exchange problems, ideas and questions. This paper will discuss two such communities, their similarities and their differences. Design decisions will be suggested to encourage designers and facilitators of such venues to ...

Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital technologies that were not available but 5 years ago. At the apex of this boom is the introduction of applications ("apps") for tablets and smartphones. However, there is simply not the time, money, or resources available to evaluate each app as it enters the market. Thus, "educational" apps-the number of which, as...