The European School 2.0



In the age of the Social Web (Web 2.0/3.0), virtual learning environments empower teachers and learners to open their classrooms and be part of emerging folksonomies– the social construction of learning. Upcoming learning solutions gradually replace presentation tools with shared discussion and work spaces, offer coaching utilities instead of help desks, and learning resource repositories instead of ready-made digital materials. Teachers and learners alike are now using ICT very differently from one another and ever more creatively. 


But, what real impact is this revolution making on school education? Are schools preparing more adequately their students to live and work in a multi-cultural environment and meet key qualification requirements?


In the emerging School Education Paradigm for the 21st Century, the European School 2.0 (ref. to the European Commission consultation document: Schools for the 21st Century)Ministries of Education and other education authorities as well the whole education ecosystem in Europe need to embrace a set of priorities in the following lines:

  • Curriculum planning and assessment should be revisited to allow for the application of learner-centered methods addressing varying learning needs.
  • The immersive open educational resources, combined with social software (Web 2.0 and 3.0) are emerging as critical instruments for innovative (lifelong) learning, while fostering new Knowledge building paradigms and collaborative forms of learning materials.
  • Furthermore, schools should go into Partnerships and Networks, among themselves - with a cross-cultural and inter-cultural character -, as well as with their social environment.


Apart from the School Networking and Innovation Workshops, education experts and policy-makers joined plenary sessions with keynote addresses and panel discussions as well as roundtables and other interactive sessions.

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