European Schoolnet (EUN) has recently launched a unique online learning laboratory as part of an innovative research project. Entitled SMILE - or Social Media in Learning and Education – this year-long project aims to improve our understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with how kids are growing up in a world of social media and technology.

Following a successful implementation of the Educational Netbook Pilot, Acer and European Schoolnet are carrying out a new pilot study on the use of tablet devices to enhance teaching and learning practices. The tablet study will take place during the next 12 months in eight European countries.

iTEC (Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom) is a four year, large-scale project starting in September 2010, which will bring together policy makers, researchers, technology suppliers, other technology-enhanced learning experts and innovative teachers in order to design, build and comprehensively test scalable learning and teaching scenarios for the future classroom. The key aim is to develop engaging scenarios for learning in the future classroom that can be validated in a large-scale pilot and be subsequently taken to scale.

Survey of Schools: ICT in Education The Survey of Schools: ICT in Education aims to benchmark progress in ICT availability and use in 31 countries (EU27, Iceland, Norway, Croatia and...

  Teach.us, the learning community for web 2.0 teaching     Results of recent studies about Web 2.0 teaching and learning in Europe show that existing pilot projects at...