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Open Schooling Navigator

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Your support in exploring Open Schooling

Welcome to the Open Schooling Navigator, an online platform for teachers and educators. The Open Schooling Navigator supports you in exploring different forms of open schooling, inspires you to try out and set up open schooling projects and encourages you to share experiences and knowledge.

Accessible and easy to use

We know time and money is valuable for teachers and educators, so we designed the Open Schooling Navigator to make it as easy as possible for you. Whatever your experience is, the Open Schooling Navigator gets you up and running in no-time to try out or expand your own open schooling practices.

Make it Open

The Open Schooling Navigator is developed by Make it Open. This is an EU-funded pan-European, collaborative project. Make it Open brings the philosophy and creativity of the maker movement alongside the inquiry-based approach of citizen science to the classroom to develop a transformational approach to STEAM teaching and learning. It aims to make new approaches to science learning available in an accessible and actionable framework.

More information about the project Make it Open can be found on the project website.

Other supporting tools and activities

To support teachers and educators in Open Schooling, Make it Open developed a mix of actions, tools and resources open for teachers and educators to join, use or attend. The Open Schooling Navigator is part of this mix and provides knowledge and resources needed to make schools key community actors and empower their students in seeing themselves as change makers.

Other tools and activities developed by Make it Open can be accessed by the links below.

What can I do with the Navigator?

The Open Schooling Navigator supports you in exploring different forms of open schooling, it inspires you to try out and set up open schooling projects and encourages you to share experiences and knowledge.

More about Navigator features

Glossary

The glossary helps you understand common terms used in the Open Schooling Navigator.

Check out the glossary

Other support materials & activities

Toolkit

We provide information packs for teachers and school leaders, with information on open schooling, the benefits of such a practice and how you can begin exploring open schooling practices within your school/ community. At the moment the toolkit is available in English only.

Download toolkit

Open Schooling Hubs

Mid 2022 national Open Schooling Hubs have started in 10 countries. Hubs act as educational incubator encouraging schools to transform into open schooling environments and spaces of community wellbeing. The Open Schooling Hubs are the main contact point for Open Schooling in their country, and act as supporters and facilitators offering training and regular meet-ups for teachers and other educators.

More about Open Schooling Hubs

MOOC

We offer a Massive Open Online Course (in English) to help you choose and build your own open schooling learning scenarios. The MOOC will connect teachers and educators with various levels of experience in Open Schooling. The course will run for a period of 4 weeks during the 1st semester of 2023 and will remain available afterwards.

More about the MOOC