Edu-AREA: An Open Educational Resources Platform to Support Teaching Innovation | Open Education Working Group | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Edu-AREA (http://www.edu-area.com) is an open educational resources platform to support teaching innovation developed at the University of Vigo in Spain. Its main goal is to promote teachers as innovators, developing their own lesson plans and contributing to the adoption of open movement in education. Edu-AREA distinguishes among several types of open educational resources: Documents, Applications, Devices, Sites, Guests, Activities and Lesson Plans. The platform supports the creation of activities and lesson plans, where OER can be developed including links to externally hosted support OER.