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A+ Click Math Challenge
Multi-national
A+ Click is a not-for-profit project that features a collection of illustrated challenging math problems for students in grades one through twelve. The purpose of this project is to help students become problem solvers. The website has a graduated set of over 1900 problems, starting from the very simple to the extremely difficult. The tests also include hundreds of practical problems and brainteasers.
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Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'Autonomia Scolastica (ANSAS - former INDIRE)
Italy
ANSAS (formerly INDIRE) is the National Agency in Italy in charge of managing the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP). Its activities include: cooperation with numerous institutes at national and international level; management of many online platforms for the training of teachers and school personnel; the dissemination of best practice related to educational innovation and providing services for fostering the quality of the education service. As well as managing databases for research purposes, INDIRE coordinates projects covering a wide range of topics, such as school architecture, interactive whiteboards, school management, etc.
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Animations for Physics and Astronomy, Penn State Schuylkill
United States of America
This is a repository of animations for Physics and Astronomy created by Mike Gallis, Associate Professor of Physics at Penn State Schuylkill. Most animations are 512 by 384 pixel avi files and are generally several megabytes long. The animations are well suited to teaching introductory Physics and Astronomy and can be used as supplemental materials in a number of ways. They can be played during lecture as a lead in to discussion of a particular topic and provided as links in notes distributed to students.
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Animovaná Fyzika
Czech Republic
This collection offers learning objects animating physical processes to help pupils understand intricacies of everyday life (heat transfer, hydraulics, warm and cold front, and engines of all kinds).
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Apertus
Hungary
The Apertus Foundation (in Hungarian: Apertus Közalapítvány) is a public foundation in Hungary set up by the government to support the development and introduction of open and distance learning.
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Arcademic Skill Builders
United States of America
Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
Our philosophy is inspired by the intense engagement arcade and video games foster between the player and the game. The Arcademic goal is to make aspects of classroom instruction as effective in creating persistence and involvement as observed in video game players. Our games are a result of blending video game features into instructional research in order to achieve a high rate of student learning through increased time-on-task and engagement. Students must employ strategy under exciting circumstances to make rapid responses while being given immediate feedback on their decisions.
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Cell Biology Animations by John Kyrk
United States of America
John Kirk, a biologist and artist has produced and made freely available short, easy to navigate animations and interactive diagrams explaining important basic concepts from DNA to photosynthesis. The animations are translated into six languages.
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Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique
France
The CNDP (Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique) is a public institution under the authority of the French Ministry of Education. The CNDP leads 31 regional and 85 local centres within the SCEREN network. The CNDP works to implement the Ministry's education policy by making available educational and professional resources (tools, advice, training) to all those involved in education, by promoting the use of technology in schools and by contributing to the development of arts and culture in schools.
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Centre of Information Technologies in Education (ITC)
Lithuania
The Centre of Information Technologies in Education (ITC) under the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania is responsible for implementation of the Strategies and Programmes for ICT introduction into Lithuanian education. ITC was founded in 1991 and re-organised in 2000. The main activities of ITC are coordination of the national strategies and programmes on ICT implementation in education; initiation and coordination of international cooperation on ICT implementation in education; development, accumulation and dissemination of digital educational content and services; organisation of teachers’ in-service training on computer literacy and ICT usage in education; organization and implementation of scientific research on ICT implementation in education; development and administration of the educational portal, education management system and the other educational information systems.
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Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
France
The Cité des sciences et de l'industrie is the 4th most visited museum in France (approximately 3 million visitors every year). The Cité houses several different activities having as an objective to "make accessible to all visitors new developments in science, technology and industrial know-how, as well as to participate in disseminating these to the regions of France and abroad". The Cité des sciences includes various areas such as: exhibitions, a Cité for children, a Congress centre, several Auditoriums, a Media Library which attracts one million readers per year with its various sections, a Cité des métiers (vocational guidance) on professional life. In order to bring science and technology closer to the people, the Cité des sciences has developed a programme offering a wide range of activities and actions oriented to the field of Education.
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Dunelm eLearning
United Kingdom
Dunelm e-Learning provides VLE content solutions for secondary and primary schools.
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EDUCATIO Tarsadalmi Szolgaltato Koz
Hungary
The Educatio Public Utility Company is a background institution of the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture. The eLearning Directorate as a subdivision of the Educatio develops and operates services in public education on the fields of methodology and content development. It maintains the Sulinet educational portal and the Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base (SDT) which is the central learning content management system in Hungary. As a result of participating in several EUN projects such as CELEBRATE, MELT and ASPECT, as well as the European Commission's eTwinning initiative, Educatio intends to share its developments throughout the European Community.
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EduCentrum KlasCement
Belgium
KlasCement is an educational portal by and for Dutch-speaking teachers (mostly Flanders - Belgium). They are exchanging documents, sites, learning objects, educational software, exercises, photos and videos, experiences, ... for free (with one of the creative commons licenses)! It's possible to announce events and to give comments and stars to every item. You don't have to share anything, but it's highly appreciated if you do so. The database offers thousands of learning objects. KlasCement is a social network of teachers (in spe). All content is moderated by a team of teachers. They have experience in IEEE-LOM metadata, quality control and copyrights. Thanks to the good quality of metadata KlasCement has an efficient search engine. Searching and finding learning objects for your curriculum is easy. As metadata is according to IEEE-LOM we can connect our database to other international database of learning resources. KlasCement also organises events and coordinates some other (international) ICT-projects.
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European Schoolnet
Europe
European Schoolnet (EUN) is a network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe and beyond. EUN was created more than 10 years ago with the aim to bring about innovation in teaching and learning to its key stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools, teachers and researchers. European Schoolnet’s activities are divided among three areas of work:
(1) Policy, research and innovation
(2) Schools services
(3) Learning resource exchange and interoperability
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Federal Ministry for Education, The Arts and Culture (bm:ukk)
Austria
The Federal Ministry for Education, The Arts and Culture (bm:ukk) promotes information and communication technology (ICT) for schools throughout Austria. In so doing, we promote eLearning by sponsoring national and international activities such as participation on EU projects, teacher training, etc. In fact, one of the most important mandates of the bm:ukk is to provide our experience, our knowledge and our resources to pupils and teachers throughout the EU. We believe this is a central tenet of European educational cooperation.
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Finnish National Board of Education
Finland
The Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) works with the Ministry of Education to develop educational aims, content and methods for primary, secondary and adult education. The role of FNBE is to ensure the supply of learning resources to all learners and learner groups. Through MELT we will widen the scope of available resources and they will become more easily accessible to educators and learners.
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Freesound
Multi-national
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.
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GeoGebra Wiki
Austria
GeoGebraWiki is a free pool of teaching materials created with GeoGebra, a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. Everyone can contribute and upload materials! All contents of this pool may be used free of charge.
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Geognos
United States of America
We (the folks at geognos.com) run this site called geognos.com and would love for you to use it. Our service is free. This site presents textual and visual information for all countries of the world. Geognos is an educational web site, all topics and content (including photos) in this site is safe and suitable for kids and minors therefore is available to individuals of any age.
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Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht GmbH
Germany
FWU is Germany’s leading producer of audiovisual media for schools and other educational organisations. It was founded in 1950 as a non-profit corporation with the 16 German “Länder” (federal states) as shareholders. FWU produces educational video-films, didactic DVDs and learning software on CD-ROMs as well as internet applications. It keeps on stock resources for almost all school subjects and cross-area topics, as well as fictional movies for children and young people. All productions are accompanied by comprehensive handbooks for teachers and educators.
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International Children's Digital Library
United States of America
The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world. We invite you to explore our growing library.
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Israel Board of Education
Israel
The Ministry of Education in Israel, in conjunction with a number of educational organizations, has enabled online availability of learning and instructional materials for all ages and on a variety of topics, for the use of its teachers. In the initial stages (2009) we have uploaded materials (in English), in the fields of science, technology, english instruction, history, culture, holocaust studies and religious studies. The materials include learning objects, such as audio-visual aids, exercises, work sheets and online projects wriiten specially for student use, as well as teacher guides, lesson plans, research articles and other pedagogic aids for the teachers. We believe that the presence and availability to teachers and students of high-quality learning materials on the internet, will accelerate the transformation of teachers to "online" teachers and of the traditional school to more innovative schools.
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Khan Academy
United States of America
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. Students can make use of our extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
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Learn English Kids, British Council
United Kingdom
LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council's website for children around the world who are learning English as a second or foreign language. This site has free resources for children to use at home, either independently or with family members or friends. You can recommend activities from this site to children to do for homework, or during school holidays. You can also recommend the Parents section of LearnEnglish Kids to parents and carers of children.
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LibriVox
Multi-national
LibriVox makes public domain books available as free audio books. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.
(1) LibriVox is a non-commercial, non-profit and ad-free project.
(2) LibriVox donates its recordings to the public domain.
(3) LibriVox is powered by volunteers.
(4) LibriVox maintains a loose and open structure.
(5) LibriVox welcomes all volunteers from across the globe, in all languages.
Explore LibriVox's collection of free audio books for children and young adults in multiple languages.
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Ministerio de Educacion y Cienca
Spain
The Spanish Institute of Training and Networked Resources for Teachers, (ISFRRP) of the Spanish Ministry of Education, is dedicated to enhancing the use of ICT in education prior to University by focusing on two strands: on-line teacher training programmes and development of digital educational content projects for all areas and levels of the curriculum, made freely available through its portal. It participates in EC funded projects such as eTwinning and MELT.
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MisCositas.com
United States of America
MisCositas.com is a free web resource that offers teachers a variety of materials for teaching languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Thai and ESL. This site was originally created by a teacher for other teachers to use in a classroom or computer lab. However, people from all over the world have written in about how they use the site in a variety of settings. Parents have used MisCositas.com for home schooling and for enrichment. Administrators have used the site in after-school clubs and staff development sessions. And anyone interested in learning a language can use the site to enhance their studies.
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National Center for Technology in Education
Ireland
The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) is an agency of the Department of Education and Science. It is responsible for managing the implementation of the Irish Government's ICT in Schools policy. Our core mission is to promote, facilitate and advise on the use of ICT in schools and to support its integration in learning and teaching in first- and second-level schools. The NCTE operates a number of discrete initiatives within the organisation: Continuing Professional Development; Digital Content, Scoilnet; Technology Integration; Special Educational Needs; and Webwise.
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, Utah State University
United States of America
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). There is a need for good computer-based mathematical manipulatives and interactive learning tools at elementary and middle school levels. Our Utah State University team is building Java-based mathematical tools and editors that allow us to create exciting new approaches to interactive mathematical instruction. The NLVM is a resource from which teachers may freely draw to enrich their mathematics classrooms. The materials are also of importance for the mathematical training of both in-service and pre-service teachers.
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NeoK12
United States of America
NeoK12 brings the best free online educational videos from all over the Internet for K-12 kids and teachers. NeoK12 also offers Web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching.
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Nobel Prize Games
Sweden
You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having FUN!
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OpenLearn - open educational resources from The Open University
United Kingdom
The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. It promotes educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential. Visit www.open.ac.uk/study for information about studying at the OU. The OpenLearn website makes a selection of high quality learning materials, taken from Open University courses, freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world with access to the internet under a Creative Commons copyright license.
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PhET Interactive Science Simulations
United States of America
PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. We believe that our research-based approach- incorporating findings from prior research and our own testing- enables students to make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying science, deepening their understanding and appreciation of the physical world.
To help students visually comprehend concepts, PhET simulations animate what is invisible to the eye through the use of graphics and intuitive controls such as click-and-drag manipulation, sliders and radio buttons. In order to further encourage quantitative exploration, the simulations also offer measurement instruments including rulers, stop-watches, voltmeters and thermometers. As the user manipulates these interactive tools, responses are immediately animated thus effectively illustrating cause-and-effect relationships as well as multiple linked representations (motion of the objects, graphs, number readouts, etc.)
To ensure educational effectiveness and usability, all of the simulations are extensively tested and evaluated. These tests include student interviews in addition to actual utilization of the simulations in a variety of settings, including lectures, group work, homework and lab work. Our rating system indicates what level of testing has been completed on each simulation.
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Photojournal, NASA
United States of America
NASA's Jet Propulsion Research Laboratory (JPL) makes available publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs. JPL is continuously pushing the outer edge of space exploration and continues to encounter new and exciting discoveries around Earth, the solar system and beyond. There is always something wonderful happening at JPL and we would like to share these amazing events with you.
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Promethean
United Kingdom
The mission of Promethean is supporting a sustainable change in education towards effective teaching, learning and collaboration in a digital world. A community of effective practice is the key to success. Promethean Planet is a global community with nearly quarter of a million teachers sharing their lessons and ideas with each other, and now in working with the LRE, we can explore how other communities of best practice can make new connections and share their ideas and content with each other in the future.
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Quality Network for a European Learning Resource Exchange (Unilearning)
Europe
eQNet is a three-year (September 2009-2012) Comenius Multilateral Network funded under the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning programme. The project is coordinated by European Schoolnet and involves 9 Ministries of Education or agencies nominated to act on their behalf. The primary aim of eQNet is to improve the quality of educational resources in LRE and provide a forum for joint reflection and co-operation. As a pan-European service, the LRE particularly seeks to identify resources that ‘travel well’ across national borders and can be used in a cultural and linguistic context different from the one in which they were created. eQNet has established a network consisting of policy makers and practitioners (teachers) who are developing and applying ‘travel well’ quality criteria.
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Research Institute of Education in Prague
Czech Republic
Digital learning objects make up a part of the Methodological Portal (http://www.rvp.cz/) that is run by the Research Institute of Education in Prague an organization directed by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The Methodological Portal was developed for teachers and it is a tool to implement the educational reform. A specialized part of the portal - Digital learning objects - is the official national repository of learning objects in the Czech Republic. This part offers resources that can be used not only at primary and secondary schools but also at special schools and kindergartens. All the objects are reviewed by experts, they are available for free and they are published under Creative Commons licenses. Both reviewers and users can evaluate each object as well as add their comments.
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Schools Portal - Portuguese Ministry of Education
Portugal
The Schools Portal is run by the Portuguese Ministry of Education and holds, among other sections, a repository of educational resources. Some of these were created by teachers, while others have been commercially produced. Among the latter, registered users have access to about 1,500,000 scanned pages of newspapers and magazines from 1910 to today, as well as a significant number of videoclips produced by two of the major Portuguese TV channels. These can only be used by registered users as well.
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Scientix
Europe
Scientix – the community for science education in Europe – was created to facilitate regular dissemination and sharing of know-how and best practices in science education across the European Union. Scientix is open for teachers, researchers, policy makers, parents and anyone interested in science education.
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Skolavefurinn
Iceland
Skólavefurinn.is (The Icelandic School website) is a web-based company providing quality educational material to both schools and the general public in Iceland. It is the largest enterprise of its kind in Iceland. With our participation in the MELT project and the LRE we have increased educational resources available to educators and learners in Iceland and given them insight into what is on offer from all over Europe. It is very important to have these resource available.
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Skolverket: The Swedish National Agency for Education
Sweden
The Swedish National Agency for Education is the central administrative authority for the Swedish public school system for children, young people and adults, as well as for preschool activities and child care for school children. The Agency supports, follows up and evaluates the work of municipalities and schools with the purpose of improving quality and the result of activities to ensure that all pupils have access to equal education. The Agency has the overall responsibility to support ICT development in schools: in-service training; access to digital learning resources; infrastructure and standards; safer use of Internet; school portal; cooperation - both national and international.
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Teachers' Domain
United States of America
Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from United States public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.
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The University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
Ever been confused by all the letters and squiggles used by scientists? Experts in physics and chemistry from The University of Nottingham will unravel some of those mysteries in these popular short videos. Many of the videos have Portuguese translations.
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Tiger Leap Foundation
Estonia
The goal of the Tiger Leap Foundation (TLF), which is financed by the Ministry of Education, is to increase the quality of Estonian education with the support of ICT. During its earlier phase, TLF activities were related to developing the ICT infrastructure in schools and teachers' computer competences. Today we focus on e-learning skills, digital materials and learning environments. TLF is participating in LRE initiative because we would like to find new users for Estonian e-learning materials that 'travel well' and also to provide Estonian teachers with access to learning content from all over Europe.
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University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
The University of Ljubljana (UL) participates in the ASPECT project on behalf of the Slovenian Ministry of Education. Two groups are involved in the project: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and Faculty of Computer and Information Science. Both faculties work in the field of computer-based education and learning, and are also active developers of educational materials for schools. The didactic materials are focused mostly on mathematics, natural sciences, and computer science. Their activities are supported by excellent cooperation with several national schools and enriched with cooperation within international networks like CoLoS (Conceptual Learning of Science) and HSci (Hands on Science).
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Various small collections of learning resources and assets
Multi-national
This set contains small collections of learning resources and assets from various providers.
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Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Europe, United States of America, and Japan
Conceived by Mathematica creator and scientist Stephen Wolfram as a way to bring computational exploration to the widest possible audience, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a remarkable range of other fields. From elementary education to front-line research, topics span an ever-growing array of categories. Some Demonstrations can be used to enliven a classroom or visualize complex concepts, while others shed new light on cutting-edge ideas from academic and industrial work-groups. Each is reviewed and edited by experts for content, clarity, presentation, quality, and reliability. Its daily growing collection of interactive illustrations is created by Mathematica users from around the world who participate by contributing innovative Demonstrations.
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Xarxa Telemàtica Educativa de Catalunya
Spain
XTEC stands for "Xarxa Telemàtica Educativa de Catalunya", or Online Catalan Educational Network which covers all ICT aspects in Education in Catalonia. It is represented by its three portals/websites: XTEC, EDU365 and EDU3. XTEC is a portal for teachers, with teaching resources, tutorials, tools training courses and administrative procedures. EDU365 is a portal for students and families, with lots of applications, mini didactic units faqs and online tools, such as a word processor, web mail service, personal storage or a scientific calculator. EDU3 is the product of an agreement with the Catalan Public Television TV3, whereby all educational materials produced by TV3 are catalogued and can be streamed or downloaded by teachers. XTEC supports the LRE as part of its policy of cataloguing materials and disseminating them more widely to all teachers.
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Young Digital Planet
Poland
Young Digital Planet has been in operation for almost 20 years as an educational eContent publisher and eLearning technology provider. In that time they have pioneered new technologies to develop educational learning solutions for a wide range of international customers. YDP’s vision and aims:
(1) To deliver the most sophisticated educational products and services which meet the demands of the fast-moving education sector.
(2) To build strategic partnerships – they already work with leading international textbook publishers, government education departments and other educational institutions.
(3) To develop outstanding digital learning content and platforms for schools, colleges and home/work-based learners.
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