OpenitUp | For educators

For educators

OPEN IT UP is a multinational project that develops capacity building and suggests new methods and tools for formal, non-formal, and informal education and training in order to improve the quality of linguistic, digital, and entrepreneurship skills formation in adult education.

OPEN IT UP platform contains free educational resources which help you as an educator to be better prepared to meet diverse needs of your adult learners. Here you can find:

Teaching and learning materials for the course “Start Your Own Business” in English, Bulgarian, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish.
Innovation - Communication-Technology (ICT) toolkit with pedagogical resources, including methodologies, methods and tools for professional development of educators to help their adult learners to improve their linguistic, entrepreneurial, and digital skills.
Collection of videos about EU start-ups in partner languages, which can be used as part of language courses.
Webinars for educators focusing methods and digital tools in teaching adult learners, including low-educated and low-skilled ones.

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Get acquainted with techniques, methodologies and tools to use with your students and help them develop their language and digital skills. In this course, you will be provided with authentic materials related to business fields which will guide them through this hard project of starting their own business in a different country. If motivation has always been a handicap in your learners learning processes, learn how to introduce motivational mechanisms such as Open Badges. Your students will not only feel encouraged to keep the hard work but they will also feel more engaged in their life-long learning process and upgrade their entrepreneurial, language and digital skills.

Our ICT kit is a twofold tool offering resources and materials – including methodology, methods, and techniques – for you to implement in your up-skilling programs. You will be suggested new methods and pedagogical techniques for formal, non-formal and informal education from a holistic and digital perspective. As an educator, you will be provided with relevant and very useful materials and teaching tools that will boost your teaching skills and instructional design competences. It represents a great opportunity for you to start making a better and smarter use of new technologies and to deliver the best educational material in your educational programs.

Business Ideas

Resource Library

Don’t miss our collection of videos with very useful information that will help you understand what your learners need! In it, you will see how other European entrepreneurs came up with their ideas, what difficulties they encountered on their way and how they overcame them. Use them as illustration examples in your classes or as inspirational prompts for your least motivated learners.

Thinking of starting your own business ?

If you want your business to be successful, you have to work hard shape your idea.
This video is about the success story of an EU-based startup and will help you to make a conscious decision whether running your own business is right for you and to better prepare yourself...

Join our free webinars delivered by experts in the fields of education, ICT and entrepreneurship to learn about new methods, techniques and tools you can use with your adult learners. In this section, our webinars will keep you updated on innovative strategies to use in up-skilling, dealing with communication, understanding technology, continuous learning, leadership and ability to engage or empower learners. And if you are not able to join in real time, do not worry, all webinars will be recorded and uploaded onto this platform, so that they are always available for all.