Schoolkit: a Strategy to Value Best Practices in Education (IT0046)

Short description Developing and disseminating an open standard to value the best practices in the education sector, to accompany every call for applications of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and to transform schools into a tinkering community through the platform http://schoolkit.istruzione.it. Setting up an open and reusable knowledge and practices database and making it available to the school system. General objective Put the focus on innovation produced by schools and at the same time set up a community based on the innovations produced by schools alone or by schools in partnership with external actors. Current situation So far, no system had been developed to collect, value and disseminate good practices in education, especially those resulting from investments made by the Ministry. The Schoolkit project was publicly started on 5 May 2016 and by July 2016 the platform had been accessed by approximately 50,000 users. The platform currently includes only 13 Schoolkits some of which have already been accessed by over 25,000 users: a strategy was developed to review and publish schoolkits of three kinds: a) schoolkits proposed by the education community; b) schoolkits proposed by third parties (i.e. science museums, universities, foundations, associations); c) schoolkits produced by the Ministry and associated with institutional content or actions implemented by the Ministry itself. Expected results The Schoolkit project is intended to develop a large community of content and good practices for the education sector. The minimum goals for the beginning of 2017 include: at least 100 Schoolkits, at least 100,000 accesses to the platform, at least 20 structurally involved stakeholders. Additional functionalities will be developed to value socialization and community activities in the platform as well as a strategy for the “shared management” of the platform itself in cooperation with digital animators.

For commitment details, see IRM Year 1 report: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/italy-mid-term-report-2016-2018-year-1/

For commitment details, download the IRM report: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/italy-end-of-term-report-2016-2018/