Belgrade Open School

Belgrade Open School (BOS) is not a virtual school or even a school. However, it is a non-governmental, not-for-profit educational organization in Serbia, which among other things, fosters e-learning.

BOS contributes to the overall development of society through additional education and training to agents of social change, research and policy-development in order to build modern society based on democratic values.

For more details see http://www.bos.rs/eng/

Centre for Research of Information Technology (CePIT)

CePIT is a part of the Belgrade Open School (BOS) . CePIT is primarly focused on research projects in Social Informatics, e-learning developmet and various public activities, in order to enhance the development of Information Society in Serbia and the South East Europe region.

For more details see http://www.bos.rs/cepit/eng/index.php

E-learning - Project "Virtual schools"

Since 2002, in cooperation with the International Center "Olof Palme", CePIT has developed the project "Virtual schools". By constructing, applying and standardizing the original methodology of internet-based learning, this project aims to support and promote the process of decentralization of educational system and structure in Serbia.

First virtual courses in Serbia CePIT organized in 2002, and so far twelve e-courses were held. Internet course "European Integration" was nominated for the best e-content during the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS, Geneva, UN, 2003).

By this time, "virtual courses" engaged about 50 lecturers, and almost 300 participants from around 30 different cities from Serbia and the Western Balkans. The most prominent result of these courses are two published collections of participants' final papers, dictionary of democratic society, e-magazine "Nova škola", the first number of which was also published as a special issue of "Prosvetni pregled", and "European union - youth guide".

For more details see http://www.bos.rs/cepit/eng/e-learning/

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