Digital Learning Resources

Although there is no content development strategy as publishers or open source initiatives, the cantonal strategy for ICT states that one of its aims is to “make existing content more accessible by a system of tagging, description and evaluation”.

Content development strategies
There are no content development strategies involving publishers or open source initiatives at national level.
E-Content development
With its second framework, the CDIP’s strategy aims at promoting production of digitalised pedagogical contents, enabling access via the Swiss Educational Server.
User generated content
The digital school library project, launched in 2006 by the Swiss Institute for Educational and Cultural Media (educa.ch), is intended to create an interactive database bringing together educational resources.
Web 2.0
All fifth-form pupils (age group 11-12) at the pilote project school Goldau are given an Apple iPhone 3G for them to use in and out of school as a part of their personal learning environment between August 2009 and July 2011.
Content sharing
In the framework of PPP-School on the Net, sixty exemplary e-learning “products” have been developed. They include learning scenarios, educational software, information systems and open educational programmes.
Learning Platforms
The Swiss Educational Server provides a vast amount of information about education in Switzerland, as well as an e-learning platform called educanet².