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In the current panorama of education across Europe we find that technology is increasingly present in the classroom. On the one hand, we have government programs that provide classrooms with a technological infrastructure. On the other hand, students themselves, usually have mobile devices—such as smartphones and tablets—and carry them everywhere, including the classroom. In this context, it is born the Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (iTEC) project, which is the flagship FP7 project in the education area, financed by the European Commission with 12 million Euros. The iTEC tries to contribute to the conception of the classroom of the future, in which technology is complemented with the most innovative pedagogical approaches, which entail a major level of dynamism in the educational practice. Thus, the iTEC promotes an educational practice, in which students interact in small projects including a participation in events, speeches with experts, and all that seasoned with the use of technology. In the iTEC, The Eduteka is a toolkit of technologies for advanced learning activity design. The components of the Eduteka provide support for the iTEC pedagogical approach. Those are thoroughly presented in this chapter.
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The authors would like to thank the invaluable work of their teams to carry out the iTEC project: Víctor Alonso, Víctor Álvarez, Michael Aram, Manuel Caeiro, Agustín Cañas, Manuel Fernández, Javier García, Miguel Gómez, Mark Johnson, Joris Klerkx, Roberto Pérez, Kris Popat, Rubén Míguez, Juan Santos, Hoang Minh Tien.
This research has been funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme—project the iTEC “Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom”, grant agreement no. 257566. The contents of this article is the sole responsibility of its authors and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein.
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Anido, L., van Assche, F., Colin, JN., Ellis, W., Griffiths, D., Simon, B. (2015). The iTEC Eduteka. In: Sharma, D., Favorskaya, M., Jain, L., Howlett, R. (eds) Fusion of Smart, Multimedia and Computer Gaming Technologies. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14645-4_6
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