Needs

During 2019 Covid outbreak, schools around Europe were forced to implement a distance learning or a hybrid learning model. This meant that, under time pressure, the proper digital tools had to be chosen, the educational content had to be digitalised, and most importantly the whole learning process had to be transferred to on-line environments. Although, many researches of the past decade were aiming to increase the educational organisations’ readiness to perform such a swift, it was, most commonly, not expected to occur so rapidly. Thus, leaving little time to educators to research suggested approaches and tools and find the method that would best suit their teaching approach.
Meanwhile, global enterprises, had developed over the years their collaborative platforms and set of tools, several open source for educational use, that have the potential to facilitate the distance learning educational process. During the Covid era, a fast choice had to be made, by EU ministries of education, schools, teachers, etc. on which set of tools would be used. The many available choices, the lack of data and information to enlighten the decision makers, as well as the lack of a platform capable of integrating all those tools led to students using multiple and different tools for different subjects at school, after school classes, when changing schools, etc.
The EU educators’ community, having all those different implementations, approaches and resources (tools and educational content) were unable to efficiently collaborate under the time pressure explained above. This resulted in a feeling of confusion to educators that expected a greater level of guidance