The document discusses ways to improve dissemination of the Commons Project and ensure its sustainability. It proposes: 1) Submitting another funding proposal (CommonS2) to extend support for the Commons Project and define goals/sustainability. 2) Cooperating with other European networks and a publishing house to enhance dissemination of project platforms, communities, and learning content. 3) Better defining the business model by cooperating with the xAPI community, skills/competencies standards, and an educational orientation project (Up2U) to bridge between funding periods.

1. Updated Visions of
Commons. 2016-09-20
• Commons Project. What’s next?
Synergies whit other projects,
Submission of new project proposal to
extend support to CommonS’s Ideas
Cooperation with a publishing house

2. CommonS:
How to improve our dissemination capabilities?
• We have been saying that:
– We need to specify and better define our goals
and our sustainability capacity; that’s why we
could find viable to present another Erasmus+
proposal (code name CommonS2)

3. CommonS:
How to improve our dissemination capabilities?
• We have been saying that:
– We may found interest cooperating with other
european networks with similar goals

4. CommonS:
How to improve our dissemination capabilities?
• We have been saying that:
– We may want to exploit at the best the platform,
the community and e-contents (Learning Paths)
created to enhance dissemination of the platform

5. CommonS:
How to improve dissemination? Better define
• We can better define our model of business:
– By trying to cooperate with xAPI community
worldwide, and locally
– Defining skills and competencies to let Digital
Collections interact with Informal Learning inside
and outside Educational Institutions

6. CommonS:
How to improve dissemination? Better define
• We can better define our model of business:
– We can take the opportunity of cooperation with
Up2U, a project focused on secondary schools
students and their orientation to Higher Education
institutions
– Defining skills and competencies to let Digital
Collections interact with Informal Learning inside
and outside Educational Institutions

7. CommonS:
How to improve dissemination? Better define
• We can better define our model of business:
– Installing a small synergy with Up2U we can:
• Through Up2U, a project financed for the timespan
2017-2020, we should be able to ensure a bridge
between CommonS1 and CommonS2…
• Financing for instance the CommonSpaces platform
functions
• Ensuring the sustainability of the Community activities
• Work on a better definition of the business model for a
Start-up team that would sell services in the
Educational Market

8. CommonS:
How to improve dissemination? Publishing
• We have been saying that:
– We need a publishing partner to marketing a
“premium” version of contents (in eBook or
SmartBook format) derivative from “free” e-contents
available under CC SA License
– We choose McGraw-Hill to start an agreement process
since they have a meaningful European presence and
since they are deeply involved in creating “educational
services” such as the platform Connect, the
SmartBook™ protocol (see below), and maybe more

9. CommonS:
How to improve dissemination? Scaling-up
• We have been saying that:
– We could find a way to cooperate with Up2U, via
Sapienza – Digilab
– We can identify one ore more Proposal
(CommonS2, CommonS3) to sustain for have a
continuity of ideas and goals with CommonS1

10. CommonS:
How to improve dissemination? Scaling-up
• We have been saying that:
– We could find a way to cooperate with Up2U, via
Sapienza – Digilab
– We can identify one ore more Proposal
(CommonS2, CommonS3) to sustain for have a
continuity of ideas and goals with CommonS1

11. CommonS:
How to use SmartBook technology
• Smartbook™ is an eBook enhancement registered and distributed
by McGraw-Hill
– SmartBook implements some advanced features to transfer
functionalities of online learning to the traditional experience of a
transportable Book

12. CommonS:
How to use SmartBook technology
– SmartBook has 4 main channel of user interface:
• Preview
• Read
• Practice
• Recharge

13. CommonS:
How to use SmartBook technology
SmartBook claims to be
adaptable to profiled
learning:
• Adapting to your
learning style
• Creating a
Personalized Study
Path to fit your
behavior
• Letting you assess
your learning on the
go
• Being able to
interoperate with
your preferred
elearning platform

15. CommonS System at work for Sapienza