OPEN LEARNING CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: ATTRACTING YOUNG PEOPLE TO STEM AND FOSTERING SENSE OF COMMUNITY

This paper presents the Open Learning Content Management System (OLCMS) presented, one of the tools  being developed by STEM4youth project (www.STEM4youth.eu). The project aims to make STEM education more attractive for youth (predominately for secondary pupils as well as pedagogues and science promoters) with a synergy of various educational tools and methodologies and an open multidisciplinary, multilingual content. To this end, the project aims at creating an OLCMS platform which will provide the end users with an advanced search engine, learning, and content management features rarely offered by the majority of other similar cost-free tools.