Date: in 12 pts Education and Culture  WHY?  HOW?  WHAT?  WHEN?  WHY?  HOW?  WHAT?  WHEN? Virtual tour of the OLS tool – what you need to know when using it

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NAs role  Distribute licences to beneficiary institutions  Monitor the consumption of licences at beneficiary and participants of mobility level 3

BENs role  Distribute licences to participants.  Where relevant, decide which participants take the language courses.  Monitor licence consumption by participants of mobility. 4

MOOcs and Forum – as from January MOOCS: Classrooms themed courses, based on the model of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), offered weekly. Open to an unlimited number of learners. Video recordings of previous lectures Registration for MOOCs starting from 12 January 2015 First MOOCS in all languages except Dutch start in the week of 19 January Forum: allows learners to support each other, facilitates collaborative learning, and moderated by tutors who provide learning tips and answer questions posed by participants of mobility. Learners are able to exchange on the OLS Forum starting from 12 January 2015.

Tutoring – expected for February  Available once there is a minimum of 50 students active in a given target language and level  Available for 3 levels (A=A1+A2, B=B1+B2, C=C1+C2)  A pool of 80 tutors across the current 6 languages  Questions treated within 24h  Tutorial groups of 1 to 6 participants  Tutoring sessions can be either thematic or free (topic chosen by the participants)

Date: in 12 pts Education and Culture Licence allocation in 2015 From NAs to BEN

Licence allocation from NAs to BENs in 2015 All (100%) participants using one of the languages available through OLS as the main language during their volunteering (except native speakers) must take the assessments. Compulsory as of January 2015! Only for projects granted at deadline!

PROPOSAL Licence allocation by NAs to BEN in 2015 Assessments All participants using one of the languages available thorugh OLS as their main language during volunteering (except native speakers) have to take OLS assessments. Access is given also in cases where need is not indicated in the application form. Assessment is compulsory for mobility participants, and it is not a grant. Assessments All participants using one of the languages available thorugh OLS as their main language during volunteering (except native speakers) have to take OLS assessments. Access is given also in cases where need is not indicated in the application form. Assessment is compulsory for mobility participants, and it is not a grant. Language courses OLS licence for a language course is given in the cases where it has been applied for and approved during the evaluation process. Courses are not compulsory and ARE considered a 'grant in kind'. Language courses OLS licence for a language course is given in the cases where it has been applied for and approved during the evaluation process. Courses are not compulsory and ARE considered a 'grant in kind'.

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OLS information to participants: Introduction to OLS (video): already available online in 6 languages from the homepage Guidelines for participants: already available FAQs: already available Virtual tour of the language courses (videos) : already available online in 6 languages: DE EN ES IT FR NL