AstroEDU, the innovative platform to learn (with) astronomy

AstroEDU is the open-access platform supported by IAU (International Astronomical Union) that offers a monthly opportunity to discover new, peer-reviewed, high-quality educational activities related to Astronomy. Our planet and its space in the Universe is indeed a great topic to fascinate young generations and to involve them in the general process of learning and growing up, being easily related to many other STEM and nonSTEM disciplines such as math, physics, history, philosophy, art and many others

Today AstroEDU is the only educational platform that mixes two different approaches: the peer-review method of publication in scientific literature, and the bottom-up approach of a collaborative network of teachers and educators.
The target audience of AstroEDU is a growing community of educators, students, parents and researchers involved in education. In the last years, AstroEDU has also experimented with new technologies in order to enlarge this community and make it as worldwide and inclusive as possible. 

In this presentation we will unveil the new AstroEDU platform and its editorial approach to fit this multilingual and diverse community. We will provide an overview of the innovative activities that have been published to date, asking ourselves to what limit they can be considered “open educational resources”, accessible and usable from all around the world.

We will also focus on how new technologies such as A.I. can be used to improve the user experience, introducing A.A.A., the AstroEDU Artificial Assistant, currently under development.