Open Education strategies, and specifically MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) and OER (Open
Educational Resources), play an important role in supporting policies for educational innovation, lifelong
learning, and, more generally, the enlargement of educational opportunities for all. While there is an
increasing interest in Open Education, there is little awareness about the role of Digital Library as learning
incubators for learning enhancement. The paper presents briefly the state of art of Digital libraries in the
light of the most recent initiatives of Open Education in Italy, towards an integrated model of Digital
libraries as “knowledge and learning open hubs”
