The BIOAPI aims at developing a short online course, with free access, on the theme of bees as environmental bioindicators through activities of interdisciplinary cooperation between the Universidad del Sur (Argentina), the University of Bologna, the CREA (Bologna, Italy) and the CSA Group (Rimini, Italy). The online course has the objective to promote the sharing of open educational resources (video-lessons, case studies, interactive resources, etc.) with a view to support processes of lifelong learning and continuing education. An important aspect related to the innovative dimension of BIOAPI-OER concerns the use of some gamification elements in parallel with the whole learning path. An advanced prototype of interactive game (http://openlearning.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=6) has been developed in order to make the user experience more engaging, interactive and, therefore, significant in terms of impact on learning.