The online event was a follow-up to the Draft OER Recommendation considered during the Intergovernmental Expert Meeting at UNESCO Headquarters in May 2019 and to be submitted to the General Conference for review and adoption in November 2019.

On 29-31 May 2019, the VIII International Conference “Early Childhood Care and Education” (ECCE 2019) took place at MGIMO University in Moscow.

The new issue features an article on the participation of UNESCO IITE in the events of the Mobile Learning Week, held from 4 to 8 March 2019 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

The event was held by the Expert Council for Information Technologies in Education and Science under the Committee for Education and Science of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on 15 May 2019 in Moscow

On May 16-18, 2019, Beijing (PRC) hosted the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and education, entitled “Planning Education in the AI Era: Lead the Leap”. The Conference was co-organized by UNESCO and the Government of the People’s Republic of China.

The Forum is organized every three years and is considered one of the world’s leading international conferences on open, distance and technology-enabled learning.

The Conference aims to emphasize opportunities offered by Open Education as a means to empowerment and to increase accessibility and quality of educational opportunities for all.