This is to announce a new course on ICT in Primary Education to run as a MOOC hosted by the University of London at Coursera. Read more UNESCO IITE and University of London launched MOOC "ICT in primary education" on May 27, 2014
On March 25, 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding between the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI was signed. Read more Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO IITE and NRNU MEPhI
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) has uploaded the Russian version of the "Open Educational Resources (OER) Country Policy Development Template" (joint translation project with ABBYY LS) to its website. Read more Open Education Resourсes (OER) Country Policy Development Template (in Russian)
UNESCO IITE participated in the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University 2014 Congress (March 3-5, 2014, Dubai, United Arab Emirates) as a partner. Read more Presentation of UNESCO IITE Project on ICT in Primary Education
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education under the support of the Intersectoral Platform "UNESCO's Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation" has developed and launched a new website "Climate Change Adaptation: Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples Inhabiting the Arctic and Far North" on its portal. Read more New website "Climate Change Adaptation" on the UNESCO IITE portal
In the framework of IITE activity on technical assistance to Member-States in teacher professional development based on UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers the official Mongolian version of UNESCO ICT-CFT was published as a follow-up of the IITE project on the development of the national ICT competency standards for teachers of Mongolia Read more Publication of Mongolian version of UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers
On January 23-24, 2014 the Meeting of UNESCO Chairs on higher education, ICT in education and teachers took place in the UNESCO HQ, Paris. Read more Meeting of UNESCO Chairs on Higher Education, ICT in Education and Teachers
On January 17th, 2014 in the framework of interregional workshop of Russian ASPnet “UNESCO Associated Schools as a Factor Contributing to Quality Education” the delegation of 25 directors and teachers of ASPnet schools from Republic Sakha (Yakutia) has visited UNESCO IITE. Read more Interregional workshop of Russian ASPnet at IITE
On December 12, 2013 a Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO IITE and the Institute for Informatization of Education of the Russian Academy of Education was signed in RAE IIE. Read more Joint UNESCO IITE – IIE RAE Event
On December 9-10, 2013 within the “Teachers of the Arctic” project IITE arranged the training for winners of the competition "The best teacher on ICT application in teaching practice”, held in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) upon the IITE initiative in partnership with the Ministry of Education of the Republic and the Republican Teacher Training Institute. Read more Training of winners of the competition "The Best Teacher on ICT application in Teaching Practice"
On 5-6 December 2013 a delegation from Latvia visited UNESCO IITE. The delegation consisted of directors of schools, deputy director of the Education Department of the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science, Director of Science Programmes and Secretary General a.i. of the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO. Read more A visit of delegation from Latvia took place in UNESCO IITE
Within the Memorandum of understanding established between IITE and the Government of the Sakha (Yakutiya) on December 3-4, 2013 the scientific and practical conference "Educational space of Arctic: traditions and innovations" was held in Yakutsk, the Russian Federation. The conference was organized by the Ministry of education of the Sakha (Yakutiya), Republican teacher training institute, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya) under the name of Donskoy-II in cooperation with IITE. Read more UNESCO IITE took part in the scientific and practical conference "Educational space of Arctic: traditions and innovations" held on December 3-4, 2013 in Yakutsk, the Russian Federation