News: IITE and partners in action

Within the framework of the agreement on cooperation between  the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "E-education for Nanotechnology Industry" (ANO «eNano») the second seminar in the series of seminars «Ideals. Technology. Education» was held on November 20th, 2013 in RUSNANO.  Read more Second Joint UNESCO IITE – eNANO Seminar "Open Educational Resources and Distance Technologies in Engineering Education"

UNESCO IITE translated into the Russian language and published the "Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education" developed jointly by  the Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO (COL & UNESCO, 2011) Read more Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education

UNESCO IITE report was delivered by Prof.Cornu, Charman of the UNESCO IITE Governing Board to the Education Commission of the 37th session of the UNESCO General Conference on 9 November in Paris. The delegations of Latvia, the Russian Federation and others highly appreciated the work of the Institute. Many countries, such as Kenia stressed the importance of ICT in education. Read more UNESCO IITE report at the General Conference

On November 11, 2013 UNESCO IITE organized a workshop to discuss promising trends in the development of Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The workshop was organized by the Digital Pedagogy and Learning Materials Section. Read more Expert Workshop on OER and MOOC at UNESCO IITE

On October 31, 2013 UNESCO IITE held a round table on digital pedagogy at the Third All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Information Technologies of the XXI Century" organized by the National Nuclear Research University NRNU MEPhI. Read more UNESCO IITE Round Table at ITO-XXI Conference

UNESCO-UNEVOC Regional Forum Europe, CIS and North America was held in Moscow, the Russian Federation, on October 28-30, 2013 and brings more than 100 delegates together to tackle greening TVET, meeting the challenges of youth unemployment and harmonizing international policy and practice. Read more UNESCO IITE took part in the UNESCO-UNEVOC regional conference “Advancing TVET for youth employability and sustainable development”

A new country report on Open Educational Resources in Poland has been published by IITE. Read more Open Educational Resources in Poland: Challenges and Opportunities

The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) was awarded by the Third International Software Conference & Competition held in Tinapa, Nigeria, on 22 – 23 October 2013 for "Distinguished Motivation & Inspirational Support for the Software Initiatives & Activities of ISPON in Africa".
  Read more UNESCO IITE was awarded by the Third International Software Conference & Competition

The methodological approach proposed in this document explains the most important stages of the UNESCO ICT-CFT adaptation process; suggests guidelines to determine the appropriate strategies and policies for the development of ICTs in education and for the professional development of educators; and identifies the resources needed for the successful implementation of the ICT-CFT to the local context. Read more Guidelines on adaptation of the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers were published in English language

On October, 18th, 2013 UNESCO IITE participated in the International round table "UNESCO International Educational Projects As a Mechanism of New Approaches to the Content of Education", which was organized in the framework of the Kiev’s Days of Education in Moscow (at the secondary school #480 n.a. Viktor Talalikhin) under the auspices of Moscow Department of Education. Read more International round table "UNESCO International Educational Projects as a Mechanism of New Approaches to the Content of Education"

On 8-11 October 2013 IITE took part in the Second International Conference “Global Warming and the Human-Nature Dimensions in Siberia: Social Adaptation to the Changes of the Terrestrial Ecosystem, with an Emphasis on Water Environment” held in Yakutsk (Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic). Read more The Second International Conference “Global Warming and the Human-Nature Dimensions in Siberia: Social Adaptation to the Changes of the Terrestrial Ecosystem, with an Emphasis on Water Environment”

The ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (UNESCO ICT-CFT)were developed in 2008 and improved in 2011 by the UNESCO cross-sectoral working group based on consultations with experts in the field from all world regions. The aim of the Framework is to support the UNESCO Member States in developing national (regional) policy on teachers’ ICT competence and establishing the standards in this field. The Framework has been enriched using feedback from experts and users worldwide, and has been translated into the several languages, including Russian. The Russian version of ICT-CFT was developed by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) in cooperation with national experts from the Russian Federation and was officially presented in December 2011. Read more Guidelines on adaptation of the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers were published in Russian language.