News: IITE and partners in action

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

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