News: IITE and partners in action

In the period December 4 – 7, 2012 the Fifth Seminar "Intercultural Education and globalization: current practice and trends"  of the annual cycle of the international workshops "Dialogue of Civilizations and Intercultural Cooperation"  took place in Moscow, Russian Federation,  As in previous years, the Seminar was organized by the initiative of the UNESCO Chair "International education and the integration of migrant children in school" Moscow Institute of Open Education (MIOO) in accordance with the Memorandum of Cooperation between Moscow and UNESCO, as well as the Plan of public interest activities of the Department of Education of Moscow in 2012. Read more International Seminar" Intercultural Education and Globalization: Current Practice and Trends"

IITE organized a working section “ICTs for early childhood and primary education” in the framework of the Second Annual International Scientific Conference “Early Childhood Care and Education” (6-7 December 2012, Moscow, Russia). Read more IITE organized a section “ICTs for early childhood and primary education”

IITE has translated into Russian and published the Handbook on pedagogies of media and information literacies Read more Book launch: Pedagogies of Media and Information Literacies published in Russian

In the framework of a three-year UNESCO IITE project “ICTs in Primary Education”, the third expert meeting was organized in Moscow on 11-12 November 2012, on the eve of the IITE-2012 International Conference “ICT in education: pedagogy, educational resources and quality assurance” (Moscow, 13-14 November 2012). Read more Third expert meeting on “ICTs in Primary Education”

The book “ICT in Primary Education” within the IITE Analytical Surveys series has been out of print. This is the first publication in the framework of the UNESCO IITE three-year project “ICTs in primary education”. Read more “ICT in Primary Education” is out of print

The 13th Session of the IITE Governing Board was held in Moscow from 15 to 16 November 2012. At the opening session, Mr. Svein Osttveit, UNESCO Director of the Executive Office Education Sector (EO/ED) on behalf of the Director-General gave a speech on the current situation in Education sector of UNESCO, presented its objectives and the means to achieve them. He informed about recent launching of Education First by the Secretary General of UN, Mr. Ban Ki Moon.  Also he stressed on the current debates on post -2015 education agenda. He acknowledged the synergies between sustainable development and UNESCO’s core constitution and the role of education in reducing inequality. Read more 13th session of the Governing Board

IITE translated into Russian and published "Media and Information Literacy: Curriculum for Teachers" in Russian Read more IITE published "Media and Information Literacy: Curriculum for Teachers" in Russian

The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education commissioned this Handbook, which is intended to become a useful tool that would equip teacher training institutions and facilitate teaching media and information literacy in teacher training, to the Finnish Society on Media Education. Read more Out of print: “Pedagogies of Media and Information Literacies”

On September 26-27, 2012 the two days expert meeting on the development of Mongolian National Standards for Teachers ICT competency was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by the UNESCO IITE and UNESCO Moscow office in collaboration with the Mongolian Ministry of Education and Science and Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO. Read more Expert meeting on the development of National standards for Teachers ICT competency

The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education has launched a new training course on the creation and use of open educational resources. Read more New IITE online training course

To ensure accessibility of IITE web resources for various groups of users including those with special needs, IITE in cooperation with the ReadSpeaker enterprise have launched a new web-service that provides instant audio version of IITE online content by means of speech-enabling application. Read more A new web-service is now available at the IITE website