News: IITE and partners in action

May 30 – June 3, 2011
Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) in close cooperation with the UNESCO Moscow Office and Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation organizes an International Conference of the UNESCO IITE and UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs “UNESCO Chairs Partnership on ICTs use in Education: Innovations and Best Practices”.  Read more International Conference of the UNESCO IITE and UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs “UNESCO Chairs Partnership on ICTs use in Education: Innovations and Best Practices”

In the framework of the joint IFESCCO/ UNESCO IITE project, aimed at strengthening and further development of ICTs use in TVET in CIS and Ukraine, an on-line meeting of national experts and UNESCO IITE team members was held on 20 May 2011.  Read more On-line national experts meeting in the framework of the joint IFESCCO/ UNESCO IITE project

On 17-18 April 2011, within IITE “ICTs in Primary Education” project, IITE held an expert meeting, organized in cooperation with the French National Centre for Distance Education (CNED) in in Poitiers, France. Read more Meeting of ‘ICTs in Primary Education’ project experts

HP and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education will open an educational center at Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics Read more IITE – ITMO – HP cooperation

The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) organized a two-day International Conference “ICTs and Quality of Education: UNESCO ASPnet On the Way Towards a School of the Future” for 50 participants, including CIS and Baltic countries, UNESCO ASPnet national coordinators and representatives of the UNESCO ASPnet schools as well as regional ASPnet coordinators of the Russian Federation. Read more International Conference “ICTs and Quality of Education: UNESCO ASPnet On the Way Towards a School of the Future”

All-Russian final of the Technologies Imagine Cup 2011, organized by Microsoft and supported by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), was held on 16 April 2011 at the Cultural Center of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. The Foundation “Skolkovo” and the Higher School of Economics were partners of the event. Besides IITE the competition was supported by the Russian Venture Company, Acer, Quarta Technologies and Intel. At the opening ceremony Professor Alexander Khoroshilov, IITE National Programme Specialist, delivered a welcome speech. Read more Final of the Technologies Imagine Cup 2011

In March 2011 IITE launched a one-year project “ICTs in Primary Education”, aiming to facilitate the policy dialogue and build foundation for effective primary education by means of ICTs. Read more The launch of ‘ICTs in Primary Education’ project

A workshop "Key components of the ‘Teachers of the Arctic’ Project as a basis for creation of an innovative learning environment for professional development of Arctic Region Educators” was organized by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) at the Institute for Development of Education and Teacher Training in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation, on 28 February – 2 March 2011. Read more A workshop "Key components of the ‘Teachers of the Arctic’ Project as a basis for creation of an innovative learning environment for professional development of Arctic Region Educators”

The 2011 Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 'The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education' was launched at Columbia University in New York on 1 March 2011.

UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) in cooperation with the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation, organized a GMR presentation on 2 March 2011. Read more Launch of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 'The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education'

Information and communication technologies can be especially useful in promoting mother languages. We must harness the power of progress to protect diverse visions of the world and to promote all sources of knowledge and forms of expression… Read more Message of the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, 21 February 2011

A new monograph “E-Learning in the Republic of Korea” by Dae Joon Hwang, Hye-Kyung Yang and Hyeonjin Kim is out of print. Read more Fresh from the Press

UNESCO Contract Management Training was organized for the staff members of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education on the premises of the Institute on 18 February 2011. Two facilitators, Mr Dimitriy Greshnev, Administrative Officer at the UNESCO Moscow Office, and Ms Aikui Yegiazarian, Administrative Assistant at the UNESCO Moscow Office, conducted the training.  Read more Contract Management Training at IITE