News: IITE and partners in action

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

The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova has designated the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (United Kingdom) and Infocentro Foundation (Venezuela) as the laureates of the 2010 UNESCO King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education. Read more Connecting the disconnected: UK and Venezuelan ICT experts awarded UNESCO King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize

The "Third Training Workshop on Online Course Development and Quality control" of the Avicenna Virtual Campus Project was organized on 7-9 December 2010 at the Avicenna Centre of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The main aims of the workshop were to consolidate the development of the Avicenna Virtual Campus in Iraq (AVCI) regional network and to diversify and expand activities of the national network. Read more "Third Training Workshop on Online Course Development and Quality control" of the Avicenna Virtual Campus Project

IITE was invited by the European Agency for Development of Special Needs Education to participate in the European conference “Mapping the Implementation of Policy for Inclusive Education”, held in Brussels, Belgium on 2-3 December 2010. Read more IITE took part in the European conference “Mapping the Implementation of Policy for Inclusive Education”

Result-Based Management (RBM) Training and System of Information on Strategies, Tasks and the Evaluation of Results (SISTER) Training were held at IITE premises from 30 November to 2 December 2010. UNESCO HQ facilitators, Ms Othilie du Souich and Ms Anne Coupez, provided UNESCO Moscow office and IITE staff with exhaustive information on key principles of RBM approach and SISTER system usage. Read more Result-Based Management Training

UNESCO OER Policy Forum ‘Taking the Open Educational Resources (OER) beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity’ took place on 1 December 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Read more UNESCO OER Policy Forum

The Russian Commission for UNESCO held a Forum of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) of the CIS and Baltic countries on 22-23 November in Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Read more Forum of the UNESCO ASPnet of the CIS and Baltic States

The International Conference IITE-2010 “ICTs in Teacher Education: Policy Development, OER and Partnership”, organized by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and the UNESCO Moscow Office, was held in St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation, on 15th and 16th of November 2010. The Conference was organized in close cooperation with the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation and the St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics and with support of CISCO Company. Read more Conference IITE-2010 – step towards the Knowledge Society