News: IITE and partners in action

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

The 11th Session of the IITE Governing Board (GB) was held in Saint-Petersburg from 17 to 18 November 2010. Read more 11th session of the Governing Board

IITE was invited to participate in the Europe and CIS Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities. The workshop, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), took place on 1-2 November 2010 in Odessa, Ukraine. Read more ITU Europe and CIS Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities

The International Conference "Informatization of Education 2010", organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, Belarusian State University, Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank with financial support of UNESCO Moscow Office, was held in Minsk, Republic of Belarus, on 27-30 October, 2010. Read more International Conference «Informatization of Education 2010»

This year the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education in cooperation with the UNESCO Moscow Office will held its annual conference on 15th and 16th of November 2010 in St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation. Read more International Conference IITE-2010
“ICTs in Teacher Education: Policy Development, OER and Partnership”

IITE became a co-organizer of the 4th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT2010). The conference was held on 12-14 October 2010 in Tashkent (the Republic of Uzbekistan). Read more IITE Section “ICT for Inclusive Knowledge Society Development” within AICT2010 Conference in Tashkent