Motivation The COVID-19 pandemic has truly caused the unprecedented global turmoil, which has kept 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries out of schools, with almost half without any… Read more The new online course welcomes teachers in Africa to their engaging learning journey
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic around 1 billion students and youth, including over 16 million learners in Central Asia, have been affected by school and university closures. While some of them… Read more UNESCO organized the first in a series of online trainings on distance learning solutions for Central Asian countries
A new 12-part video series by Dr Tony Bates, renowned expert in the field of online and distance education, is now available in Russian. Read more New video lectures on digital teaching and learning in Russian
On May 16, UNESCO IITE, UNAIDS and Odnoklassniki hosted a live discussion of challenges faced by children, parents and teachers in the context of remote learning. Popular Russian psychologist Larisa Surkova, teacher… Read more Learning in self-isolation: experts discuss lessons learned from remote education
On April 30, from 14:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, the first ever TEDx virtual conference will take place under the title: “Chronicles of the future. My new world: instructions for… Read more UNESCO IITE participating in the first ever TEDx online conference
On 15 May 2020, UNESCO Almaty convened the second in the webinar series on education sector response to COVID-19 in Central Asian countries, with a focus on online learning and… Read more Webinar on the organization of examinations and e-assessment in the context of distance learning
The new Personal Data Security Technical Guide for Online Education Platforms by UNESCO IITE in partnership with the research team at Tsinghua University. Read more UNESCO IITE launches Personal Data Security Technical Guide for Online Education Platforms
On 12 May 2020 UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) and UNESCO IITE jointly conducted the global webinar “COVID-19: Reflections by the ASPnet community”, which gathered students, teachers and parents from… Read more COVID-19: Reflections by the ASPnet community
The recent closure of campuses due to the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a challenge that has existed for many years. An education system that assumes the physical presence of teachers and… Read more Commonwealth of Learning (COL) releases Guidelines on Distance Education during COVID-19
UNESCO IITE joined the TEDx intellectual marathon: “Chronicles of the Future. My new world: instructions for use”. Ten prominent speakers from four countries shared their visions of the future. Read more UNESCO IITE took part in TEDx Online Conference: Chronicles of the Future
Distance learning solutions have been deployed over the past month in a vast majority of countries, but how effective are they in reaching the world’s 1.5 billion students affected by… Read more Dealing with obstacles to distance learning: UNESCO Covid-19 webinar
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in collaboration with UNESCO IITE and 40+ other organisations and institutions has launched the International Partnership of Distance and Online Learning for COVID-19. The unprecedented impact of… Read more International Partnership of Distance and Online Learning for COVID-19