UNESCO Bangkok with funding support from Japanese-Funds-In-Trust (JFIT) has recently published an e-learning CD-ROM containing two modules.
Module 1: ICT in Education Essentials: provides learners with essential information about ICT in education and aims to promote common understanding about the topic in the education sector.
Module 2: ICT in Education Decision Making: helps learners to consider the different factors involved in choosing the appropriate technology to use in a particular (...)
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) has launched a new e-learning service to supplement its programmes and act as a platform for knowledge sharing for the global ICT community. Branded “iLearn@cto”, the new service will host a wide range of learning material on ICTs and other areas such as health or education. ilearn@cto will accelerate affordable, instant and universal access to an extensive range of courses in the Commonwealth and beyond, adding to CTO’s 20+ years of (...)
South Africa as a young democracy is going through interesting and innovative changes, especially at this stage of heightened transition. These changes and developments are very evident in various facets including government policy implementation and evolution of a range of Institutions. The General and Further Education and Training is one such sector of Education that is transforming with speed. The first circle of Education management in South Africa focused on transforming, through (...)
On 4 August UNESCO’s Brasilia Office, in partnership with Microsoft Brazil, presented the Portuguese version of ICT Competency Standards for Teachers to managers and decision makers in education. This UNESCO publication, consisting of three parts, was prepared in the framework of the ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT) project, which brings together specific guidelines for planning training programmes for teachers to ensure the acquisition of ICT skills by students. The (...)
UNESCO and the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org), the Jordanian-based international business services company, signed a partnership agreement today in Paris to work together on the building of inclusive knowledge societies and on the promotion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support education, science and culture in the Arab region.
The agreement reflects the commitment of both TAG-Org and UNESCO to mobilize partners to build knowledge societies, notably by (...)
Teaching, Learning and e-Pedagogy: Teacher Professional Development for Knowledge Societies is the theme of the 2009 UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. Funded by the Kingdom of Bahrain, the US$50,000 prize is divided between two winners. The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2009.
Every year, this prize rewards activities that demonstrate best practice as well as creative use of ICTs to enhance learning, teaching and overall (...)
Morocco wants to position itself as a regional technological hub. This objective has been confirmed by Taïeb Debbagh. The Secretary-General of the department of new technologies expressed in Ifrane in his speech at the opening of the 16th Annual International Conference of “IEARN” (International Education and Resource Network, the most extensive network of online schools) and 13th Youth Summit, held at the Al Akhawayn under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
“Innovative (...)
As Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) begin to take root in Uganda, preliminary findings from a five year project say there has been increased access to qualitative educational materials from the Internet. Launched in 2007, the Pan African Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICTs (PanAf), a joint initiative of the Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA) and the University of Montreal (Canada), is a project in 11 countries including Uganda (...)
