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16 March 2016
From 7 to 11 March 2016, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) took part in one of the key annual events in the UNESCO calendar – UNESCO Mobile Learning Week (MLW 2016)
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23 February 2016
UNESCO is to establish a dedicated Steering Committee to ensure the global coordination of the Sustainable Development Goal no. 4, which focuses on providing quality education by 2030.
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15 February 2016
The Zero Project Conference 2016, convened by the Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria was held on 10-12 February 2016. The event, which gathered innovators from more than 70 countries, highlighted 98 innovative policies and practices concerning inclusive education and/or ICTs from around the world in 35 plenary sessions and workshops. UNESCO IITE was invited to participate in the the panel discussion devoted to accessible ICT and inclusive education.
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27 January 2016
The course consists of five modules, which provide comprehensive information about adolescent physical, emotional, psycho-social and sexual development, puberty, reproductive health, prevention of sexually transmitted infections including HIV and unplanned pregnancy, as well as on effective teaching approaches. Each module has educational videos, exercises, tests and references.
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15 January 2016
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova awarded the 2015 UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education to the Omar Dengo Foundation’s National Programme of Educational Informatics in Costa Rica and the Open Source Physics project developed by Singapore’s Ministry of Education during a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters on 13 January 2015.
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11 December 2015
In the framework of the joint project of UNESCO IITE/International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the IT center for persons with disabilities was established in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. Two-days training seminar “Modern assistive technologies for persons with disabilities” was carried out on the basis of the new IT center on 7-8 December 2015. The training programme covered both policy and practice issues with many international good practice examples.
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16 November 2015
On 16 November 1945, the Constitution of UNESCO was signed by 37 countries in London, United Kingdom, and came into force on 4 November 1946.
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25 June 2015
In June 2015, the UNESCO IITE took part in the Global High-Level Policy Forum "Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education for the Future We Want: from Statements to Action: Equity, Access, and Quality Learning Outcomes", which was held by UNESCO and ICDE.
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19 February 2015
On 16-18 February 2015 the annual international conference “Innovation Arabia 8” was organized in Dubai (UAE) by the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and President of the HBMSU.
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22 December 2014
Two books "ICT in Primary Education" within the UNESCO IITE Analytical Surveys series has been out of print. The publications were developed in the framework of the UNESCO IITE three-year project "ICTs in primary education".
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23 November 2014
The abstracts and presentataions of the International Conference IITE-2014 “New Challenges for Pedagogy and Quality Education: MOOCs, Clouds and Mobiles” were published at the IITE website.
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18 October 2014
On 16-17 October 2014 the Fifteenth session of the newly appointed IITE Governing Board was held in Moscow. Dr. Mansoor Al Awar, Chancellor of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (United Arab Emirates) was elected as a Chairperson of the Governing Board.
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19 June 2014
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) in partnership with St.Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and its UNESCO Chair “Distance Education in Engineering” organized an International Conference “UNESCO Chairs Partnership on ICT Use in Education”. The Conference took place on 1-5 June, 2014 in St. Petersburg (Pushkin), Russian Federation within the XV International Forum “Modern Information Society Formation - Problems, Perspectives, Innovation Approaches”.
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15 April 2014
This is to announce a new course on ICT in Primary Education to run as a MOOC hosted by the University of London at Coursera.
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21 February 2014
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education under the support of the Intersectoral Platform "UNESCO's Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation" has developed and launched a new website "Climate Change Adaptation: Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples Inhabiting the Arctic and Far North" on its portal.
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