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29 July 2016
UNESCO IITE, in partnership with the Minsk-based, adolescent-friendly health centre “Doverie” (“Trust”) and the Minsk Municipal Education Development Institute have initiated a parent education programme to assist parents in staying connected with their adolescent children and providing support to help them grow up happy and healthy.
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20 June 2016
UNESCO IITE participated in the International Conference “Re-imagining Learning Environments” organized by the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) was held on June 14-17, 2016 in Budapest, Hungary.
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13 June 2016
UNESCO IITE participated in the International Conference “Media and Information Literacy for Building Culture of Open Government” which was organized within the UNESCO Information for All Programme in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from the 6th to 10th of June 2016 in the framework of the 8th International IT-Forum.
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23 May 2016
On May 18, 2016, Education Ministers affirmed the need to address homophobic and transphobic violence in educational settings by signing a Call for Action at the International Ministerial Meeting.
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19 May 2016
On May 18th, 2016 the UNESCO IITE participated in one of the key events of the All-Russian campaign "STOP HIV/AIDS" held inthe People’s Friendship University of Russia (PFUR).
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17 May 2016
The monograph “Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs, Transformation” is out of press. It was published in English in 2016 by UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning. The chapter “Open Access to Educational Resources Through Federal Portals and OER in Russia” was co-authored by Dr. Svetlana Knyazeva (UNESCO IITE), and Mr. Alexey Sigalov.
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10 May 2016
II Moscow Young Teachers Forum “Young Teacher: Professional Standard and Vectors of Development” was held in partnership with the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) on 19 April - 7 May, 2016, in Moscow.
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2 May 2016
On 27-28 April 2016, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) took part in the Moldova ICT Summit – 2016.
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28 April 2016
On April 27, UNESCO IITE held a master-class "Classroom of the 21st century: Selecting and using appropriate assistive technologies for students with disabilities". The invited expert Mr. Paul Thompson, AbleNet, Inc. representative covered the subject of the main stages of the integration of assistive technology in inclusive education and the issues of selection and use of technologies in accordance with the individual needs of students
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22 April 2016
UNESCO IITE was invited to participate in the round table "E-learning: retraining and improvement of qualification during the crisis" organized by the Expert Council for Information Technologies in Education of the State Duma Committee on Education.
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22 April 2016
For the first time the UNESCO IITE participated in the Open Education Global Conference 2016 which was held at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland from the 12th to 14th of April 2016. More than 150 participants from Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom and USA attended the Conference.
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21 April 2016
On 20 April 2016, at the Moscow International Education Fair of Education - 2016, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) and one of the leaders in the market of corporate applications, SAP company signed Partnership Agreement in the field of dissemination of knowledge and best ICT practices.
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19 April 2016
The Moscow International Education Fair (MIEF-2016), organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (MoES) in cooperation with IITE and other Russian and International organizations, took place on April 13-16 2016, in Moscow, Russian Federation.
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15 April 2016
On April 14, 2016 the Minister of State for Higher Education Affairs of the United Arab Emirates H.E. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi visited UNESCO IITE.
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12 April 2016
The role of education and modern ICTs for HIV prevention were brought onto the agenda of the Fifth International Conference on HIV and AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECAAC 2016) that took place in Moscow, on 23-25 March.
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1 April 2016
Belarus Association of UNESCO Clubs and its Regional resource and training centre EDU-HUB in cooperation with UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) invite specialists working with adolescents and young key populations to take part in free distant learning electronic courses during the second quarter of 2016
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21 March 2016
From 14 to 16 March 2016, the Experts’ Workshop was held at the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Center in Bonn, Germany.
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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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15 March 2016
“I am against discrimination on any grounds”, said Vera Brezhneva, a popular singer, actress and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador opening a talk show organized by UNAIDS and UNESCO in partnership with leading regional social media network OK.RU on March 1 to mark the Zero Discrimination Day.
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1 March 2016
The opening session of the Moscow Youth Forum “Moscow - City of Many Faces and Diverse Languages” took place on 26 February 2016 in Moscow at School № 170 named after A. P. Chekhov.
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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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22 February 2016
On 15-17 February 2016, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) took part in the International Congress of practitioners of inclusive education dedicated to the 20th anniversary of teaching people with disabilities.
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19 February 2016
The virtual working meeting of the UNESCO IITE Governing Board was held on 18 February 2016.
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18 February 2016
On February 1-18, 2016, a total of 26 specialists in the sphere of social work, psychology, education and medicine from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, learn how to better provide care and support services to HIV-affected and infected children and adolescents at a training course organized by the Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Centre (MCTC) in Haifa, Israel, under the auspices of MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, in close collaboration with UNESCO IITE.
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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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5 February 2016
On 3 February 2015, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and eNANO company held a meeting and discussed the possibilities of joint development of educational programmes with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and a new project “Virtual school”. The meeting concluded with the signing a Memorandum of Cooperation between UNESCO IITE and eNANO.
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1 February 2016
Head a.i. of UNESCO IITE prof. Alexander Khoroshilov visited the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and signed a Memorandum of Cooperation between UNESCO Institute for information Technologies in Education (IITE) and the Government of Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
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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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25 January 2016
In commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of UNESCO, the Secretariat of the Organization held a quiz, which included 70 questions on the history of UNESCO. Participants of the quiz could demonstrate their knowledge by answering questions such as: In which country the First National Commission for UNESCO was established? Who of the UNESCO staff was awarded the Nobel Prize? What was the first UNESCO programme? What animals are admitted to enter the UNESCO building?
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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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25 December 2015
The online-course “New Technologies in Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the Context of Mongolia, elaborated by the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) at the request of IITE and based on IITE's publication and on-line course "Information and Communication Technologies in Education", was launched in December 2015. The course is developed in Mongolian language and is designed for higher education teachers and learners in Mongolia.
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25 December 2015
Every day 400 people are newly infected with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Unlike other parts of the World, the epidemic is still on rise in this region.
UNESCO joined UNAIDS to prepare and launch the first regional HIV testing campaign to draw public attention to the issue, raise awareness about HIV, encourage people to know their HIV status and promote solidarity with people living with HIV.
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23 December 2015
On 21-22 December 2015, the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) took part in the International Forum for Partnerships on the Qingdao Declaration “Seize digital opportunities, lead education transformation” held in Qingdao, China. The main goal of the Forum was to formalize global partnerships for the operationalization of the Qingdao Declaration, identify main lines of action, and set up the operational strategies for cooperation.
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21 December 2015
UNESCO IITE became one of the partners and took an active part in the scientific and practical conference with international participation “The Modern Teacher as a Popularizer of Science: the Formation of an Innovative Educational Environment” held by the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “Center for Innovative Projects in Education “KRON” in Moscow on 19 December 2015. The aim of the event was the development of educational technologies as a prerequisite for the improvement of education quality and successful implementation of federal state educational standards by means of summing up pedagogical experience of using innovative technologies in the educational process.
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21 December 2015
On December 17 – 18, 2015, the UNESCO IITE took part in the Second International Conference "Continuous Professional Education for Persons with Disabilities" that took place in Minsk, the Republic of Belarus. The Conference was arranged by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the National Сommission for UNESCO of the Republic of Belarus, the UNESCO Institute of Information Technologies In Education, the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio Electronics (BSUIR), UNESCO Chair in BSUIR "Professional Education in the Sphere of ICT for Persons with Special Needs". Mr. Ivan Yevmeniyev, Deputy Director of the UNESCO IITE took part in plenary session of Conference with the report "Information Technologies of Inclusive Society: Experience of the UNESCO IITE".
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18 December 2015
The Third All-Russia Congress of UNESCO Chairs devoted to UNESCO’s 70th anniversary was held in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation on 14-15 December 2015. More than 140 participants representing Russian UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs as well as Russian ASPnet regional coordinators and heads of UNESCO ASPnet schools presented results of their activities and discussed topical issues of cooperation.
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18 December 2015
On 14-17 December 2015 UNESCO IITE held a training on ICT in pre-primary education in the Republic of Mauritius.
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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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9 December 2015
International Workshop on Psycho-social Care, Support, Education, and Protection of Children and Adolescents Infected and/or Affected by HIV and AIDS.
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4 December 2015
UNESСO IITE Officer-in-Charge prof. Alexander Khoroshilov participated in the session on migration problems of Russia held by the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chairperson of the Council of the Federation
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1 December 2015
High-level delegation of the Republic of Ecuador headed by the Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent of the Republic of Ecuador Mr. Andres Arauz Galarza and the Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador in the Russian Federation Mr. Julio Prado Espinosa visited UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) on 30 November 2015.
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30 November 2015
On 25-27 November 2015, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) held a regional training workshop on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education statistics “Building capacity to establish an international statistical framework” for national statisticians from Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.
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20 November 2015
UNESCO’s General Conference held its 38th session from 3 to 18 November 2015 at the Organization’s Headquarters in Paris. The event reaffirmed the Organization’s role in the fight against violent extremism and in taking forward the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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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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12 November 2015
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24 October 2015
The 70th anniversary of the United Nations is a timely opportunity to highlight its many and enduring achievements -- and to strengthen our collective resolve to do more to promote peace and security, sustainable development and human rights.
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23 October 2015
Member States of the European Region gathered on October 21-22, 2015 in Minsk, Belarus, for the WHO European Regional Conference on the Life-course Approach in the Context of Health 2020. The aim of the conference was to bring together new evidence on what governments can do to keep people healthy throughout the life course and equip policy-makers for promoting a healthy start to life and for targeting the needs of people at critical ages.
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19 October 2015
UNESCO IITE participated in the 26th ICDE World Conference “Growing Capacities for Sustainable E-Learning Provision” organized in a partnership between the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) and University of South Africa (Unisa). The conference – the first of its kind in Africa – brought together 900 experts, academics and practitioners from 67 countries.
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15 October 2015
The use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, including injecting drugs, are issues of utmost concern in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). Schools have an important role to play in drug use prevention and health promotion by preparing children, adolescents and youth for a healthy and safe adulthood. High-quality, comprehensive and age appropriate prevention education that meets the actual needs of children and youth in terms of information and skills, and that is provided across all stages of general and professional education, could lay the foundation for a healthy lifestyle and contribute to a reduction in drug use, smoking and drinking among young people.
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14 October 2015
Building on UNESCO's global efforts to address school-related gender-based violence, UNESCO's HIV and Health Education Programme for Eastern Europe and Central Asia has developed a regional Guide for educators Violence Prevention in Educational Settings. Experts from seven regional countries including representatives of ministries of education, NGOs and international organizations discussed and reviewed the Guide. The Guide informs education managers, school administrators and teachers about the causes of violence and suggests practical solutions.
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11 October 2015
The 13th Congress of Teachers and Education Workers in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) was held on 5-9 October 2015 in Yakutsk. The Congress “Education and Society: Integration in the Name of the Child” was aimed to create a dialogue that would allow to generate and share new ideas, discuss emerging trends and determine strategic objectives for the development of the educational system in the region.
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5 October 2015
Every year on World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate educators and the central role they play in providing children everywhere with a quality education. Today, as the global community comes together around the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, the role teachers play has never have been more important.
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30 September 2015
The issues of resource mobilization, management of extrubudgetary projects, cooperation and partnership between UNESCO and the private sector were discussed at UNESCO IITE on 28-29 September, 2015, during two-day seminar-training.
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28 September 2015
The 3rd International Congress "Personality Education: Standards and Values" held in Moscow on September 24-25, 2015 provided a good opportunity to launch School without Violence guide developed for Russian educators on the basis of UNESCO regional guide on school violence prevention. The Russian guide informs education managers, school administrators and teachers about causes of violence and suggests practical solutions.
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25 September 2015
On 23 September 2015, a large Chinese delegation visited the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) within its visit to Moscow under the invitation of the Moscow City Government University of Management.
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1 September 2015
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education is inviting all stakeholders to complete the survey within the project “Access, Equity and Quality: Envisioning the Sustainable Future of Postsecondary Education in a Digital Age”. The questionnaire deals with the issues of validation and credentialing of learning results and open educational resources; curriculum and institutional change and teacher development.
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21 August 2015
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation held the meeting on cooperation with UNESCO IITE on 19 August, 2015. The meeting was chaired by the Assistant Director of the International Department Mr. Igor Ganshin.
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7 August 2015
On 4-5 August 2015, UNESCO IITE took part in the first meeting of the Project Steering Committee (PSC) of the UNESCO-Microsoft Advancing Mobile Literacy Learning project (AMLP) held in Hamburg, Germany. The project will last for 3 years and will be implemented in 4 beneficiary countries - Bangladesh, Egypt, Mexico and Ethiopia.
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13 July 2015
The Central Asia Symposium on ICT in Education (CASIE) has been organized by UNESCO Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education since 2011. It has served as a sub-regional platform for the Member States to collectively deliberate on possible solutions to the issues at hand, with a particular focus on integrating technologies into the education systems.
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3 July 2015
As a follow-up of the Incheon World Education Forum and Qingdao Conference on ICT in Post 2015, UNESCO Educational Leadership Meeting was organized on the initiative of Mr. Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, and held on 28-30 June, 2015.
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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 June 2015
UNESCO IITE participated in the meeting of Russian ASPnet schools held on 16-17 June 2015 at Kazan University of Management “TISBI”. The main goal of the meeting was to present the general concept of the new project “Learning for the Future - Russia”.
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8 June 2015
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) in partnership with Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and its UNESCO Chair “Distance Education in Engineering”organized V International Conference “UNESCO Chairs Partnership on ICTs use in Education”.
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2 June 2015
A policy brief “Open Educational Resources in your Own Language, in your Way” produced by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) in the framework of the project completed with financial support of the European Commission was translated into the Russian language by UNESCO IITE.This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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1 June 2015
Members of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and a delegation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation participated in the International Conference “ICT and Post-2015 Education” held on 23-25 May in Qingdao, China.
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28 May 2015
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14 May 2015
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27 April 2015
The Second International Congress SMART RUSSIA (SMART RUSSIA 2015) took place at the Financial University by the Government of the Russian Federation in Moscow on April 23-24, 2015.
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20 April 2015
IITO UNESCO took part in the Moscow International Education Fair (MIEF-2015), held in the Expocenter at Krasnaya Presnya (Moscow, Russia) from 15 to18 April 2015, as an official partner of the event.
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11 April 2015
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9 April 2015
This is to announce a new run of the acclaimed course on ICT in Primary Education, to run as a MOOC (a massive open online course), hosted by the University of London.
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27 March 2015
In the framework of a joint project on foresight in higher education, UNESCO IITE and the Section of Higher Education at UNESCO’s Education Sector the first meeting of experts “Access, Equity and Quality: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education in a Digital Age” was organized on March 25-26, 2015 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The project is intended to analyse ICT-related innovations and current/emerging trends in ICT use in higher education, to develop the potential scenarios, and to identify the strategies, which would ensure that harnessing the potential of ICT and wider access and higher quality of learning at universities.
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17 March 2015
In February 2015, UNESCO IITE prepared and published the Russian version of the UNESCO Policy Guidelines for Mobile Learning issued by UNESCO in 2013. The brochure in Russian was printed with the financial support of OJSC VympelKom (the Beeline brand).
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2 March 2015
UNESCO IITE took a part in UNESCO’s flagship ICT in education event, organized in partnership with UN Women – Mobile Learning Week 2015 (MLW 2015), held at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris on 23-27 February 2015.
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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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26 January 2015
On 21-23 January 2015, the Workshop on the development of national teachers ICT competency standards was organized by UNESCO Tashkent (TAS) and Bangkok (BKG) offices in the framework of the Regional Project of the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau of UNESCO for Education on "Supporting Competency-Based Training Reforms to Facilitate ICT-Pedagogy Integration".
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29 December 2014
Within the framework of UNESCO IITE project "Foresight in ICT in Higher Education" a summary brief "Technologies in Higher Education: Mapping the Terrain" was developed on the basis of 28 policy briefs published by UNESCO IITE from 2010 to 2014.
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26 December 2014
The MOOC created on the basis of results of the UNESCO IITE project "ICT in Primary Education" in cooperation with Institute of Education of the London University and placed on the COURSERA platform https://www.coursera.org/course/ictinprimary (see also UNESCO IITE News here) was included into the list of 50 best courses for professional development of educators accredited for use by teachers of the USA upon the recommendation of the President Obama.
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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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9 December 2014
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7 December 2014
UNESCO IITE was one of the co-organizers of the VII International Seminar "Dialogue of Cultures in a Single Educational Space: Traditional Values ??and Innovative Solutions", which was held on December 2-5, 2014 in Moscow as part of a series of workshops "Dialogue of Civilizations and Intercultural Cooperation”.
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6 December 2014
The III International scientific and practical conference "Innovations in Information Technologies and Education" (ITE – Moscow – 2014) took place on the basis of the Russian State Humanitarian University on December 4 - 5, 2014.
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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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27 October 2014
The International Forum on cooperation and experience exchange in education was organized by the Moscow Institute of Open Education at the request of Department of Education of the city of Moscow on October 23 - 26, 2014.
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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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16 October 2014
The IITE-2014 International Conference "New Challenges for Pedagogy and Quality Education: MOOCs, Clouds and Mobiles" took place in Moscow on October 14-15, 2014.
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14 October 2014
On October 13, 2014 a brainstorming meeting was organized by the Digital Pedagogy and Learning Materials Section of UNESCO IITE to discuss the concept, objectives, approach and methodology of the UNESCO IITE project "Foresight in ICT in Postsecondary Education".
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17 September 2014
The International Conference MOOCs4D: Potential at the Bottom of the Pyramid was held on April 10-11, 2014 at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA).
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4 September 2014
UNESCO IITE took part in the 27th Moscow International Fair, where it has presented publications at the booth "UN in Russia" on September 4, 2014.
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2 September 2014
On the invitation of the International Institute of Public Administration of Management (IIPAM) at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and the UNESCO Chair at IIPAM, UNESCO IITE Officer-In-Charge, National Programme Officer Prof. Alexander Khoroshilov participated in the events dedicated to the Knowledge Day and the beginning of the new academic year to greet first-year students on behalf of the UNESCO IITE.
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6 August 2014
An English-language publication Open Educational Resources in France: Overview, Perspectives and Recommendations (authored by SophieTouzé, researcher of the University of Lyon) was printed earlier this year in the framework of the UNESCO IITE Project Open Educational Resources in non-English speaking countries. An electronic version of the book has been released in French and can be downloaded from UNESCO IITE E-library.
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30 June 2014
The Second Symposium on Open Educational Resources Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy was held in Wawasan Open University Penang, Malaysia (which is a recipient of the prize for Institutional Excellence and Materials Development using OER at the recent PCF) from 24th to 27th June, 2014.
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24 June 2014
The International Conference Open Educational Resources and Digital Education was organized on 23-24 June 2014 in Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic) by the Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan and the International Public Foundation"Initiative of Roza Otunbayeva".
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23 June 2014
A professional development MOOC for primary educators “ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum” is in progress.
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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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3 June 2014
The Central Asian Symposium on ICT in Education "Embracing Technologies, Empowering Teachers” was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 27-29 May 2014.
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27 May 2014
Joint UNESCO IITE and University of London MOOC "ICT in primary education" gets more than 5000 enrollments!
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19 May 2014
On May 15-17, 2014 UNESCO IITE took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Learning and Living Together”: Modern Strategies of Education for Persons with Disabilities” held in Kazan (Russian Federation).
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8 May 2014
The International Conference ICT in Education: Digital Pedagogy, Learning Technology, Teachers and OER was held in Ulaanbaatar on 6-7 May 2014.
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24 April 2014
On 23 April 2014 IITE UNESCO presented CD "Climate Change Adaptation: Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples Inhabiting the Arctic and Far North" at the IX International Exhibition-Fair Treasures of the North 2014.
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15 April 2014
The International Conference “MOOCs4D: Potential at the Bottom of the Pyramid” was held on April 10-11, 2014 at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA).
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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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25 March 2014
On March 25, 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding between the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI was signed.
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19 March 2014
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) has uploaded the Russian version of the "Open Educational Resources (OER) Country Policy Development Template" (joint translation project with ABBYY LS) to its website.
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6 March 2014
UNESCO IITE participated in the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University 2014 Congress (March 3-5, 2014, Dubai, United Arab Emirates) as a partner.
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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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5 February 2014
In the framework of IITE activity on technical assistance to Member-States in teacher professional development based on UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers the official Mongolian version of UNESCO ICT-CFT was published as a follow-up of the IITE project on the development of the national ICT competency standards for teachers of Mongolia
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28 January 2014
On January 23-24, 2014 the Meeting of UNESCO Chairs on higher education, ICT in education and teachers took place in the UNESCO HQ, Paris.
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17 January 2014
On January 17th, 2014 in the framework of interregional workshop of Russian ASPnet “UNESCO Associated Schools as a Factor Contributing to Quality Education” the delegation of 25 directors and teachers of ASPnet schools from Republic Sakha (Yakutia) has visited UNESCO IITE.
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15 December 2013
On December 12, 2013 a Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO IITE and the Institute for Informatization of Education of the Russian Academy of Education was signed in RAE IIE.
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12 December 2013
On December 9-10, 2013 within the “Teachers of the Arctic” project IITE arranged the training for winners of the competition "The best teacher on ICT application in teaching practice”, held in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) upon the IITE initiative in partnership with the Ministry of Education of the Republic and the Republican Teacher Training Institute.
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11 December 2013
On 5-6 December 2013 a delegation from Latvia visited UNESCO IITE. The delegation consisted of directors of schools, deputy director of the Education Department of the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science, Director of Science Programmes and Secretary General a.i. of the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO.
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8 December 2013
Within the Memorandum of understanding established between IITE and the Government of the Sakha (Yakutiya) on December 3-4, 2013 the scientific and practical conference "Educational space of Arctic: traditions and innovations" was held in Yakutsk, the Russian Federation. The conference was organized by the Ministry of education of the Sakha (Yakutiya), Republican teacher training institute, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya) under the name of Donskoy-II in cooperation with IITE.
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22 November 2013
Within the framework of the agreement on cooperation between the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education and the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "E-education for Nanotechnology Industry" (ANO «eNano») the second seminar in the series of seminars «Ideals. Technology. Education» was held on November 20th, 2013 in RUSNANO.
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18 November 2013
UNESCO IITE translated into the Russian language and published the "Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education" developed jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO (COL & UNESCO, 2011)
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13 November 2013
UNESCO IITE report was delivered by Prof.Cornu, Charman of the UNESCO IITE Governing Board to the Education Commission of the 37th session of the UNESCO General Conference on 9 November in Paris. The delegations of Latvia, the Russian Federation and others highly appreciated the work of the Institute. Many countries, such as Kenia stressed the importance of ICT in education.
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11 November 2013
On November 11, 2013 UNESCO IITE organized a workshop to discuss promising trends in the development of Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The workshop was organized by the Digital Pedagogy and Learning Materials Section.
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8 November 2013
On October 31, 2013 UNESCO IITE held a round table on digital pedagogy at the Third All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Information Technologies of the XXI Century" organized by the National Nuclear Research University NRNU MEPhI.
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7 November 2013
UNESCO-UNEVOC Regional Forum Europe, CIS and North America was held in Moscow, the Russian Federation, on October 28-30, 2013 and brings more than 100 delegates together to tackle greening TVET, meeting the challenges of youth unemployment and harmonizing international policy and practice.
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31 October 2013
A new country report on Open Educational Resources in Poland has been published by IITE.
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30 October 2013
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) was awarded by the Third International Software Conference & Competition held in Tinapa, Nigeria, on 22 - 23 October 2013 for "Distinguished Motivation & Inspirational Support for the Software Initiatives & Activities of ISPON in Africa".
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24 October 2013
The methodological approach proposed in this document explains the most important stages of the UNESCO ICT-CFT adaptation process; suggests guidelines to determine the appropriate strategies and policies for the development of ICTs in education and for the professional development of educators; and identifies the resources needed for the successful implementation of the ICT-CFT to the local context.
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19 October 2013
On October, 18th, 2013 UNESCO IITE participated in the International round table "UNESCO International Educational Projects As a Mechanism of New Approaches to the Content of Education", which was organized in the framework of the Kiev’s Days of Education in Moscow (at the secondary school #480 n.a. Viktor Talalikhin) under the auspices of Moscow Department of Education.
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15 October 2013
On 8-11 October 2013 IITE took part in the Second International Conference “Global Warming and the Human-Nature Dimensions in Siberia: Social Adaptation to the Changes of the Terrestrial Ecosystem, with an Emphasis on Water Environment” held in Yakutsk (Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic).
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14 October 2013
The ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (UNESCO ICT-CFT)were developed in 2008 and improved in 2011 by the UNESCO cross-sectoral working group based on consultations with experts in the field from all world regions. The aim of the Framework is to support the UNESCO Member States in developing national (regional) policy on teachers’ ICT competence and establishing the standards in this field. The Framework has been enriched using feedback from experts and users worldwide, and has been translated into the several languages, including Russian. The Russian version of ICT-CFT was developed by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) in cooperation with national experts from the Russian Federation and was officially presented in December 2011.
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10 October 2013
On the eve of the International Teachers' Day in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) there were summed up the results of the competition "The best teacher on ICT application in teaching practice”, held upon the IITE initiative and in partnership with the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Republican teacher training institute, under the name of Donskoy-II.
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25 September 2013
On September 20, 2013 the first event out of the series of open workshops “Ideas. Technology. Education” held by UNESCO IITE in cooperation with Independent Nonprofit Organization “E-Learning for Nanotech Industry (eNano)” , designer of innovative branch educational resources and coordinator of programme “Development of system of e-Learning”, took place at ROSNANO.
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23 September 2013
The Fourteenth session of the IITE Governing Board was held in Moscow at the Marriot Courtyard Hotel on 13-14 September 2013. Director-General of UNESCO was represented by Mr. Svein Osttveit, UNESCO Director of the Executive Office of Education Sector (EO/ED). Also the guests of honour attended the session: Mr. Amir Bilaletdinov, Deputy Secretary-General of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO and Dr. Evgeniy Ugrinovich, Head of the International Department of the Ministry of Education and Sciences of the Russian Federation.
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20 September 2013
On September 13, 2013, in the framework of the annual session of the UNESCO IITE Governing Board, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The agenda of the meeting was focused on discussion of the project on promotion of e-learning in the CIS countries though dissemination of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
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17 September 2013
UNESCO IITE Activity Report for the biennium 2012-2013 was prepared and published in English and Russian languages.
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16 September 2013
The UNESCO IITE International Master Programme “ICT in Teacher Professional Development” has been out of print. This is an educational programme for Master’s Degree in “Pedagogy” (code 050100).
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16 September 2013
UNESCO IITE presented its recent publicationsat the 26th Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF-2013) that was held in the All-Russian Exhibition Centre on 4-9 September 2013.
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20 August 2013
This is a new edition of the book prepared by the international experts – Mr Bent B. Andresen (Danish University of Education, Denmark) and Ms Katja van den Brink (University of Landau, Germany) – that was initially issued by UNESCO IITE in 2001.
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8 July 2013
The Association of Ethnographers and Anthropologists of Russia jointly with the N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology organized the X Congress of Ethnographers and Anthropologists of Russia on 2-6 July 2013 in Moscow. The project “A Networked System of Open Indigenous Knowledge Resources for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Polar Regions” implemented by the UNESCO IITE and the UNESCO Office in Moscow was presented at the Congress section devoted to the analysis of the lifestyle of the indigenous peoples of the North.
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20 June 2013
XX Anniversary International Conference "Crimea 2013" took place on 10-14 June 2013 in Sudak (Crimea, Ukraine). The conference was organized within the framework of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
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19 June 2013
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) in partnership with St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and it’s UNESCO Chair “Distance Education in Engineering” organized an International Conference “UNESCO Chairs Partnership on ICTs use in Education”.
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8 June 2013
V International IT Forum "Information Society for All: Turning goals into actions" took place on 4-5 June 2013 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The Forum was organized by the Government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra and the Public Chamber of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, with the support and participation of the World Bank, UNESCO Office in Moscow, the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) and the Insitute for the Information Society.
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22 May 2013
International Conference “Improving the Mechanisms of Cooperation between UNESCO ASPnet, UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs and UNEVOC Centres for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Projects, Prospects” was organized on 13-14 May 2013 in the city of Kazan (Russian Federation)
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25 April 2013
On 25 April 2013theVideoconference Seminar for the CIS devoted to the International Girls in ICT Day “A Bright Future in ICTs: Opportunities for a New Generation of Women” was held by the ITU Area Office for the CIS in Moscow, Russian Federation. The event was held in a videoconference format.
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21 March 2013
The fourth meeting of experts within IITE project “ICTs in primary education” was held on 18-20 March 2013 in Dubai, UAE.
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19 March 2013
On 15 March 2013 the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education together with the Association of World Reindeer Herders held a round table for the UNESCO project “A Networked System of Open Indigenous Knowledge Resources for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Polar Regions”.
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18 March 2013
The distance learning course on bioethics for journalists developed by the UNESCO Moscow Office in partnership with the leading experts in bioethics and the UNESCO’s Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) is now available for users in English language.
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15 January 2013
A Book of Abstracts of the IITE-2012 International Conference “ICT in Education: Pedagogy, Educational Resources and Quality Assurance” has been printed.
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14 January 2013
In the period December 4 - 7, 2012 the Fifth Seminar "Intercultural Education and globalization: current practice and trends" of the annual cycle of the international workshops "Dialogue of Civilizations and Intercultural Cooperation" took place in Moscow, Russian Federation, As in previous years, the Seminar was organized by the initiative of the UNESCO Chair "International education and the integration of migrant children in school" Moscow Institute of Open Education (MIOO) in accordance with the Memorandum of Cooperation between Moscow and UNESCO, as well as the Plan of public interest activities of the Department of Education of Moscow in 2012.
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8 December 2012
IITE organized a working section “ICTs for early childhood and primary education” in the framework of the Second Annual International Scientific Conference “Early Childhood Care and Education” (6-7 December 2012, Moscow, Russia).
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28 November 2012
IITE has translated into Russian and published the Handbook on pedagogies of media and information literacies
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26 November 2012
In the framework of a three-year UNESCO IITE project “ICTs in Primary Education”, the third expert meeting was organized in Moscow on 11-12 November 2012, on the eve of the IITE-2012 International Conference “ICT in education: pedagogy, educational resources and quality assurance” (Moscow, 13-14 November 2012).
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23 November 2012
The book “ICT in Primary Education” within the IITE Analytical Surveys series has been out of print. This is the first publication in the framework of the UNESCO IITE three-year project “ICTs in primary education”.
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21 November 2012
The 13th Session of the IITE Governing Board was held in Moscow from 15 to 16 November 2012. At the opening session, Mr. Svein Osttveit, UNESCO Director of the Executive Office Education Sector (EO/ED) on behalf of the Director-General gave a speech on the current situation in Education sector of UNESCO, presented its objectives and the means to achieve them. He informed about recent launching of Education First by the Secretary General of UN, Mr. Ban Ki Moon. Also he stressed on the current debates on post -2015 education agenda. He acknowledged the synergies between sustainable development and UNESCO’s core constitution and the role of education in reducing inequality.
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12 November 2012
IITE translated into Russian and published "Media and Information Literacy: Curriculum for Teachers" in Russian
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23 October 2012
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education commissioned this Handbook, which is intended to become a useful tool that would equip teacher training institutions and facilitate teaching media and information literacy in teacher training, to the Finnish Society on Media Education.
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16 October 2012
On September 26-27, 2012 the two days expert meeting on the development of Mongolian National Standards for Teachers ICT competency was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by the UNESCO IITE and UNESCO Moscow office in collaboration with the Mongolian Ministry of Education and Science and Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO.
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9 October 2012
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education has launched a new training course on the creation and use of open educational resources.
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27 September 2012
To ensure accessibility of IITE web resources for various groups of users including those with special needs, IITE in cooperation with the ReadSpeaker enterprise have launched a new web-service that provides instant audio version of IITE online content by means of speech-enabling application.
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14 September 2012
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) in close partnership with the Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and UNESCO Chair “Distance Education in Engineering” of SUAI (St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation) organized an International Conference of the UNESCO IITE and UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs “UNESCO Chairs Partnership on ICTs use in Education”. The Conference took place in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation within the XIII International Forum «Modern information society formation - problems, perspectives, innovation approaches» on 5 - 10 September 2012 on the board of the cruise ship «Vissarion Belinsky».
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7 September 2012
UNESCO IITE presented its recent publications at the 25th Moscow International Book Fair that opened on 5th September 2012 in the All-Russian Exhibition Centre.
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11 July 2012
On Saturday, July 7, 2012 UNESCO ADG/CI Mr. Janis Karklins has visited shortly UNESCO IITE.
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6 July 2012
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) in close partnership with UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation and UNESCO Chair “Distance Education in Engineering” of SUAI organizes UNESCO IITE and UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs International Conference “UNESCO Chairs Partnership on ICTs use in Education”. It takes place within the XIII International Forum «Modern information society formation - problems, perspectives, innovation approaches» to be held on 5 – 10 September, 2012.
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29 June 2012
The paper on UNESCO IITE project “UNESCO IITE in Non-English-Speaking Countries” was published in the Proceedings of the All-Russian Scientific and Methodological Conference TELEMATICA - 2012 that was held on June 25 - 28 in St. Petersburg by the State Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications INFORMIKA and the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.
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28 June 2012
IITE co-organized and participated in the international conference “Media and Information Literacy (MIL) for Knowledge Societies” that took place in Moscow on June 24-28, 2012. The conference was held within the chairmanship of Russia in the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO Information for All Programme and was a contribution of Russia to the implementation of the Strategic Plan of the Programme.
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25 June 2012
The 2012 World Open Educational Resources Congress was held on June 20-22, 2012 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. Organized in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the Congress aimed to influence educational policies worldwide and to encourage governments to support the development and use of open educational resources.
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24 June 2012
A new survey “Educational Portals and Open Educational Resources in the Russian Federation” (authors: Alexey Sigalov and Alexey Skuratov) has been published by IITE. The book provides an up-to-date survey of the current level of development of educational materials and repositories of educational resources in Russia.
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24 June 2012
In June 2012, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO published the monograph “Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice”. The monograph includes the chapter “Introducing the Opportunities and Challenges of OER: The Case of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic” authored by Dendev Badarch and Svetlana Knyazeva (UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education) and Andy Lane (the Open University UK).
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24 June 2012
In the framework of IITE and UNICEF-Armenia joint project, a training seminar “ICTs for inclusive education” and a workshop “ICTs in education of visually impaired persons” were organized on June 18-21 in Yerevan, Armenia.
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23 June 2012
UNESCO IITE participated in the FIFTH GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE, which was held at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Global Studies, Moscow, on 20-22 June. The Global Studies conference is to be held annually in different locations around the world, each of them will be selected for its particular role in the dynamics of globalization.
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23 June 2012
UNESCO IITE in cooperation with Cisco Systems, Inc. organized a joint training course “IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software v4.0” for teachers of the UNESCO Associated schools of Moscow and Moscow Region
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