E-learning programmes in Korea and Finland win UNESCO prize

15-12-2006 - The Cyber Home Learning System for Primary and Secondary Students (Republic of Korea) and the eDegree Programme in Lapland (Finland) are the joint winners of the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education.

An honourable mention also goes to the project Dedicated Civil Law-Teaching Website for Arab Law Students (Kuwait). The awards will be presented to the laureates on 12 January 2007.

Contact: m.patru@unesco.org

Related links

• ICT in Education (UNESCO Bangkok)
  
  
• E-Learning
  
  
• Open and Distance Learning
  
  
• Information and Communication Technologies in Schools: A Handbook for Teachers
  
  
• Research on virtual universities (UNESCO-IIEP)