The Asia-Pacific Ministerial Forum on ICT in Education (AMFIE) has been annually organized by UNESCO Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok) since 2010. The AMFIE has been a platform for policy-level dialogue and sharing of promising models and experiences in developing, adapting and monitoring ICT in Education policies and practices.

Built upon this format, the AMFIE 2013 is designed to contribute to the discourse on having a healthy balance between top-down strategic policy interventions and bottom-up field-level initiatives to enable relevant, effective, and sustainable ICT-supported educational innovations to flourish and expand. Therefore, the theme of the AMFIE 2013 is “Fostering Favourable Policy Environments for Mainstreaming Sustainable Innovations”. This year’s AMFIE will bring together three key actors in mainstreaming ICT in educational systems: policy makers, researchers, and practitioners. Focused ministerial-level discussion and participatory reflections will promote dialogue among policy, research, and practice.

Sub-themes

1) Fostering Institutional Change with Policy Interventions

2) Scaling-up Teacher Professional Development to Support Students’ 21^st Century Skills

3) Promoting Exchange of Discourse among Different Education Stakeholders at Macro-, Meso- and Micro- Levels for Up-scaling

4) Mainstreaming School Innovations: Case Studies

Forum Objectives

1)    Create platforms for sharing policies, challenges, experiences and innovations across countries in the Asia and Pacific region and beyond; and

2)   Provide regional directions and country-level support towards designing a policy-driven roadmap for scaling up ICT-enabled educational innovations at the school level, to cover:

• Identification of scalable and sustainable ICT-enabled educational models and innovations in the Asia and Pacific region;

• Fostering multi-directional dialogues on policy, research and practice for scaling up and deep-scaling ICT-enabled educational innovations at the national level;

• Examination of existing country opportunities, limitations and untapped resources in implementing scalable innovations against present state of policy, capacity or partnership.

Resources

• AMFIE Report (pdf, 1.1mb)

• Programme (pdf, 510kb)

• Concept Note (pdf, 520kb)

• Administrative Note (pdf, 570kb)

• Gallery Walk Booklet (pdf, 340kb)

• Gallery Walk Presentation Template (word, 50kb)

• AMFIE 2012

Pictures

• Pictures Forum

• Pictures Gallery Walk

Presentations

Keynote Speeches

• Fast-forward to New Basics: Understanding the Modern Learner’s Context for Transformative 21^st Century Policy Leadership - Mr. Bruce Dixon, Founder and President of Anywhere Anytime Learning Foundation (AALF) (pdf, 3.1mb)

• Improving Education Modernization through Informatization : Building Shenzhen Quality in education - Ms Wu Yihuan, Vice Mayor of Shenzhen (pdf, 1.9mb)

Fostering Institutional Change with Policy Interventions

• From Ideas to Practice: Actualising ICT Policies for Teaching and Learning - Dr. Horn Mun Cheah, Director of Educational Technology Division, MOE (pdf, 3.1mb)

• Implementing policies for facilitating regional ICT in Education - Mr.  Cheng Yi, Director, Education Bureau of Anhui Province, China (pdf,, 2.6mb)

• Trends on ICT in Education Policy: Regional Prospects - Mr. Dendev Badarch, UNESCO IITE (pdf, 890kb)

Scaling-up Teacher Professional Development to Support Students’ 21^stCentury Skills

• Teacher training on the use of ICT in Primary and Secondary Education - Mr. Ge Zhenjiang, Deputy DG, Department of teacher Development, MOE China (pdf, 690kb) 

• Developing and Capturing Innovations: ICT-based Tools for Teachers Professional Development in Indonesia - Ms Petra Wiyakti Bodrogini, World Bank Indonesia (pdf, 390kb)

• Scaling up Teacher Training for the 21^st Century Skills Development - Mr. Raju Varanasi, Chief Operating Officer, Education Services Australia (pdf, 270kb)

• Impact of Innovative Pedagogy - Mr. Anshul Sonak, Intel Teach (pdf, 410kb)

• Teaching beyond Classroom: New Forms of Online Education - Mr. Wang Jian, Associate Director, Education Bureau of Hunan Province (pdf, 470kb)

Promoting Discourse Exchanges among Different Education Stakeholders at Macro, Meso and Micro Levels for Up-scaling

• ICT in Education School Level Indicators - Dr. Alexandre Barbosa, CETIC.br, Brazil (pdf, 2.7mb)

• Role of National Agency in ICT in Education - Mr. Jongwon Seo, KERIS (pdf, 2.6mb)

• Implementing India’s ICT-in-education National Policy & Mission Mode Project - Ms. S.Radha Chauhan, Joint Secretary, Secondary Education, Department of School Education & Literacy, MHRD, India (pdf, 1mb)

Mainstreaming School Innovations: Case Studies

• Future School Initiative - Ms. Tan Chen Kee, Principal, Crescent Girls High School, Singapore (pdf, 2.8mb)

• Virtual Learning Environment (Dr. Soon Seng Thah, Deputy Director, Educational Technology Division, MOE-Malaysia (pdf, 470kb)

• “Responsible Use of ICT” as a national school curriculum - Ms. Rosalie O’Neale,  ACMA, Australia (pdf, 690kb) 

• National Mission on Higher Education - Mr Praveen Prakash, Joint Secretary, Department of Higher Education, MHRD India (pdf, 900kb)

• ICT infusion with Teaching and learning - Ms. Sun Wei, Principal, Xiangbin Primary School, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China (pdf, 8mb)

• Curriculum Reform and Teaching Innovation in the Era of Cloud Computing - Mr Cheng Xiandong, Principal, Shenzhen Nanshan School (pdf, 6mb)

Workshop: Mobile Technology

• Survey on ICT readiness and usage of TTIS and local schools (pdf, 220kb)

• Baseline survey on teachers’ ICT readiness and usage (pdf, 180kb)

• Reports of UNESCO projects on using mobile technologies to support teachers development (pdf, 900kb)

• A 3-pronged model to build the enabling eco-system for the use of mobile technologies to support teachers (pdf, 2.3mb)

• Training manual for capacity building of early childhood education (ECE) teachers using mobile technologies (pdf, 640kb)