ICT in Education Database
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
UNESCO global report: opening new avenues for empowerment: ICTs to access information and knowledge for persons with disabilities
Building on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, this Global Report addresses strong recommendations to all stakeholders –...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
Digital talking books: An alternative way of educating children with disabilities of their rights
By Ranil Sorongon, Executive Director of Autism Society Philippines
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) and the...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
IITE and UNESCO Bangkok strengthen collaboration on ICT in education policy and practice
The whole is different from or greater than the sum of its parts. In keeping with this age-old philosophy, the UNESCO Asia and...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
ICT in schools survey – many children not getting what they need; teachers need more training and support
Students and teachers in Europe are keen to "go digital", computer numbers have doubled since 2006 and most schools are now "connected",...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
ITU celebrates global ‘Girls in ICT Day’
Every year on the fourth Thursday in April, ITU and the global technology community celebrate ‘Girls in ICT Day’, an awareness-raising initiative designed to...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, Projects/Programmes
ICT for Inclusion project
The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education ICT for Inclusion project activities will run during 2012 and 2013. The aim is to collect...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, Resources
New publication: Open Educational Resources - Innovation, Research and Practice
Open Educational Resources (OER) – that is, teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free to others to use, revise and share – offer a...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, Resources
Preparing special education frontline professionals for a new teaching experience
A large number of special education professionals agree on the fact that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are an important tool for teachers...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, Resources
Toolkit of Best Practices and Policy Advice: Module 4 Using ICTs to promote education and job training for persons with disabilities
Persons with disabilities in developing countries face particular difficulties in accessing the most basic forms of education. They face the lowest levels of...
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17.05.13: ICT in Education, Resources
ICT in Education: A critical literature review and its implications
This review prepared by Jo Shan Fu, National Institute of Education, Singapore, summarizes the relevant research on the use of information and communication...
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17.04.13: ICT in Education, News and Events, News
Creative destruction: Entrepreneurship
About 200 million people – of whom 75 million are under 25 years old – are unemployed. In fact, 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep...
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17.04.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
Galaxy Bazaar – A social entrepreneurship venture
By Ms. Bijal Damani, Educator, Galaxy Education System, India
Is it justified to teach students of Business only from textbook?? I wondered as I was appointed...
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17.04.13: ICT in Education, News and Events, Workshop
Evaluation meeting on the Facilitating Effective ICT-Pedagogy Integration Project
From 2010-2012, UNESCO Bangkok implemented the “Facilitating Effective ICT-Pedagogy Integration Project” to create an enabling environment for facilitating...
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17.04.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
Implementing the Paris OER Declaration: Launch of Project
The Inception Meeting of the "Implementing the Paris OER Declaration" project took place on 26 and 27 March, 2013 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris,...
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17.04.13: ICT in Education, News and Events
Getting more women connected to ICTs ‘critical’ to post-2015 development agenda: UN Broadband Commission
Commissioners attending the seventh meeting of the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development, held 16-17 March 2013 in Mexico City, endorsed the Report...