27-29 May 2014
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The Central Asia Symposium on ICT in Education 2014 calls for a collective effort amongst policy makers and officials from the region to take stock of the policy options and promising practices to create an empowering environment for teachers. The theme for this Symposium is “Embracing Technologies, Empowering Teachers”. The Symposium will address various aspects of such an environment, including 1) building comprehensive policy guidelines for teacher empowerment, 2) implementing teacher development programmes that work, 3) harnessing technologies that can support teachers to free up their time from administrative workload, and 4) systematic monitoring and evaluation of ICT-related projects that can inform teachers of evidence-based guidance.
This year’s Symposium is made possible by a close collaboration and generous contributions from the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, UNESCO Tashkent, UNESCO Almaty, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) and Intel.
Through various formats, such as plenary and break-out workshop sessions, the Symposium will serve as an opportunity for the Central Asian countries to lay the groundwork for building national capacity in the use of ICT in Education at all levels. A new addition to the Symposium will be the Gallery Walk where various organizations and the private sector will be able to showcase their initiatives in supporting the effective integration of ICT into education systems. It will also provide opportunities for key players to initiate bilateral or multilateral partnerships with governments and other organizations.
Objectives
CASIE aims:
To provide a platform for national education policy makers, practitioners and development partners to share issues and challenges that Central Asian countries are facing in integrating ICT into the education systems, with particular emphasis on the use of ICT for teacher empowerment with technology and for technology;
To promote collaboration and partnership among the Central Asian countries in the identification of solutions to similar issues and challenges in relation to the effective and efficient use of ICT in Education
Theme
With the main theme of “Embracing Technologies, Empowering Teachers”, the Symposium will address the following four subthemes:
Favourable policy environments to empower teachers;
Teacher development programmes that help teachers and school leaders innovate teaching and learning practices (e.g. Competency-based teacher development that guides pedagogical requirements)
Embracing the potential of technologies to ease teachers’ administrative workload (e.g. EMIS)
Monitoring and evaluation that can inform teachers of evidence-based guidance in ICT-pedagogy integration at schools.
Date and Venue
27-29 May 2014 (3 days), in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Language of the Symposium
Russian and English with simultaneous translation in both languages
Participants
Participating countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. More participants from the host country and other countries can be accepted upon review and approval by the Organizers; their attendance being at their own expense.
Three participants each from the six countries: a policy maker (e.g. head of department or above), an education planner, and an expert in ICT-in-Education (e.g. among officials from Ministries of Education and Ministries in charge of ICT).
Officials from Ministry of Education in Korea.
Experts from UNESCO and other international institutions (TBD)
Representatives of partner private sectors
Expected Outputs
Relevant policies and implementation strategies are exchanged with regards to the various issues and challenges faced by the participating Central Asian countries in integrating ICT in education systems across the sectors;
Follow-up activities for cooperation to enhance competency-based teacher development in ICT pedagogy and teacher empowerment with and for technology, as discussed and agreed upon;
A website on the presentations and discussions during the symposium.
Presentations
Embracing Technologies, Empowering Teachers: UNESCO’s Perspective (Mr Gwang-Jo Kim, Director, UNESCO Asia Pacific Regional Bureau for Education) - pdf, 3.6mb
Facilitating Effective ICT-Pedagogy Integration: Uzbekistan case (Mr Abdurashid Khundibaev, Head of the ICT Department, Ministry of Public Education, Republic Uzbekistan) - pdf, 1.1mb
Supporting Competency-Based Teacher Training Reforms to Facilitate ICT-Pedagogy Integration (Ms Jonghwi Park, UNESCO Bangkok) - pdf, 2.1mb
Teachers’ Competency Framework for SMART Education, Republic of Korea (Ms. Yoon-Kyung Jung, KERIS) - pdf, 3.3mb
Teacher Education Model for the 21st Century” (TE21), Singapore (Dr Goh Chor Boon, Associate Dean, National Institute of Education) - pdf, 740kb
Mobile Toolkit for Teachers (Ms Debbie Lacuesta, SEAMEO INNOTECH) - pdf, 1.9mb
National Education Information System (NEIS), Republic of Korea (Mr. Dooyoung Lee, KERIS) - pdf, 3.2mb
OpenEMIS (Mr Kris Oswalt, UNESCO & Community Systems Foundation) - pdf, 1.7mb
Teacher-led Digital Content Development for Multimedia Classroom: An endeavour designed to Empower Teachers, Bangladesh (Mr Afzal Hossain Sarwar, Access to Information Programme, Prime Minister’s Office) - pdf, 1.1mb
ICT Education Direction in Uzbekistan - TUIT Education System (Lee Chul Soo, Vice Rector TUIT) - pdf, 240kb
ICT and pedagogy: traditional and new approaches (Ms Svetlana Knyazeva, Chief of Section of Digital Pedagogy and Learning Materials, UNESCO IITE) - pdf, 1.3mb
Innovative Cases of Teacher Education Institutions on Research-based Training (Prof Cher Ping Lim, Hong Kong Institute of Education) - pdf, 1.2mb
Transformation of Education with ICT: Key Issues, Learnings & Opportunities (Ms Tatiana Nanaieva, Intel CIS Corporate Affairs Director) - pdf, 5.3mb
Intel® Education Transformation Policy Guide and Online Tool (Ms Elena Kuzminska & Mr Vladimir Ivanov) - pdf, 2.2mb
Round Table on Policy guidance in implementing comprehensive teacher professional development programme - pdf, 400kb
Pre-Symposium Survey (pdf, 270kb)
CASIE 2014 Presentation Highlights (pdf, 170kb)