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World Digital Library (WDL)

April 21, 2009

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to promote international and intercultural understanding; expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; provide resources for educators, [...]

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UNESCO Open Training Platform

April 1, 2007

Open Training Platform. ‘UNESCO facilitates a collaborative access to existing free training courses and promotes open licensed resources to specialized groups and local communities for development. The objective behind this platform is to empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and [...]

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Google in Education: The Literacy Project

October 5, 2006

The Literacy Project. ‘A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning. Find books, articles and videos about literacy, or start your own literacy or reading group!’

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UNESCO Free and Open Source Software Portal

August 9, 2006

UNESCO Free & Open Source Software Portal. ‘The UNESCO Free Software Portal gives access to documents and websites which are references for the Free Software/Open Source Technology movement. It is also a gateway to resources related to Free Software. With the Free Software Portal, UNESCO provides a single interactive access point to pertinent information for [...]

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Teachers’ Role and ICT in Education

July 2, 2006

Teachers’ role and needs in the ICT environment. ‘There is an ongoing debate as to whether teachers are becoming redundant as a consequence of the use of ICT in education or whether a teacherless classroom is just a myth. In fact, new educational technologies do not curb the need for teachers but they call for [...]

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Education for All: UNESCO Program Using Open and Distance Learning (ODL)

June 24, 2006

Arriving at the Electronic Frontier. ‘Achieving universal primary education in countries jumpstarts secondary education. However, many regions find themselves without the resources needed to meet this demand. A UNESCO program using Open and Distance Learning (ODL) systems is giving secondary school students access to the world of learning. “This situation urgently calls for the development [...]

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e-Learning and Distance Learning in China

June 14, 2006

China commits to ICTs-based distance learning and e-learning. ‘China has a vision of lifelong learning in which information and communication technologies-based (ICTs) distance education and electronic learning are key components. China now has three of the world’s mega-universities, institutions in which over 100,000 students use largely distance learning methods. It hopes its strategy for promoting [...]

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UNESCO at 60: Focus on Distance Learning

May 29, 2006

UNESCO at 60: Focus on Distance Learning. ‘UNESCO is celebrating its 60th anniversary over 60 weeks, with each week devoted to a theme. The week of 29 May-4 June is dedicated to Distance Learning.’ Technorati Tags: UNESCO, Distance Learning

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