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, scholars, [...]
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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 [...]
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!’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.’
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Teacher shortages threaten quality Education For All. ‘Countries across the world will need to recruit more than 18 million teachers over the next decade. The greatest challenge lies in sub-Saharan Africa, which will need to expand its teaching force by 68% over this period. By 2015, countries like Chad will need almost four times as [...]
