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National Education Portals and Transfer Agencies Worldwide

National education servers or portals emerged in the early years of the internet, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They were mostly official national initiatives by ministries of education or similar official bodies to collect, classify, and disseminate reliable, reputable, and free educational information for their citizens via an internet portal. These educational servers or portals thus also took on a function as a transfer point from research to practice, to politics and, in general, to the interested public. 

In many countries, these functions are now performed by private companies, initiatives, and the like – often on a commercial basis, meaning they charge fees. Consequently, many former education portals have been shut down. However, some still exist in certain countries, or new ones have been set up as digital transfer centres. We are attempting to list these here. This list is a work in progress and makes no claim to be exhaustive. 

Educational portals in the traditional sense

Armenia

Armenia
The Armenian Education Portal is operated by the Armenian National Center for Educational Technologies (NCET). The English-language site offers the following topics: Educational Forum, Resource Library, Distance Learning, School Leaving Diplomas, and Statistical Directory. It also includes news on educational topics in Armenia and [...]

Australia

Australia
The National Education Directory of Australia (NEDA) is Australia's largest education portal. It allows to search for schools, universities, Tafe, colleges, and further educational institutions across Australia. Apart from education providers, the directory includes providers of student exchanges, student accomodation and [...]

Belgium

Belgium
Wallonie-Bruxelles Enseignement (WBE) is the successor portal to the French-language ‘Restode - Serveur pédagogique de l`Enseignement organisé par la Communauté française’. WBE is a ‘public service and the most important educational authority in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation’ and comprises around 500 institutions in the [...]

Der Bildungsserver der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens bietet Informationen rund um Schule, Schulsystem, Ausbildung und Weiterbildung. Angehende Lehrpersonen und Personalmitglieder, die im Unterrichtswesen in der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft beschäftigt sind, finden praktische Hinweise und administrative Mitteilungen. Schulabsolventen finden die Broschüren [...]

France

France
The Réseau Canopé (Canopé Network) "is under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and is responsible for the continuing education of teachers and other stakeholders in the education sector". Its predecessor was the Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique (CNDP) (National Centre for Educational Documentation). The [...]

New Zealand

New Zealand
The portal offered by the New Zealand Ministry of Education is divided into three sections: Te Whāriki Online (information and resources on a specific Māori curriculum), Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (New Zealand Curriculum in Māori), and New Zealand Curriculum Online (in English). All three sites offer educational [...]

Austria

This education portal is commissioned by the Austrian ministry of science, teaching, the arts and culture. Its aim is to promote internet and information technlogy competence at school.

Austria
The German Education Server provides this annotated list of education servers in Austria and South Tyrol.

Switzerland

Switzerland
The zebis portal has been "online since 2001. It is aimed primarily at the more than 12,000 teachers in specific cantons, as well as teachers in the rest of German-speaking Switzerland. (...) What sets the portal apart is its freely available teaching materials, job platform and up-to-date information from the education sector." [...]

Swisseduc ist eine Plattform für Gymnasien, Berufsschulen, Technikerschulen und andere Schulen im Umfeld der Sekundarstufe II. Die einzelnen Bereiche des nichtkommerziellen Bildungsangebotes werden von Fachexperten betreut, die ohne Entgelt arbeiten. Schülerinnen und Lehrer können Unterrichtsmaterialien über das Internet beziehen und selber Materialien [...]

Die Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich stellt über die Internetplattform EducETH für Lehrende an Gymnasien und an anderen höheren Bildungsinstitutionen kostenlos Unterrichtsmaterialien zur Verfügung. Viele Materialien eignen sich auch für das Selbststudium (Leitprogramme). Abgedeckt werden u.a. die Fächer Biologie, Chemie, Geografie, Informatik, Mathematik [...]

Switzerland
educa.ch is the Swiss Specialist Agency for ICT and Education. As an agency of the Confederation and the cantons it plays an important role in the quality development of ICT in compulsive and upper-secondary education. It offers services with the aim to: ensure accessibility to digital learning content and online services. Defend [...]

Switzerland
"The vocationaleducation.ch portal contains comprehensive information on Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Switzerland. The VET system as a whole and important individual aspects are covered for the different target groups. In addition, a wide range of essential tools for vocational education and training practice is [...]

Switzerland
"The Basel education server eduBS is an information and work platform for teachers, specialists and school administrators in Basel-Stadt schools. On eduBS, you will find offers from the PZ.BS Education Centre, school services and specialist school departments, the website of the Basler Schulblatt newspaper and further [...]

Transfer agencies in the broader sense

International

Belgium

France

Netherlands

Norway

Sweden

Switzerland

USA (United States of America)

United Kingdom (UK)