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1 - Assistive technology (WHO Health topics)

international
Theme page of the World Health Organisation on assistive technologies with a lot of news and information on projects, events, pubications and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

2 - Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub)

international
GDI Hub is a research and practice centre for disability innovation. It focusses on the following themes: * Assistive & Accessible Technology * Inclusive Design * Culture and Participation * Climate & Crisis Resilience * Inclusive Educational Technology The website offers a wide range of news, publications, events, projects and more. According to GDI Hub, it works [...]

3 - Global report on assistive technology (WHO, UNICEF, 2022)

international
"The Global Report on Assistive Technology presents a comprehensive dataset and analysis of current assistive technology access, drawing the attention of governments and civil society to the need for, and benefit of, assistive technology, including its return on investment. The Global Report sets out ten recommendations for improving access to assistive technology, which in [...]

Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media (2020-2022)

international; Germany; Austria; Switzerland; Canada; United States
"Contemporary digital media practices developed and employed by people with disabilities is an important and growing research field, which unfortunately has been neglected by German Media Studies. (...) The proposed scientific network will address these urgent topics and map the field by exploring innovative research approaches and methodologies and by establishing and [...]

5 - ICT in Education for Persons with Disabilities – Policy and Innovative Practices (Unesco IITE)

international
This is the page of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) on digital education and new technologies in relation to disability and inclusion. The page provide an introduction to IITE\'s aims and activities regarding the topic. Furthermore, it links to a theme page on "ICT for inclusive education" where you can find events, publications and [...]

6 - What is inclusive design? - Comparison with ‘Universal design’

international
A short comparison of the concepts of Universal Design, Design for All, and Inclusive Design. The textprovides further links to the Design for All Foundation, to a Universal Design Handbook, an an Inclusive Design Research Centre. The text is part of the "Inclusive Design Toolkit" of the University of Cambridge. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Universal Design and Design for All (basic information) [courtesy translation]

international
A short overview over the concepts of Universal Design compared to the Design for All, including further links. The text is only available in German. You can find an English article here (access is subject to a fee). [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

"Universal Design as a way towards more inclusion in teaching and learning in higher education" by Dr Björn Fisseler, 2014 (presentation, German only) [courtesy translation]

international
This article is in German only. But for English readers, the list of different concepts of Universal Design in Pedagogy (p. 9) can be interesting too, as the designs themselves have English names and a reference to literature is given. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

9 - Accessibility to ICTs: Achieving equitable communications for everyone - International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

international
Accessibility is one of the Areas of Action of the "Telecommunication Standardization Sector" of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). ITU is "a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for all matters related to information and communication technologies". DCAD\'s aim is to "ensure that ICT accessibility is included in the [ITU] key debates around [...]

10 - International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP)

international
"The mission of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), (...), is to define, promote, improve, and diversify the accessibility profession globally through certification, education, and networking in order to enable the creation of accessible products, content, services, and environments." The website provides many resources, e.g. webinars, [...]

11 - Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES)

international
GAATES deals with both digital inclusion and accessibility in (analogue) public spaces and built environments. The website provides information on projects and resources created by GAATES, such as various guides for creating inclusive digital tools, websites, etc. In addition, GAATES offers global news on inclusion and accessibility (both analogue and digital) on a separate [...]

12 - Digital Accessibility Rights Evaluation Index (DARE Index)

international
The "Digital Accessibility Rights Evaluation Index" (DARE Index) is published by the The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs ( G3ict). The website linked here provides a lot of resources and background information on the index. Among others, you will find the index and its predecessor published since 2008, country profiles, top performing countries, the progress made by [...]

13 - G3ict – the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies

international
G3ict develops policies, standards and technical resources for inclusive ICTs together with United Nations agencies. It engages in institutional advocacy, provides training and certification and organises an annual summit. You will find a lot of information on these tasks on their website. Furthermore, you will find an Open Access publications\' section (among others, G3ict [...]

14 - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List

international
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provides a list of tools that help evaluate Web accessibility. As there are different definitions of accessibility in different countries, you can filter country specific accessibility guidelines, among others. W3C was created in 1994 as a membership organisation that seeks to standardise techniques in the World Wide Web. [Abstract: [...]

15 - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 - W3C Recommendation 05 June 2018

international
"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities (...) Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general." They were published by the World Wide Web [...]

16 - Teaching Accessibility (Project). How Is digital accessibility taught and learned?

international; United Kingdom
"Digital technologies have transformed daily life. Yet capacity for producing accessible digital tools and services has not kept pace with demand, exacerbating digital exclusion for disabled people and older people.

17 - Digital accessibility project

United Kingdom
The Imperial College London\'s project is first of all meant to help making the College\'s own websites more accessible according to a UK regulation as of 2018 on accessibility within public sector bodies. Nonetheless, the tips and guides compiled by the College can also help others in making their websites more accessible and inclusive. You will find links to the regulation [...]

18 - International Web Accessibility Laws and Policies

international
The author of the blog compiles information on Web Accessibility laws and policies in more than 20 countries worldwide. For each country you will find information on the respective discrimination law/policy (because of disability) and on laws/policies concerning communication etc. The name of the law is mentioned and the author gives a short comment. Unfortunately, there are [...]

19 - Digital Accessibility quizzes

international
The EU project "Digital Accessibility" provides six different quizzes that deal with accessible digital platforms and tools. The quizzes address different stakeholders that create, develop, design, implement or evaluate digital content. One more quiz addresses interested people in general and tests basic knowledge about digital accessibility. [Abstract: Editors of [...]

20 - ERASMUS+ Certified Digital Accessibility Training project

Europe
"The project aims to develop specialized digital accessibility training and accessible e-learning platform to improve the knowledge, skills, and competencies of diverse groups of key stakeholders. The training follows web accessibility standards and enables website developers, designers, managers, and others to respond to the needs of visual, auditory, physical, or cognitive [...]

21 - Chaire « Handicap, éducation et numérique » - INSHEA

France; Francophone Countries; international
The research chair "Disability, Education and Digital Technologyl" is a project by the "research group on Disability, Accessibility, Educational and School Practices" (Grhapes). Grhapes, for its part, is the research unit of the French "National Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young People with Disabilities and for Appropriate Teaching"(INSHEA). The [...]

22 - Observatoire des ressources numériques adaptées (Orna)

France; Francophone Countries; international
The "Observatory for Adapted Digital Resources" (Orna) was created in November 2007 by the Digital Education Department of the French Ministry of National Education. The "National Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young People with Disabilities and for Appropriate Teaching" (INSHEA) is in charge of Orna. Orna\'s task is to identify, analyse and evaluate [...]

23 - QM Digital Accessibility White Paper Series (2020- )

international
Quality Matters (QM) is an international network of more thn 1500 organisations in more than 25 countries worldwide. It deals with questions of quality control and management of digital educational resources. We link to a White Paper Series first published by QM in 2020 on digital accessibility and inclusion. The series shares the results of a 2019 survey conducted aming QM [...]

24 - Le Figaro – Comparateur – Éducation

France
Provided by the centre-right French journal "Le Figaro", you can have a rather simple and visual insight into positions of the candidates to the French presidency 2017. The candidates are clustered around "in favour", "against" or "in between" in answer to several questions for different political issues. For education you will find 5 questions. A drop down menu additionally [...]

25 - Inclusive Design Research Centre

Canada; international
The Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University is doing research on design and disability. Many of their projects focus on the education area, especially e-learning / new technologies. You will find information on many projects, for example: Project Outside In (Skills Training Program for Youths) , Floe Project (flexible learning for open education), ATutor (Open [...]

26 - Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER)

Finland
The Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) is a multidisciplinary centre of educational research based at the University of Jyväskylä. It is one of the most important centres for educational research in Finland, receiving nearly half of its budget from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the European Commission. Amongst others, it is in charge of the [...]

27 - Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies - The Open University of Israel

Israel; international
The "Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies" was created in 2010 and replaced the "Chais Research Center for the Integration of Technologies in Education" (2004-2010). The centre conducts research on the use of new media and technologies in higher education. The website provides some annual reports and information on events (congresses, workshops etc.). The [...]

28 - School of Education - Bar-Ilan University

Israel
The School of Education at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan has a focus on cognitive science research. Furthermore, it runs TV Studies in order to improve the education of teachers in the field of multimedia. The website also provides information on publications, theses and dissertations, staff, research, study programmes and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

29 - European Schoolnet Academy

Europe
The platform is run by European Schoolnet, a network of 30 European Ministries of Education. It provides online courses for teachers. The duration and start date is given for each course on the course website. The first two courses provided are: "Innovative Practices for Engaging STEM Teaching" and "Future Classroom Scenarios". [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

30 - CPDLab course materials available (three courses for secondary level teachers’ professional development in the digital age)

international
"European Schoolnet together [with] its partners has developed three courses for secondary level teachers’ professional development in the digital age. The contents of the modular courses are now all complete and offered free of charge to be used by teacher training organisations and other training providers. The courses, created within EC-funded CPDLab project, have been [...]

31 - Faculdade de Educação (FACED) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Brazil
Website of the Faculty for Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The website provides ample information on teaching and research of the faculty. Furthermore, you have free access to their e-journal “Educação & Realidade”. The faculty has the following departments and hence also foci: * DEBAS - Departamento de Estudos Básicos (Aprendizagem [...]

32 - Faculdade de Educação (FE) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)

Brazil
Website of the Faculty for Education of the University of Campinas, Brazil. The website provides ample information on teaching and research of the faculty. Furthermore, you have free access to a number of e-journals published by the Faculty (see the table under "Journals" or the Faculty\'s journal list). The faculty has the following departments and hence also foci: * DECISE [...]

33 - ISKME - Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

international; United States
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) was founded in 2002. It conducts research in the field of OER and educational information and communication technologies, advises educational leaders and also produces OER. The website provides a lot of information on projects worldwide, for different educational areas and audiences. ISKME received [...]

34 - School of Education - University of Limerick

international; Ireland; Africa; South America; Asia
The school (formerly "Department of Education and Professional Studies") has a research and teaching specialisations in: At the Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice (RCEPP) * Education & Clinical Psychology * Leadership, Evaluation & Change * Globalisation & Diversity * Teaching, Learning & Assessment * Professional Practice and at the EpiStem - [...]

35 - DCU Institute of Education - Dublin City University

Ireland; Europe
DCU Institute of Education has the following schools with their respective research topics: - Arts Education & Movement - Human Development - Inclusive & Special Education - Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education - Policy & Practice - STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies Furthermore, the institute runs the following research centres:- [...]

36 - The First Educational Portal of Mauritius

Mauritius
The First Educational Portal of Mauritius offers a forum for students concerning topics such as travel and tourism, English studies and business studies. The web page offers free online classes for teachers.

37 - NicaraguaEduca

Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan Education Portal offers educational material which can be seen and used online, information about current curricula, short descriptions of the branches of education, guides and advice for teachers as well as for students and a news section in which educationally relevent news are presented.

38 - European Schoolnet

Europe; Germany; France; Netherlands; Belgium; Austria; Finland; Greece; Denmark; Ireland; Iceland; Israel; Italy; Lithuania; Malta; Czech Republic; Sweden; Switzerland; Spain; Hungary; United Kingdom; Cyprus; Estonia; Georgia; Latvia; Luxemburg; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovenia; Spain; Turkey
Founded in 1997, European Schoolnet is the network of 31 European Ministries of Education, based in Brussels. Its main goal is to support the use of and training in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at school and in education. It therefore provides various country intersectional projects and initiatives of ICT-based learning and teaching methods and promotes [...]

39 - Bildung und Erziehung In Japan - Eine Kurzbibliographie

Japan
This short bibliography is an excerpt from the database of the "Specialized Information Network International Relations and Area Studies" (FIV-IBLK).

40 - EENet online the European Experts' Network for Education and Technology

Europe
The new information and communication technologies ( ICT) change the ways our society creates, stores, manages and disseminates information. The radical shift from the industrial to the information or knowledge society affects all fields of life. As an integral part of our society, the education system is facing new challenges. The relation between education and ICT plays a [...]

41 - "zebis - Portal für Lehrpersonen" der Kantone der Zentralschweiz und des Kanton Wallis

Switzerland
zebis is the education server for central Switzerland and the canton Wallis. It promotes the publication of open educational resources and supports teachers and schools with curriculum-orientated teaching materials, topical dossiers, job adds, edcuational news, information from the cantons and links to authorities and institutions.

42 - Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee (AICTEC)

Australia
"The Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee (AICTEC) is a cross-sectoral, national committee responsible for providing advice to all Australian Ministers of Education and Training on the economic and effective utilisation of online technologies in Australian education and training." Its website offers information on the AICTEC and its [...]

43 - The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW)

Africa
The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW) is a pan- African education portal which serves African SchoolNet practitioners, policymakers and school-based communities on ICTs in education across Africa. Various links provide an access to centres for special target groups (teachers, learners and others).

44 - Project Harmony in Armenia

Armenia
This project was initiated in 2000 and has been financed by the US State Department. Its main aim is the introduction and utilization of new technologies in secondary education and the connection of Armenian schools via Internet. Meanwhile a network has been established comprising 122 schools (as of July 2003). In future even 330 schools will be connected online working [...]

45 - International Education and Resource Network (iEARN)

international
iEARN is a non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both improve learning and personality development. More than 15.000 schools in 100 countries are currently using the communication platform to work together in various projects. The financial and programmatic support [...]

46 - Fachstelle Bildung und ICT

Switzerland
This agency for education and information technology was established by the administration of canton Zurich. Its objectives are to promote and to link activities in the following areas: use of information technology in education and learning, use of new media in learning, development of information competence, information technology as a subject at school and vocational [...]

47 - Centre for the Maturita Examination Reform (CERMAT)

Czech Republic
The project team of CERMAT is to prepare the external part of the reformed upper secondary school-leaving examination (Maturita) for the entire population of upper secondary pupils and pupils with special education and pupils with special education needs.- This page provides information on the respective programme, which consists of two parts. The part in 2002 was "The [...]

48 - Curriculum Materials Information Services (CMIS)

Australia
CMIS is a part of the Curriculum Directorate, Office of Government Schools, Western Australia. The Evaluation section identifies curriculum materials that support school curriculum applications and coordinates the evaluation of those resources. All forms of resources are reviewed for teachers and students: print; non-print; audio visual; videocassettes; computer software [...]

49 - PBS Ready To Learn

United States
PBS - Ready To Learn is supported from the National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education in the U.S. Department of Education. Internet portal reflecting puppet or animal shows on TV ( sesamstreet, between the lions...) with education programmes and e- learning offers, games, stories, music ... for children. Seperated entry with broad range of ressources for [...]

50 - The Computer Education Society for Ireland (CESI)

Ireland
CESI has as its general aim the promotion of information technology in education. Information on CESI and the government efforts to implement IT in education (links to reports). Information on schools and IT and European IT partner projects. Links to directory of school websites, related educational sites and centres. Archive with research reports.

51 - Curriculum Development Unit - Mary Immaculate College

Ireland
CDU was established to promote and undertake research into the curriculum and methodology of the primary school with the tasks to design and implement curricula, to evaluate its effectiveness and to develop resource materials to support teacher in implementing the curriculum. Several links to external websites of projects and to the Education Department of the College.

52 - Centre for Research and Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CRILT)

Ireland
The aim of CRILT is to improve learning, teaching and assessment practices at the National College of Ireland. CRILT runs the project "Usability Testing in the National E-Learning Laboratory (NELL)" and takes part in the project "E-View - Building a European Virtual Environment for Work-based Learning". A further focus is on digital literacy and blended learning.

53 - mySchool! Das Luxemburger Schulportal

Luxemburg
The school net of Luxemburg provides a whole range of services to schools, teachers and students, such as an on- line library, learning communities, e-learning, a website generator, etc. The homepage offers information for teachers, secondary and primary students. At the right margin there is a link list concerning Luxemburg education.

54 - Irish Schools on EduNet

Ireland; Ireland
This is a list of schools taking part in the project EduNet, a virtual community for those involved in education in Ireland, and which are constructing WWW sites.

55 - ICT op school - ICT at School Foundation

Netherlands
Ict op School is an organisation by and for the schools. It works on the improvement of ICT-products and -services for the integration of ICT in primary and secondary education. On the website information in Dutch on projects, schools online as well as on publications.

56 - Finnish Association for research in Technology Education (FATE)

Finland
The association is founded in 1996 for promoting development and research of Technology Education in Finland. On the website presentation of the organisation and their activities. Comprehensive link list to resources of technology in education.

57 - Curriculum Corporation Australia

Australia
Curriculum Corporation works in the education sector and is owned by all Australian Education Ministers. It is the key national organisation providing curriculum support to schools and school systems, and producing and disseminating high quality education products and services including books, videos, magazines, multimedia, online services and professional development. Its [...]

58 - SURFnet - High quality internet for higher education and research

Netherlands
SURFnet is the national computer network for higher education and research in the Netherlands. SURFnet connects the networks of universities, colleges, research centres, academic hospitals and scientific libraries to one another and to other networks in Europe and the rest of the world. On the website information on the organisation SURF, seminars and innovative projects can [...]

59 - Making better connections

Australia
This report (132 pages - PDF-format) represents outcomes of the project "Models of Teacher Professional Development for the Integration of Information and Communication Technology into Classroom Practice", funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training ( DEST).

60 - UNI-C - Denmark´s IT-Centre for Education and Research

Denmark
Unic-C is a government institution under the Danish Ministry of Education. It is concentrating on IT solutions for education and research (Danish Research Network, "Forskningsnettet") by creating educational material, educational websites, and connection of schools to the Internet. Other areas covered are training of teachers in the use of IT in education. The website informs [...]

61 - OECD-PISA - Hongkong PISA Project

Hong Kong; China
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an initiative of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The student population chosen for PISA is students aged 15 years. The programme is to be part of an ongoing OECD programme of reporting on indicators in education. The learning domains of reading, mathematical and scientific literacy, [...]

62 - School Library Associations of South Australia Inc.

Australia
SLASA informs about activities at South Australian school libraries and provides information on the profession of teacher librarians as well as further education offers, teaching material, internet ideas and a job database for them. Link to the RCTA (Resource Centre Teachers' Association) advocating the role of teacher librarians and to SASLA the South Australian Library [...]

63 - EDUVINET Service: Education via Networks in the European Union

Europe
EDUVINET is an initiative to promote the use of the Internet for teaching and learning in and between European schools through the development of exemplary teaching content, teacher training and a variety of other supportive measures.- The homepage offers multilingual access to various subjects and provides in particular didactical and methodical hints.

64 - Schools Online Curriculum Content Initiative (SOCCI)

Australia
The Le@rning Federation is an initiative of State and Federal governments of Australia and New Zealand and primarily concerned with delivering online curriculum content over the period 2001-2006 for schools. The aim of this website is to inform about the progress of the Initiative. The site includes information about the project, key documents and resources (pdf. or html. [...]

65 - ACT Department of Education and Training (DET): Publications

Australia
This page belongs to the website of ACT- DET (a website with comprehensive information about the Australian education system, schools and education in Australia). Publications and ressources here offered are: general publications, annual reports (since 1998), census of ACT government preschools, census of ACT government schools and a wide range of reports. The fulltexts are [...]

66 - PISA Austria

Austria
This website provides a comprehensive overview of objectives, contents, planning, implementation, organization and results of the PISA-studies 2000 and 2003 in Austria and prospective documents about the participating schools and associated test officers of PISA 2006. The heading "Aktuelles" leads to a newsletter, the project centre, publications and a pdf-file on the brochure [...]

67 - PISA i korthet

Sweden
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) was developed by the OECD to assess the reading, mathematics and science literacy of 15-year-olds in participating countries. PISA assesses how well prepared students are for life beyond the classroom by focusing on the application of knowledge and skills in everyday situations. This website informs about what PISA means, [...]

68 - PISA (Tschechische Republik)

Czech Republic; Czech Republic
This website provides information on the Czech PISA study in Czech language.

69 - Program for International Student Assessment

United States
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) was developed by the OECD to assess the reading, mathematics and science literacy of 15-year-olds in participating countries. PISA assesses how well prepared students are for life beyond the classroom by focusing on the application of knowledge and skills in everyday situations. This website informs about what PISA means, [...]

70 - Ready for Life? (PISA Summary Report)

Ireland
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an initiative of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, which began in 1998. It is to be part of an ongoing OECD program of reporting¤on indicators in education. The student population chosen for PISA is students aged 15 years. The learning domains of reading, mathematical and [...]

71 - OECD-PISA-Norway

Norway
This is the Norwegian website about the OECD/PISA programme 2000, 2003 ( Programme for International Student Assessment). It offers general information about the aims of the survey, introduces the Norwegian co-ordinators, national reports, a summary of Norwegian results as well as English publications for download analysing PISA and the results in Norway. (The complete [...]

72 - Key Education Statistics 1998-2000

Ireland
Summary of education statistics for Ireland 1998-2000, featuring figures from first to third level education and for teachers.

73 - ScoilNet - network for Irish schools.

Ireland
ScoilNet is managed by the National Center for Technology in Education (NCTE) and is part of the project "Schools IT 2000". It is an online support service giving information on educational issues generally, for pupils, parents and teachers. The teachers and parents pages offer information about school, curricula, teaching material for download, download of "Education Matters" [...]

74 - Educationmatters.

Ireland
"Educationmatters" is Irelands foremost monthly educational journal, published as print version, in the Internet and can be obtained via Email. The Internet homepage provides up to date national and international information in all educational fields.The comprehensive information is offered mostly in short articles or fulltexts (only a few for download. A forum provides the [...]

Department of Applied Educational Science

Sweden
Within the Department of Applied Educational Science studies are being conducted on conditions for learning in social, cultural and institutional settings, the contribution to and effects of digital technology on learning as well as measurement, assessment and evaluation. The department has three strong research areas: Interactive Media and Learning, Measurement and Evaluation [...]

76 - European Centre for Media Competence

Europe
This homepage provides information on the profile of the European Centre for Media Competence, its philosophy, the range of services and forthcoming events. As a service provider in the field of the new media, Europäisches Zentrum für Medienkompetenz GmbH advises both private- sector and public-sector clients. With its projects and services, ecmc helps to shape the way [...]

77 - Russian Centre of Multimedia and Telecommunication in Education (MTO)

Russian Federation
The Centre elaborates and introduces new information technologies in the area of pre-school, primary, secondary and supplementary education. Main activities of the centre are: Creation and development of an information system with regard to educational publishing ( including telecommunication components); Provision of scientific, consultative, and technical support for [...]

ICT in Swedish schools

Sweden
In the decentralized Swedish school system the responsibility for ICT is shared. The role of the Government and its Agencies is to promote the use of ICT in education, mainly by supporting the municipalities and independent schools in their tasks. The website informs about surveys about the use of ICT in Swedish schools and preschools, the promotion of practical ICT and media [...]

79 - SchoolNet SA South Africa

South Africa, Republic; South America
The Electronic Schoolbook (TES) serves as a comprehensive, definitive resource for South African Schools connected to the Internet. There are individual province listings and individual network listings. Besides there is a link to non South-African schools. SchoolNet SA is at the forefront of ICT implementation strategies in South African schools.

80 - International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

international
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) is the global membership organisation of educational institutions, national and regional associations, corporations, educational authorities and agencies in the fields of open learning, distance education, and flexible, lifelong learning.- Using the new opportunities via the WWW and providing essential [...]

81 - Observatoire des Ressources Multimédias en Education (ORME)

France
The observatory observes the use of the new information and communication technologies in education. The homepage refers to texts about the annual conferences of ORME, its dossiers (with order form), projects and conferences and a data base with full texts.

82 - Learning and Teaching Scotland

Scotland; United Kingdom
Learning and Teaching Scotland was formed on 1st July 2000 from the merger of SCET (Scottish Council for Educational Technology) and Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum ( Scottish CCC). LT Scotland will work in partnership with others to develop the curriculum from 3 to 18, to enhance learning and teaching and to promote creative and effective use of information [...]

83 - Media Education in Russia

Russian Federation
Just like the education on the whole, media education in Russia resided under harsh ideological pressure for many years. Access to media information (films, books about movies, etc.) was denied by censorship. However media education in Russia has existed already for about 85 years. The webpage of the Russian Association for Film and Media Education offers an extensive list of [...]

84 - Global Links Television: Education

international
"Global Links Television", an award-winning documentary series produced by the World Bank Institute, is licensed to over 60 broadcasters around the world. Video cassettes are also used for educational purposes in secondary schools, universities, and professional seminars.-The Education for all series examines the experiences of three countries that undertook bold and [...]

85 - Promoting awareness & communicating technologies in education (PROACTe)

Europe
PROACTe is a service to communicate work funded by the European Union under the Education Area of the Information Society (IST) Programme. The initiators will encourage dialogue between projects and others in the field of educational technologies. Here one can find out what EU projects in educational technologies are doing, discover resources and news on education and training [...]

86 - Ushinskij State Scientific Pedagogical Library

Russian Federation
The Library is the repository of pedagogical literature, information and bibliographical centre for the libraries of educational institutions, initial professional and in-service teacher education. Scientific-research activity of the Library is the component of the researchers of Russian Academy of Education. The Library has the constant contact with the scientists, [...]

European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education

Europe
The main objective of the agency is to work towards the creation of a coherent and permanent framework for extended European co- operation in the field of special needs education. Its main tasks are to collect, process and distribute information about new and innovative measures in the field of special needs education as well as to initiate research and distribute research [...]

88 - New South Wales Board of Studies

Australia
The functions of the Board of Studies NSW include responsibility for curriculum development, registration and accreditation of non- government schools and home schooling, and the assessment and examination of student achievements for the awarding of the NSW School Certificate and Higher School Certificate. Its website includes curricula information, timetables, an archive of [...]

89 - Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS)

Republic of Korea
KERIS is an information system that promotes the use of information technology in education. Its tasks are: to provide an e-learning system for schools (EDUNET) and an information network for educational administration (NEIS), to qualifiy teaching and administration personnel in the use of information technology, and to provide access to literature and electronic full text [...]

90 - Instituto Latinomericano de la Comunicación Educativa

Latin America
The Latin American Institute for Educational Communication was established in 1956. It is a regional institution for the respective Unesco Member States. The institute is expected to render a contribution towards an improvement of education by applying the new information and communication technologies. On the website the user can find links to the school net, to educational [...]

91 - Classroom of the Future

Ireland
Classroom of the future is a project by Broadcom and Telecom Eireann. Schools are equipped with computers to find out how the Internet can be used by schools. A guide to Internet in schools is available online and as a downloadable file.

92 - Red de Educación Continua de la

Mexico
REDEC is a network of UNAM, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in the field of continuing education. This homepage offers information on current events, documents and continuing education courses by using modern technologies.

93 - Amal educational network / Amal 1 Network

Israel
Amal 1 is a network of more than 128 educational institutions engaged in the advancement of comprehensive and technological education for youth and adults. Located throughout Israel, Amal 1´s schools can be found in Jewish, Druze, Bedouin and Arab communities. The establishment of Amalnet, a computerized communications network encompassing Amal schools, students, teachers, [...]

94 - Study in Canada / Étudier au Canada

Canada
Find the right university, college, career college, language school, secondary (high) school or elementary school for you. Students interested in learning English as a second language can find out about ESL and TOEFL scores. Post-secondary programs such as MBA, computer science, engineering and business are also featured. Learn about visas, tuition, application requirements [...]

95 - National Association of Media Educators (N.A.M.E.)

New Zealand
This website provides information about the Association, conferences and linklists concerning institutions and courses for media studies, a online journal "Script" and a text about why to teach and study media studies.

96 - Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)

United Kingdom
This interactive journal serves a a discussion forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of interactive media and education. "JIME is not simply making the conventional media of paper-based articles available on the Net, but addressing the interactive dimensions which are the essence of the new media; JIME is not simply adding an e- mail listserver to allow [...]

97 - National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE)

Ireland; Ireland
The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) has been established unter the aegis of the Department of Education and Science. It focus on information and communications technologies ( ICTs) and education. It is responsible for the implementation of the government initiated project "Schools IT2000" which aims to integrate new technologies into schools. The website [...]

98 - Eduteka

Colombia
The foundation which operates EDUTEKA aims at promoting the quality of basic and middle school education in Colombia through the use of information and communication technology. For this purpose the website provides a variety of resources, texts, curriculum materials, projects and standards about ICT and its use in education.

99 - Zentrum für neue Informationstechnologien des Ministeriums für allgemeine und berufliche Bildung der Russischen Föderation

Russian Federation; Russian Federation
The Centre for Informatization of the Russian Ministry of Education is the guiding institution for the partial programme "Informatization of higher education institutions, development of the system of education and training on the basis of modern information technologies". There are 14 links on this website mainly providing information on: the structure of the education [...]

100 - The Children 5-16 Research Programme (1995-2001)

United Kingdom
[Caution: The link provided here is from the Internet Archive as the original website is offline] "The Programme will focus on children growing up in the UK during the middle period of childhood: 5-16: the years of compulsory schooling. The Programme will attempt to illuminate the middle period of childhood and the nature and quality of children\'s family and social lives, [...]

101 - Edunet

Switzerland
EDUNET is defined as a tool for secondary and primary students who want to have contact and exchanges with other school classes in the matter of classroom projects. The web-site therefore provides links, e. g. a database from which one can select project and correspondence partners, sites of other classes, current and past project clusters; for example, at time there is a [...]

102 - The Institute of Educational Technology (IET)

United Kingdom
"A centre of international excellence, for the teaching research and development of technology in the service of student learning. We work in collaboration with Open University Faculty and Regional Colleagues. For Practitioners worldwide we offer: Professional development in educational technology, Postgraduate qualifications in open & distance education, International centre [...]

103 - SchoolWorld Internet Education

Australia
Established in January 1996, SchoolWorld was designed with the premise that schools should be allowed to participate in a wide range of varied programs and projects, interact with other schools from the world, and be provided a platform for using the Internet for educational enhancement..

104 - European Journal of Open and Distance Learning (EURODL)

international
This journal is future-orientated and dedicated to electronic publishing. It wants to be a discussion forum for Open and Distance Learning with a broad range of topics covering all areas and levels of education. This includes the intention to deal with European matters and experiences.

105 - Channel 4 Schools

United Kingdom
The site offers a database of current TV programmes of Channel 4 for pupils, online resources to the programmes for teachers to download, an interactive science section, a forum for discussion, educational CD- ROMs and materials for the deaf and hearing impaired.

106 - Asociación Interuniversitaria de Investigación en Pedagogía Interuniversitäre Vereinigung für pädagogische Forschung

Spain
The Interuniversitary Association for Pedagogical Research offers a wide range of information for educational research reaching from electronic publications and the provision of teaching aids up to the organisation of virtual conferences. The association is a member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA).- The user can find a great variety of links to [...]

Program of the new information and communication technologies

Spain
The centre is subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Culture. By means of its programme it inspires and supports the spreading of new technologies at non-universitary level in particular in the areas of preschool education, primary and secondary education.- On this homepage possibilities are explained which the Internet offers in view of interpersonal and [...]