ICT for Education

Global organisations working in the field of ICT for Education

• The World Economic Forum's Global Education Initiative
  • video
• The Commonwealth of Learning
• UNESCO's Education and ICTs portal on teacher education and ICTs
• UNESCO's ICT in Education site (with a particular focus on Asia and the Pacific)
  • ICT in Education Toolkit
• UNESCO's Open Training Platform
• The Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI)
• OECD's ICT and Learning site
• DFID's Imfundo initiative
• The World Bank's ICT for Education site
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Open Courseware Site
• The European Commission's E-Learning site, elearningeuropa
• ILCE Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa
• Global Knowledge Partnership - multi-stakeholder network promoting innovation and advancement in Knowledge for Development (K4D) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).
• WITAR - video of their work in Burundi entitled "Una scuola a banda larga"
• The Literacy Project - created in collaboration between LitCam, Google and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning

Useful educational networking portals

• The Global Learning Portal
• The UK's Global Gateway
• European SchoolNet
• Taylor and Francis's Education Arena for education-related research
• Côte d'Ivoire portail des écoles

General teaching and learning sites

• The BBC's site for schools
  • Bitesize GCSE revision
• Becta's School Resources
• Channel 4 learning
• The Association of Teachers' Websites (links to websites developed by teachers)
• High School Ace (a US homework site)
• Education World (a US education site)
• Charles Sturt University's Education Virtual Library
• World Links Educational Resources
• Discovery Channel School
• S-Cool's site for school children
• Living Library resources for teachers and learners
• VSO's working papers (including materials on education)

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Enhancing your productivity: useful software and links

• StarOffice (No license fees for educational usage) - Sun Microsystem's Office software
• OpenOffice (Free to use and distribute) - an Open Source application and project
• Webteacher - a self-paced tutorial about the World Wide Web
• InWent's OSS Database - data on a wide range of Open Source Software