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No. 3’2004 July-September EDITORIAL Dear readers, The issue offered for your attention is devoted to IITE’s activities for the benefit of the CIS countries and Baltic states. The article of Azat Khan- nanov reports on the main goals and expected outcomes of the UNESCO cross- cutting theme project Open and Distance Learning Know- ledge Base for Decision- Makers (ODLKB). ODLKB regional part for the CIS and Baltic countries is being Opening of the training seminar in Armenia developed by IITE with the partners from Russian Fede- with Special Needs held by based on the training mate- The Ministry of Education ration, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, IITE from 17 to 21 May rials elaborated by IITE spe- and Science of Kazakhstan Belarus, and Lithuania. 2004 in Yerevan, Armenia. cialists in cooperation with and UNESCO Institute for Both events were targeted at leading international experts Information and Com- The article of Boris Kotsik administrators, experts of in the field. The workshop munication Technologies in IITE Training Session on teacher training departments, was held in collaboration Education have held the 3rd Education Quality in Arme- and teachers. The session with the Union of Blind International Forum Infor- nia presents the overview of was organized at the State People (Armenia) and Apple matization of Education of the training seminar Ret- Institute of Skill Advance in IMC. The article describes Kazakhstan and CIS Coun- raining of School Educators Informatics, national focal every stage of ICTs in tries – being hosted annually on ICT Application in Edu- point for cooperation with Education for People with in the city of Almaty – cation and the workshop IITE in Armenia. The pro- Special Needs project devel- about which the article of ICTs in Education for People gramme of the session was opment in detail. Gul Nurgalieva tells.

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› In 2004 IITE published the analytical survey Information and Communication Technologies in the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages: State-of-the-Art, Needs and Perspectives 2 UNESCO Cross-Cutting Theme Now it has become obvi- Ministry of Education and rated and published by IITE. I hope that the materials of ous that with time this event Science. I think it is impossible to the issue will help our readers attracts more and more overestimate the value of this gain a comprehensive vision attention of specialists from The article of Аndrey Tes- publication for the specialists of the processes, which are in the CIS countries, repre- linov, Аnna Chernyavskaya in the field of distance edu- the CIS countries in the field sentatives of large interna- and Sergey Schennikov cation of the CIS countries. of ICT application in educa- tional organizations invo- Regular Trainings for Tutors The course aims at potential tion, as well as of the cooper- lved in applications of info- of Open Vocational Distance tutors and beginners in open ation efforts IITE undertakes rmation technologies in Education gives a brief intro- vocational distance educa- with the systems of education education. IITE plans to duction to the specialized tion, and is structured so that in these countries. continue in every possible training course Development future tutors, while mastering way to promote this initia- of Educational Personnel for it, “ascend the ladder” of Vladimir Kinelev tive of the Kazakhstan Distance Education elabo- competency. Director of IITE

OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR DECISION-MAKERS IN CIS AND BALTIC COUNTRIES

The project Open and The project’s goals will be laboration between pol- resources, but to provide the Distance Learning Knowledge achieved through: icy-makers; users with the original con- Base for Decision-Makers • a knowledge finder to tent. To identify educational (ODLKB) was set up as a • web-based knowledge provide the access to vir- needs of CIS and Baltic citi- UNESCO cross-cutting theme base of regional resources tual libraries on ODL. zens in the field of distance initiative to support decision- to provide storehouses of education as well as the makers and practitioners information dealing with ODLKB for the CIS and capacities of the populations with the access to informa- various aspects of ODL Baltic countries, being devel- to meet the needs via basic tion and tools that will assist tailored to specific needs oped by IITE, aims at the distance education technolo- them in more effective policy of three regions – Asia informational and analytical gies, in the course of the proj- planning, development and and the Pacific, Africa, support of decision- and pol- ect the general monitoring management of open and CIS and Baltic countries; icy-makers of higher educa- approach was worked out. distance learning (ODL) in • an inter-regional decision tion systems. The main goal Special sociological pro- higher education pro- support tool to help pol- of the project is to promote grammes are being carried grammes. The key cross- icy-makers make the practical increase of knowl- out for the following CIS regional focus of the project decision to implement edge necessary for the target countries – Russian Fede- is on the ODL quality to be ODL programmes; groups to elaborate national ration, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, provided in higher education. • virtual advisory group and programmes and action Belarus, as well as for Lithu- Coordinated by UNESCO mailing lists to provide a plans, formulate policies, and ania from the Baltic region. Education Sector, the project platform for discussion; make strategic choices, pri- Based on the results of these involves the following part- • databases to offer primary marily, at national and inter- researches ODLKB for the ners: UNESCO Communi- and secondary informa- national levels. This appro- CIS and Baltic countries will cation and Information tion sources on topics, ach has been supported at provide analytical informa- Sector, UNESCO Institute such as standard-setting the meetings on ODLKB tion, which will be decision- for Information Technolo- instruments/normative project by national focal maker-friendly and will allow gies in Education (IITE), instruments (legislation, points for cooperation with to evaluate the following: UNESCO International In- stitute of Educational Plan- conventions, decrees); IITE in the CIS and Baltic ning (IIEP), UNESCO Asia policies; institutions and countries (10-12 October • status and trends of devel- and Pacific Regional Bureau programmes; quality 2002, Kiev; 18 November opment of aging popula- for Education, UNESCO assurance frameworks; 2003, Moscow). tion in the countries of Harare Cluster Office, South research; experts; and the region in the field of institutional e-readiness; While a number of WWW higher education;

No. 3’2004/July-September African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE), Open • capacity building through portals and databases on • interest of the people in University of Malaysia (Ku- workshops to present and ODL already exists in the educational services of ala Lumpur), The Com- enrich the prototype region, ODLKB for the CIS open and distance learning; monwealth of Learning knowledge bases and pro- and Baltic countries is • accessibility of educa- IITE NEWSLETTER (COL). mote interregional col- intended not to duplicate the tional services provided Training Activities 3 with different educational educational needs in the field services will be shown. The put into operation during technologies for the pop- of vocational training and capacities of DE service mar- October – December 2003. ulation of the CIS and interest in distance education ket for each country and the This will allow not only to Baltic countries; (DE) services, accounting for recommendations covering provide the access through • conditions, preferences, such factors as market the needs and capacities of the Internet gate to the origi- and requirements of demand of educational pro- population on the perspective nal higher education potential users of ODL files and levels, social struc- cooperation of CIS countries ODLKB content for the CIS services in the region ture of adult population with in the field of DE develop- and Baltic countries, but to regarding organization actualized educational needs, ment will be given. make important steps to cre- and quality of ODL; readiness for self-education, ate the online virtual com- • market potential of edu- availability of the Internet Three main sub-systems of munity for decision- and cational services of ODL and other technologies, con- ODLKB for the CIS and policy-makers and other in the region; sumer conditions, prefer- Baltic countries – open source ODL professionals (re- • possible social effects of ences and requirements to database, content manage- searchers, educators, etc.) for ODL development pro- DE organization, legal status ment system for ongoing cooperation, communica- grammes in the CIS and of a trainee, methodological information maintenance tion, and help by the special Baltic countries. and technological supply, as (accessible both for editorial editorial team maintaining well as languages of educa- group and registered experts) the accumulated information The users of ODLKB for the tion. Social portraits of with embedded metadata up-to-date and useful. CIS and Baltic countries will potential solvent consumers technology solutions and be supported by detailed and of DE services in the major community building tools regularly updated informa- CIS countries and optimal (set of forums, mailing lists, Azat Khannanov tion on the actualization of ways of informing on DE group working, etc.) – will be [email protected]

IITE TRAININIG SESSION ON EDUCATION QUALITY IN ARMENIA Yerevan, Armenia, 17-21 May 2004

In May 2004, the UNESCO The seminar was split in three Ms Aida Topuzyan, Deputy Mr Fadey Sargsian, Presi- Institute for Information parts: introductory lectures, Minister of Education and dent of the National Aca- Technologies in Education group projects and the round Science of the Republic of demy of Sciences of the (IITE) in Yerevan, Armenia, table, where vital aspects of Armenia, officially opened the Republic of Armenia, Mr held two events within the ICTs in education in Armenia seminar and welcomed the par- Nikolai Kuzmich, Secretary of framework of the Institutes’ were discussed. The target audi- ticipants on behalf of the the Council for Cooperation in regular programme: ence of the seminar comprised Ministry of Education wishing the Field of Education of the administrators, experts of the success and stressing the CIS countries, Ms Karine 1. Training seminar Retraining teacher training departments importance of the activities on Danielyan, Secretary General of School Educators on ICT and institutes for advanced and sustainable planning and of the Armenian National Application in Education (17–20 in-service teacher training, and development of education in Commission for UNESCO May 2004). teachers. the Republic of Armenia. also greeted the participants.

2. Workshop ICTs in Education for People with Special Needs (21 May 2004).

The seminar was held at the State Institute of Skill Advance in Informatics, national focal point for cooperation with IITE in Armenia. The IITE training materials developed in cooper- ation with leading international No. 3’2004/ July-September experts in the field served the basis for the training pro- gramme. Prof. Sindre Roesvik Prof. Evgeny Khenner Prof. Peter Hogenbirk

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More than 100 Armenian edu- University, delivered the lecture The target audience of the Federation), Mr Kent Ham- cators were invited to partici- Development of ICT Competence workshop was teachers and marström (Sweden), Mr pate in the opening ceremony. of Educators. administrators specializing in Marshall Raskind (USA). In training and social rehabilita- 2000 the expert team in collabo- The official opening was follo- The round-table discussions tion of people with special ration with IITE prepared the wed by the introductory lecture held on the second and needs. analytical survey Information Education in the Information the third days of the semi- and Communication Technology Society: Challenges and Ans- nar focused on the following Ms Aida Topusyan, Deputy in Special Education, which wers delivered by Mr Vladimir topics: Minister of Education and displayed the current state, Kinelev, IITE Director. Science, opened the workshop prospects, and main trends of • instructional support for and emphasized the impor- ICT application in special Prof. Sindre Roesvik, Norway, teachers in the field of ICTs; tance of the event for further needs education. The analyti- and Prof. Peter Hogenbirk, the • the use of ICTs by teachers development of education for cal survey was highly appreci- Netherlands, well-known ex- of different subjects; people with special needs in ated by the specialists; it was perts in the field, made the fol- • informatics and informa- Armenia. Mr Ararat Mal- discussed by the representa- lowing presentations: Education tion technologies as an inte- khasyan and Mr Artak Ara- tives of the European national in the Digital Society (Prof. gral part of school educa- kelyan, members of the focal points for cooperation Roesvik) and Teacher Training tion, etc. National Assembly of the Re- with IITE at the international and Education in the Changing public of Armenia, Mr Akop seminar in Prague and disse- World (Prof. Hogenbirk) on The variety of skills and experi- Grigoryan, Head of the Union minated among UNESCO general trends and prospects of ence of the participants enab- of the Liberation War Veterans, Member States, IITE focal education development, educa- led them to share their knowl- Mr Ashot Yesayan, Deputy points as well as governmental tion in the Netherlands and edge and achievements in ICT Minister of Labour and Social and non-governmental organi- Norway, international experi- use in education. Affairs, greeted the participants. zations related to education. ence and questions of ICT application in education. The The results of the group projects Mr Vladimir Kinelev, Director In April 2002 IITE organized discussion followed the presen- were presented at the final con- of IITE, presented the IITE the expert meeting in Moscow, tations, during which they ference on the last day of the project ICTs in Education for where Dr Alistair Edwards answered the questions of the seminar. People with Special Needs. (United Kingdom), Dr Elena participants. Hadjikakou (Cyprus), Dr Sere- On 21 May 2004 the workshop He informed the participants nella Besio (Italy), Dr Ole The lecture of Dr Boris Kotsik ICTs in Education for People that the first expert meeting on Hansen (Denmark), Dr Ac- (Chief of Education Techno- with Special Needs was held by ICT application in education huthan N. Pillay (Australia), Dr logies Unit, IITE) Information IITE in collaboration with the was held in February 2000. Ara Avetisyan, Dr Yuri Baro- and Communication Techno- Union of Blind People (Arme- Leading specialists from Italy, yan, Dr Gevorg Margarov (Ar- logies and the Quality of nia) and Apple IMC on the Japan, Netherlands, Russian menia), Dr Svetlana Avdeeva Education was the next item on premises of the State Institute Federation, Slovenia, United (Russian Federation), Mr the agenda. of Skill Advance in Informatics, Kingdom took part in it. The Nikolai Kuzmich (Belarus) dis- national focal point for cooper- structure and content of the cussed the results achieved by Prof. Evgeny Khenner, Vice- ation with IITE in Armenia. IITE project in the field of ICT the Institute and defined meth- rector of Informatization and The event was held with partial application in education was ods and directions for further New Technologies of Edu- financial support of UNESCO developed in the course of the project development. The par- cation Board of the Perm State Moscow Office. meeting. IITE made the deci- ticipants of the expert meeting sion to prepare an analytical addressed IITE with the request survey on the current state and to develop a specialized training further prospects of ICT usage course and a national pilot in education for people with project for the Republic of special needs. To develop the Armenia on the theme ICTs in project a working group was Education for People with formed. Mr Alistair Edwards, Special Needs and Unemployed. Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Uni- IITE in collaboration with the versity of York (United Armenian National Commis- Kingdom), leading expert in sion for UNESCO and No. 3’2004/July-September this field, headed the group Educational Complex “Infor- including Mr Kevin Carey matics” worked out the project (United Kingdom), Mr proposals and submitted them Round-table discussion Grigory Evreinov (Russian to UNESCO Headquarters to IITE NEWSLETTER Training Activities 5

kistan, Uganda, United Re- high importance for the public of Tanzania, Uzbeki- Republic of Armenia and stan, and Viet Nam) and sup- decided to support the efforts ported by Arab Gulf Fund. of IITE and the State Institute of Skill Advance in Dr Kotsik made presentation Informatics in the pilot project of the IITE specialized training for Armenia, including the fol- course ICTs in Education for lowing: People with Special Needs. • address IITE, the Ministry Mr Gevorg Margarov, Head of of Education and Science the System Engineering and of the Republic of Programming Department of Armenia, National Com- Mr Gevorg Margarov (Armenia) Dr Yuri Baroyan (Armenia) the State Institute of Skill mission for UNESCO in receive the financial support for ICT application in educa- Advance in Informatics, deliv- Armenia and the United further development of the tion for people with special ered the lecture Challenges of Nations Development project. needs, e.g. people with Development and Implementa- Programme with the poor eyesight or blind, peo- tion of the National Pilot Project request to join their forces The main objectives of the pro- ple with speech, hearing, “ICTs in Education for People on further funding of the ject were: and mobility function dis- with Special Needs”. He in- suggested pilot project; turbances, will be worked formed the audience about the • address the Council for • to improve quality of edu- out; main objectives and tasks of the Cooperation in the Field cation for people with spe- • IITE training course ICTs project, its present state, future of Education of the CIS cial needs and unem- in Education for People with events and outcomes to countries to give the status ployed; Special Needs will be made achieve. of the Head organization • to work out a concept of ready for publication in of the CIS countries in the national education system English, Russian, and The Apple Corporation special- field to the State Institute for people with special Armenian; ists introduced the latest tech- of Skill Advance in needs; • teachers and technical per- nological developments in the Informatics; • to develop ICT-based sonnel will be trained to field of education for special- • address IITE with the teaching for people with coach people with disabili- needs group and held the semi- request to organize the special needs; ties; nar The Apple Hardware for annual workshop, where • to design teaching support • a structure of specialized People with Special Needs. the education develop- materials, hardware and stationary and mobile com- ment for people with spe- software to support people puter training centres will Mr Arman Kuchukyan, En- cial needs will be dis- with special needs; be formed; ginieering Manager of the Ye- cussed; • to develop IITE specialized • different methods and pro- revan Scientific-Research In- • address Moscow Depart- training course ICTs in grammes of professional stitute of Mathematical Ma- ment of Education to assist Education for People with training for people with chines (YSRIMM), made the in testing the outcomes of Special Needs and to trans- special needs will be devel- presentation YSRIMM Acti- the project ICTs in late it in Russian and oped; vities in the Field of Education Education for People with Armenian; • proceedings of the work- for Students with Special Needs Special Needs and Un- • to hold training sessions for shop will be distributed and Mainstream Students. employed and to dissemi- specialists based on the spe- among the CIS countries. nate final results among cialized training course for Prof. Khenner delivered the the specialists in the field. people with special needs; Mr Kinelev noted that on the lecture Some Possibilities of ICT • to design a national net of request of UNESCO He- Application in Education for By the decision of the Council stationary and mobile edu- adquarters at the moment IITE Children with Special Needs. for Cooperation in the Field of cation centres for people develops two projects ICTs in Education of the CIS coun- with special needs. Education for People with During the workshop various tries, the State Institute of Skill Special Needs and Training of problems of education devel- Advance in Informatics was It is expected that: Teachers for People with Special opment for people with special given the status of the Head Needs. The projects are tar- needs were discussed. The par- organization of the CIS coun- • the concept of ICT-based geted at several countries from ticipants adopted the resolu- tries in the field. No. 3’2004/ July-September teaching and learning for different parts of the world tion based on the materials of people with special needs (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the discussions and conclu- will be developed; Cambodia, Djibouti, Guinea, sions of the workshop. They Boris Kotsik • the recommendations on Mali, Mongolia, Nigeria, Taji- noted that the project is of [email protected] IITE NEWSLETTER 6 International Cooperation THIRD INTERNATIONAL FORUM “INFORMATIZATION OF EDUCATION OF KAZAKHSTAN AND CIS COUNTRIES”

The 3rd international forum namely Belarus, Kyrgyz- in which 17 organizations education informatization in Informatization of Edu- stan, Russian Federati- took part, including the the Republic of Kazakhstan cation of Kazakhstan and on, Tajikistan, Ukraine; Republican Scientific and for the last two years and CIS Countries was organized • International Informa- Methodological Centre of identified the tendencies for by the Ministry of Edu- tization Academy; Informatization in Edu- its development. cation and Science of the • European Foundation of cation, publishing house Republic of Kazakhstan, Education and TASIS “Prosveshchenie” (Russian At the closing session the UNESCO Institute for In- International Project on Federation), seven higher representative of the Euro- formation and Communi- relations of vocational institutions of Kazakhstan pean Union, international cation Technologies in education and training and two institutes of the expert of TASIS project, Mr Education, and Republican with small and medium Russian Federation as well Bob Mansfield (United Scientific and Metho- business developing in as sponsors of the forum – Kingdom) spoke high of the dological Centre of Infor- Kazakhstan; Hewlett-Packard, Sam- discussion. matization in Education • Kazakhstan organiza- sung, LLC “NEWTECH”, (RCIE) in Almaty city on 27 tions of education and МОF “KATEV”, LLC The forum has consolidated and 28 April 2004. science. “Tandem TVS”. In the the efforts in the field of framework of the display the Minister of Education and The meeting accommodated electronic textbooks for sec- application of information Science of the Republic of 334 participants. ondary general and voca- technologies in education, Kazakhstan as well as the tional education were pre- exchanged the rich experi- representatives from the fol- Prior to the opening the sented. ence accumulated, and lowing organizations partici- press conference of the determined further integra- pated in the event: organizers was held. Mass There were two sections: tion of information infra- media, namely TV channels Distance Education – a Form structure of education in the • Office of the President “Khabar” and “Yuzhnaya of Lifelong Learning: Expe- Republic of Kazakhstan in and secretariat of Prime Stolitsa”, covered the details rience and Perspectives and the global educational envi- Minister of Kazakhstan; of the international forum. Methods to Create Edu- ronment. • UNESCO Almaty Clus- cational Software, where 28 ter Office for Kazak- At its sessions 11 presenta- presentations were made Gul Nurgalieva hstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajik- tions were delivered. and 69 electronic posters Republican Scientific istan, and Uzbekistan; were demonstrated. and Methodological • National focal points for In the framework of the Centre of Informati- cooperation with IITE event the display Informati- The forum has drawn the zation in Education, from the CIS countries, zation of Education was held, conclusions on the results of Kazakhstan

REGULAR TRAININGS FOR TUTORS OF OPEN VOCATIONAL DISTANCE EDUCATION

Introduction which since the 17th century The school for training and have tried to develop Great development of tutors for the Long before the first tutors Didactics of J.A. Komensky, system of open vocational appeared a novel understand- and abandon the notion of a distance education in the ing of a teacher as an executor student as an object and International Institute of of the new educational para- Management (IIM) LINK is hostage of an inept teacher. digm had been shaped. This one of the illustrative exam- Most successfully the ideas of process can be traced in the ples of this process. The the new educational para- history of the theories and impact of this school can be No. 3’2004/July-September pedagogical schools abroad digm have been embodied in traced not only in the (J. Watson, K. Rogers, A. vocational education, the achievements of the Ins- Mosloy, etc.) and in our consciousness of adults has titute’s “inner” life: almost country (A.N. Leontiev, D.B. become the pedagogical real- 800 tutors on many training

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