Mediappro (“media appropriation”) is an international collaborative applied research project for media education. Spanning from 2005-2006, universities, government ministries, foundations and other institutions in nine European countries – Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom – utilized their experience in media education to explore how young people between the ages […]
European Commission’s Audiovisual and Media Policies
The European Union’s sector on Audiovisual and Media Policies directly employs over one million people. In addition to its economic importance, it also plays a key social and cultural role throughout Europe since television is the most important source of information and entertainment in European societies. To implement audiovisual and media policies, the European Union […]
La Educación en Valores
“La Educación en Valores” is involved with the challenging task of including and incorporating morals into the realm of education. They have created a multilingual website as a resource for educators interested in exploring the issues of culture, human rights, peace, and literacy in the classroom. The website is a forum for the La Educación […]
Independent Media Center
Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media’s distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. IMC […]
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 20,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 115 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 1,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
Common Ground News Service (CGNews)
The Common Ground News Service (CGNews) seeks to promote mutual understanding and offer hope, opportunities for dialogue and constructive suggestions that facilitate peaceful resolution of conflict. The organization publishes and promotes articles by local and international experts on current Middle East issues and the relationship between the West, Arab and Muslim communities. Launched in 2000 […]
African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW)
The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW) is a pan-African education portal serving African SchoolNet participants, policymakers and school-based communities on information and communication technologies in education across Africa. SchoolNet Africa is one of Africa’s first African-led, African-based non-governmental organizations that operates across the continent in an endeavor to improve education access, quality and efficiency through […]
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Annual Confere
Held each year in a different location, the “IFLA World Library and Information Congress” convenes members and associates of the IFLA, the “global voice of the library and information profession.” As the international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users worldwide, the IFLA seeks to promote high standards of provision […]
The European Observatory on Children’s Television (OETI)
The European Observatory on Children’s Television, EOCT, develops its activities under the premise that television content should be formative, educational and entertaining. The creation of the Observatory was foreseen as a unifying element of individual efforts supporting the work of the WFCT (World Forum on Children’s Television) and the BITF (Barcelona International Television Festival), initiated […]
Paper submitted at IFLA 2004 Conference
“Iran’s National ICT Education Plan: an Overview of the Possibilities, Problems, and the Programs” Presented by Kayvan Kousha of the University of Tehran and Mahshid Abdoli of the National Library of Iran, the paper examines the status of the first and most significant national ICT education plan in Iran, termed Iran’s National Information and Communication […]