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Digital learning and transformation of education

Open digital learning opportunities for all

Digital technologies have evolved from stand-alone projects to networks of tools and programmes that connect people and things across the world, and help address personal and global challenges. Digital innovation has demonstrated powers to complement, enrich and transform education, and has the potential to speed up progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) for education and transform modes of provision of universal access to learning. It can enhance the quality and relevance of learning, strengthen inclusion, and improve education administration and governance. In times of crises, distance learning can mitigate the effects of education disruption and school closures.

Digital Learning Week

2-5 September 2024, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

Digital learning policies
Artificial intelligence in education
Making digital open schools resilient

Digital competencies of teachers

ICT Competency Framework for Teachers
ICT Transforming Education in Africa
Technology Enabled Open Schools for All
Digital competencies for teachers and school students

in Member States of the Group of 77 and China

Best practices

Best practices in mobile learning
ICT in education Prize

The call for applications and nominations for the 2023 edition is open until 21 February 2024

Open educational resources

Translate a story

A translation campaign to facilitate home-based early age reading

Recommendation on Open Educational Resources
Guidelines on the development of open educational resources policies
Open educational resources: policy, costs, transformation

Videos

Mobile Learning Week 2020

Highlights

Winners of the ICT in education Prize

Key facts

4.9
billion people,

or 63%of the world’s population, were using the Internet in 2021

50%
of learners

do not have a household computer and 43% of learners do not have household Internet.

56
million learners cannot use mobile phones

to access information because they are not covered by mobile networks

Only 64%
of primary and 50% of secondary teachers

in sub-Saharan Africa have received minimum training

Guidance for generative AI in education and research
Miao, Fengchun
UNESCO
Holmes, Wayne
2023
UNESCO
0000386693
An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19
West, Mark
UNESCO
2023
UNESCO
0000386701
Global education monitoring report, 2023: technology in education: a tool on whose terms?
Global Education Monitoring Report Team
2023
UNESCO
0000385723
International forum on AI and education: steering AI to empower teachers and transform teaching, 5-6 December 2022; analytical report
Miao, Fengchun
UNESCO
Shiohira, Kelly
Vally, Zaahedah
Holmes, Wayne
JET Education Services (South Africa)
2023
UNESCO
0000386162
Education and blockchain
Grech, Alex
UNESCO
Balaji, Venkataraman
Miao, Fengchun
Commonwealth of Learning
2022
UNESCO
0000384003
Guidelines for ICT in education policies and masterplans
Miao, Fengchun
UNESCO
Hinostroza, J. Enrique
Lee, Molly
Isaacs, Shafika
Orr, Dominic
Senne, Fabio
Martinez, Ana-Laura
Song, Ki-Sang
Uvarov, Alexander
Holmes, Wayne
Vergel de Dios, Benjamín
2022
UNESCO
0000380926
AI and education: guidance for policy-makers
Miao, Fengchun
UNESCO
Holmes, Wayne
Ronghuai Huang
Hui Zhang
2021
UNESCO
0000376709
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