Social protection:
Effective teaching and learning conditions

ICT, teaching and learning

An information and communications technology (ICT) revolution is fundamentally changing teaching and learning in higher education, including transnational education, open and distance learning opportunities, but also training of school teachers, their modes of teaching, appraisal and communication with students, including conditions of work and learning.

The ILO has published an international study on Teachers and new ICT in teaching and learning: Modes of introduction and implementation - impact implications for teachers.

The Conclusions and Recommendations on Teaching and the Use of ICT (pdf, 39k) adopted by a Seminar on Teaching and the Use of ICT in Central and Eastern Europe, organized in cooperation with Education International and the Government of Hungary, provide guidelines for ILO constituents in the region and elsewhere on the proper use of ICT in education.

A separate report is also available on Teaching and the use of ICT in Hungary.

Useful links/resources

• ILO Report, Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-First Century: The Changing Roles of Educational Personnel contains a brief analysis of the actual and potential impact of ICT on lifelong learning opportunities.
• Conclusions on Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-first Century: The Changing Roles of Educational Personnel contain recommendations on integrating ICT in the professional development and roles and responsibilities of educational personnel, workplace learning facilitators and other educators
• The Report of the 9th Session of the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts (CEART) contains recommendations on lifelong learning and ICT in education
• World Employment Report 2001: Life at Work in the Information Economy (sections on education and lifelong learning).
• Teachers and new ICT in teaching and learning - Modes of introduction and implementation: Impact and implications for teachers - pdf, 494k. Duke, Chris. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP. 190, Geneva, 2002.
• Teaching and the use of ICT in Hungary - pdf, 231k. Tót, Eva. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP. 199, Geneva, 2003

UNESCO

• Information and Communication Technology in Education: A Curriculum for Schools and Programme of Teacher Development (pdf)
• Information and Communication Technologies in Teacher Education: A Planning Guide (pdf)
• Open and Distance Learning: Trends, Policy and Strategy Considerations (pdf)

World Bank

• Education and Technology
• Lifelong Learning