Edusummit

Theme

Building a Global Community of Policy-Makers, Educators, and

Researchers to Move Education into the Digital Age

70 leading researchers, policy makers and educators, spanning six continents, gathered in The Hague in The Netherlands for the first EDUsummIT in 2009. Their primary goals were to: a) establish a clear view of the role of ICT in 21st century learning, and b) examine implications of  ICT's emerging role for formal and informal learning. The first EDUsummIT led to a Call to Action on the Future of ICT in Education (see Annex). Since 2009, the EDUsummIT community has become a community of policy-makers, educators and researchers who have committed themselves to examine the impact of evidence and dissemination strategies on future policies and practices in countries across the world.

EDUsummIT 2011 was organized by UNESCO (Teacher Policy and Development Section), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), Kennisnet, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) WG 3.3 (Research on Education Applications of Information Technologies) W.G. 3.3, the Association of Teacher Education, (ATE) and the International Journal For Computer Assisted Learning. This meeting brought together 120 distinguished policy makers, educators, researchers, journal editors and private sector leaders - those key to the field of ICT in Education - to build on the outcomes of EDUsummIT 2009. The Summit has been held from June 8-10, 2011 at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris.