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During the last year Insight provided 15 up-to-date country reports, divided according to their editing time in three groups: the first one including information and data from Belgium (Flemish community), Greece, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and UK (England); the second one comprising Denmark, Lithuania and Spain (Catalonia); and the third one, just published, focusing on Austria, Israel, Norway and the US (Arizona, Indiana and Wisconsin).
"eFit" AustriaBetween 2000 and 2006, the Austrian Ministry of Education took an initiative of consolidating and funding the implementation of new media in education and culture: the "eFit Initiative” has quickly developed and become a huge success. Moreover, in the framework of the eContent initiative, teaching/learning software and e-learning materials are being developed and offered via provider structures as well as via independent subject and school servers.
Austria country report:http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/Austria
Austria policy brief:
http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/policy/policy_briefings/austria_country_brief.htm
Israel, ICT as an integral part of the learning environment
Over the last years a wide range of activities have been undertaken by the Israeli Ministry of Education to foster the assimilation of ICT as an integral part of the learning environment. All the areas have been covered: infrastructure, laptops, whiteboards, learning resources, repositories and digital libraries, peer projects, distance learning, new internet-based learning for pupils with special needs, e-portfolios, pupil assessment, e-safety, school administration...
Israel country report:http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/Israel
Norway and its wide reform process
The use of digital technology in Norwegian education is shaped by the Government’s "Programme for Digital Literacy", whose ambitious target is to put Norway among the leading countries in development and pedagogical use of ICT in teaching and learning by 2008. In order to achieve this goal, a wide set of reforms have been put in place, such as the "Knowledge Promotion reform" and the Curriculum reform by which the use of ICT has been introduced as a basic skill in every subject.
Norway country report:http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/Norway
The US, a special Insight guest
The reports from US, that don't belong to the EUN Partnership, have been made available thanks to the cooperation with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) of the United States, which gathered information using the Insight country report model. CoSN is the US premier voice for K-12 education leaders who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning. A special focus on the three US reports has been published on the Insight blog.
Arizona country report:http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/US_Arizona
Indiana country report:
http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/US_Indiana
Wisconsin country report:
http://insight.eun.org/country_reports/US_Wisconsin
Last changed: Wednesday, 19 November 2008