An initiative that brings together policy makers, young people and civil society to strengthen sexuality education and reproductive and sexual health services in eastern and southern Africa. By having adequate access to these services, young people are empowered to make their own decisions about their health, preventing HIV/AIDS and unexpected pregnancies.

An initiative that brings together policy makers, young people and civil society to strengthen sexuality education and reproductive and sexual health services in eastern and southern Africa. By having adequate access to these services, young people are empowered to make their own decisions about their health, preventing HIV/AIDS and unexpected pregnancies.

Somalia is at a critical juncture: decades of violent conflict, economic recession, and a growing demographic "youth bulge" have spurred the need for significant youth empowerment initiatives--and for bottom-up education strategies that reach the bulk of youth who are illiterate and outside the formal school system. This webinar makes the case for basic mobile audio instruction as a strategy for reaching out-of-school youth across Somalia --particularly young Somali women -- and equipping...

SMILE is a mobile learning platform designed to cause a paradigm shift within education by enabling students to be active agents in their own learning. By utilizing both mobile and micro cloud-based technology, students create, solve, evaluate, and present questions based on their individual research and interest. In SMILE, the quality of the student-generated question is the evidence of learning outcomes, not test scores. This presentation shares lessons learned from implementing SMILE in...

This report is part of the UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning. The Series seeks to better understand how mobile technologies can be used to improve educational access, equity and quality around the world. This webinar will present an overview of the Future of Mobile Learning Report. Four Grand Challenges, all anchored in UNESCO's Education for All agenda, are presented as a frame for evaluating and supporting the future development of mobile learning. The underpinning rationale...

The presentation will describe UNESCO's broad portfolio of work in mobile learning. The rationale behind various programs will be addressed as will anticipated areas of future work. Specifically, the presentation will introduce UNESCO's numerous mobile learning publications; provide an overview of current research; and profile the Organization's mobile learning projects underway in Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Senegal.

This webinar will present Sesame Workshop's research and key findings related to mobile learning as well as show how we are applying what we have learned through a range of educational mobile initiatives that harness the power of Muppets and mobile platforms, both in the United States and internationally.

How should effective mobile learning initiatives for women and girls be designed? How can they be created in gender-sensitive and sustainable ways? What barriers need to be addressed and what preconditions need to be in place for successful implementation? This presentation will address these important questions as well as initial lessons learned as part of a UNESCO Education Sector's project on "Developing Literacy through Mobile Phones - Empowering Women and Girls". The project's purpose...

Presentation of UNESCO's initiative related to the education of girls and women, by Maki Hayashikawa, Education sector, during the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill ambassadors at UNESCO headquarters, 26 -27 June 2013.

How should effective mobile learning initiatives for women and girls be designed? How can they be created in gender-sensitive and sustainable ways? What barriers need to be addressed and what preconditions need to be in place for successful implementation? This presentation will address these important questions as well as initial lessons learned as part of a UNESCO Education Sector's project on "Developing Literacy through Mobile Phones - Empowering Women and Girls". The project's purpose...

This report is part of the UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning. The Series seeks to better understand how mobile technologies can be used to improve educational access, equity and quality around the world. This webinar will present an overview of the Future of Mobile Learning Report. Four Grand Challenges, all anchored in UNESCO's Education for All agenda, are presented as a frame for evaluating and supporting the future development of mobile learning. The underpinning rationale...

This webinar will present Sesame Workshop's research and key findings related to mobile learning as well as show how we are applying what we have learned through a range of educational mobile initiatives that harness the power of Muppets and mobile platforms, both in the United States and internationally.

Somalia is at a critical juncture: decades of violent conflict, economic recession, and a growing demographic "youth bulge" have spurred the need for significant youth empowerment initiatives--and for bottom-up education strategies that reach the bulk of youth who are illiterate and outside the formal school system. This webinar makes the case for basic mobile audio instruction as a strategy for reaching out-of-school youth across Somalia --particularly young Somali women -- and equipping...

SMILE is a mobile learning platform designed to cause a paradigm shift within education by enabling students to be active agents in their own learning. By utilizing both mobile and micro cloud-based technology, students create, solve, evaluate, and present questions based on their individual research and interest. In SMILE, the quality of the student-generated question is the evidence of learning outcomes, not test scores. This presentation shares lessons learned from implementing SMILE in...

The presentation will describe UNESCO's broad portfolio of work in mobile learning. The rationale behind various programs will be addressed as will anticipated areas of future work. Specifically, the presentation will introduce UNESCO's numerous mobile learning publications; provide an overview of current research; and profile the Organization's mobile learning projects underway in Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Senegal.

Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2013. Intervention of Edward Kissi, professor of genocide and Holocaust studies at the Department of Africana Studies of the University of South Florida

Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2013. Address by Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research

How should effective mobile learning initiatives for women and girls be designed? How can they be created in gender-sensitive and sustainable ways? What barriers need to be addressed and what preconditions need to be in place for successful implementation? This presentation will address these important questions as well as initial lessons learned as part of a UNESCO Education Sector's project on "Developing Literacy through Mobile Phones - Empowering Women and Girls". The project's purpose...