EDUTEC. Association for the development of the EducationalTechnology and the New Technologies in Education

• Year founded: 1996• Structure:

• non profit oranization, • the president and the board are elected. • There are chapters (research, publications, new projects, etc..)

• Permanent address: Palma de Mallorca, – Tel: 34 971172564– Edif. Guillem Cifre, Campus UIB, Ctra. Valldemossa Km.7,5 – 07122 Palma de Mallorca

• Edutec@uib.es• http://www.edutec.es

• Members num: 110

• Spain, Portugal México, Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Brasil, Bolivia, Perú, Argentina, Chile

• Our principal aims are:• 1. Foster cooperation between people and institutions

in order to produce, adapt, use, evaluate and disseminate educational resources and educational technologies together.

• 2. Help associates to develop research processes related to implementing ICT in educational scenarios.

• 3. Disseminate high quality experiences and researches to improve implementation of ICT in our educational systems.

• 4. Offer Advice and mediation between EDUTEC members and public and private institutions in order to find funding, personal and infrastructural resources to develop educational resources, implementation initiatives and researches in general,

• 5. Coordinate activities of communication and interchange between members.

• 6. Advice and support members in developing of their initiatives from the technical, legal, educational, or informational point of view.

• 7. Facilitate the transfer of research results into deployment for the general education.

Some projects• Administration and hosting of an electronic community portal and some information

exchange systems and discussion forums:

– o Edutec.es

– o edutec-l: one of the oldest with ore than 800 users

– o edutec’s blog

• Organization and Support of one of the most important on-line journals about Educational Technology and Technology Enhanced Learning in Spanish: EDUTEC-E

• Supporting study programmes related to the topic of educational technology, technology enhanced learning an ICT learning implementation.

• Establishment of collaborative partnerships in research, schools and industry to advance the current state of our topic.

• Organization and support of diverse scientific and educational events: conferences, seminars, courses, discussion forums...

CONTACT

• Site web

– http://www.edutec.es• Viritual Comunnity of Educational Technology

– http://edutec.rediris.es• E-mail

– Edutec@uib.es

– Edutec1@edutec.es