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Joint Statement of APEC's Education Ministers - 3rd APEC Education Ministerial Meeting The following statement outlines the primary concerns and areas of futured educational cooperation agreed to by APEC's Education Ministers at their most recent Ministerial Meeting. The statement asks APEC Senior Education Officials to analyze and prioritize among a list of recommended activities addressing language instruction, math and science instruction, the use of technology in education and governance and systemic reform. Get More Detail
Human Resources Development & Information Technology: Multimedia distance learning in the Asia-Pacif This site contain information on a multimedia distance learning project that seeks to benchmark the status quo of existing distance learning practices and promote information exchange through an international symposium featuring case studies. Get More Detail
APEC International Assessment Network Report This site provides information on a report being done by the APEC International Assessment Network on APEC as an organization. This report is due out in 2004. Get More Detail
APEC Study Centers Consortium This site provides information about the APEC Study Centers (ASC) and its Annual Consortium Conference usually held in May. The Consortium promotes cooperation in higher education, advanced research and exchange. The conference for 2003 covered the Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE) which is the foundation of economic growth in the APEC region. Get More Detail
Distance Learning Project on Basic Telecommunications Technology This site provides information on distance learning programs for APEC member economies by creating the opportunity to participate in a regional technology pool to share knowledge on basic telecommunications technology. Get More Detail
International Education Web resources and links This web resource from UNESCO provide links to information about education systems from throughout the world, including: 1) official education sites 2) international databases 3) comparative statistics and 4) background information, maps, and historical texts. Get More Detail
Studying the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation on CD-ROM This site from the Australian APEC Study Centre contains resources for teachers such as specially written text, teaching guides, and a collection of over 200 resource items that can be used for teaching about APEC. Get More Detail

Chile

3rd APEC Ministerial Meeting Web Site This Chilean site provides information on the 3rd APEC Educational Ministerial Meeting held in Santiago on April 29-30 on the theme of "Skills for the Coming Challenges." The Ministerial meeting is the first of a series of ministerial meetings planned for APEC CHILE 2004. The overarching theme of this meeting is "One Community, Our Future." Get More Detail
Summit on Eduction Reform - Striking Balance: Sharing Practice from East and West This site provides information about the 2004 Summit on Education Reform in the APEC region. The Summit, “Striking Balance: Sharing Practice from East and West” brought together policy experts and researchers from around APEC to formulate an action agenda for the 3rd APEC Education Ministerial Meeting in April 2004. Summit participants reviewed research and policy reform trends underlying four key areas: language learning, mathematics and science instruction, use of information technology in learning, and reform in centralized and decentralized education systems. Get More Detail
Speech by Minister of Education of Chile Opening the 3rd APEC Education Ministerial Meeting This speech by Minister Bitar at the 3rd gathering of APEC's Education Miniserters outlines an argument for the importance of cooperation in education among APEC's members to address our mutual challenges. Get More Detail
APEC Ministerial Main Paper - 3rd APEC Education Ministerial Meeting This paper written for the 3rd APEC Education Ministerial Meeting lays out overarching themes facing APEC's Education Ministers in 2004. This paper synthesizes the information found in the policy papers presented on each of the four sub-themes discussed at the meeting - foreign language instruction, math and science instruction, the use of technology in education and educational governance and systemic reform. Get More Detail

Korea

ACEN Webzine An online community where teachers can share technology-related knowledge and skills, and try to find a solution to problems in the teaching practice. Teacher Reporters from each economy write articles about using technology in their education settings. Participants may also share best practices, propose joint activities or ask for help from one another. Get More Detail

United States

Summit on Eduction Reform - Striking Balance: Sharing Practice from East and West This site provides information about the 2004 Summit on Education Reform in the APEC region. The Summit, “Striking Balance: Sharing Practice from East and West” brought together policy experts and researchers from around APEC to formulate an action agenda for the 3rd APEC Education Ministerial Meeting in April 2004. Summit participants reviewed research and policy reform trends underlying four key areas: language learning, mathematics and science instruction, use of information technology in learning, and reform in centralized and decentralized education systems. Get More Detail