IFIP General Assembly Meeting in Natal, Brazil
2^nd – 5^th September 2001
Report from Technical Committee for Education – TC3
Part 1

Meetings, Membership and Roles

The 52^nd meeting was held on 28^th July 2001 in Copenhagen just prior to the WCCE2001 conference.

 Additional roles within TC3

Peter Bollerslev (DK) has responsibility within TC3 for liaison with UNESCO.
Peter Bollerslev is Programme Chair of "TC3 WCCE 2005"
Anne McDougall (AU) has responsibility for the monthly TC3 Newsletter.
Raymond Morel (CH) has responsibility within TC3 for liaison with the EU
Raymond Morel leads the TC3 Web link on "National Plans and Projects"
Raymond Morel is Programme Chair of "TC3 TelE-learning" stream at WCC2002
Brian Samways (GB) is IFIP Newsletter "Correspondent for TC3"
Brian Samways is TC3 Representative for the "IFIP Professionalism" group
Peter Waker (ZA) has responsibility within TC3 for liaison with IOI.
Jan Wibe (NO) leads "Life Long Learning" TC3 Task Force
Jan Wibe is the co-ordinator of the TC3 photographic collection 

TC3 and Working Group Activities

TC3 has been active since the IFIP GA 2000 meeting in planning and organising two open conferences namely WCCE2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark (held in July 2001) and the TelE-Learning stream of WCC2002 in Montreal, Canada in August 2002.

All 7 TC3 Working Groups and the TC3 Task Force on Life Long Learning were heavily involved in WCCE2001 at which there were over 250 presentations, selected after a thorough international review process from the 400 or so submitted. Thirteen Professional Groups were organised and these met on several occasions during the conference. The results of their development work will be included in the Post Conference Book which will be published by Kluwer.

In the last 12 months Kluwer has published 3 TC3 books: two conference proceedings (WG3.7, New Zealand and WG3.1, Chile) plus a specific book on Educational Management written by members of WG3.7. Working Group 3.2 have completed the IFIP/UNESCO book on the "Informatics HE Curriculum" (copies available for GA members). Working Group 3.5 have completed the IFIP/UNESCO book on "ICT Curriculum for Elementary Teacher Training" (copies available for GA members). A TC3 Group, under the Vice-Chairman, has completed the IFIP/UNESCO "ICT Secondary Curriculum".

As a continuation of the WG3.1 publications produced between 1977 and 1982 under Bill Atchison's Chairmanship, current members of this Working Group are finalising the next booklet in their 'Good Practice' series titled "Teacher Education". WGs 3.3 and 3.4 are jointly planning an open conference in Finland in 2003.

TC3 plans for a possible new working group on Life Long Learning are continuing to move forward and the next step is the bringing together interested persons through the paper presentations at WCC2002 followed by a workshop/working conference in year 2003. If successful, discussions on forming a new working group will continue.

The TC3 journal "Education and Information Technologies" which TC3 created seven years ago continues to be an exciting development. About a thousand delegates at WCCE2001 will receive a free subscription this year and Kluwer hopes to turn the majority of these into subscribers for year 2002.. The Editor-in-Chief, Professor Deryn Watson is Chairman of Working Group 3.1 and all IFIP GA members are asked to support her in both soliciting papers and in encouraging new subscriptions. A one-year personal subscription for a GA member costs US$65 and you are asked to support TC3 by subscribing.

The IFIP work on "Professionalism" being led by the IFIP President, the Secretary and the Chair of TC3 continues to move forward with the plans for a conference to be hosted by the British Computer Society next June. Titled "Meeting Global IT Skills Needs – The Role of the IT Professional" it is planned to achieve a balance between global coverage and effective participation by inviting 40/50 international delegates to represent employers, professional societies, governments and academia

The TC3 Web pages are now becoming both a source of information to members (minutes and newsletters) and a marketing tool for our work (future events, the journal and publications). Many national Society education pages now offer links to IFIP TC3 web pages and members of TC3 are expected to ensure this is the case for their organisation or country.

TC3 Home Page http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/ifip/ 
TC3 Journal Page http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1360-2357 
TelE-Learning Page http://www.wcc2002.org/en/index.html 
International Olympiads in Informatics http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ioipanel/IOImirror/ 

Working Group 3.1  

22^nd - 26^th July 2002, Working Conference in Dortmund, Germany
"Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT"
(Joint with WG3.2)

January 2003, Working Conference in Melbourne, Australia
"New visions for teaching and learning - ICT within and beyond the secondary classroom"

Working Group 3.2  

13^th – 20^th July 2002, Working Conference in Florianópolis, Brazil
"Informatics Curricula, teaching methods and best practice"

22nd - 26th July 2002, Working Conference in Dortmund, Germany
"Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT"
(Joint with WG3.1)

2003, Working Conference in Gold Coast, Australia
"Impact of the Web on University IT Curriculum and Teaching"

Working Group 3.3  

July 2003, Open Conference in Pori, Finland
"E-Training Practices for Professional Organisations"
(Joint with WG3.4)

Working Group 3.4  

July 2003, Open Conference in Pori, Finland
"E-Training Practices for Professional Organisations"
(Joint with WG3.3)

Working Group 3.5  

30^th June – 5^th July 2002, Working Conference in Manchester, England
"E-Learning Styles"

Summer 2003, event in Sydney, Australia

Working Group 3.6  

February 2003, Working Conference in Geelong, Australia
"Quality in Education at a Distance"

2004, event in The Netherlands

Working Group 3.7  

July 2002, Working Conference in Helsinki, Finland
"ITEM2002"

TC3  

June 2002, Working Conference in England
"Meeting Global IT Skills Needs – The Role of the IT Professional"

25^th – 30^th August 2002, Open Conference "TelE-Learning"
as part of WCC in Montreal, Canada

July 2005, Open Conference in Cape Town, South Africa
"8^th World Conference on Computers in Education" (WCCE).

Publications

(From Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. Phone: +1 781 871 6600 Fax: +1 781 871 6528 E-mail: kluwer@wkap.com  unless otherwise stated)

1. "Education and Information Technologies" journal
   Edited by Deryn Watson
2. Information Technology: supporting change through Teacher Education
   Passey & Samways 0412797607
3. Capacity Building for Information Technologies in Education in Developing Countries
   Marshall & Ruohonen 0412814609
4. Communications and Networking in Education (2000)
   Watson and Downes 0792377605
5. ICT in Education (2001)
   Taylor & Hogenbirk 0792372980
6. Information Technology in Educational Management (2001)
   Visscher, Wild and Fung 0792370740

Progress and Status

Much progress has been made in encouraging the nomination of TC3 representatives from IFIP members who previously did not have a representative. In addition there have been direct discussion by TC3 to encourage four countries to become full members of IFIP, namely Chile, Mexico, Iceland and New Zealand.

As recently reported by the IFIP Executive Director, TC3 provides a major part of the IFIP-UNESCO co-operation content. A series of IFIP-UNESCO curriculum projects, some of them translated in as many as 7 languages (documents for 2 projects can be accessed via http://www.ifip.or.at/projects.htm ), were developed by TC 3 experts. Currently, IFIP's relations with the UNESCO Institute in Moscow are set on a successful track, and IFIP representatives Messrs. Bernard Cornu (FR), Raymond Morel (CH), Matti Sinko (FI) and Anton Knierzinger (AT) helped launch a series of intergovernmental seminars ( http://unesco-seminar.artstyle.net/ ) for Education Ministers and other high-ranking decision makers. IFIP was a leading partner in the organisation of the 1996 Second UNESCO International Congress on Education and Informatics in Moscow, where 2 past presidents -- Messrs. B. Sendov (BG) and K. Bauknecht (CH) along with the current one (then TC 3 Chair) were involved.

In recent years, TC 3 and its WGs have annually organised some 2 to 3 major events. TC 3 organised the ICEUT conference as part of WCC2000 in Beijing and features prominently on the programme of WCC2002 in Montreal ( http://www.wcc2002.org/en/index.html ). The Committee continues its involvement in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). (For more on the IOI and IFIP's role please visit the June 2000 issue of the IFIP Newsletter at the Web address: http://www.ifip.or.at/newsletters/nl12q2000.htm )

TC 3 has a long record of publications ( http://www.ifip.or.at/publications/booksTC3.htm ). Currently, the success of the Journal "Education and Information Technologies" is a major endeavour. ( http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/ifip/journal.html )

WCCE (The World Conference on Computers in Education) is the second largest series of IFIP conferences, rightfully boasting to be the second most attended IFIP event ranking immediately after the IFIP World Computer Congress. [For example, WCCE 1990 in Sydney, Australia had 2400 participants from 57 countries]. The conferences are organised approximately every 5 years -- the 6th WCCE was in Birmingham in 1995 and the 8th WCCE (and first in Africa) will convene in Cape Town, South Africa in 2005. WCCE2001 this year had 1,200 participants from 66 countries and 250 presentations from 38 countries. The welcome was given by Margarethe Vestager, the Danish Minister for Education, and the event was opened by Aicha Bah Diallo, Deputy ADG of UNESCO for Education on behalf of the UNESCO Director General.

The recent TC 3 business meeting was attended by all TC3 WG officers and a record number of representatives. Six participants, namely: Jan Wibe, IPC Chair of WCC 2002, Peter Bollerslev, President and Danish GA rep., Bob Aiken, President Elect and GA representative of USA ACM, Raymond Morel, TC 3 Vice-Chair and GA rep of Switzerland, Anselmo del Moral, new TC 3 rep of Spain and GA rep to IFIP and myself, the TC 3 Chair should all be present here at the GA meeting in Natal.

With these facts one is confident to report that TC3 is progressing well.

Requests to IFIP Council Members

1. Individually take out a personal subscription and encourage others to subscribe to the journal "Education and Information Technologies" at the personal rate of US$65 per annum.
2. Note the achievements of TC3.
3. Encourage the Treasurer to be more generous with the TC3 Operating expenses and with DCSC Grants for TC3’s work in developing countries.

Part 2

Nil Report

Attendance at TC3 Meetings

ATTENDANCE OF WORKING GROUP CHAIRMEN

       '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '95 ‘96 ‘97 ‘98 '99 ‘00 '01

WG 3.1   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y
WG 3.2   Y   Y   Y   P   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y = attended
WG 3.3   Y   P   Y   P   Y   P   Y   Y   Y   Y   P   P   Y   P = apology
WG 3.4   Y   Y   P   Y   Y   P   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   - = absent
WG 3.5   Y   Y   P   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y
WG 3.6   Y   Y   P   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y   Y
WG 3.7                                   Y   P   P   P   Y

Meeting Location                  Date
1990    Sydney        8 & 14 July 1990
1991    Ålesund        29-30 June 1991
1992    Madrid      5-6 September 1992
1993    Birmingham   28-29 August 1993
1994    Hamburg      26-27 August 1994
1995    Geneva         14 January 1995

1995    Birmingham    22 & 29 July 1995
1996    Wollongong     1 September 1996
1997    Harare           24 August 1997
1998    Vienna           30 August 1998
1999    Irvine          1-2 August 1999
2000    Copenhagen  24-25 November 2000
2001    Copenhagen         28 July 2001