The Institute for Education is an action-research oriented organisation, aiming to bring education theory back to practice through pilot projects, promotion of new ideas, concepts and models. It is also feed-forwarding education theory and decision, based on evaluation research, validating innovative education initiatives and practices, pinning by-products, exploring alternatives.
Departments
The most prominent programme accompanies the area of teachers’ professional development. Teacher education is in the focus of the activity of the Department for Teacher Training (dppd.ro), which is actively contributing to (1) the design and implementation of the pre-service curriculum for student-teachers and (2) in-service training of teachers.
^ More on https://dppd.ro (Romanian only)
The second department of the Institute for Education is dedicated to the use of digital technologies in education, identifying and promoting the pedagogical value behind the use of ICT for teaching and learning.
^ More on https://elearning-forum.ro (Romanian only)
The newest department of the Institute is focusing on curriculum development and evaluation.
Main activity
· Continuous professional development of teachers
Two CPD programmes are running since 2009. They are gathering nowadays over 31.000 teachers, on two platforms:
» Academia Online, for teaching staff in higher education: https://academia-online.ro
» iTeach, for K-12 teachers: https://iteach.ro
· Support for teachers
» 3 pedagogical journals for K-12, with over 4k articles: https://iteach.ro/reviste
» 2 pedagogical journals for higher education: Revista de Pedagogie Digitala and Journal of Digital Pedagogy
» a database with 13k OERs (in partnership with Social IT): https://digitaledu.ro
» 20 free online courses for K-12 teachers: https://iteach.ro/pagina/21495/
national programmes for HE teaching staff: https://digital-pedagogy.eu/course/ and https://pedagogie-digitala.ro/curs/ (in collaboration)
· Research in the area of digital technologies for education
Latest examples:
» Ariadna Experiment. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education Sciences (started in Dec. 2022)
» Digital Pedagogy. Definition and Conceptual Area (ended in Dec. 2022)
» A Year of Online Education – in collaboration with the main universities in Romania (March 2020 – Febr. 2021)
· An international event
» Conference on Digital Pedagogy
Affiliation
» Member of ”The eLearning Network” (UK), since 2010
» Member of ”Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe” (EIPPEE), since 2012
» Member of the Educational Repository Network – EdReNe (European Union), since 2020
» Member of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA – European Union), since 2022
» Aspiring partner of the International Institute for Online Education (China), 2022-2023
Contact us
The Institute for Education is a non-governmental organization founded in Romania, in 2009. The Institute is aiming to promote quality and innovation in education and educational research, providing expertise, constant support and tools for education professionals – teachers, school managers, education researchers and decision makers.
Address
Institutul pentru Educație (România)
Bucharest 050536, sector 5, str. Louis Pasteur nr. 54
Tel.: +40 740 98 53 15, +40 722 45 80 00
Email: office@iEdu.ro