OVER 1,000 TRAINERS OF THE NATIONAL LEARNING SERVICE IN COLOMBIA TO BE ICDL CERTIFIED
A digital skills programme is set to start in Colombia with cooperation between the National Learning Service, Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA) and ICDL Colombia. The National School of Instructors of SENA aims to train instructors to ensure they have the necessary digital skills to include ICT in their teaching activities and daily work. As part of this …
THE PROJECT OF CERTIFICATION OF DIGITAL SKILLS FINALISED WITH MORE THAN 400 TEACHERS BEING CERTIFIED BY ICDL IN MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
The Ministry of Education of Medellin and ICDL Colombia have been promoting since 2014 the project called “International Certification of Digital Skills for qualified teachers of Medellin” that finalised in November this year with more than 400 regional teachers being certified by the international certification ICDL among a group of 700 teachers. For this project …
DIGITAL SKILLS DRIVE THE WORK OF PUBLIC SERVANTS IN COLOMBIA
In line with the ‘Tunja Vive Digital’ project initiatives to promote the economic, social and cultural development are being carried out in this city.The actions are performed under a system driven by the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC) and Colciencias plan, in partnership with the Mayor of Tunja and the Chamber of Commerce …
ICDL HIGHLIGHTED IN UNESCO REPORT AS EXAMPLE OF AN INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK
A new report by UNESCO has highlighted the ICDL programme as a significant example of a digital skills framework around the world. ‘A Global Framework of Reference on Digital Literacy Skills for Indicator 4.4.2’ was published with the aim of providing a basis for an indicator of the, “Percentage of youth/adults who have achieved at …
PERCEPTION AND REALITY: MEASURING THE DIGITAL SKILL GAPS IN EUROPE, INDIA AND SINGAPORE
How do you measure digital skills? How do you work out whether a candidate for a job has the skills and competences that they will need to do the work? Letting people self-assess their skills can seem like a simple solution, but it brings a big risk that they will misjudge their abilities. ECDL Foundation’s …
ICDL sponsors Technological University of Panama’ 1st university competition ‘Program your Game’
On September 13, 2017, in commemoration of the programmer’s day, the first event of the ‘Programme your game’ contest was held for the first time by the Technological University of Panama, who invited ICDL Americas to participate as sponsors. In it, Jessica Rodríguez regional operations coordinator of ICDL Americas, presented the theme of the digital …
New SINED nodes join the network of ICDL Test Centres in Mexico
As part of a long standing alliance between ICDL Americas and the National Distance Education System (SINED) of Mexico, during 2016new SINED Nodes continued to join the network of ICDL Test Centres. SINED is an educational, collaborative and integrative social network whose mission is to promote distance education to raise the quality, coverage and equity …
ICDL Colombia develops an ICDL Certification programme for more than 120 SENA Academic Coordinators in the new ICT in Education module
ICDL Colombia, in partnership with the National School of Instructors of the National Service of Learning (SENA), developed the ICT for Educational Management Programme as an initiative for the development and international certification of digital competences targeting SENA Academic Coordinators. The Colombian National Service of Education (SENA), is an official public educational institution, which belongs …
ICDL Americas participates in the 16th international Virtual Educa event in Mexico
ICDL Americas attended 16th Virtual Educa event, one of the major international events in education, innovation and information and communication technology in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. The event brought together ministers, the government and corporate sector, representatives of international organisations and cooperation agencies. Virtual Educa took place in Guadalajara, Mexico from June 22 to June …
