UNESCO MGIEP's Annual Report 2019

ANNUAL REPORT 2019
KEY INITIATIVES
& OUTPUTS
As a Category 1 research
institute focusing on education
for peace and sustainable
development, MGIEP
contributes to redefining the
purpose of education through
the review and assessment
of education policy and
practice in the context of
SDG 4.7 implementation. The
Institute coordinates with
Member States for policy
recommendations based
on research and reviews to
advance progress on SDG 4.7.
Key Initiatives include (1) ISEEA
(2) Rethinking Learning: A
review of Social and Emotional
Learning for Education
Systems (3) Outreach events
(4) FramerSpace (5) Institute
Publications
• Rethinking Learning: A review
of Social and Emotional Learning
for Education Systems MGIEP
conducted an assessment of the state
of SEL frameworks to provide the latest
scientifically credible insights in order
to support the explicit addition of SEL
in school curricula. The proliferation
of SEL frameworks required a critical
science and evidence-based review of
the literature as SEL frameworks are
increasingly being adopted by Member
States within their education systems.
Towards this, MGIEP completed the SEL
Thematic Review in December 2019.
The publication will be launched on
Nelson Mandela Day, 2020.
• ISEEA: UNESCO MGIEP contributes to
UNESCO’s Future of Education initiative,
launched at the UN General Assembly
in October 2019, by undertaking a
scientifically robust and evidence-based
assessment that can inform education
policy at all levels. The International
Science and Evidence based Education
Assessment (ISEEA) held its first drafting
meeting with 30 scientists from 15
countries in September 2019 in Quebec.
The assessment is expected to be
released at the 2021 UNESCO General
Conference.
• TECH: The Institute organised its flagship
annual event, titled the Transforming
Education Conference for Humanity (TECH)
with the State Government of Andhra
Pradesh and MHRD, GOI. The international
conference on digital pedagogies was held
in Visakhapatnam City, State of Andhra
Pradesh, India and has over the years made
its mark as a digital content rich, pedagogy
driven conference that brings together over
1,000 educators, students, policy makers,
researchers from 50 different countries to
share research and best practices.
• FramerSpace: UNESCO MGIEP’s
indigenously developed intelligent digital
platform, FramerSpace, enables creation of
innovative digital pedagogies that promote
SEL and empower the youth. FramerSpace
is an AI-powered digital platform that helps
draw learnings from tasks that Artificial
Intelligence does well, to ‘HOW’ to teach
& consequently learn. It helps Curriculum
Designers, Policymakers, Content Developers,
Teachers, and Students rethink how
knowledge and intelligence can be imparted
in the 21 st century. FramerSpace was launched
as an Open-source platform in November
2019 at the AI & Blockchain Developer
Summit in Malta. The platform was rolled out
as a pilot in 12 countries and currently has
more than 4,000 registered users. Further,
the platform is General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) and Children’s Online
Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) compliant.
The Institute is now in advanced stages of
negotiating the adoption of FramerSpace as
the National Digital Learning Platform with
several Member States.