www.educarchile.cl

educarchile

• The national educational internet portal• A partnership with the Ministry of Education (through Enlaces)• Supported by a network of public and private strategic alliances:

– ICT corporations (MICROSOFT, COMPAQ, SUN MICROSYSTEMS, etc)

– educational content creators and owners (universities, foundations, etc.)

– audiovisual creators and producers (animation, video, games, etc.)

– technological developers (CMS, web tools, etc.)

– national public funding institutions (CORFO)

– international funding institutions (IDB, WB, ICA, etc.)

the portal• segmented audiences• services for teachers, students,

families, researchers and schools

• focus on added value

• fully updated twice a month• leading attributes:

• useful• representative• national• autonomous• participative• public service• pluralist• innovative• quality• communicative

the goals

• To provide educational information, resources, services and experiences in high quality and innovative formats.

• To stimulate the creation and participation of all members of the educational community through communication, interaction and collaboration.

• To foster the creation and development of ICT competencies for the support of the educational activity and the integration of all people into the information society.

for the teachersINFORMATION

• segmented news and articles

RESOURCES

• creation and retrieval of lesson plans• educational library• educational experiences sharing • personal web pages• professional development

SERVICES

• email• hard disk space• chats and forums• specialized search engine• support center

for the studentsINFORMATION• segmented news and articles

RESOURCES• homework support• PSU support• personal web pages • educational library• educational web resources • dictionaries and translators

SERVICES• email• hard disk space• chats and forums• specialized search engine• support center

for the familyINFORMATION• segmented news and articles

RESOURCES• content retrieval by subject:

• “web content for the family”• “growing together”• “family and school”• “spare time”

• family web pages• professional development

SERVICES• email• hard disk space• chats and forums• specialized search engine• support center

for the researchersINFORMATION• segmented news and articles• analysis and info-graphs

RESOURCES• researchers network• content retrieval by subject:

• school management / education economy

• distance education / ICT and education / education policies / etc.

• web resources • personal web pages• professional development

SERVICES• email• hard disk space• chats and forums• specialized search engine• support center

for the school managementINFORMATION• segmented news and articles

RESOURCES• tools:

• institutional planning• human resources• financials• administrative processes

• web resources• institutional web pages• innovative practices

SERVICES• email• hard disk space• chats and forums• specialized search engine• support center

the results so far (since OCT 2001)

• 10.000.000 visits• 62.631.000 page views• 178.638 registered users

65.539 teachers 77.706 students 29.876 parents 5.517 researchers

• 50.000 active email boxes• 11.000 content units• 12.000 support center services• 426 user published web

sites• 13 contests

with 8.554 students and1.406 teachers participating

the results so far

priority audience: teachers (UC survey)

• 86% teachers know the portal

• 76% teachers have used it

• 68% visited it last month

• 49% used it to download content for his/her professional activities

• 26% used the lesson plans tool

• 52% of chilean teachers are registered users of educarchile

the challenges

• Multimedial resources to foster the teaching of English as second language and the use of ICT in the classroom

• Digitalization of the entire curriculum

• SIMCE support

• On-line assessment tools for teachers and students

• New audiences: – preschool, special (handicapped) and

technical schools– principals and management staff– university students

• Formation programs for the family

the network

• Deployment of a network of educational portals throughout Latin-America

• Initial partners:ArgentinaColombiaChileEcuador

• Financial support:IDBICA

• Take off: June 2004

www.educarchile.cl