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