Distance Education Center "Eidos" is a
non-commercial educational organization, Moscow. The Head of the
Center is Andrey V. Khutorskoy, Doctor of Education, Full member
of International Academy of Pedagogic.
Center "Eidos" has both Russian and English servers, so its
activities are conducted in two languages - Russian and English.
Goals
- providing educational interests of children, their
parents, students of higher school, and educators from schools
and universities from Russia and abroad;
- supporting post-graduates and teachers in their research on
distance education problems, heuristic technologies of training,
development of gifted youth;
- granting educational services for schools, universities,
education departments;
delivering research and practice works on distance education.
Research
- establishment of educational concept of Centre "Eidos", which
helps children to reach creative self-development through
educational telecommunications;
- tutoring students and post-graduates on their research works
for working out and delivering distance courses, projects and
technologies;
- publishing, information, reflexion, and instruction through
electronic forms.
Technology Research
- experimental activity on working out virtual, multimedia
educational technologies in conjunction with traditional
face-to-face forms;
- working out, producing, and realization of school syllabus,
methodics, curricula and other services in electronic and paper
forms.
Educational Services
- training school teachers to master new educational
technologies in such distance courses as "Distant forms of
education", "Development of gifted kids", "Heuristic type of
education", etc.;
- reviewing and experting author syllabuses (experts are degreed
scholars);
- recommendations for entering Moscow Pedagogical University
post-graduate study on distance education problems and the
following tutoring of the research work;
- distance and face-to-face seminars on organizing school work
in order to develop gifted kids through research activities.
Training
- distance training of children and adults in Russia and abroad
via e-mail and Internet forms;
- distance educational projects, International Heuristic
Olympiads, distance courses on developing kids creative
abilities;
- e-mailing with students from Russia and countries of the
former SU;
- helping parents in developing their kids creative abilities;
- distance educational courses for parents and their kids.
International Cooperation
- Center "Eidos" activities meet the demands of the basic policy
directions of Russian Federation, UNESCO, international
organizations on developing distance education;
- Center "Eidos" has contacts with schools and universities of
America, Canada, Great Britain, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan,
countries of the former SU;
- Center "Eidos" is open to start new international cooperation
through joint distance education projects and activities.
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