Центр был создан по совместной программе СССР и ЕС в 1993 году как центр профессионального обновления кадров в области информационных технологий.
Направления работы Центра:
- разработка современных образовательных технологий обучения, в том числе, новых технологий обучения математике и информатике;
- редакционно-издательская деятельность, в том числе, издание журналов «Компьютерные инструменты в образовании», «Компьютерные инструменты в школе» и электронного приложения к ним;
- организация и проведение тестирования и различных образовательных соревнований, олимпиад и конкурсов;
- участие в международных программах по развитию программного обеспечения учебного назначения, распространению научных знаний и обучение с использованием информационных технологий.
The center was founded in 1993 as a part of CALMAP-PROJECT (Computer Aided Learning: Course Material Preparation) funded by the European UnionDuring the period of 1995-1998 the center participated in forming of International Network of Productive Schools (INEPS) (European project). In the 1998 Center founded The Computer Tools in Education Journal which become the main journal for research and development of e-learning in schools. The editorial board of the journal consist of most qualified persons in the field of information technologies such as Seymour Papert and Yuri Matiyasevich.
Important completed projects:
- 2003-2005 «SciSearch - information retrieval system based on technology of contextual filters» (with financial support of Russian Humanitarian Research Foundation)
- 2004-2007: under the aegis of Russian State Academy of Education participated in two programs “CAL/CAD technologies in computer-oriented learning in school” and “Interaction of human and information environment in educational process”
- 2005-2007: “Computer tools for support of searching activity in mathematics” and «Computer tools for verification of hypotheses and decisions of logically difficult mathematical problems» (with financial support of Russian National Training Foundation for development of e-resources and e-instruments for supporting of studying mathematics in secondary schools)
- 2007-2009: “Interactive forms of knowledge representation to form a scientific outlook” (with financial support of Russian Humanitarian Research Foundation) and “Development of support for distance learning in mathematics for schools of Leningrad region (rural area around Saint-Petersburg).