On November 13-14, 2012 Moscow hosted the International conference "IITE-2012. ICT in education: pedagogics, educational resources and quality assurance". The conference was organized by UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, UNESCO Bureau in Moscow, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, Research Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications "Informika", Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI).  

The purpose of the International conference IITE-2012 is discussion of the strategy, policy and best practices in ICT use in education, as well as in development and implementation of innovative pedagogics and methods of teaching for achieving high quality level of education for everybody in countries-members of UNESCO.

At the opening ceremony the welcoming speeches were delivered by Qian Tang, UNESCO Assistant-Director General for Education; Bernard Cornu, Chairman of the UNESCO IITE Governing Board, Cabinet Director of the National Center for Distance Education, France; Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, Secretary-General of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO; Natalia Tikhomirova, rector of MESI; Nikolay Pryanishnikov, president of Microsoft in Russia. 

Within the framework of the plenary session of the conference key reports were delivered by David Istance, representative of the OECD'S Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, on "Innovative education and teaching: OECD’s opinion", and Diana Laurillard, representative of the London Laboratory of Knowlidge of the UK Institute of Education, on "teaching as a science of projecting: opportunity for high school teachers to become innovators in education technologies".    

IIS representatives Alexander Evtyushkin and Louiza Rizmanova took part in section 2 "Electronic teaching, open and distant education". Alexander Evtyushkin reported on "Legal and regulatory problems of free licenses use in distribution of open educational and scientific resources in the Russian Federation", where activity on promotion of free licenses in Russia and preparation of draft amendments to the part IV of the Civil Code of RF was provided.

On November 14, 2012 Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the IIS Board of Directors, acted as chairman of the panel discussion on "Challenges and opportunities of ICT in higher education".  The discussion was also attended by Dae-Joon Hwang, the Secretary-General, Korean Council for University Education, Republic of Korea; Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo,Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary; Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, DeTao Masters Academy, China; Jianzhong Cha, Beijing Jiaotong University, China; Mario Brun, Institute of ICT in education, University de la Frontera, Chili; Inna Malyukova, Institute of information technologies in education, Ukraine.