iEARN is a non-profit network that supports over 25,000 teachers and 2 million youth in more than 125 countries to collaboratethrough a global telecommunications network on projects designed to make a difference in the world. Since 1988.

In July 2009, iEARN-Morocco (MEARN) will be hosting the 16th Annual iEARN International Conference and 13th Annual Youth Summit. This is a gathering open to all, which typically brings together teachers and students from over 70 countries. It builds upon previous conferences in Argentina (1994), Australia (1995), Hungary(1996), Spain (1997), USA (1998), Puerto Rico (1999), China (2000), South Africa (2001), Russia (2002), Japan(2003), Slovakia (2004), Senegal (2005), the Netherlands (2006), and Egypt (2007).

Conference Goals

 To facilitate communication and develop partnership between educators and youth locally, regionally and globally.
 To use communication technology in education to improve health and welfare among communities.
 To improve skills for better quality in education.
 To establish institutional links among all partners of education.
 To strengthen understanding of people for better education .
 To support E-learning and professional development.
 To promote inter cultural dialogue
 To develop and prospect Pedagogical contents in countries around the world
 To share models for how educational telecommunications can be used to affect positive social, political and economic change, and address unmet human and environmental needs.
 To share successful classroom project examples that make a meaningful difference, and ideas/models of curriculum/classroom learning enhancement.
 To demonstrate and provide hands-on experience in leading technology.
 To encourage cross-cultural understanding through the use of different languages in project work, making place for voices which are not usually heard, and exploring other ways of breaking down barriers.
 To enlarge the iEARN community to expand its global community of educators and youth leaders using telecommunications.
 To share innovative educational resources from different centres, countries and organizations.
 To identify steps toward enhancing and sustaining on-line project participation.
 To create environment for new collaborative project ideas to be developed, and enable participants to return home with specific action steps to create and/or expand educational telecommunications project work.
 To build on the highly successful inaugural teachers and students’ previous meetings and conferences in different countries. Open to educators from outside the iEARN Network.
 To discuss and demonstrate of the latest developments in educational practice utilising telecommunications and associated technology will be the key focus of the workshop sessions.