Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI) opened it doors to students in January 1995 and a completely modern and networked campus. The University is coeducational, residential and primarily undergraduate but has rapidly growing graduate programs. The outlook is international and tolerance is promoted and expected of students, staff, and faculty belonging to over 25 nationalities who live and work together.

The 40 hectare campus is located in the oak forest on the north side of the resort town of Ifrane. Facilities include 16 residence buildings for students whose rooms all have their own bathrooms. There is a gymnasium and an indoor Olympic, regulation size swimming pool next to the soccer field and track across from the 3 regulation tennis courts. All classroom buildings are located next to each other and have faculty offices distributed throughout. The main auditorium seats 600 and is the site for concerts and special events. Smaller auditoriums accommodate guest lecturers.

With just over 1000 students enrolled, the majority are full time and live on campus. The opening of a new residence on campus in late 2005 will allow the student body to expand to 1200. The student population is and has been in all 10 years balanced at 50% female and 50% male. There is an increasingly international character to the student body with over 160 students of 28 nationalities on campus in study abroad and exchange programs in regular semester, or attending the intensive Arabic and North African Studies summer program.

The faculty is composed of 95 highly qualified professionals, most with PhDs or doctorates, of whom 83 are full-time and 12 are part-time. Highly international, 50% of faculty members are Moroccan, a number of which have dual citizenship, and 50% of faculty members are international representing over 15 nationalities.

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Center of IT Innovation (CITI) is a development and research center, affiliated to Al Akhawayn University and acting in the field of Software Development to provide services for ordinary Moroccan citizens to promote human development. One of the main targets of CITI is to develop software applications having a direct impact on the Moroccan citizen to reduce the digital divide.

Researchers within CITI are searching for and developing applications directly linked to the daily life of Moroccan citizens.

One of the concrete CITI activities is to contribute to the promotion of the educational level through the early introduction of IT education and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in various subjects, such as Physics, Mathematics and Natural sciences.

The CITI research team is trying to measure the Impact of using the ICT on education so as so to ensure, in the future, a better implementation of the educational technologies in Morocco.

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