Recent advances in technology have significantly impacted education. The convergence of information and communication technologies has enabled implementation of computer aided and multimedia based techniques. Education that is traditional, mass-produced, highly controlled, static and rigid, cannot cope. There is greater demand for higher education, with the need for ever increasing amounts of information, knowledge and expert reasoning. Consequently, we see an ever increasing use of IT in teaching and learning.
The UNESCO Chair of Mechatronics at Bogazici University, Istanbul initiated a conference series in 2000. The conferences were called Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training ITHET.
ITHET 2000: Istanbul, Turkey
ITHET 2001: Kumamoto, Japan
ITHET 2003: Marrakesh, Morocco
ITHET 2004: Istanbul, Turkey
ITHET 2005: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
ITHET 2006: Sydney, Australia
ITHET 2007: Kumamoto, Japan
ITHET 2010: Cappadocia, Turkey
ITHET 2011: Kusadasi, Turkey
ITHET 2012: Istanbul, Turkey
ITHET 2013: Antalya, Turkey
ITHET 2014: York, UK
ITHET 2015: Lisbon, Portugal
ITHET 2016: Istanbul, Turkey
ITHET 2017: Ohrid, Macedonia
ITHET 2018: Olhao, Algarve, Portugal
ITHET 2019: Magdeburg, Germany
Almost all of these conferences enjoyed the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE, IES and EdSoc. The proceedings have appeared on IEEE Xplore. Prestigious institutions such as the American Society of Engineering Education, the European Society for Engineering Education, the International Society for Engineering Education and the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, have extended their technical co-operation to ITHET, and encouraged their members to participate. The involvement of the UNESCO Chair of Mechatronics at Bogazici University, has enabled the conference to proudly carry the UNESCO logo.