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was opened in Tallinn University on Friday, 13 September by the Minister of Education and Research Jaak Aaviksoo, Rector Tiit Land, Vice-Rector for Development Eve Eisenschmidt and the Director of CIE Mati Heidmets. The aim of the Centre is to provide support for the launch and application of innovative and interdisciplinary solutions in both physical and virtual learning environments in Estonian schools.  

The open world and digital infospace are big challenges to schools, teachers and students, the entire world is on the lookout for schooling and teaching systems suited for the new circumstances. (CIE) looks to contribute to the education innovation in three categories – didactics, evaluation and diagnistics and school culture. The most substantial part of CIE – the didactics laboratories – centralise the teaching experience from Estonia and the entire world to work out the best possible solutions for Estonia, as well as test and spread them.

The second field of CIE is evaluation in the broader term – evaluating study results, teachers, schools and management, as well as monitoring children’s development, finding study difficulties, etc.

CIE wishes to support the Estonian school as an organisation by providing the teachers and school management a chance to keep up with the innovations and development in school structures, management, pedagogy and didactics.

The third floor of the University’s Narva Rd 25 study building was designed into a modern study environment with didactics labs by the support of the infrastructure measure of the EU Regional Development Fund. Current and future teachers can test the newest teaching technology and modern methodical approaches in the laboratories.

CIE is intended for the more than a thousand students, lecturers and education innovators in and outside the University. Everyone, who wishes to support the forming of Estonian school into a 21st Century Temple of Wisdom is welcome here – researchers and active teachers, school management and education politicians, students and businessmen. Especially pupils – hopefully some of the teachers would find the conviction here that learning and teaching today is an exciting and challenging world.

CIE also has an Idea Laboratory, which holds monthly sessions, focuses on innovative methodology and gathers interesting and promising ideas from different fields of study, some of which may become a reality. The Idea Laboratory is open to everyone.