Professor Matthew Montebello has been commissioned by the Mahatma Gandhi lnstitute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) to assist a team of specialists within a UNESCO working group that focusses on education for peace and sustainable development to foster global citizenship. Professor Montebello has been appointed as a specialist research consultant within the area of Digital Pedagogies to promote the use of digital learning platforms where teachers and students can co-create and share a highly interactive learning experience.
UNESCO MGTEP aims to review the state-of-the-art in digital textbooks and other teaching and learning resources with a view to developing guidelines and universal standards on developing and certifying quality digital education media which will help textbook developers and textbook development agencies around the world to produce next-generation textbooks.
The 20-strong team of specialists is currently in India promoting the use of digital pedagogy tools at the international conference Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (TECH2018) which is organised by UNESCO MGIEP to showcase the role of digital learning in enabling a shift from Transmissive Pedagogies to Transformative Pedagogies to create peaceful and sustainable societies.
Prof. Montebello is associate professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence within the Faculty of ICT.