# 1.1 CITE Introduction

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</td><td style="height: 264.953px; border-width: 0px;">#### <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">**Overview**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">**The Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE)** was established in June 1998 to provide intellectual leadership and support to promote the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for quality education in Hong Kong.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">CITE supports several quality academic programmes coordinated by the Faculty of Education. <span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">These programmes are offered to teachers, educators ,and education-related professionals to meet their increasing needs and interests in </span>further pursuing their studies. It is hoped that these professionals can be equipped with necessary academic and professional knowledge about IT in education.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">In addition, the Centre provides in-service professional development training to teachers and principals in the use of IT in teaching and learning. <span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody"> Besides, CITE is also committed to providing consultancy services to the community on various aspects of the development of the educational use of IT. </span>The goal is to establish close connections with the education, technology ,and business sectors of the community at large.</span>

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#### <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">**Vision**</span>

<span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">CITE carries a vision</span> to become a Centre of Excellence in the area of IT in education.

#### <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">**Mission**</span>

1. <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">To stimulate and undertake research and development projects ,and to disseminate the research products and findings to the education community both locally and internationally.</span>
2. <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">To provide quality in-service teacher/principal education programs for the upgrading and retraining of school teachers/principals so that they will be capable of integrating IT in their teaching practices and strategic school planning.</span>
3. <span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">To establish links and partnerships locally and internationally to further </span>strengthen and enhance CITE's profile and image internationally.