Session Chair:
Tan Hock Soon/An
Jie
Presentation Titles and Speakers:
Session 1 (0900-1030) Chair: Tan Hock Soon
1. Intercultural Cyber Education:
Collaborative Courses over the Network (download
presentation)
Michiko NAKANO (Waseda
University)
2. S* Alliance Global Bioinformatics
Online Distance Education
Experimental Problem Based Learning in Life Sciences Using
High Performance Networks (download
presentation)
Justin CHOO (NUS)
3. Full Media And "PAN" Education
(download
presentation)
ZHANG Shiyong (Fudan)
Session 2 (1100-1230) Chair: An Jie
4. The Technical Structure and
Instructional Design of Hanyang Cyber University (download
presentation)
Jihwan YUM (Hanyang)
5. A Practical Case Study of Remote
Lecture between Japan & Korea (download
presentation)
Koji OKAMURA
(Kyushu)
6. e-Learning in Tsinghua University -
Current Status and Future Development (download
presentation)
KANG Feiyu (Tsinghua)
Description: Due to its potentials, many
universities in the Asia Pacific region has started or are
intending to start DE programs. However, there are still
pitfalls and issues in implementing such programs. How do
we then implement a succesful DE program in the Asia
Pacific region? One good way to start is to look at how
successful new programs have been conducted in the region
and to learn from their experience. This session takes a
case study approach in looking at critical success factors
as well as problems related to DE implementation.
Presentation Abstracts:
1. Intercultural Cyber Education:
Collaborative Courses over the Network
Abstract: In 1999 Waseda University founded
a consortium of 27 corporations called Digital Campus
Consortium (DCC). DCC aimed to realize a new model of
university education for the 21st Century. Our mission
was to educate Global Citizens who are active
international intellectuals and who can solve real
problems in the world. For this purpose, we established
three-staged educational system: the first stage is to
improve the proficiency levels of their target languages
(English, Chinese, Russian and Japanese), the second one,
to enable the students to interact with oversea partners
and to discuss controversial areas in the world and the
third, to interact with oversea specialists in the field.
For the purpose of the first stage, we established
Language Tutorial Systems in which a group of four
students are taught by one tutor. For the purpose of the
second stage, we established cross-cultural distance
seminars with oversea partners. This year, about 3500
students took part in this cyber seminars involving 38
institutions in 18 countries. Some students made on-line
web radio stations where they record their messages. The
Interactive Cyber Lectures are also very popular and the
sessions include on-demand materials, HP, and BBS. Because
of these educational systems, our infra-structure had to
accommodate various cyber needs. The presentation reports
our digitalization efforts.
2. S* Alliance Global Bioinformatics
Online Distance Education
Abstract: S* Alliance (pronounced as "S
Star" is a collaboration among Stanford University,
Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University, National
University of Singapore (NUS), University of Sydney, SANBI
of the University of Western Cape and University of
California, San Diego. Founded in year 2000, the Alliance
aims to provide a GLObal Bioinformatics Unified Learning
Environment (GLOBULE) made up of modular courses in the
disciplines of bioinformatics, medical informatics and
genomics. The collection of lectures from top researchers
in the bioinformatics field is made available online at
the S* official and mirror sites. It is openly accessible
to everyone, anywhere in the world through the
Internet.With over 200 participants at any one time, we
realize that bandwidth is a problem for many, hence a
dozen mirror sites located worldwide have been set up to
facilitate fast download of the entire lecture package for
online video streaming and/or offline viewing and
revision.Using the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment
(IVLE) system from NUS, various activities including
discussion forum and assessment are carried out to enhance
the learning experience. Additionally, IVLE provides vital
course statistics for assessments, feedback from
participations and many more.More recently, we are
addressing the issue of delivering the problem based
learning (PBL) system of education for bioinformatics
training over high performance networks. In particular, we
are experimenting with low and high bandwidth video
conferencing systems and the creation of bioinformatics
PBL courseware to suit this process.
3. Full Media
And "PAN" Education
Abstract: Along with the rapid growth of
Internet , now Broadband services can be delivered in
different ways – over an ordinary telephone line or
private network, via a cable connection or across mobile
and wireless networks. At this rate, all of the
traditional media industries will become integrated and
come into being a new concept - "full media". The concept
of "full media" will meet the urgent requirements of the
above situation. The core elements of "full media"
include the following parts: media production & content
management platform, effective content marketplace,
individual and interactive media service platform,
integrated content & service exchange center, and
integrated physical carrier & intelligent media terminal.
Based on the concept "full media", we envision that the
"pan education" concept will become more and more popular.
The key elements of "Pan Education" contain wide
educational objective, life-long learning span, and
multiform learning styles. In this thesis, we will give an
brief introduction of the full media & Pan education
concept. Furthermore this paper will also give detailed
analysis to the key issues, including the whole industry
value chain, the business model and the technical
platform.
4. The Technical Structure and
Instructional Design of Hanyang Cyber University
Abstract: The information age bred new kind
of university education, name as Cyber University. This
kind of education methodology not only expanded the
university education to the unfortunate public but also
met the social needs for life time education. Hanyang
Cyber university, the sister institution of Hanyang
University has already initiated cyber education in 1996.
Based on the earlier experiences, the university launched
official cyber education institution in 2001. The new type
of university educates the students through the Internet.
The needs for physical attendance are not necessary. The
university contains various technologies and experiences
to manage classes in order to maintain education quality.
Various strategies and technologies are utilized. The
presentation will cover the brief history of Hanyang Cyber
University and technical structure of Internet education.
5. A Practical Case Study of Remote
Lecture between Japan & Korea
Abstract: We, Gankai/Hyeonhae Project member
have succeeded in conducting GbE classesbetween Japan and
Korea since January 2003. Now the team is looking intomany
Next Generation oriented Internet researches usingthis
high speed Internet. This presentation is a report about
theremote lecture between Japan and Korea. This remote
lecture wascarried in the regular class of Graduate School
of Information Scienceand Electrical Engineering of Kyushu
University. It is a verypractical class and not just a
demonstration event for high speedInternet. In my talk,
this high speed Internet environment, report ofthis remote
lecture with the consideration and related remote
casestudies will be presented. Currently, I'm planning the
other remote lecturefrom May to July 2003 in my regular
class then I will also reportabout this remote lecture if
possible.
6. e-Learning in Tsinghua
University - Current Status and Future Development
Abstract: Tsinghua University is the first
university in China to develop the modern distance
education by means of a hybrid system including internet,
satellite, cable TV and ISDN as well as CD-ROM. There are
around 30 thousand students who are learning in more than
100 learning centers established in the whole country. It
offers many programs at undergraduate and postgraduate
levels as well as some programs for vocational training. A
national key project, web-college modeling project was
completed in August, 2003, in which all of teaching and
management tasks might be carried out by Internet.
On campus e-learning is also very popular in Tsinghua
University. It was started in 1997, there were only 10
courses were taught in this way, but now, we have more
than one thousand courses taught on campus internet.
There were 25,734 users including 2,034 teachers last
year, 1,080,000 login accesses and 180,000 online hours.
We also launched courseware on-demand system and web-based
testing system in 1999. About 2,000 students took final
exams for "English" and 1,000 students took finals for "C
Language" last year. During SARS period, there were 50
courses taught in this way and plus face to face
tutorials.
In future, two big projects will be conducted by means of
distance learning in Tsinghua University, one is
enterprise training for industries, the other is
poverty-help. For industrial training, we are planning to
establish 400-500 learning centers in big companies, and
to provide around 500 training courses for their group and
individual learning, the content will cover several fields
such as English, compute and internet technology,
management, quality control, finance, business and
marketing, professional certificates, and so on.
For the poverty-help, we will establish about 100 centers
in the poverty counties in the western of China. The
education resource will cover teachers training for
elementary and middle schools, especially in English and
computer knowledge, agriculture technology, public health,
nursing and hospital management, law and management.
These programs are free of charge for those learners.
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