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One of the major challenges in Education,
besides providing information in a way that is easily understood and
assimilated, is adapting existing educational practice to optimise the use of
technology. Exciting changes are taking place in the arenas of education.
Among the more recent changes is the
merging of education with the Internet and using network technology in the
classroom. Because of the excellent development in communications technology,
the world has grown very much smaller. Learning is becoming a borderless
experience where a user is not limited by what he or she can pick up in the
classroom. He or she can learn a language from
the native country using the
Internet, listening to voice clips from the native speakers or even visit a
historical site created in virtual reality.
He or she can also work on exercises
or take tests or even perform a laboratory session over the network.
Many campuses are now offering classes
over the Internet or at least uses the Internet in some way to conduct lessons.
Below is Yahoo's guide to America's 100 Most Wired Campuses at http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/soc/soctaskforce/otherschools/wired/wired.html
Although many faculty members are still
teaching with traditional methods, many others are realizing and reaping the
potentials of multimedia, the World Wide Web and the Internet, and other forms
of network-based instruction.
It is felt that the Internet is still an
under-exploited resource in education. Marrying the advantages of emerging
technologies such as high speed networks and access, virtual reality,
teleconferencing, rapid information search techniques with the almost universal
access provided by the information infrastructure, learning in this environment
will be a truly exhilarating experience.
The vision of this WG is to enhance the
utilisation of more advanced technologies in education and to provide a testbed
for borderless learning.
- Setting up a venue for exchange of
information and experience among members on more up-to-date practice of
network-based education
- Setting up application templates for advanced
media
- Establishing multicasting applications for teaching and learning
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Creating collaborative environments with computer-mediated communications for
learning
- Promoting research and development on network-based education via
collaboration among members
Milestones/Actions:
- WG
setup proposal on 1999.03.19 passed.
- Formally started on 1999.09.22 during
Canberra 99 meeting. Elected Chair: Tan Hock Soon
- Joint Mfg-Edu WG
presentation of IMAN project in the International Fair of Advanced
Technologies, KOBE, 1999.10.26-29
- RESONATE Demos: 1999.12.8 (Mr. Cheng
Siwei, Vice chairman, Standing Committee of National People's Congress of the
People's Republic of China, Mr. Chiang Chie Foo, Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Education, Singapore). 99.12.28 (Mr. Kwong K.C., Secretary of
Information Technology and Broadcasting, HK), 00.1.7 (Mr. Joseph Wong,
Secretary of Education & Manpower, HK).
- RESONATE test via MIASAT
2000.01.29
- 2000.02 CyberCAD demo in Tsukuba Meeting/IWS
- 2000.04.7-11
Participation in Learning Metropolis Exhibition during APEC Education Ministers'
Meeting
- 2000.07.18-21 Participated and Demonstration of CyberCAD in
International Grid Application Research Demo, INET 2000, The Internet Global
Summit
- 2000.08 1st Edu sessions in APAN Conference.
- 2000.12.08
Organized Advance e-biz competition with SingAREN, attended by Dr. Yacoob
Ibrahim, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Communications & IT
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2001.02.01. 1st meeting with APRU (John Silvester) during Hawaii meeting
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2001.03.01 HDTV applications over Gigabit Internet Project (YJ Park)
-
2001.09 Distance learning system using an Integrated Media Browser Project (YJ
Park)
- 2001.09.17-20. Presentation of VEMAT project in 24th APEC TEL DCSG
Meeting in Jeju, KR.
- 2001.12 Received APEC TEL grant of $US50,000.00 for
VEMAT project
- 2002.01.24 2nd
meeting with APRU (Zita Wenzel)
- 2002.01.24
Election of WG chairs: Tan Hock Soon, An Jie in Phuket 02 meeting.
- 2002.02 1st Joint lecture series
between USM and TP via MCS video conferencing system sponsored by Multimedia
WG
- 2002.03.11-15 Participation in GDi (Global Design Initiative) between
Aston University (UK), Colorado University (US), Temasek Poly (SG)
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2002.05.1-5 Participation & Presentation in DLI 2002 organised by APRU
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2002.08.07 VEMAT trial test with CERNET
- 2002.08.25 1st Edu Pre-Conference
Workshop on Distance Learning (sponsored by EON Reality Inc. USA)
- VEMAT
demo in Shanghai 2002.08 meeting
- 2002.12 BIOMAT uses
VEMAT
- 2003.1.22 Organized 1st
Education Track in APAN Fukuoka Conference
- 2003.1.23 Organized 1st
joint NR-Edu session
- 2003.3.1 VEMAT agrees to
co-locate future meetings with APAN
- 2003. 3.1 VEMAT project
accepted by APAC Tel and IDA
- 2003.8.27 Organized 1st
workshop on elearning specifications in APAN Busan Conference
- 2003.8.28 Organized
conference sessions in APAN Busan Conference
- 2003.8.27 Presented the
VEMAT project in eScience workshop in APAN Busan
Conference
Appendix :
WG Brochure
* The WG is
interim since Busan Meeting. It's planned to merge with Training
Committee.
* Contact An Jie/CERNET
[anjie@cernet.edu.cn] for more information
Last Updated: 2004.7 |
