Policy on Open, Distance and Electronic Learning: Case of Indonesia
by: Agung Purwadi Centre for Policy Research and Educational Innovation, Ministry of National Education, Indonesia Indonesia is one the most populuous nations in the world. Her population was about 219 million with 67 percent of them were under the productive, 15-64 years, age in 2005 (CBS, 2005 inter-cencal survey results). About 106 million were considered as labor force with an employment rate of about 89.7 percent. It is easily understandable that this huge number made the n...
Learner Centered Education in the Knowledge Age
paper writen and presented by: Dr. Josep Rota and Dr. sandra Turner OHIO University Abstarct A central premise of this presentation is that higher education is undergoing a paradigm shift as we change our conception of a university is a place of teaching and replace it with a new model of a university as a place of learning. Central to this change are three key elements: (1) the role that the new technologies of information and communication are playing not only in the dissemination of...
Intellectual Property and Information Security in Digital and Open Distance Learning
by: Akira ICHIKAWA Emeritus Professor Edogawa University, Japan In open and long distance learning of future digital age, qualitative improvement of learning contents in the field of not only school education but also adult education is so important for us. Using information technology such as computers, it is extremely effective communication means, and I think about a method of long distance education to develop the network of the world in modern society to globalize unless a learner can ...
Supporting Student Motivation and Volition
ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) is a fmous motivation models developed by John Keller. On te occasion of International symposium on Distance Learning and e-Learning (ISODEL) 2007, he wrote and presented his model as a key issues in implementing and sustaining distance and e-learning. I think it would be worthfull if his presentation published here, so everybody can see and apply his model in distance learning and or e-learning. Full of his presentation can be downloaded ...
Transformation Strategies for Delivering 21st Century Teaching Today’s Multimedia Students
Transformation Strategies for Delivering 21st Century Teaching Today’s Multimedia Students By: Kenny Ng Abstract: Over the past decades, modern technologies have transformed many aspects of our life, including how we communicate, how we spend our free time, and especially how we work. As our life and workplace demands have changed as a result of this “technological revolution,” so have conceptions of the skills and knowledge children will need to become successful adults and the...
E-Learning Implementation at Indonesian Universities: Policy issues and Challenges
by: T. Basaruddin (Dean – Faculty of Computer Science – UI)
[email protected] Abstract The university’s approach towards learning has long been considered as one of the least developed areas as far as university development is concerned. By and large, universities are still very much dominated by the so-called teacher-centered learning. Nonetheless, with the advancement of communication and information technology, there has been a notable attempt by most universities to improve thei...
by G. Dhanarajan[1] Full of his Article can be downloaded here: dhanarajan In 1999, Peter Drucker predicted that in the next 50 years, “schools and universities will change more rastically than they have since they assumed their present form 300 years ago when they organized hemselves around the printed book”.[1] Drucker was not alone in his pronouncements. There are others as well. Some twenty years ago Gardner the then Secretary of Education of the US under President Lyndon Johnson, fu...
Multisourced e-Learning and Open University 2.0: Some Basic Thoughts
Jos Luhukay The Indonesian National ICT Council Abstract: The availability of interconnection and better bandwidths have caused the current rise in e-Learning implementations. While the multi-channel approach is increasingly accepted and practiced, the scarcity in quality content and instructors remains a major issue. Multisourcing is a method well within existing regulatory boundaries which can be utilized to address this problem. Given the current improvements in interconnectivity and lo...
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