Report on visit to Singapore
Benchmarking Programs between Indonesia - Singapore
November 22 - 23, 2010
Delegations:
1. Cahya Ratih
JARC SEAMOLEC Coordinator
2. Prayitno
JARC SEAMOLEC Vice Coordinator
3. Fazhar Restu
SEAMOLEC Network staff
4. Haritz Cahya
JARC SEAMOLEC Staff
22nd November 2010
The Indonesian delegations arrived at the Changi international airport at 09.30 and directly go to the RELC hotel, and in the 14.00 afternoon we go straight to Nanyang Technological University.
1. Nanyang Technological University
The Indonesian delegation is :
1. Cahya Ratih
JARC SEAMOLEC Coordinator
2. Prayitno
JARC SEAMOLEC Vice Coordinator
3. Fazhar Restu
SEAMOLEC Network staff
4. Haritz Cahya
JARC SEAMOLEC Staff
NTU Delegation :
1. Assoc Prof Daniel T H Tan
Director of Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
2. Ong Choon Teck
Deputy Director for content and courseware development of Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
3. Assoc Prof Peter Looker
Associate Director for pedagogical practice of Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
4. Joe Shim Jan Yuen
Multimedia Technologist in Center for Educational Development
5. Vivian Koh
Senior Secretary of Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
The Indonesian delegation introduce themselves to NTU Delegation, after that Prof. Daniel and his colleagues gave their presentation about e-learning, and what NTU have done in that area since 10 years ago. Their presentation mainly focuses on edveNTUre, their main e – learning ecosystems that uses blackboard for the engines, which have reached 10 million page views / week. The features of their edveNTUre are : content creation and delivery, community learning, online assessment, eureka project work.
After the presentation, Indonesian delegation were shown around NTU’s facilities : data center, recording studios, edveNTUre help desk, video conferencing rooms, teaching studios, recording control room and smart classroom.
At the end of the tour, we sit together again and talked about several collaboration scheme between SEAMOLEC and NTU, such as :
- Staff Exchange between SEAMOLEC and NTU, it could provide great opportunities to learn more, especially about their recording systems
- SEAMOLEC can try to use e-learning systems used by NTU
After discussion we could conclude that :
1. NTU have big internet bandwidth above 100 Mbps
2. Almost of networking cable using FO(Fiber Optic) for speed access to the internet
3. E-Learning system already using Cloud Computing
4. Great E-learning development team that have high dedication
5. The equipments are quite complete but simple enough, because they use equipments that could use first for the first step.
6. The learning contents are maintained and distribute neatly
7. Quality control of product is really implemented, learning content could be used and appropriate for teaching material
8. Research and proper test is very strict
9. Output / expected outcome is clear
10. The flow of content creation is clear, from recording video until editing and finishing really well coordinated.
CELT Director, Mr. Daniel presenting about e-learning activities in NTU
CELT Multimedia technologist, Joe Shimyen explained how the teacher teach in NTU
Ms.Cahya from SEAMOLEC giving a souvenir to Mr. Daniel from NTU
Mr. Daniel explain how the smart class works
23rd November 2010
2. National University of Singapore
The Indonesian delegation is :
1. Cahya Ratih
JARC SEAMOLEC Coordinator
2. Prayitno
JARC SEAMOLEC Vice Coordinator
3. Fazhar Restu
SEAMOLEC Network staff
4. Haritz Cahya
JARC SEAMOLEC Staff
NUS Delegation :
1. Lim Sew Hoo
Associate director for Centre for Instructional Technology
After short introduction between colleagues, NUS Associate Director for Centre for Instructional Technology explain about the e-learning systems that they use, their main facility is located at http://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/. They have several services available from there, such as IVLE (Integrated Virtual Learning Environment) a portal that manage learning environment, thus making it easier for teacher to manage their lesson, and students to follow the courses IVLE can be visited at https://ivle.nus.edu.sg. They also have Webcast & Podcast service, where they broadcast the recordings of lectures and also events that happens, making sure that the students can always attend class no matter what happen.
Mr. Lim explained about e-learning systems used in NUS
IVLE Website at NUS
Overall, from this benchmarking activities, there are several things that we could learn from NTU and NUS :
1. Their infrastructure are ready to distribute large data such as videos
2. Their e-learning system have used cloud computing
3. Have a dedicated team, many engineer whose age is not young anymore, but they have the enthusiasm to do technical job
4. Content creation methods is very effective, and distributed effectively
5. Quality control for the products were implemented very nicely, to make sure the contents can be used and effective for learning materials
6. Clear output expectation
As we can see, the factor that differs us from NTU and NUS, beside the infrastructures and technology used, are coming from human resources itself. Therefore, what we need to do is to reflect on ourselves, why we can’t do the same.
Thank you
1 komentar:
Alhamdulilah, saya ikut senang. Lebih senang lagi kalau ngajak kita-kita dong..he...he...
Kalau ada info teacher exchange atau short course atau yang lain boleh dong saya diberi informasi. Sukses terus mas....
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