Report visit to singapore

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

22^nd 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

23^rd 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