E-learning forum Asia kicks off at NCKU
Tainan, Taiwan, May 28, 2014
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, hosts the eLearning Forum Asia 2014 from May 28 to 30 with approximately 250 international scholars from Norway, UK, Canada, Singapore, and China.
NCKU Vice President Dr. Hong-Sen Yan on behalf of President Hwung-Hweng Hwung welcomes the guests and said, NCKU as one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan has 9 colleges, 40 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers.
Dr. Yueh-Min Huang, a distinguished professor from the Department of Engineering Science at NCKU, as the chair of the eLearning Forum Asia 2014 on behalf of the organizing committee welcomes the participants from the world.
He said, in this age of advanced information technology and information explosion, people share the learning material, knowledge and ideas, to further expand learning opportunities and resources.
Recently Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) become e-Learning international trend, and global learning will usher us into a new era of e-learning, according to Huang.
The forum themed “Open Courses & Open Platforms for Learning” offer excellent opportunities for members of the educational community to come together to connect and share their experiences and approaches in open education.
The topics include practice of open course, open platform for e-Learning, open education issue and opportunity, MOOC curriculum design and practice, mobile and ubiquitous learning, and web-based learning.
Prof. Frode Eika Sandnes from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway, said, we need to make e-learning available to all sorts of people because the people who are particularly attractive to e-learning for flexible education are mature students.
Dr. Nick Rushby, the editor of British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), noted that a number of problems not least the implications for Big Data and for the significant ethical issues they raised.
In his talk, he refers to an international survey BJET carries out to explore the trends and issues that learning technologists across the world think are important, said Dr. Rushby who has been working in the area of educational and training technology for over 43 years.Enditem/
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, hosts the eLearning Forum Asia 2014 from May 28 to 30 with approximately 250 international scholars from Norway, UK, Canada, Singapore, and China.
NCKU Vice President Dr. Hong-Sen Yan on behalf of President Hwung-Hweng Hwung welcomes the guests and said, NCKU as one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan has 9 colleges, 40 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers.
Dr. Yueh-Min Huang, a distinguished professor from the Department of Engineering Science at NCKU, as the chair of the eLearning Forum Asia 2014 on behalf of the organizing committee welcomes the participants from the world.
He said, in this age of advanced information technology and information explosion, people share the learning material, knowledge and ideas, to further expand learning opportunities and resources.
Recently Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) become e-Learning international trend, and global learning will usher us into a new era of e-learning, according to Huang.
The forum themed “Open Courses & Open Platforms for Learning” offer excellent opportunities for members of the educational community to come together to connect and share their experiences and approaches in open education.
The topics include practice of open course, open platform for e-Learning, open education issue and opportunity, MOOC curriculum design and practice, mobile and ubiquitous learning, and web-based learning.
Prof. Frode Eika Sandnes from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway, said, we need to make e-learning available to all sorts of people because the people who are particularly attractive to e-learning for flexible education are mature students.
Dr. Nick Rushby, the editor of British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), noted that a number of problems not least the implications for Big Data and for the significant ethical issues they raised.
In his talk, he refers to an international survey BJET carries out to explore the trends and issues that learning technologists across the world think are important, said Dr. Rushby who has been working in the area of educational and training technology for over 43 years.Enditem/
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