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Centre for Instructional TechnologyNARAYANAN ShyamAssociate Director, eLearning

Shaping eLearning at NUS

VIRTUAL GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY FOR BLENDED AND

DISTRIBUTED EDUCATION

CHRIST UNIVERSITY, Bangalore INDIA18th-20th August, 2010

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About NUSFaculties and Schools DepartmentsArts and Social Sciences •Chinese Language

•Chinese Studies •Communications and New Media •Economics •English Language •English Literature •European Studies •Geography •History

•Japanese Studies •Malay Studies •Philosophy •Political Science •Psychology •Social Work •Sociology •South Asian Studies •Southeast Asian Studies •Theatre Studies

Business •Business Administration • Accountancy, Decision Science, Finance, M & O, Marketing, Strategy & Policy

Computing •Communications and Media •Computational Biology •Computer Engineering •Computer Science

•Computing (Business or Technology Focus) (not available from Admission Exercise 2006) •Electronic Commerce •Information Systems

Dentistry •Dentistry

Design and Environment •Architecture •Building (not available from Admission Exercise 2006)

•Industrial Design •Project and Facilities Management •Real Estate

Engineering •Engineering (To be streamed after 1st year of study) •Bioengineering •Chemical Engineering •Civil Engineering •Computer Engineering •Electrical Engineering

•Engineering & Technology Management •Engineering Science •Environmental Engineering •Industrial and Systems Engineering •Materials Science & Engineering •Mechanical Engineering

Law •Law

Medicine •Medicine •Nursing

Music •Performance (Orchestral instruments/piano •Composition

Science •Applied Chemistry •Applied Mathematics •Chemistry •Computational Biology •Food Science and Technology •Life Sciences

•Mathematics •Pharmacy •Physics •Quantitative Finance •Statistics

University Scholars Programme

Facts & Figures•14 faculties• 3 Campus locations• Over 30,000 Students from 100 countries• 3 Research centres of Excellence • 22 University-level research institutes andcentres

• 16 research centres with national-level affiliation

• 6 Overseas Colleges

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About NUS

Graduate Schools NUS Overseas Colleges

• Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy • NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering • Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore

• NUS College in Silicon Valley• NUS College in Bio Valley• NUS College in Shanghai• NUS College in Beijing• NUS College in Stockholm• NUS College in Bangalore

Other NUS Teaching Centres

• Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning • Centre for English Language Communication• Institute of Systems Science• NUS Extension

Statistical Highlights Students (AY 2009-10) Undergraduate Students: 25,391 Graduate Students : 8,350

Class of 2009 (As at August 2009) Bachelor's Degrees conferred: 5,850 Graduate Diplomas awarded: 312 Master's Degrees conferred: 1,786 Doctoral Degrees conferred:299

Faculty and Staff (As at June 2009) Faculty Members: 2,207 Research Staff: 2,098 Administrative and Professional Staff: 1,675

General Staff: 2,464

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Multiple agencies approach

LibraryDigital Resources

Computer CentreCore IT Services and

Facilities

Centre for Development of Teaching and LearningPedagogy and Training

Faculty IT UnitsFaculty IT Services

and Facilities

Centre for Instructional Technology

IT for Teaching & Learning

Support for

Faculty,Students, Staff and Alumni

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About CIT

Centre For Instructional Technologies, NUS

Inception: 1999 Staff:39

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Organization Structure

Interacting Sections with Services and Products

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Our eLearning Philosophy

• Importance of face-to-face teaching

• Information technology continues to be an enabler andfacilitator to improve teaching and learning processes

• Focus on e-learning technologies that help staff and studentsbe more productive in what they can already do

• Distance learning where it provides strategic advantage toNUS

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Changing Environment

Image Source: http://msnettles.blogspot.com/

Gen ‘Y’/Digital Natives• Born after 1980• High expectation of self• High expectation of school,employers etc

• Goal-oriented• Good at multi tasking• Question authority• Highly connected – Learning in the 21st century…

Teacher Centered Learning vs Student Centered Learning

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Supportive Framework

Image source: SIIA 2010 – Eric Lauzon

CDW-G’s 2010 21st- Century Classroom Report finds that;

96% of high school students report using technology at home to study, but only 26% of students say they are encouraged to use technology throughout the school day, according to the report.

76% of students use social media as an educational tool, despite the fact that half of all schools completely block socialmedia sites.

For the full report, visit www.cdwg.com/21stCenturyClassroomReport.

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Core ServicesCourse Management System:

IVLEWebcast & Podcast

Courseware & e-ModulesAudio-Visual Services

Look & ListenNetwork TVNUS Galleria

NUS You Tube

ConferencingVideo & Audio Conferencing

Web ConferencingDistance Learning

Web 2.0Blog.nus

Wiki.nusMindmapping Tool Nexus

Support ServicesAudio Recording

Breeze DIY CoursewareScreen Recording

Plagiarism PreventionQuestion SMS

Classroom Response SystemTeaching Facilities

Software Resources

OutreachBuzzed eLearning

SeminarRoadshows

Ed-Tech Services

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Campus Course Management System – IVLE 11.0

You can use the various tools to manage, supplement and support your modules.

- Module - Workbin - Forum

- Lesson Plan - Multimedia - Project

- Assessment - Class Management - Announcements (SMS)

- Class Roster - Chat

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Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE)

The Integrated Virtual Learning Environment is NUS’ own learning management system designed, built and customised to suit NUS size and academic culture

Staff Workspace

Student Workspace

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Assessment

Announcement Lesson Plans

Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE)

Forum

Class Roster

Workbin

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Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE)

Dec 1998 July 06 May 07 June 08 09

V 1.0

V 7.8

V 8.0

Technology:ASP, W2K Server &SQL Server 2000 integrated with NUS Exchange Server 2000.

Technology:MS .Net Framework v 2.0 with ASP.NET v 2.0

new features: > Workspace Customization> Scalable> Supports SCORM> Supports Web Services> Disaster Recovery

Services

V 2.0

V 3.0V 4.0

V 5.0V 6.0

V 7.0

V 7.1V 7.2

V 7.3V 7.4

V 7.5V 7.6

V 7.7

Current Version

NUS Course Management System

Enhancement every 6 months

V 9.0

V 10

V 11

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Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE)

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Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE)

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Plagiarism Prevention

• Lets you quickly and effectively check all of your students’ work in a fraction of the time

• Results are based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from bothcurrent and archived instances of the internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals.

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Plagiarism Prevention

01 Jan – 30 June 2010

Usage:Staff : 959Students : 6298Paper Submissions : 11637Originality Reports : 10819

% of Plagiarism:75-100% : 215 (1.98%)50-74% : 356 (3.29%)25-49% : 1577 (14.58%)0-24% : 6623 (61.22%)< 20 words : 2048 (18.93%)

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Plagiarism Prevention

• 70.1 million student papers submitted to Turnitin —projected to grow to nearly 200 million by the end of 2009

• 130,000-250,000 new student papers daily• Twice the number of instructors since 2006 • 6 major CMS integrations• 106 countries • Full support for 30+ languages

• Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malay Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Key Turnitin Metrics

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Custom Courseware Development

• Enables self-paced learning

• Tailor made to your requirements

• Anytime and anywhere

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Custom Courseware DevelopmentFaculty of Arts & Social Sciencese-Daf, Centre for Language Studies

Faculty of EngineeringSim Furnace & Safe Furnace , Department of Chemical & BiomolecularEngineering

eModuleAcademic Culture

Computer Centre IT Security Awareness Program

eModuleSSM1205 - The Nation’s Health: Lessons from SARS

Faculty of Science MA1506 MATHEMATICS II

Faculty of ScienceInteractive Chemistry Laboratory Manual, Department of Chemistry

Department of Epidemiology & Public HealthInfluenza 101 emodule

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Rapid eLearning Development - Breeze

• Negligible Learning Curve for PowerPoint Users

• Flash Player allows Flexible Delivery Across Different Platform

• Quizzes, Survey and Flash animation

• Navigation menu to jump topics

• Availability of Services 24 x 7

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Breeze - Showcase

Poison Frogs Chemical Reactions Rapid Training

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Rapid eLearning Development – Camtasia Relay

• Negligible Learning Curve

• Works on Mac and Windows Platform

• Records mouse movements and Desktop

• Easy upload to the server, tighter integration to IVLE

• Availability of Services 24 x 7

https://screencast.nus.edu.sg

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Webcast & Podcast

• Now webcast recordings are available on Mac.

• Support screen capture including cursor movements, annotations on ppt slide etc.

• You can request for Podcast download of your lectures

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To reinforce learning andstudy

Students review desktop that are an exact replica of lecturn PC

Webcast and Podcast Lectures

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Remote Webcast Recording in Lecture Theatrefor Webcast Lectures and Podcast

SDE AVSU Office2 unitsRmeote Recorders

ENG LT6 CR3 unitsRemote Recorders

FASSTSD Office2 unitsRemote Recorders

SOCSOC Office2 unitsRemote Recorders

SCILT27 CR3 unitsRemote Recorders

SDELR421 - 427.

SCI LT20,21,22,23,24,25,26,32,33LT31 (local recording)

ENGLT 1,2,3,4,5,7,7A

LT6, EA (local recording)

FASSLT 8,9,10,11,12,13,14

SOCLT15,19, SR1

Central Control Room Lecture Theaters

NUSNET

BIZLT16,17, 18 Installation of remoterecording is still in-progress

MEDLT28,29(all local recordings)

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Mindomo

• Online mind Mapping tool – Access anytime anywhere

• Multiple platform support – Window, Mac and Linux

• Multiple languages support – All European languages, Japanese and Chinese

• Browser based online storage

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Instructional Videos

• These videos are used as teaching aids, outlining processes, techniques andmethods involved in specific subjects.

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Collaboration Tools – IVLE 11.0

You can use the various tools to manage, supplement and support your modules.

- Module - Workbin - Forum

- Lesson Plan - Multimedia - Project

- Assessment - Class Management - Announcements (SMS)

- Class Roster - Chat

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Campus Course Management System – IVLE 11.0

Communicate and Collaborate

IVLE Chat

Technology: Flash, ASP, SQL Database,

Flash Communication MX 1.5 Server - 2500 unique instance.

• 748 chat rooms created since 2nd Feb 2007.

• 559 chat rooms published to CMS (IVLE)Workspace

• 36 chat rooms still active

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Campus Course Management System – IVLE 11.0

Communicate and Collaborate

IVLE Discussion Forum

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NUS Online Communities

• NUS Online Community – MS SharePoint, where you can share files and photo with your friends. Showcase your particulars and contacts to connect with more friends

• Blog - start a blog about your studies, work and life• Wiki - a collaboration tool for you to share your knowledge, passions and favourite subjects

• IVLE Community - your own private space to store files, read the latest news and keep track of your friends

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Virtual Classroom

- Virtual Classes/Tutorials

- eMeetings

- Web seminars

You can use the various tools to manage, supplement and support your modules.

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Virtual Classroom

Virtual ClassroomFor lecturers who want to conduct tutorials (or teach) live to a small groups of students.

Lecturers can engage in live-two way audio, video and text chat, share what is displayed on the computer desktops and annotate documents on a virtual whiteboard.

• Interactive Whiteboard• Share Desktop• Share Applications• Text Chat and Annotations

• Audio/Video Support• Share MS Office files• Moderate sessions• Record sessions

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eLearning 2.0

Blogs

Wiki

NUS YouTube

As of April 2010Total No. of Videos: 152 Total is 135,853 viewers. This year (1/1/10 to 26/4/10) is 28,168 viewers.

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Classroom Response System

• eInstruction enhances student participation and enables instant feedback.

• Helps to you to overcome the "silent majority“.

• Anonymous response encourages the students to participate.

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QuestionSMS - SMS based Classroom Response SystemAdvantages

Low Cost

Wider Reach

No Training Required

No Maintenance

No Range Limitation

Supports Free Text

Low Risk

Can be Integrated to CMS

Effective ROI

Easy to Implement

Result Graphs for Individual Teams

Disadvantages

Dependency on Service Provider

Student’s Initiative to Respond Quickly

Mobile Network Availability

• Written in ASP.net framework with C# as the programming language

• SQL server as the database server

• Single-sign on enabled

• Project Development Time: 3 Months

• Team Size: 2

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Videoconferencing Usage in CIT for Year 2009

Others4%

Lesson35%

Meeting37%

Oral Exam11%

Seminar13%

Type of Request No. of SessionsDemo/Interview 5Lesson 42Meeting 44Oral Examination 13Seminar 16Total 120

Distance Learning No. of SessionsSingapore/MIT Alliance 211

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TelePresence from CISCO

TelePresence LocationsUniversity of California, Berkeley California State University Duke University Georgia Tech University Harvard University Indiana University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan University of Missouri University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Peking (China) Penn State University - College of IST Pittsburgh Supercomputer Centre Rice University University of South Carolina Towson University University of Vienna (Austria) Virginia Tech Wake Forest University University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

• Location: University Hall, Tan Chin Tuan Wing, 05-04 Conference Room• Contact: CIT Conferencing Services

* TelePresence is for single-party meetings only. For multi-party meetings, we recommend video conferencing.

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NUS ‘eLearning Week’

The National University of Singapore (NUS) implemented a campus-wide eLearning Week (eLW) in week 8 of Semester I, AY 2009/2020.

Objectives:

-Stress test the University’s ability to carry on teaching during major disruptions without seriously affecting students’ study plans.

- Encourage faculty to explore and develop innovative ways of teaching.

Outcomes:

- Learn about the options available to staff for elearning.

- Learn at least one method of delivering a lecture and conducting a class online.

AY 2009/10, Semester 2 AY 2010/11, Semester 1

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NUS ‘eLearning Week’ Tools

Lectures

Tutorials &Seminars

ForumChat

Virtual Classroom

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Other Services

• Teaching facilities

• Student IT Assistant

• Equipment loan

• Blended Learning Support

• Student Presentation System

• and more…

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Thank You

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