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Workshop Committee        Proposed Program

     Due to the regional diversity of our community, many of our counterparts in the Asia Pacific have very diverse methods of collaboration with their various partners and also different implementation of technology.

    The pre-conference workshop, with the theme, "Distance Learning - Closer Ties" seeks to forge close working relationships amongst the distance learning communities by the sharing of experiences in both collaborative and technology-enabled aspects of distance learning. Through this workshop, we hope to build rapport among the DL communities to identify similar interest, to learn from each other, and hence to encourage more fruitful collaborative efforts.

     The pre-conference workshop consists of 3 sessions, with presenters from major DL communicties presenting and discussing their experiences in the 2 key areas of:

- Enabling Collaborations

- Enabling Technologies

      At the end of each presentation session, a short panel discussion is included in the program, involving the speakers and chairs of each session. This was planned so that the panel can tease out issues of how institutions can work together to facilitate and foster collaborations as well as ironing out concerns in the supporting technology for distance learning.

     Finally, a trip to a premier Distance Learning Center in Shanghai will be included at the end of the program for participants to see first-hand, the development of DL facilities in China.
　

Dr. Zita Wenzel (APRU/US)

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0915-1030hrs Collaborations I

1.  Prof. Zhang Shiyong (Fudan, CN)

Title: Distance Learning in China  (Abstract)

2. Prof. Francis Lee (NTU, SG)

Title: Singapore-MIT Alliance (Abstract)

3.  Dr. Zita Wenzel (APRU)

Title: APRU and Distance Education (Abstract)

Short Panel Discussion : Speakers in Collaboration Session 1

Chairs Prof. YJ Park and Tan Hock Soon

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1030-1100hrs Break


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1100-1230hrs Collaborations II

1. Prof Keiko Okawa (WIDE, JP)

Title: Global educational environment - School of Internet Project(Abstract)

2. Dr. Jacqueline Brown (Univ. of Washington, US)

Title:

Partnerships for Research and Education: Pacific Wave and the Research Channel (Abstract)

3. Dr. Simon C Lin (Academia Sinica, TW)

Title: Distance Learning in Taiwan (Abstract)

Short Panel Discussion : Speakers in Collaboration Session 2

Chairs Dr. Zita Wenzel and Prof. Shigeki Goto


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1230-1315hrs Lunch

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1315-1445hrs Technology Enablers

1. Lim Kin Chew (NIE, SG)

Title: eLearning Specifications for Distance Learning (Abstract)

2. Prof. Koji Okamura (Kyushu University, JP)

Title: Design of Scalable Remote Lecture System using CDN (Abstract)

3. Dr. David Lassner (Univ. of Hawaii, USA)

Title: NGI-technology distance learning network (MPEG2/multicast/QoS)

(Abstract)

4. Wang Jilong (CERNET, CN)

Title: Education on CERNET(Abstract)

Short Panel Discussion: Speakers in Technology Enablers Session

Chairs Prof. Zhang Shiyong and Francis Lee


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1500-1700hrs Visit to Distance Learning Centre


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1700-onwards Shopping Tour

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