ict for education and r&d
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ทศทางเทคโนโลยสารสนเทศและการสอสารเพอการศกษาและวจย
ดร.สพจน เธยรวฒ ประธานกลมเอมทสแควร (MT2: Mobile Technology for Thailand) 29 พฤษภาคม 2555
ICT for education and research
• ICT to facilitate learning
• ICT to facilitate research
▫ To facilitate collaboration among researchers
▫ To facilitate creation of innovation
▫ Platform for R&D in ICT field
ICT Change and Implication
• Broadband: Video/HD content delivery
• Wireless: Ubiquitous access
• You-Tube: Timeless archiving
• Search: Customized access to knowledge
• Blog: The rise of pro-sumers
• Social network: Community trust
• Unified communication: Enclosed world of individual
Big Picture
Application
ADSL FTTH 3G/4G
Wi-Fi
WiMAX
5
Computing + Communications + Contents
“My relevant content, anywhere, anytime, in the format I want.”
Technology Trends
Implication to teaching
• Life is tougher for future teachers as the students learn to…
▫ Open “Google” instead of open book
▫ Copy-and-paste instead of own writing
▫ Ask the bloggers instead of the teachers
▫ Share the answers instead of the questions
▫ Tweet up to the minutes
• Teacher is no longer a conduit of knowledge!!
How to teach in new ICT era?
• Focus on thinking skill
▫ Why?
▫ Alternatives?
▫ Analytical skills
▫ Knowledge creation skills
• Role of teachers:
▫ Teaching thinking
▫ Moderation of group learning and collaboration
▫ Demonstration of thinking skill
▫ Integration of ICT impact to knowledge acquisition in each discipline
ICT Impact on Science Teaching
• Half-life of knowledge is shrinking
• From oral presentation to realistic virtualization
• State-of-the-Arts or History of Sciences
• How can we patch piecemeal knowledge to form a solid discipline?
ICT Impact on Mass Communication
• Shift to consumer choice
• Demographic changes
• Needs of consumer strength/protection
▫ Short term: consumer guide to new media consumption
▫ Long term: media literacy
• Still there are needs of authoritative media
ICT and History
• Making history is a daily-life task
• Massive archiving of events and contemporary interpretation
• Any needs for an authoritative account of events?
• New role of historians?
Alan V. Oppenheim – author of most widely used textbooks in Signal Processing.
iOS programming class teaches by people from Apple.
iTunes U
• เปน opencourse เปดใหบคคลทวไปเขามาศกษาได
• มหาวทยาลยสามารถท าระบบทคลายกนเพอใหบรการแบบจ ากดเฉพาะบคลากรและนกศกษาภายในมหาวทยาลยได
Moodle (Moodle.org)
• Open-source software
• Platform for teachers and students
• Blogs, videos, lecture notes, assignments, discussion groups, …
Source: moodle.org
Moodle statistics
Source: moodle.org
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Famous Moodle
• Try Google and you would see many universities and schools around the world are using Moodle.
Trends
• Social networking
• Cloud computing
• Cyber security
• Aging society
What are needed for ICT research?
• Computing and network facility for modeling and test
Use of ICT as a facilitator in doing
research • Promote communication and information
exchange among researchers
• Collaboration between academic sector and industry
• Access to information
• Many things can be done – blogs, discussion groups, online library
Source: innocentive.com
More to explore…
• open innovation
• intellectual property market
Challenges
• Students: ▫ Access to knowledge: acquisition methods,
devices, tools ▫ Collaboration: tools, community ▫ ICT capability & Non-ICT capability
• R&D: ▫ New ICT-based research methods ▫ Networking for researchers ▫ Test-bed: platform for innovation ▫ IPR and global knowledge conduit