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More smart classrooms for universities
    2019-09-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Han Ximin

ximhan@126.com

IN partnership with Weidong Cloud Education Group, the SUSTech-based International Center for Higher Education Innovation (ICHEI) under the auspices of UNESCO will expand its Smart Classroom program to cover 12 universities in Asia-Africa regions before the end of the year.

Following a successful two-year pilot program at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia and the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, the project will begin to cover other universities, starting with three in Asia and seven in Africa.

“The project aims to improve education quality and promote education equity by taking full advantage of the great potential of information and communication technology (ICT),” Li Ming, director of ICHEI, said in an interview at the Regional Consultation on ICT-based Innovation in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific held in Shenzhen yesterday with the support of UNESCO-Shenzhen Funds-in-Trust.

“The Smart Classroom project can address the issues of resource scarcity in higher education, promote the transformation of traditional teaching modes and improve the learning management system. Through the project, the partner universities can expand educational resources to establish recording and broadcasting systems across campuses. It stimulates the demand for education information construction and makes ICT in educational practice truly happen,” said Li.

At the consultation conference, Chamroeun Khim from Royal University of Phnom Penh and Thushani Weerasinghe from University of Colombo introduced their practices in blended learning and mobile learning, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for improving teaching and learning with the support of UNESCO-Shenzhen Funds-in-Trust and ICHEI.

To address the education scarcity problem and relieve quality-equity tension, Li also said ICHEI is considering setting up International Institute of Online Education, a flagship project that was discussed by 40 teachers, researchers and education policy makers from universities in the Asia-Pacific region.

According to Li, the ICT-based online learning institute will use the blended learning mode to offer customized online programs to universities to meet the local demands for higher education and improve youth employment.

“We are discussing with 12 partner universities the launch of a virtual institute that delivers educational resources, and training and degree programs,” said Li.

In May 2015, Shenzhen signed an agreement with UNESCO and donated US$2 million to establish UNESCO-Shenzhen Funds-in-Trust to support UNESCO’s higher education projects in the Asia-Africa region. A total of US$500,000 of the fund was used by UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education on higher learning education projects in Asian countries.

ICHEI was approved in 2015 by the 38th General Conference of UNESCO. It is the 10th education sector UNESCO Category 2 Center in the world and the first Category 2 Center for higher education in China.

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