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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

Thank you!

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Twitter: @supott