SOI-Asia plans and discussions Summary

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SOI-Asia plans and discussionsSummary

• Keiko Okawa
• June 21st, 2003

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Agenda

• Consensus on the direction
• Share the concerns
• Agree on the new scheme
• Process and Schedule
• Usage of the SOI Asia courses in your institutes

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Concerns to consider

• Better planning of the course
• Longer term ( 2 semesters in advance )
• Meeting each partners requirement
• Better scheme for various types of fund raising
• Valuable Course design
• Continue working for improving the Environment
• Quality and learning process
• Accreditation
• Specify audience
• Guideline for class management, students and
  faculty
• Class design (including realtime and offtime, hot
  to carry the realtime-lecture/QA/homework/assignme
  nt/quality/assessment/learning materials ..etc)
• Quality assurance by both university , involving
  planning phase.
• Curriculum planning
• Core and Site-Specific
• Sharing the existing one of each partners

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Agreed Goal and Missionsfor SOI Asia 2003/2004

• Organization SOI Asia Consortium, administrated
  by KEIOUniv.
• Goal
• Establish the scheme for sustainable educational
  collaboration programs utilizing the IT among
  Asian Universities.
• Mission
• Establish the quality and stable platforms for
  the education
• Deliver the quality courses for students in Asia
• Achieve sustainability including cost model
• Funding model for 2 years
• Research Fund from several sources
• Donation based fund (for particular part ie,
  supporting the workshops, donating courses,
  donating equipments and special fund for specific
  area/countries etc.)
• Government fund for educational contribution
• Scheme
• UDL bandwidth will be supported by AI3 based on
  the MoU between AI3 and SOI-Asia.
• Collaboration with AI3 research team

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SOI-Asia Consortium

• Steering/Board committee tele-conf once a month
  
• Funding strategy
• Research strategy
• Academic committee (Name TBD?)
• Course Strategy ( requirement, audience,
  accreditation )
• Course Planning
• Course management
• Course offering
• Course quality assurance (sanctioning)
• Research committee
• Class design on SOI Asia
• Research on the Educational Trend for academic
  planning
• Innovation of the new experimental collaboration
  programs and carry the experiment
• Research and development for better SOI-Asia
  e-learning environment (applications, plathomes,
  networks with collaboration with AI3 research
  team
• Operators committee
• Maintain the sustainable network and program
  operations in each site.
• Operators workshops
• Administration office
• Promotion for fund raising, based on the board
  strategy

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SOI-Asia Consortium - cont

• Each partners go back with this proposal and get
  a commitment from the organization.
• The following three committees need to include a
  representative from each partners
• Steering/Board committee
• Academic committee (Name TBD?)
• Operators committee
• Start building each teams
• Appoint by each partners
• Further discussion on email basis

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Schedule

• Monthly Tele-conference of Steering Board Team
• Wednesday
• Time
• 1830JST,
• 1730Malaysia/Manado/Makassar,
• 1630Indonesia/Thailand/Laos,
• 1600Myanmer
• Next meeting
• July 30th, (Wed) 1830JST
• Agenda includes team member appointment
• Instruction will be mailed by funya
• Periodic face-to-face meeting
• Twice a year _at_ ai3 meeting

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Usage of the SOI Asia courses in your institutes
to be discussed

• Accredited Course
• Highly related to the curriculum
• Faculty collaboration
• Special lectures
• Any appropriate topics (rare, special.. Etc)
• Valuable courses
• Course with easier fund raising
• Courses for other participants
• Community
• Create a independent SOI-Asia course