Envisioning Blended Next-Generation Higher Education: Asian Top Universities’ Cutting-Edge ICT-Enhanced Teaching and Learning

Lecture: “MOOC and SPOC at Kyoto University: The Current Status and Prospect” Hiroyuki Sakai (Associate Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University)

Outline
The Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education at Kyoto University hosts the International Symposium “Envisioning Blended Next-Generation Higher Education: Asian Top Universities’ Cutting-Edge ICT-Enhanced Teaching and Learning” on March 2, 2018.

Five years have passed since the global proliferation of MOOCs started, and there are already over 10,000 MOOCs around the world now. At the same time, Flipped Learning and Blended Learning, utilizing MOOCs, SPOCs, OpenCourseWare and other online educational resources and environments, has become increasingly popular, and this promotes the development of new systems for obtaining credit hours, academic degrees, and professional certificates.

In Japan, as in many other countries, the promotion of lifelong learning and recurrent education, driven by the rapid changes in both global and local industries and labor markets, is becoming an urgent and critical issue. However, the challenge remains for the people in their jobs to go back to a college or graduate school as full-time on-campus students. Furthermore, as the youth population continues to decline, the strategic use of ICT to support more personalized learning for all becomes increasingly vital for a sustainable society.

In this symposium, the blended next-generation higher education will be explored by learning from the exemplary pioneer efforts in innovate ICT-enhanced learning and teaching at some of the top Asian universities as well as the visions and thoughts from their senior administrators and leaders.

Details

Year/Term
2017
Date
March 2nd, 2018
Faculty/
Graduate School
Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education
Language
English
Instructor name
Hajime Kita(Director, Institute for Information Management and Communication, Kyoto University / Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University)
Hiroyuki Sakai(Associate Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University)
Mana Taguchi(Associate Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University)
Toru Iiyoshi(Director and Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University)
Xiaoming Li(Head of MOOC initiatives, Peking University / Director, Institute of Network Computing and Information Systems)
Cheolil Lim(Professor, Department of Education, Seoul National University / President, Korean Society for Educational Technology)
Ting Chuen Pong(Senior Advisor to the EVPP (Teaching Innovation & E-learning) / Director, Center for Engineering Education, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Kayo Matsushita(Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University)
Place
Inamori Hall, Shirankaikan, Kyoto University
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