in Access, June 2008 Number 65

It’s never been easier to copy somebody’s work and pass it off as your own. This is especially true in academia. Students, researchers and staff have fast access to billions of pages on the public web. A growing number can also access subscription databases including countless pages of full text journal articles and eBook texts.

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in Knowledge Enterprise Online, March 2008
by Kenneth Gerard Pinto

..the Communications & New Media Department, Office of Safety, Health & Environment and the Centre for Instructional Technology carried out the University’s inaugural eLearning Week. Held from 18 to 22 February, this pioneering project involved the staff and students taking CNM modules.

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in The Ridge Online, February 2008
by Fabius Chen

From Feb. 18 to 22, the Communication and New Media Programme conducted their lessons virtually as part of the inaugural e-learning week.

The initiative is headed by the Office of Safety, Health and Environment (OSHE) and the Centre for Instructional Technology (CIT) to test the readiness of faculty staff in handling emergencies where on-campus teaching is not available.

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in Knowledge Enterprise, Vol 7 No 7, February 2008
by Kenneth Gerard Pinto

If Singapore wins the bid to hold the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2010, NUS would have played an unseen yet vital role in securing the hosting rights.

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in CHECKpoint eLearning (Special Edition ONLINE EDUCA 2007)

Interview with Dr Joe PETERS | Synopsis

With the rapid development of technology and the mergine of audio visual and IT in education, it is time to think about major issues brewing from the confluence of the professional practice in these two areas. Dr. Joe Peters from the National University of Singapore speaks about major implications for pedagogy, facility design and staff re-training in these areas.

in Streaming Media Europe

The university is using the Osprey devices for NUScast, an award-winning program for streaming video of university lectures and other events over the NUS Web site. In addition, as a participant in the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) educational consortium, NUS is using the streaming technology in a joint distance learning program with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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