in Knowledge Enterprise, September 2002
by Office of Corporate Relations
Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) technology has been awarded a Certificate of Interoperability by the Information Technology Standards Committee (ITSC) PlugFest 2002. This was after the IVLE passed the ITSC’s interoperability and compatibility test to operate as an open platform based on global specifications.
in Computer Times, 7 August 2002
Hundreds of PocketPC device owners at the National University of Singapore (NUS) can now watch network television wirelessly anywhere on the campus. Programmes from 14 current affairs and educational TV channels, including BBC, CNN, Discovery and MediaWorks channels U and i, are being streamed live to the handheld devices as well as to desktops and notebooks across the campus. About half of the university's total student strength of 30,000 use notebooks...
...Mr Soh Hock Heng, senior systems engineer at CIT, said: "With the service available on PocketPC-based devices, our students can enjoy the programmes anywhere, anytime." That's exactly what Ms Ma Seow Lin, 23, a student at the School of Computing, has been doing. "We often have breaks between our various classes, lasting between one and three hours," she said. "Watching TV on my iPaq handheld is an ideal way for me to spend the time." Ms Ma felt that students would benefit if class lectures could be beamed to their PDAs (personal digital assistants). The university says videos of class lectures will be available on the PDAs soon.
in Knowledge Enterprise, March 2002
by Office of Corporate Relations
As Communicator Award winners, the creators of Reflections -- Dr Joe Peters (Executive Producer & Script), Mr Manuel R Gamboa (Producer), Ms Goh Sze Yin (Production Crew), Mr Eric Lim You Wey and Mr Rosely Othman (Camera) -- join an exclusive group of video professionals who are recognized as the best in the industry. Mr Gamboa said jubilantly, "It's gratifying to know that your work is being certified as outstanding by your peers and will be used as a benchmark for the industry."
in Innovation - The Magazine of Research & Technology, Volume 3 Number 1.
by Tan Lay Leng
The NUS Centre for Instructional Technology helps to provide online additions that allow students to enrol in order to attend publicly available lectures and to take formal class instruction spanning several months. Its Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) offers an almost seamless transition back and forth between local and international contacts. The latest IVLE software (version 7) can even communicate with students via the short message service (SMS) on their mobile phones.
in Technological Horizons in Education Journal
by Melinda G. Cerny, M.A. and Jesse M. Heines, Ed.D.
SMA is a unique and ambitious program for many reasons, one of which is that it brings graduate students from opposite sides of the globe together in one virtual classroom by crossing 12 time zones through an Internet2 connection. Through research and development from the MIT Center for Advanced Educational Services, the NUS Centre for Instructional Technology and the NTU Centre for Educational Development, the SMA program blends the use of state-of-the-art asynchronous and synchronous technology to create a dynamic, virtual learning environment.