iCreate Mobility Challenge 2011 – Registration is now open!

Bridge the future now and leave your name in NUS!

NUS is launching the iCreate Mobility Challenge to challenge you to come up with working ideas to enhance student's education experience and campus life on the following mobile platforms - Android, iOS, Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7. These ideas may include eLearning, student/library services or geo-location related apps - anything related to enriching the students’ experience at NUS. Winning entries will receive prominent recognition and great prizes.

For more details and registration, please refer to the iCreate Mobility Challenge 2011 page.

eLearning Mobile Developer Challenge 2011

UPDATES Competition is now known as iCreate Mobility Challenge 2011. Registration is open!

Bridge the future now and leave your name in the NUS mobile learning history!

The Centre for Instructional Technology (CIT) is launching the eLearning Mobile Developer Challenge (MDC) to challenge you to come up with working ideas to enhance ALL of NUS students’ mobile learning experience on these mobile platforms : Android, iPhone/iPad, Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7!

For the winning entries, other than prominent recognition, we will also be giving out attractive prizes for your work!

Registration starts on 11th April 2011. Details will be provided soon!

Please indicate your interest in participating in this competition by completing the survey.

Post any feedback or queries to MDC forum on IVLE or contact us at citivle@nus.edu.sg.

Scilab Awareness Day – Technical Computing with Scilab

Learn more about Scilab, an open source software package for numerical computations in engineering and science, at the Technical Computing with Scilab seminar. Thu 5th May 2011 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. CIT Auditorium, Level 2 Computer Centre. Click for information and registration.

National University of Singapore’s Campus-Wide e-Learning Week

by Ravi CHANDRAN

Abstract
This article provides an overview of the rationale for conducting a large scale University-wide e-learning week, the preparations done by the National University of Singapore (NUS) to get its staff and students ready, the key IT tools used;; the usage statistics of the University’s information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure during e-learning week, and the lessons learnt from successfully implementing this campus-wide exercise.

Paper in Technology in Higher Education: The State of The Art, CDTL, 2011.

Read the paper.

User behavior in a virtual learning management system, and the lessons to be learnt

by Jeffery TAY

Abstract

With increased focus on end user experience, it is extremely important to understand their usage behaviour and tune our systems to enhance their experience. Capturing usage information not only helps us understand their behaviour, it benefits other areas as well such as audits, investigation and capacity sizing. In 2009, NUS built a user behaviour monitoring module into its own home grown Virtual Learning Management System (LMS), which allowed us to track the user's movement within the LMS and understand their usage pattern. The results gathered busted a fair number of assumptions which we had over students' behaviour. and when we shared this information with other Institutes of Higher Learning, they were surprised as well.
The paper will showcase the expected as well as unexpected findings from this behaviour module as well as how we adapted our LMS to be more student centric.

Paper Presentation at INTED 2011 in Valencia, Spain. 7-9 March 2011.