CIT supported an APRU multi-party video conference involving 16 universities. The first APRU Video Conference Session on Grid Computing was hosted by National University of Singapore on 21 October 2009. Over 30 participants from Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States took part in the video conference. Representatives from six universities presented their campuses’ development, management and use of Grid resources for research computing and infrastructure.

• PR5302 and PR5303 conducted via video conference
• Programmes part of Temple University-NUS SAGE Certification Programme and MSc (Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology)
• Inaugural live lecture conducted on Sat 17 Jan 2009
• “The video conference lectures have been amazing.”

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in Systems Integration Asia, February/March 2009

PAVE Systems installed the Centre’s integrated AV and communications systems… One attractive solution from the company’s continuing efforts at NUS was the complete AV solution integrated into the SMART Lecture Theatre, which provided a seamless and fully efficient AV System, complete with control system and video-conferencing setup, for Distance Learning, Presentation and Teaching.

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in Knowledge Enterprise, January 2009 – Vol 8 No 6

INNOVATION was the catchphrase at the 9th Distance Learning and the Internet (DLI) Conference (19-22 Nov 2008) organised by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). Two NUS teams from the University’s Computer Centre and the Centre for Instructional Technology were among the 60 participants comprising technologists, teachers and researchers from 14 APRU member institutions attending the conference.

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in Systems Integration Asia, December 2008/January 2009

The NUS Global Classroom is a flexible learning space which is used primarily by the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA), an engineering and life science educational and research collaboration between NUS, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). SMA programmes are conducted through distance learning, facilitated by video conferencing between Singapore and the United States of America.

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