edX for NUS

edX is a not-for-profit MOOC provider that has partnered with 115 top-tier universities and organisations to provide educational materials online.

NUS will be joining edX to allow staff and students to use edX MOOCs and contribute to the MOOC education environment in the following ways:-

1. Allow our students to view any edX MOOCs for personal and professional development.
2. Allow our NUS instructors to ‘flip’ external edX MOOCs within NUS
3. Allow our NUS instructors to ‘flip’ a hybrid NUS/external edX MOOCs with NUS.
4. NUS instructors ‘flip’ NUS-created single private online courses or MOOCs within NUS.
5. Allow NUS instructors to create MOOCs on edX for global students.
6. Design Your Own Module.

NUS’ new learning management system called LumiNUS is integrated to allow single sign on access to edX (Figure 1).

Figure 1

IT Shared Services

Through the Organisational Excellence Initiative initiated by NUS President in 2018, selected IT services in the Faculties will now be supported by NUS IT (formerly called Computer Centre) and CIT. A new division called IT Shared Services has been formed led by NUS IT and CIT. This new division will be responsible for IT support across the Faculties for :-

1. Classroom support – provided by CIT
   Includes classroom, seminar rooms, lecture theatres, auditoriums, meeting rooms and web lectures.
2. End User Devices and System support – provided by NUS IT

For CIT, the IT Shared Services team will now also support all the teaching spaces at University Town. NUS IT and CIT’s plan for IT Shared Services is shown below.

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CIT has acquired a campus-wide license to use Poll Everywhere for classroom collaboration and communication to support both formal and in-formal learning.

With Poll Everywhere, instructors can create a higher level of engagement and class participation. Student using their wireless devices can ask and answer questions, participate in polls and vote on questions raised by the instructors. All leading to higher class participation and better feedback.

For a quick overview of Poll Everywhere, please watch this video.

CIT’s upcoming Poll Everywhere session will be held on:

• Wed 27 Feb 2019 | 10.00am | CIT Auditorium

To join our introductory session, please register here.

CIT senior director Ravi Chandran was a guest speaker at the International Symposium on Education Reform: Schools as Creative Physical Work Environment for Teachers with case studies of Singapore and Japan. This symposium was held on the 30th January 2019 organised by the National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER), Japan. CIT’s senior director’s topic was on Learning Spaces and Design at the National University of Singapore.

Breeze uses FLASH to create and support the interactive contents. Adobe has informed us that by December 2020 they will discontinue the use and support of FLASH.

In view of this notice from Adobe, CIT will be retiring its Breeze service on 30^th June 2019 to give you ample time to plan for the migration of your Breeze content to an alternative format. We seek your support to convert all your Breeze content to .mp4 format as this will still allow you to reuse the content. After 30^th June 2019, you will not have access to the Breeze server.

To assist with the conversion and migration, please fill up the following form (https://bit.ly/2NWtL64 ) and CIT will assist you with the conversion of your Breeze contents into .mp4 format.