Media Mentions

in The Sunday Times, 15 November 2009
by Shefali Rekhi

The National University of Singapore (NUS), ranked among top global institutions in the world, took up a video channel on YouTube last year.

The channel showcases some of its popular campus discussions - on subjects ranging from Asia vs Europe and the Rwandan civil war to the turnaround story of the Indian Railways and the rise of political Islam in Indonesia.

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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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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