The iCreate Mobility Challenge has come to a close. Many students participated, but there could only be one winner from each category. The top prizes went to:

  • Super IVLE Boy (Android category)
    • Chai Zheng Xin
    • Damien Tan Rong Tai
    • Yap Wei Rong
  • M3W (iOS category)
    • Cheok Jianzhong Matthew
    • Lee Xian Jieh
    • Liew Wee Keat
    • Sim Xiangli
  • JPPJFF (Mobile Web category)
    • Long Jinghan
    • Rong Juancheng
    • Wang Yong
    • Wu Qi
  • AppSycos (Windows Phone 7 category) (Overall Winner)
    • Amulya Khare
    • Chong Kwok Hoe, Ivan
    • Mohit Singh Kanwal
    • Rajul Gupta

Congratulations, once again, to all iCreate winning teams!

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in The Straits Times, 2 August 2011
by Leow Si Wan

The Education Resource Centre of the University Town (UTown) is poised to become a souped-up learning hub for the National University of Singapore (NUS).

The $50 million, four-level building, to be open 24/7, bristles with technology that will promote the active exchange of ideas among students, including collaborations across disciplines....

During a media tour yesterday, the director of NUS' Centre for Instructional Technology Ravi Chandran explained that the Education Resource Centre will be a test bed for collaborative technologies.

He said: 'We are working with companies to test the latest software and hardware, and if it works well here, we plan to extend these technologies to the Kent Ridge campus.'

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by Jeffery TAY

Abstract

With increased focus on end user experience, it is extremely important to understand their usage behavior and tune our systems to enhance their experience. Capturing usage information not only helps us understand their behavior, 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 had us surprised.

The presentation 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 eLearning Forum Asia 2011 in NTU, Singapore. 8, 9 & 10 June 2011.

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Good news for those who have been waiting eagerly for the release of the IVLE Learning API (LAPI).

The LAPI is now available at http://wiki.nus.edu.sg/display/ivlelapi/.

Do note that this website will be constantly updated. Please check regularly for changes.

For those teams interested in developing mobile applications for students related services, there will be web services for CORS, NUS Bulletin and other student data.

As for Geo-location related applications for NUS community, geo-locations of certain landmarks will be made available.
More information would be shared during the kick off event. Additional help with the web services can be made through the iCreate Mobility Challenge 2011 forum.

Join the iCreate Mobility Challenge today!

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in New York Times, 1 May 2011
by Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop

Misha Petrovic, an assistant professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore who has been using wiki tools for five semesters, said he believed that using the wiki format made the learning experience more dynamic. The approach encourages peer-to-peer learning, rather than passive waiting for the instructor’s feedback, he said.

Mr. Petrovic, who has also taught in the United States and Europe, notes that in the context of Asian culture, wikis can help students who tend to be less outspoken.

“Many here are often uncomfortable speaking in front of the class,”’ he said, “so dividing them into wiki teams and allowing them to contribute from home and at their own pace works great.”

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