ITUG Annual Meeting 2005 Hong Kong Education City 6 December 2005 http:www'hkedcity'net

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ITUG Annual Meeting 2005Hong Kong Education
City6 December 2005 http//www.hkedcity.net
Building the E-Learning City
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Agenda

• IT in Education in Hong Kong
• About HK Education City
• Our Vision and objectives
• Empowering Learner with IT
• Empowering Teachers with IT
• Enhancing Leadership capacity
• Supporting Professional Development
• Digital Resources for Learning
• Framework Architecture
• Key Challenges

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One-stop Education Portal

• Resources
• Over 19,000 resources
• 1,000hrs ETV clips
• Video library
• Curriculum content
• Electronic books

• Information
• ED News information
• Features stories
• Activities information
• Career study

IRIS Model

• Interaction
• Small Campus
• English Campus
• Arts Channel, Media Campus
• Students, Teachers, Parents Channel
• Special Education Channel
• Chatroom, Forum
• Subject i-world

• Services
• i-desk
• i-world
• i-house
• Email
• Forums
• Tools

http//www.hkedcity.net
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Our Target Users
Daily Page View 4.5million Daily Resources
Download 12, 000 Daily Search Request 2,400
Registered Users - 1.7 million Active Users
160, 000
Teachers
Students
Schools
Parents

• http//www.hkedcity.net
• Award
• Global Junior Challenge Grand Award in Rome
• Computer World Honors Medals Award in San
  Francisco
• Stockholm Challenge Award in Stockholm
• Top 10 Healthy Websites Award from 2002-2004 in
  HK
• Hall of Fame Award Grand Award in HK
• Hong Kong YAHOO! Pick of the Year 2002
• Teachers Most Favourite and Visited Websites

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Vision and Objectives
To build a learning City for Hong Kong
Vision
Professional Education Portal
Dissemination Promotion Window
OUR ROLES
Market Facilitator
E-learning Training Platform
Hub of Educational Resources
To Foster partnership facilitate e-business
development for education market
To bring new teaching /learning experience into
home classroom through use of new learning
technologies
To foster sharing , collaboration, and
Partnership among different stakeholders
through activities online communities
To promote IT culture For life-wide learning
To support education curriculum reform
To serve schools educators with IT support
services
To support promote the use of IT for
life-wide life-long learning
MISSION
To build a one-stop education portal and
resources centre for teaching and learning
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Information Technology for Learning in a New Era
Five-year Strategy (1998-2002)

• 1300 primary secondary schools are all
  broadband connected
• 95 schools developed their own web sites and
  over 60 with intranet or learning management
  system
• Student-Computer ratio
• Secondary school (7.4) Primary school (4.6)
  Special school (2)
• All teachers has acquired at least the basic
  skills and embraced IT as teaching tool 77
  Intermediate level 6 Advanced level
• Students are using IT and the Internet in
  project-based learning

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Information Technology in Education the Way
Forward (2002-2007) Integration and application
of IT in teaching learning - e-learning

• Position as a web-based e-learning platform that
  supports both technology-enhanced and
  technology-delivered learning
• In various forms like virtual learning, online
  learning, distance learning, computer-assisted
  learning and web-based learning
• To bring about
• Learning-on-demand
• Learning for everyone
• Peer and group learning and teaching via IT
• Customized and personalized learning materials
  services
• Internet access to collections of quality
  resources services
• Interactive communications among students

Learning Environment
Empowerment of Learner
Forms of Communication
Content of Learning
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Vision and Objectives

• Empowering Teachers with IT
• Empowering Learners with IT
• Enhancing the Leadership Capacity and Capability
  of Schools for the Knowledge Age
• Digital Resources for Learning
• Sharing and Continuous Professional Development

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Empowering Learners with IT

• To support and develop life-long learners with
  different needs and abilities
• To provide two-way interactive educational
  services technologies which transcend the
  barriers of time and place associated with
  traditional classroom-type teaching (e.g. TV
  News)
• To provide a learner-centered learning system for
  learners
• To enable learners as participatory learning
  managers
• To build a virtual community of learners (e.g.
  Parent School)

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Empowering Teachers with IT

• To enable teachers to offer leadership guidance
  to learners anywhere and anytime
• To provide media rich authoring tools for
  teachers to virtually create learning materials
  from existing rich media resources (e.g. General
  Studies Subject iWorld)
• To provide a one-stop sharing platform of good
  pedagogy and practice (e.g. LS)
• To encourage professional development and
  personalized training for teachers
• To build teacher confidence and knowledge for
  them to plan, develop interesting and effective
  lessons to motivate learners
• To enable teachers to develop and share reusable
  learning objects

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Enhancing the Leadership Capacity and Capability
of Schools for the Knowledge Age

• E-Leadership Training Platform (with web
  conferencing)
• Virtual community for principals
• eProtfolio to track skills and professional
  development programs to address specific areas of
  needs and to enhance capability of schools for
  the Knowledge Age
• Tools to help schools to capture teachers
  expertise, skills, experience and knowledge

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Sharing and Continuous Professional Development

• Teacher TV Observe lessons online and to share
  the good practice of other schools
• TeacherNet Good practice dissemination
• Subject iWorlds Communities for subject
  teachers
• T2T - Communities for administrative roles
• Online training workshops
• ePortfolio for reflection and CPD hours

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Digital Resources for Learning

• One-stop digital resource repository for
  teachers, students parents
• Exchange and sharing platform for reusable
  learning objects
• Metadata to help learners to locate appropriate
  learning objects
• Digital Rights Management (DRM) for video and
  audio resources (Pilot)
• Marketplace for digital resources - EdMall LTRB

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Learning Environment
Managed Learning Environment including
synchronous and asynchronous components
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HKEdcity E-Learning Architecture
ACCESS
TIERS
(Presentation)
Web browser
Proprietary client
Mobile client
APPLICATIONS
Virtual Classroom
Learning admin.
Content mgmt.
Authoring
Skills and comp. mgmt.
Assessment tools
(Application)
SERVICES
Collaborations
Content
Chat
Tutoring
Threaded discussions
Coaching
Third-party resources access
Multimedia
Content assembly
Data access
METADATA
Learner profiles
Descriptions of learner objects
Competencies
Catalog information on courses
DATA
(Data)

• Demographics
• Enrollments
• Registrations

• Reusable learning objects
• Multimedia
• Authoring templates

• Third-party content
• Documents
• Publications
• Library content

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Scalable E-Learning Framework

• Increased collaboration around e-learning,
  facilitate synchronous and asynchronous learning,
  bringing the education communities closer to
  long-held goals of content portability and access
  to next-generation tools and technology
• Provide opportunities for learners to increase
  their participation in the management of the
  learning process, often creating changes in the
  relationship between teachers and learners
• Integrated learner modeling and coaching to allow
  for a full-fledged self learning approach leading
  to engage learning
• Just-in-time" access to learning opportunities
  for a community of widely distributed learners

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Network Architecture

• Full HA configuration with stateful failover.
• 300 Mbps (burstable to 600 Mbps) connection to
  HKIX (local traffic) and 14Mbps for overseas
  traffic.
• Server load balancing to provide horizontal
  scalability by distributing load across servers
  and handle ad-hoc event.
• SAN/NAS EMC CX-700 series 26 TB storage.

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HKedcity.net Statistics
Daily Graph
Weekly Graph
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Challenges Ahead

• Digital Rights Management
• HelpDesk and Customer Support
• E-Commerce in Education
• E-Learning standard and interoperability issues
• Lack of high-quality digital content that engages
  the learner
• Lack of high quality courseware which should
  consider learning principles, layout and
  navigation
• Challenges faced by academic text book
• Readiness of teachers to embrace these changes

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Teachers share teaching experience and
pedagogical mattes as part of their continual
professional development on the e-learning
platform
School administrator and IT coordinator can make
use of the various IT tools and services to
facilitate school in the management of daily
operation
Teachers are provided with quality digital
resources and content for their classroom teaching
Students can select learning resources and
activities according to his/her own interest,
ability and level for meaningful learning
Parents can make use of the range of resources
and services on parenting and develop a closer
links with their child/childrens schools
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Jacqueline Cheng CEO of Hong Kong Education
City Ltd
Thank You ! jcheng_at_hkedcity.net
http//www.hkedcity.net