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Distance Education in Asia Pacific

Article Index
Distance Education in Asia Pacific
The Need for Distance Education
ICT Usage in Asia Pacifica Distance Education
Current Priorities
A distinctly Asia Pacific Pedagogy
Appendix
APPENDIX

Appendix 5.1A
The PANdora Asian DE network

The PANdora network project (2005-2008) is a unique collaborative initiative designed to develop the potential of DE across Asia. Sponsored by IDRC in Ottawa, Canada and operated by its PAN Asia division in Singapore, the project includes nine research and development (R&D) sub-projects involving DE specialists in 13 Asian nations: Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. The acronym "PANdora" stands for "PAN Asia Networking Distance and Open Resource Access".

The nine PANdora sub-projects have addressed:

1. Accessibility, acceptance, and effects of DE technologies

2. Viability of mobile SMS technologies for non-formal DE

3. Evaluation and adaptation of DE open source software

4. ICT-based distance teacher education

5. Instructional design training for ICT-based DE

6. A repository of reusable learning objects for Asian DE

7. e-Assessment methods and models for student evaluation

8. Best practices in DE technology for capacity-building

9. DE practices for policy recommendations

The organizations participating in the 2005-2008 PANdora project include:

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan

English for Special Purposes Foundation (ESPF), Mongolia

Fisheries College, Bac Ninh, Vietnam

Health Sciences University of Mongolia (HSUM)

Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam

ICT4D ASEAN Collaboratory, Indonesia

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India

InfoCon Ltd, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Institute of Information Technology (IIT), Vietnam

Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MoEYS), Cambodia

Molave Development Foundation, Philippines

National Science Council, Lao PDR

Phnom Penh International University (PPIU), formerly IIC

Royal Government of Cambodia

Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan

Science Technology and Environment Agency (STEA), Laos

Sukothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU), Thailand

Universitas Terbuka (UT), Indonesia

University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka

University of Hong Kong (UHK)

University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU)

Virtual University of Pakistan (VU)

The PANdora project has generated three volumes of project conclusions, a modular guidebook containing practical guidelines for DE development and administration in Asian educational institutions, conference papers, articles in academic journals, policy briefs, and online audio discussions. The project website is at www.pandora-asia.org.

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