MANILA, Philippines — Last 10-12 January 2018, the Ateneo de Manila University, in partnership with the Provincial Health Office of Pangasinan, successfully hosted the second Competen-SEA training workshop on MOOCs in Quezon City (10 January 2018) and Lingayen, Pangasinan (11-12 January 2018). The aim of the event was to train teachers and staff from Philippine …

USM, MALAYSIA, 9 Nov 2017 — A three-day workshop on designing massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been successfully held at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia from 6 to 8 of November. The first capacity building workshop was attended by 83 participants from 10 universities as well as representatives from UNESCO and …

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA, 9 Nov 2017 – In order to strategise for an effective delivery of MOOC for disadvantaged single mothers in Malaysia, alliances need to be built with key governmental and non-governmental agencies in the country that have the mandate and mission to provide support and aid to the relevant single mothers. The Competen-SEA project …

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA, 9 Nov 2017 – MCMC is the regulator for the converging communications and multimedia industry in Malaysia. The discussion at MCMC was chaired by Ms Laurel Tan Bee Hong, who is Head of the Department of Content Applications Industry Development at MCMC. According to 2013 data, MCMC has set up 500 internet centres, called …

The new year starts with a new training and capacity building event by the members of the COMPETEN-SEA project. After a successful first workshop in Malaysia, the consortium members are organising from 10  – 12 January 2018 a second training workshop on the design of Massive Open Online Courses for disadvantaged communities in the Philippines. …

UPDATE: The materials used during the workshop days can be found here: competen-sea.eu/workshop-malaysia/. Date: 6-8 November 2017 Event Address: University Conference Hall (DPU), Chancellery Building, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Contact us at +604 653 3001 or events@nav6.usm.my Registration: bit.ly/registerCOMPETENSEA Registration Closing Date: 23rd October 2017 COMPETEN-SEA project is a Capacity Building in …

Members of the COMPETEN-SEA consortium have organised a panel during the Fifth European MOOC Stakeholder Summit (eMOOCs 2017) on 22 May 2017 in Madrid. A recording of the panel discussion is available below.

On the 19th of May 2017 the project consortium had a meeting in Madrid at UC3M. During the meeting, partners from Southeast-Asia presented initial results of the feasibility study and the profile of the target groups of the three MOOCs offered by the partnership. In addition, the partners discussed the capacity-building events per country and developed an …

The Competen-SEA consortium started 2017 with a first project meeting on the shores of the beautiful island of Bali in Indonesia between 6-8 of February. The meeting was hosted by Universitas Brawijaya and gathered expert delegates from all partner institutions. The aim of the meeting was to tackle matters related to the preparation of the project work. The …

The first Consortium meeting of the Competen-SEA project was hosted in Madrid by Universidad Madrid Carlos III between 24-25 October 2016. Delegates from all ten partner institutions joined the meeting in order to lay the groundwork for the three-year project. The two-day meeting was kicked off with presentations made by each of the project partners, introducing their …