From September 26th to 28th members of the COMPETEN-SEA team participated in the Learning with MOOCs Conference in Madrid Spain. Carlos Delgado Kloos, Allison Kolling, Peter Sy and Armin Weinberger represented COMPETEN-SEA at the conference. Armin Weinberger presented our paper entitled, Addressing Societal Needs through MOOCs in South East Asia. Additionally, COMPETEN-SEA contributed a poster …

Delft, The Netherlands, April 2018 – The Competen-SEA consortium held a symposium entitled MOOCs with a purpose in Southeast Asia. The panel was moderated by Prof. dr. Carlos Delgado Kloos, while the invited speakers were members of the consortium: Dr. Poline Bala and Prof. dr. Narayanan Kulathuramajyer from University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia, Dr. Achmad Basuki from Universitas Brawijaya, …

Professors Carlos Delgado Kloos and Carlos Alario-Hoyos from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid travelled last July to the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, as part of the COMPETEN-SEA project. Specifically, they visited the community of single mothers with children in Bario, and also held a workshop on MOOC design and development at UNIMAS, in Kota …

Delft, The Netherlands. On the eve of the OEGlobal 2018 conference, all Competen-SEA partners gathered in a consortium meeting to discuss the current state of the project and upcoming activities. The morning kicked off with a short introduction of the lead partner, OUNL, with updates about coordinator changes and outcomes of the submission of the first technical …

Between March 26th and April 10th, Saarland University Professor Armin Weinberger and Allison Kolling conducted study visits to the partner universities in Malaysia and Indonesia. The goals of these visits included: Putting the workshop shop trainings into practice Making decisions regarding the design of the respectives MOOCs Documenting the designs both in text and visual …

Malang, Indonesia. The third Competen-SEA workshop has been successfully held on February 12 – 14, 2018 in Malang, Indonesia. About 90 participants from various institutions attended the workshop at MIPA Center Building, Universitas Brawijaya. Most of the participants were lecturers and staffs from Universitas Brawijaya, Universitas Sam Ratulangi, and Universitas Tanjungpura. The purpose of this …

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 …

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 …

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 – 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 …