The COMPETEN-SEA USM team conducted a 3-hour hands-on introduction workshop for the participants of the pilot project to the online course, JomDuit!. The objectives of the workshop were to get the participants to: create an email using Gmail register an account on the COMPETENSEA EdX platform register for courses and get started on learning. The …

Tasek Gelugor, Penang – On February 19th, the COMPETENSEA’s ‘MOOC Entrepreneurship for Single Mothers’ – Jom Duit! – was presented by USM researchers to a small group of very enthusiastic single mothers from the surrounding area of Seberang Prai, Penang. A total of 23 single mothers showed up and participated throughout the session.   The …

  Prof. Carlos Delgado Kloos and Carlos Alario-Hoyos from UC3M visited UNSRAT in Manado (Indonesia) in the week of January 21, 2019. As part of this visit, it was possible to discuss the state of the MOOC to be produced by UNSRAT on entrepreneurship for isolated fishing communities and to verify the creation of an …

Quezon City, Philippines. The paper “The Place of the Virtual in Mobile Environments: Rural Health Vork Through MOOCs in Pangasinan” by Dennis Batangan, Marita Concepcion Guevara, Peter Sy, Joseph Palis, John Carlo Navera & Bianca Nicole Vinoya was presented by Joseph Palis to the National Conference on Geographical Studies held at the Pavilion 2 of the University …

Cologne, Germany. On November 21st the COMPETEN-SEA project was presented at ASEM Education in a digital world: bridging the continents – connecting the people conference in Cologne, Germany. The conference aims to foster cooperation and understanding between Europe and Asia. It targets higher education institutions and political stakeholders in both regions. We presented a poster with the initial results of the …

“Special MOOC Panel on Women’s Empowerment through Technology” at Dewan Persidangan Universiti, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Photo credit: Prof. Noraida Endut, KANITA@USM Penang, Malaysia. The COMPETEN-SEA Project was present at the 4th KANITA International Conference on Gender Studies (KICGS) 2018 and members of the project hosted a session entitled ‘Special MOOC Panel on Women’s Empowerment through Technology’ in order to …

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 …