Wednesday, November 29, 2006

University-Level eLearning in ASEAN

This article briefly discusses the trends of eLearning in ASEAN. The author argues that moving towards eLearning model in higher education is to deal with the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and General Agreement on Trades in Services (GATS). US universities mentioned in the article include Jones International University as a first accredited virtual university, the University of Phoenix as the largest, and Capella University as the first to enter NASDAQ.
The university that I’m working, Assumption University, aims to offer eLearning to 100,000 students per year with its College of Internet Distance Education. The number of students reminds me U of Pheonix…

Reference: Charmonman, S. (2005). Univresity-level elearning in ASEAN. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society, August 4-7, 2005,Bangkok, Thailand http://cide.auplus.au.edu/images/21/PP11-fin-039-11.1-11.6.pdf

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