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Makale Özeti:
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International Symposium on Open, Distance and E-Learning held at Discovery Kartika
Plaza Hotel at Bali, Indonesia by hosted by ICT Centre for Education, Ministry of
National Education of the Republic Indonesia was a unique forum for scientific
expositions on the progress of development and implementation on the fast-growing
ICT global network, especially in the field of open, distance and e-learning. It was an
excellent engagement of distinguished researchers, academicians, practitioners and
policy makers from across the globe for the exchange of views and for sharing and
acknowledging the contributions towards solving multinational problems with mutual
synergy and collaboration.
The theme of the symposium - The Emerging Technology for Teaching and Learning: A
new paradigm of learning was followed by the sub themes 1. ICT in Education 2. New
Technologies and New Learning 3. Quality Assurance in ODEL and 4. ODEL
Sustainability-Implementation. The symposium objective was to acquire, share and
distribute the ideas, inputs, results and recommendations of the development on
implementation of ICT for Open, Distance and E-Learning with the expectations of the
presence and contribution to the deliberation and hence adding value to the quality of
the symposium and enriching the experiences of the participants.
The entire programme was well designed for presentations of 4 keynote speakers, 4 –
5 speakers in each of 4 plenary sessions and 40 parallel speakers of the technical
sessions. It was important that the overall quality of each of the presentations and
participations in all through the symposium was assessed by taking feedback reports
from the participants through questionnaires in a prescribed evaluation form. The
distinguished speakers were from different countries home and abroad e.g. Australia,
Bangladesh, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, U.S.A. etc.
The speakers from different countries and institutions had the opportunity to interact
with each other, share knowledge, views, expertise and experiences with participants
from all around the world, encouraging effort towards building society‘s ICT-awareness
for a better life. The proposed summary of the recommendations in four areas of Open,
Distance, and E-learning, i.e., policy, implementation, technology, and quality
assurance are enclosed. The relevant figures and photographs are also included along
with the list of the presented papers.
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