Greetings from the Second International Conference on Open and Flexible Education (ICOFE 2015), at the Open University of Hong Kong OUUK), Kowloon. GIn their welcome, Professor Danny S N Wong, VP Academic at OUUK pointed out that as long ago as 2000 university was using PDAs for assessment in nursing courses. He pointed out, for the benefit of the younger delegates, that PDAs "Personal Digital Assistants" were predecessors of smart phones of today. ;-)
In the conference workshop "Implementing effective e-Learning in Hong Kong schools through the adoption of Open Textbooks", Dr K S Yuen, the Director of Educational Technology and Publishing at OUKH, gave us a hands-on demonstration of their Open Textbooks Project. This has been focused on school books, but they might expand into tertiary books: http://www.opentextbooks.org.hk/about_open_textbooks ps: More from the conference in my blog: http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2015/07/mobile-open-university-education-in.html -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
