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Educat ion of every ASEAN member count ries. They discussed t he f ol l ow-up act ions on t he 42
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SEAMEO Council Conf erence in Bal i, Indonesia. This year SEAMEO HOM discussed about st at us and ut il izat ion of associat e
membership cont ribut ions t o t he SEAMEO Secret ariat , st at us and ut il izat ion of Thail and’ s addit ional cont ribut ions t o t he SEAMEO Secret ariat , st at us of
t he SEAMEO Educat ional Devel opment Fund SEDF, invest ment of f unds at t he SEAMEO Secret ariat FY 2005 2006, f inancial audit report f or FY 2006
2007, and SEAMEO consol idat ed t hree year budget .
c. SEAMEO Council Conference 2008
The Minist ry of Educat ion, Malaysia, host ed t he 43
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SEAMEO Council Conf erence in Kual a Lumpur, gat hering al l t he educat ion minist ers and high of f icial s of t he
11 SEAMEO member st at es in t he annual meet ing t hat t ook up issues on access, equit y and qualit y of educat ion, among ot her educat ion policies and init iat ives.
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SEAMEC was hel d on 13- 14 March 2008 at t he Mandarin Orient al Hot el .
It was preceded by t he ICT Conf erence and Exhibit ion on 10-12 March 2008 at t he Kual a Lumpur Convent ion Cent re. The highl ight s of t his year’ s council
conf erence are t he signing of t he renewed Agreement bet ween SEAMEO and UNESCO, t he Pol icy Forum l ed by MOE Mal aysia t hat discussed “
Br i dgi ng t he Educat i on Gap: Impr ovi ng Access, Equi t y and Qual i t y – Sout heast Asi a and
Beyond, ” and a discussion f orum on t he progress of Educat ion f or Al l in Sout heast Asia.
2. Int ernat ional Conference on Educat ional Research: The Way Forward Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10-11 July 2007
The conf erence organized by Asia-Europe Inst it ut e, Universit y of Mal aya, Kual a Lumpur as a part of a j oint research proj ect wit h SINCERE Support ing Int ernat ional
Cooperat ion in Educat ional Research Net work f rom Europe.
Direct or of SEAMOLEC was invit ed t o present research and devel opment act ivit ies of SEAMOLEC, and it s f ut ure research agenda on t he area of ODL in Sout heast Asia.
3. APEID Tokyo Seminar Workshop Tokyo, Japan, 24-31 Oct ober 2007
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in t he series of act ivit ies organized by Japanese t he Nat ional Commission f or UNESCO, Depart ment of Int ernat ional Cooperat ion
Minist ry of Educat ion, Cul t ure, Sport s, Science and Technol ogy MEXT, Tokyo Gakugei Universit y and t he Asia Pacif ic Programme of Educat ional Innovat ion f or
Devel opment APEID - Asia and Pacif ic Regional Bureau f or Educat ion, UNESCO Bangkok.
The Tokyo Semi nar -Wor kshop 2007 w as conduct ed w i t h a speci al t heme on Promot ion of Educat ion f or Sust ainabl e Devel opment ESD-ICT Int egrat ion and
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Teacher Training. 40 expert s f rom nat ional inst it ut ions and regional organizat ions part icipat ed t o share inf ormat ion and experiences on educat ional innovat ion f or
development , including ESD-ICT int egrat ed t eacher t raining development s, nat ional pol icies, curricul ums, inst ruct ional mat erial s, various capacit y buil ding act ivit ies
in t he int egrat ion of ESD and ICT, and nat ional plans of act ion. Innovat ive Pract ices, Vi deos, Sof t war e and Websi t es on t he i nt egr at i on of ESD and ICT wer e al so
ext ensivel y discussed during t he seminar-workshop. The Direct or of SEAMOLEC, al ong wit h represent at ives f rom SEAMEO RECSAM and SEAMEO INNOTECH were
among t he part icipant s of t he Tokyo Seminar-Workshop 2007.
4. Comput er and Advanced Technology in Educat ion 2007 Beij ing, China, 8- 10 Oct ober 2007
Comput er and Advanced Technol ogy i n Educat i on CATE 2007 Int er nat i onal Conf erence was host ed by t he Beij ing Normal Universit y Beij ing, China. Wit h t he
t heme of Globalizat ion of Educat ion t hrough Advanced Technology, t he Conf erence act as a maj or f orum f or t he present at ion of innovat ive devel opment s and t he
exchange of inf ormat ion bet ween researchers and pract it ioners on t he use of t echnol ogy in educat ion worl dwide. More t han 300 part icipant s and present ers
f rom about 27 count ries worl dwide part icipat ed in t he Conf erence.
The t opics of discussions incl uded Advanced Sof t ware and Hardware Syst ems and Tool s f or Technol ogy-Based Educat ion; St udies on Advanced Technol ogy-Based
Teaching and Learning, Qual it y; Eval uat ion and Assessment Issues of Technol ogy- Based Educat i on; Nat i onal and Int er nat i onal Pr oj ect s on Technol ogy-Based
Educat ion; Impl ement at ion of E-Learning in Companies; Cont ent and Curricul um Development Issues of Technology-Based Educat ion; Virt ual Realit y and Mult imedia
Syst ems; Innovat i ve Technol ogy-Based Teachi ng and Lear ni ng; Col l abor at i ve Learning; and Mobil e Learning.
SEAMOLEC Direct or part icipat ed in t he Conf erence and present ed a paper “ E- Learning Cont ent Devel opment in Indonesia: An Init iat ives” . The paper describes
SEAMOLEC’ s f acil it at ion t o t he init iat ives t aken by t he Government of Indonesia in devel oping e-l earning cont ent f or higher educat ion communit y in Indonesia.
5. ICEI 2008 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6-8 May 2008
