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4. Ongoing Research Project
In the year 2006, the research division is carrying out three research projects. The description of the research projects are as follows:
a. Policy Analysis of ICT Utilization
The project is continuation of a collaborative effort between SEAMOLEC and DTVE. The project is intended to study the policy
platform of ICT in Technical and vocational education in Indonesia. The policy platform including: the objectives, infrastructure such as program,
human resources, softwarehardware, etc, and result of the program implementation; benchmarking, budgeting, evaluation and monitoring,
as well as feedback from stakeholders. The result of the research is supposed to yield models of ICT policy implementation for the teaching
and learning system. Other follow up of that research is the analysis of the attitude of the stakeholders the official, principals, teachers,
students, parents and the users toward ICT Implementation in the vocationaltechnical school system.
b. Quality Assurance in Open Distance Learning
This project is to describe the Quality Assurance QA in Higher Education, especially in Open Distance Learning ODL. Over the past
years, the development and the implementation policies to assure the quality have become a priority of distance education for higher
education system. Quality Assurance is becoming even more important
as distance education becomes popular and entering a period of borderless e-learning.
The research begins with observation of the development and implementation of quality
assurance policies for distance education in
the ASEAN countries. The results of the study are supposed to yield models and procedures
of Quality Assurance in ODL in ASEAN countries.
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c. Development of Principles of E-Pedagogy
This research is about a number of issues, presuppositions and questions on appropriate pedagogies for developing e-learning at
distance education. E-pedagogy might consist of e-learning design that incorporates educational quality, values and effectiveness of teaching,
learning, and assessment activities supported by technology. The results of the research are models of e-pedagogy in ODL in ASEAN
countries. The three projects necessitate all SEAMOLEC staff to participate in
anyone of the project, so that they can obtain hand on experiences in the research activity.
Beside the three main research programs the RD division will also conduct other programs, such as:
a. Study on feasibility of Transborder Education b. Develop out of book on ODL Profile in Asian countries
c. Monitoring and evaluating the results of the work of the Training and IT
Division, d. The Deutsche Bank Project of Implementation of Alternative Curriculum
for Aceh e. The development of learning materials for Value-based Water and
Sanitation Education and the implementation of USINTEC Program US-Indonesia-Teacher Education Consortium
