Seminar a. The Asian Association of Open Universities AAOU Annual

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2. Meeting a. Centre

’ s Director Meeting Malaysia, 11-15 July 2005 The 2005 CDM was held on 11-15 July 2005 at Park Royal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was attended by SEAMEO Secretariat Director, Dr. Edilberto C de Jesus, SEAMEO Secretariat staff, the centre’s directors, representatives of World Bank, and KEDI as observers. SEAMOLEC was represented by Mrs. Paulina Pannen Director and Mr. Timbul Pardede PR Marketing Manager. In the meeting, SEAMOLEC Director as Task Force Coordinator for SEAMEO Proposal on HELP for Aceh and North Sumatera reported that SEAMOLEC has received proposals from 7 seven SEAMEO Centre’s. The proposals were developed based on each Centre’s strength and excellence, to be submitted for funding to donor agencies.

b. High Official Meeting Thailand, 14 November 2005

SEAMOLEC Director, Paulina Pannen and Mr. Abubakar SEAMOLEC IT Manager participated in the High Officials Meeting. Concurrent to the HOM, SEAMEO was also conducted regional workshop on “value- based Water and Sanitation Education in Southeast Asian School on 21-24 November 2005. From SEAMOLEC participated by Ms. Isti Rokhiyah SEAMOLEC Expert.

c. SEAMEO Council Conference Singapore, 22-24 March 2006

The 41 st SEAMEO Council Conference was held in Singapore. It was jointly organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Singapore and SEAMEO Secretariat and was held at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore. A total 129 participants attended the Conference among them representatives of the 10 SEAMEO Member States, the newly proclaimed Member State of Timor Leste. The conference was ended by the Council acclaimed decision to hold the 2 nd ASED and 42 nd SEAMEO Council Conference in Indonesia in 2007. SEAMOLEC Annual Report July 2005 – June 2006 26

D. IT DEVELOPMENT

In the area of IT system development and consulting services, the Centre has started on exploring the development of virtual campus, using Web Course Tools WebCT as the learning management system. SEAMOLEC provides an incubator system for education institutionsindividuals who are interested in developing and trying out web-based courses or e-learning initiatives. In Indonesia, the provision of the incubator virtual system has been carried out through a collaboration with Directorate General of Higher Education, MONE. Furthermore, SEAMOLEC has signed Memorandum of Understanding MoU with Harvest International Theological Seminary Institute HITS to offer online course for its ODL program. At the Regional level, SEAMOLEC, has signed MoU with SEAMEO SEARCA, Philippines to offer e-learning course of Natural Research Management NRM. In addition, the Centre also hosts the Teaching Clinics in its website. The teaching clinics is a collaborative project among Directorate General of Higher Education DGHE, MONE, provincial government, universities teachers colleges, and UNDP-Bappenas to provide a referral center for teachers in remote areas to be involved in continuous professional development, via the use of ICT network.