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Open Education in Canda by Dr. AKM Matiul Alam
1. INDIA – CANADA CONFERENCE ON OPEN
AND FLEXIBLE EDUCATION
Mumbai, Feb.20-22, 2013
Open Education in Canada
Matiul Alam
MET Program, UBC
matiul.alam@ubc.ca
2. The Canadian Context
• Canada as a country
• Canadian Education System
• Open and Distance Learning Provisions
- Historical Perspective
3.
4. UBC at a Glance
56,382 students on two campuses, Vancouver and Okanagan
8,437 international students
11,257 degrees granted in 2010/2011
$10 billion in economic impact
$549 million per year in research funding
149 companies spun off from UBC research
275,000 alumni in 120 countries
13,893 faculty and staff
22nd in world university rankings, one of three Canadian universities in the top 40
1st Canadian university to achieve targets set by Kyoto Protocol
www.ubc.ca/facts
5. Open and Distance Learning Provisions
Historical Perspective
Some Examples of ongoing programs
The MET Program
ALGC Program
7. Learning through Interactive Voice Educational System(LIVES,
A UBC & COL project)
Goal of LIVES is to provide low literate and even
illiterate people in developing countries with
– An asynchronous learning tool based on auditory cues
utilizing the existing telephony/mobile infrastructure
– Easy-to-use Learning Management System & Learning
Content Management System
8. LIVES is a set of optimized computers equipped
with specially designed software and hardware to
deliver educational material over the phone.
Each of LIVES components were decided to be designed
with certain goals in mind, including:
1. Ability to provide pre-recorded learning material
to specific groups of people at specific times in
specific ways. 2. Asynchronous: students can learn at
their preferred time.
3. Bidirectional: students can answer to the questions
and system can respond instantly. 4. Does not require
students to purchase special equipments. 5. Ability to
track user progress.
9. Rumana: A success story due to institutional support
& innovations in communication technologies!
11. Rumana Uses JAWS software
• JAWS (Job Access With Speech) converts your
computer into a talking computer. It reads out
all the matter that is on the computer’s screen
through your computer’s speakers/
headphones, thus enabling a visually
challenged person to use the computer
independently and work on all MS Windows
applications.
15. Worthwhile Knowledge is the destination
NO MATTER HOW WE GET IT OR MAKE IT
as President Abul Kalam has said:
Beauty of knowledge is in it’s usefulness, not in the mode of transportation
16. Educating is a way of loving others
Most importantly, we must
love humans irrespective of
who they are, where they are,
and make education available
to them in every possible
way. It is everyone’s life long
right. We just need to extend
our hands very far with love
to celebrate all our lives
together! Open and distance
learning, if flexible, can
empower our extended hands
far beyond our imaginations.
