Overseas survey on the trends of educational reform and advanced IT Implementation in higher education

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The objectives of this research were (1) to survey the latest trends of advanced IT implementation in higher education in the leading areas, such as North America, Western Europe and Australia in order to contribute to the deployment of domestic educational reform and (2) to analyze the possibilities of international collaborations both with the developed countries and with developing countries in Asia-Pacific regions in these fields.In our final report, we reviewed on international dissemination of e-learning, its localization and quality assurance, sharing and re-use of digital learning resources and distance higher education by ICT, collected various cases in different countries. The results were reported as the following papers; "Educational reform based on e-learning : The establishment of an international web-based learning community", "Multi-cultural perspectives on e-learning : Co-existence and collaboration", "Quality assurance of e-Learning, ","Sharing and re-uses of digital learning materials and their quality assurance", "A Canadian virtual university : The case in Technical University of British Columbia", "An Introduction of Open Learning Agency (OLA)", "Review of a report from National Center for Educational Statistics on distance education at degree-granting post secondary institutions", ". "Distance Collaborative Learning via international broadband connections", "A case study of computer programming education in gaming situation for senior citizens over broadband network" and other 16 papers.