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

本研究的目的是：(1)调查先进资讯科技在北美、西欧和澳洲等领先地区高等教育实施的最新趋势，以协助部署国内教育改革；(2)分析与发达国家和亚太地区发展中国家在这些领域进行国际合作的可能性。在最终报告中，我们回顾了电子学习的国际传播、本地化和质量保证、数字学习资源的共享和再利用以及信息通信技术的远程高等教育，收集了不同国家的各种案例。结果报告如下：“基于电子学习的教育改革：国际网络学习社区的建立”、“电子学习的多元文化视角：共存与协作”、“电子学习的质量保证”、“数字学习资料的共享与再利用及其质量保证”、“加拿大虚拟大学：英属哥伦比亚技术大学的案例”，“开放学习机构（OLA）的介绍”，“国家教育统计中心关于授予学位的大专院校远程教育报告的审查”，“。《基于国际宽带连接的远程协同学习》、《基于宽带网络的老年人游戏情境下计算机编程教育案例研究》等16篇论文。

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.