MoE, Yi Ecomodern Solution Enhance Education With E-Learning Project
By Za'im Zaini & Amin Hosni

Bandar Seri Begawan - The days of students jotting down or drawing on paper will be over as one of the initiatives under the e-Education plan, the e-Learning project “The Design, Verification, Commissioning, Implementation and Maintenance of e-Learning Systems and Strategies, MOE/EGOV/ICT/002-2/2004”, was signed yesterday between the Ministry of Education and Yi Ecomodern Solutions Sdn Bhd at the Chancellor's Hall, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD).

Present as guest of honour and to witness the signing ceremony was Dyg Hjh Norjum Hj Yusop, Deputy Permanent Secretary (Corporate Services), Ministry of Education.

Signing on behalf of the ministry was Mr Lim Jock Cheng, Director of ICT. Also in attendance to witness the event was Dr Yong Chee Tuan, Project Manager.

Meanwhile, signing on behalf of Yi Ecomodern Solutions Sdn Bhd was Mr Philip Yeo Boon Guan, Executive Director, and Ms Lai Chei Fah, Administration/ Finance Executive.

The event began with a recital of the surah al-Fatihah and a doa.

A welcoming remark was delivered by Dr Yong Chee Tuan, who spoke on the project. This was followed by the signing ceremony and a project presentation by YI Ecomodern Solutions Sdn Bhd.

Among the main objectives of the e-Learning project is to deliver the benefits of using Internet technologies to enhance learning environment through a learning management system platform.

The effective implementation of e-Learning to all A-Level, technical, vocational and nursing colleges, as well as the Institute Teknologi Brunei (ITB) and UBD, will help students to develop greater confidence and ownership in developing digital literacy.

Teachers and lecturers will be encouraged to adopt these easy-to-use authoring tools and to create contents, which can be readily distributed, reused and modified.

The project also aims at installing an instructional design facility to catalyse the authoring and collaboration of contents.

Awarded to Yi Ecomodern Solutions Sdn Bhd, the one-year project will implement four subsequent years of maintenance and support. This project is expected to bring in international best practices and e-Learning expertise, particularly from Singapore, the USA, India and Pakistan.

Regionally, effective use of e-Leaning is still very much at an early stage in many schools and colleges. However, by the end of the implementation period, the Ministry of Education will perhaps gain a milestone in terms of the early adoption of a standardised learning management system across the government higher academic institutions in the Sultanate.

E-Learning programme is one of the five pillars of the e-Education plan. It was crafted in 2004 in conjunction with the 81 NDP e-Government initiatives. Having considered the potential benefits and challenges, the relevant projects under the e-Education plan were endorsed and approved by e-Government programme executive committee (EGPEC/EGSPEC) in November 2004. Since then, several pilot studies and Learning Management Systems (LMS) were implemented to explore the promises of using ICT to support learning and teaching. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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