Arab Campus e-Learning Factory Samir Qasim Fakhro Professor, IT and Education Unesco Consultant Director, Arab Open University- Bahrain

Arab Campus E-learning System ( ACES ) Successful marriage between higher education & e-learning industry Delivering e-courseware using e-learning Factory environment

Role of the two parties of joint venture Arab Open University  Experimental environment for ACES  E-courseware development  Providing feedback and specifications to update ACES upon the uses of students, instructors, course designers, e-learning standards and LMS SCORM. Industry  Developing learning management system  IT support for the university  Updating LMS upon the feedback and the specifications provided by the academic faculty of AOU  Searching for high quality e-components to be plugged into ACES

AOU e-Courseware Factory AOU teams deliver e-courseware on assembly production lines using:  Qualified instructors specialized in each subject  Instructional design experts  Educational technology specialists  Multimedia designers

ACES e-Courseware Factory e-courseware contents is designed jointly with internationality reputed universities to improve e-learning and teaching methods and establish competitive edge for delivered products and services

ACES is a cyber environment designed for blended learning  ACES courseware contents helps reduce face to face teaching hours  ACES provides high quality learning culture and therefore achieves effective learning through:

ACES is a cyber environment designed for blended learning –accessibility for learning material anywhere anytime –collaborative communication tools used to build an online learning community to share ideas, discussions, solutions, collaborative learning …..

ACES is a cyber environment designed for blended learning –assessment: for both formative and summative assessment, measuring learning achievement and self assessment process –management: enabling instructors to guide the learning process, enabling students to manage their learning process

 ACES can be an effective learning environment for all the theoretical part of training sessions.  Face to face training sessions will focus on practical aspects ACES use in Training Sessions

 ACES will provide a rich collaborative environment for sharing information,best practices, success stories, discussions and consultancy through synchronous and asynchronous communication tools (forums, text,voice video chat and whiteboard )

 ACES based e-courses are delivered to a wide spectrum of people who feed on life- long learning  Life-long learning courses are produced at AOU by teams including qualified experts in specific fields as well as instructional design and multimedia specialists. ACES use in Life-Long Learning

 Learning materials, communication and assessment are available to all learners anytime and anywhere  People will have enjoy learning and communicating with other virtually via audio/video communication tools

 ACES provides high quality, rich and enhanced environment to build online communities  Organizations builds virtual communities for its members and audiences.  ACES provides appropriate environment to announce organizational activities and their follow up discussion forums ACES Community

 ACES provides rich collaborative environment for sharing enthusiastic information, ideas, values, success stories, discussions, online seminars and consultancy through synchronous and asynchronous communication tools (forums, text, voice/video chat and whiteboard )

Demonstration e-Courseware delivered at ACES e-learning Factory