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AEN International
Conference

March.2006
e-Learning Consortium Japan

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AEN International Conference

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AEN International conference overview

The AEN International Conference was held as follows:(1) Date and time held: December 14 – December 15, 2005
(2) Place:

17:30

Ariake Washington Hotel (3-1-28, Ariake, Koto-ku Tokyo)(3) Overview schedule: As shown in Table 6-1
Table 6-1 AEN International Conference schedule
First dayDecember 14, 2005 (Wed.)

9:00 – 13:00

WG1 conference

WG2 conference(15 minute break time)

Room: Cattleya

Room: Rindoh

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-18:15(15 minute break time )ALIVE

Visit to Waseda University

Room: Cattleya

Room: Waseda University No.14 hall

18:30-20:00

Social gathering

Place: Maple

1. Sponsor greeting
2. Self-introduction of each country
3. Closing
Second day

December 15, 2005 (Thu.)

9:00-12:00(15 minute break time)

ALIVE

Content demostration

Room: Cattleya

Lace: Rindoh

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-17:30

Entire conference(15 minute break time)

Place: Iris

1. Sponsor greeting
2. ADL lecture
3. e-Learning trend report of each country
4. WG/ALIVE report
5. AEN activity summarization
6. Closing greeting(4) Participants
The participants from Asian countries were 23 persons of 11 countries (Table 6-2).
Moreover, the participants from Japan were 30 (Table 6-3) including secretariat. In
addition to the above, Ms. Jennifer Brooks of ADL was specially participated.

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Table 6-2 Each Asian country participant list
Country nameCambodia
China
Indonesia
Korea
Laos
Malaysia
MyanmarPhilippine
Singapore
Thailand
Viet Nam

Number ofParticipant namepersonMr. Om/Mr. Sok Tha
Mr. Ronghuai Huang/Mr. Shenquan Yu
Mr. Robert Siagian/Mr. Binsar Siagian
Mr. Ju Hyung Lee/Mr. Choon Won Park/Mr. Jae Young shim
Ms. Khampheng Phathadavong
Mr. David Asirvatham/Mr. Muhammad Hasan
Dr. Pyke tin/Dr. Aye Thanda
Prof. Rufino Mananghaya/Dr. Benito Teenhankee
Mr. Lim Kin Chew/Mr. Danial Tan
Dr. Niracharapha Thongdhamachart/Mr. Wasin Sinthupinyo
Mr. Lam Quang Nam/Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Binh/Mr. tin Nguyen Ba

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Table 6-3 Domestic (Japan) participant list
Organization
belonged to

AEN committee
WG1 member

WG2 member
ALIVE member

Organization
belonged toNameTakashi SakamotoHidekuni Komatsu
Masatoshi Hirose
Kiyoshi Nakabayashi
Hiroshi Miyauchi
Minoru Toida
Shingo Shibata
Shuji Miyazawa
Ryoko Masujima
Tuyoshi Kumazawa
Kenichi Tsuji
Yoichi Kosaka
Tooru Nakjima
Jun Hua Ruan

METIeLC
CICC
Secretariat

Name
Masakuni Esaki
Ichiro Ohsawa
Naomasa Kawagoishi
Maki kikuta
Shuichi Tashiro
Kenji Kato
Yasuo Sekido
Mitsuyuki Nagatani
Chiaki Watanabe
Yoshiko Terada
Toshiyuki Kobayashi
Michiko Yoshino
Yosuke Yoshimura
Tatehiko Usui
Kazuhiko Takahashi
Toshio Munemoto(5) Program overview
The following explains the WG activities and conference overview performed in14-15 December. The details are described in each section.
1) WG1 (Details are described in WG1 report)
The following was studied on the interoperability:
・Opening greeting:

Nakabayashi, leader

・ADL lecture:

Ms. Jennifer Brooks

・ Each country

Status report:Each country participant

・Opinion exchange: Participants
・Summery: Nakabayashi, leader

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・Opening greeting: Miyazawa, leader
・ WG2 activity schemeand status report: Kobayashi (on behalf of Miyazawa)・ Each country status report: Each country participants
・Opinion exchange: Participants
・Summery: Miyazawa, leader3) ALIVE (The details are described in ALIVE report)
・Opening greeting: Kumazawa, leader
・Explanation of schedule/experiment procrdure, etc.: Secretariat (Tsuji)
・ Recovery and distribution of content for experiment:
Experiment participants・Experiment implementation: Experiment participants・Result presentation: Experiment participants preparation
・Presentation of experiment result:Experiment participants
・ Summery of experiment result:
Secretariat (Tsuji)
・Experiment summery by test suite: Secretariat (Tsuji)
・Opinion exchange: Experiment participants
・Impression and comment of ADL: ADL
・Summery: Kumazawa, leader4) Content presentation
・Overview of SCORM assessor system: Secretariat
・Demonstration and SCORM assessor content:Secretariat
・Demonstration of SCORM 2004 sample content:
Secretariat
・Q & A:All participants5) Visit to Waseda University, Remote Education Center・Moving (Ariake→Waseda): All participants・Greeting by Waseda University: Waseda University
・Introduction of Remote Education Center: Waseda University・On-demand lessons distribution forum: Waseda University
・Introduction of Asian development conception: Waseda University・Q & A:

All participants・Moving (Waseda→Ariake): All participants)
6) Entire conference
・Greeting:Chairman of AEN Promotion Committee Mr. Sakamoto
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Mr. Esaki
・ADL lecture:

Mr. Jennifer Brooks

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・Each country e-Learning status report:Each country representative
・WG1 report:

Nakabayashi, leader

・WG2 report:

Miyazawa (Kobayashi), leader

・ALIVE report:

Mr. Tsuji

・AEN activity summarization:

Mr. Osawa of the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry・Opinion exchange: All participants・Closing word/memorial photographing

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Content presentation
The content scheduled to introduce at the AEN portal site was performed tointroduce to AEN members. The participants were approximately 15, and it wasprosperity.
The content introduced was “SCORM 2004 sample content (Boy’s baseballvolume)”developed by WG1 and “SCORM assessor training content” developed lastyear.
① In order to learn the SCORM 2004 standard compatible content creation
technology, “SCORM 2004 sample content” is the content case integrated
the feature of SCORM 2004, and 1 (Boy’s baseball volume) of 3 types
developed was presented.
The SCORM 2004 standard led many participants interested by being
actually observed to be able to easily create the content that was unable torealize in SCORM 1.2, and many questions and answers were arisen. It may
be superfluous, however ”Baseball” used for this case study was like sport
not propagated depending upon country, controversially participants wasseemed to be interested.
② “SCORM assessor training content (English version)” is the content that theSCORM assessor qualification and system and the SCORM standard can belearned. Each AEN country development of the SCORM assessor
qualification system will be promoting by supplying this content to eachcountry. The standard learning time of this content is 10 hours, howeverfeature part was demonstrated for only 30 minutes this time.
Up to this, the SCORM assessor qualification system was explained by theWG2 International Conference, however due to limited time, etc., they did
not sufficiently understand. With this presentation, we think the participants
were able to image how the participants should explain related personnel
regarding the introduction study of SCORM assessor qualification systemafter their return to home country. After completion of presentation, manyquestions and answer related to each country development were performed.

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Visit to Waseda University, Remote Education Center
10 personnel participated in the center visit.

Our group had hard time to transfer subways from Ariake to Waseda, and arrived at
the Remote Education Center with a half hour delay.
The following photograph is taken in front of the statue of Mr. Okuma.

Persons in charge of Waseda University performed introduction of system andon-demand lessons distribution forum as well as of university related explanation ofsuch forum as shown below at the Remote Education Center, and active questions andanswers were performed and completed.

The following is typical question:・Lecture fee of professorship: Student is free of charge as a rule (including in tuition)
・Is it possible to obtain quota?: Validation as quota.
・Selection of donation professorship by enterprise: University has criteria and its
compliance is selected

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Entire conference
The entire conference was held with 23 each AEN country members, AEN promotion

committee members from Japan, each WG member and 25 METI members/CICCmembers/eLC members in total as secretariat.
(1) Sponsor greetingFirst of all, a chairperson Mr. Sakamoto of AEN promotion committee (center inphoto) greeted as follows:
Gist:
We
will
contrive
information
co-ownership
through this conference, andbe useful for
propagation
andpromotion
technical
knowledge regarding own
each country’s interoperability
and e-Learning.
In the next, Mr. Esaki(secondfromright)of
Ministry’s
Secretariat
councilor, METI thanked to allparticipants of this conference,and made comment for
expectationofhumanresource upbringing
promotion.
(2) ADL lecture
Ms. Brooks from ADL in the United States introduced the ADL activity and madepresentation of SCORM current status.
Gist: She introduced organization, role ofADL, SCORM management description,
validation status of SCORM compatibleproducts, SCORM promotion activity inoverseas and each country’s opinions for
SCORM that each country submitted atforum held in Australia, and expressed
existence of community in SCORM
management. Further, she mentionedthat SCORM 2004 would propagate like
SCORM 1.2 since SCORM 1.2 andSCORM 2004 were similar development
trend.

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(3) e-Learning report presentation of each country
Each country explained regarding approach of e-Learning propagation andstandardization. (For the details, refer to each country presentation materialsattached)① Cambodia (Mr. Sethy)
・ He reported current status of ICT(Information,CommunicationandTechnology). Introduction of e-Learning
is still initial stage, introduced future
propagation policy and issue, andemphasizedthenecessityofpartnership with other countries inorder to realize.

② Indonesia (Mr. Siagian)・He reported current status of ICT introduction,nationwide scale e-Learning conference andworkshop in education sites.

③ Korea (Mr. Shim)・He reported e-Learning promotion
activity that government is mainlysupporting.

The e-Learning market

was $2.6 million in 2004, and thee-learning market will be growing$6.8 million up to 2010.

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④ Malaysia (Mr. Asirvatham)・ Infrastructure has been almost
maintained, first phase of ICT agenda“Vision 2020” was completed and this year
entered into second phase. Further,
ASEAN e-Learning Center was opened
this year, and e-Learning conference washeld.

⑤ Philippine (Prof. Mananghaya)・He reported classifying e-Learning
propagation status into primary,middle and high educations, andespecially content development. In
next year, aiming at student
knowledge
anddropout
ratio
reduction, a school and Microsoft
Philippine were cooperated, and thetraining materials for middle school
will be developing.

⑥ Singapore (Mr. Chew)
・He reported about school with more active
than enterprise of e-Learning and current
status of IT education in school. Government
only

financiallysupported

butwasnotaggressive for e-Learning standardization.
Promotion symptoms are gradually observing.
⑦ Thailand (Dr. Thongdhamachart)・ She reported e-Learning project
tackled by Department of Information& Communication, Department ofEducation, Science & Technology
Agency and others.

National ICT

Learning Center was established lastyear.

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⑧ Viet Nam (Mr. Lam)
・ He reported current status andfuture forecast of e-Learning viewed
fromeducational

instituteandenterprise. e-Learning Research &Development Conference was heldin Hanoi in March of this year.

⑨ Japan (Mr. Nakabayashi)
・He reported e-Learning propagation
statusinenterpriseandhigher

educational institute and government
policy for e-Learning propagation.

⑩ Myanmar (Dr. Tin)・He reported wide range from own
country

educationalsystemtotackling with IT education. As IT
education

development,

alluniversities are planning to establish
IT department.

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(4) WG/ALIVE report
Presentation of activity outcomes of each WG held in December 14 – 15, morning
was performed.
① WG1 (Mr. Nakabayashi: WG1 leader)・He reported WG vision, backgroundof WG establishment, agenda,
summeryof
eachcountry’spresentation
description,
eachcountry’scommonissueanddevelopment
statusofstandardization. In closing, heconcluded that SCORM 1.2 basic
specification was settled and tacklingwith new technology was necessaryin future.

② WG2 (Mr. Kobayashi “on behalf of Mr.
Miyazawa: WG2 leader”)
・He reported WG objective, activity target andresult of last and this years, questionnaire
surveillance result of SCORM assessor
system and propagation activity of SCORM
2004, and requested continuation of researchof SCORM and interoperability to participating
countries on behalf of Japanese government
and eLC.

③ ALIVE (Mr. Tsuji: “on behalf of Mr. KumawazaALIVE leader)・He reported objective of this activity,
testing method, testing results of both
SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 andparticipating country’s comments
after completion of testing. He
mentioned that as summarization,
reason that large problem did notoccur this time, differed from testingfor past 2 years was progress, andrequested that each country shouldplan new target based on this testing
to progress the research to next step.

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(5) Summarization of AEN activity(METI: Mr. Osawa)
・He summarized AEN activity as
follows, by looking over Asia
e-Learning conception, AEN
establishment history andpurpose and AEN past activity.
a) We achieved AEN target,and will conclude AEN
conference and WG.
b) We will plan information coownership of latest trend andtechnology by AEN portal site.
c) Each country uses outcomes of AEN activity, and continues to make an effortfor propagationd) Each country creates SCORM compatible contents, and makes an effort for
maintaining interoperability in Asia.
e) For opinion exchange and information co-ownership between member counties,
each country reviews function and management method of AEN portal sitewithin 1 year.
Finally, He expressed to shift motive power and activity for e-Learning propagation toAEN community.
After this summarization, opinion exchange by members was performed as follow:
・AEN activity was very meaningful for own country. We appreciate for sponsor Japanand secretariat.
・This style of conference will end up, however we deepen further friendship, andrequest to hold other style of discussion.
・What do you think of each country performs opinion exchange and presentation by
web conference in future?
・This time is “End” of first phase, and is “Start” of second phase. We like each country tocooperate and make an effort for propagation for e-Learning and SCORM.
・SCORM 2004 has not still propagated. We wish that AEN continue discussion
between Asia related various countries in future.
・It is necessary that AEN cooperates not only Asia but also between Asia and Europe,and tackles with more programs by inviting USA, Canada, Australia and others.
・Greeting by METI (Mr. Tashiro)・ This is final AEN conference,
however many projects regarding
e-Learning have been performed by
AEN activity up to date, and goodresultswereobtained.
Theconference is ended up by this time,
however human relation built by thisconference will never end up. This
human relation will give good
influence each other, and I hopeactivity of METI and other sector willcontribute to future e-Learning
system utilization.
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