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The talk by Professor Insung Jung, who has 20 years experience in distance education and e-learning in Korea and internationally, will highlight the effectiveness and efficiency of e-learning using case studies from the Korean experience.

Prof Insung is currently a professor of Education Technology and Communications at the International Christian University in Tokyo. She has served in numerous capacities both in Korea and internationally, at institutions like the Korea National Open University, Ewha Women’s University, UNESCO’s Open and Distance Learning Initiative for Higher Education Knowledge Base (ODLKB), the APEC ICT Human Capacity Building & Facilitation of Human Resources Exchange, and the Advisory Committee of World Bank’s GDLN project in Korea.

Revolution! Your World. Your Classroom.

Wawasan Open University is organising a learning carnival themed ‘Revolution!  Your world. Your classroom’ for people of all ages. The theme envisions the walls of conventional education methods and traditional classrooms being torn down, creating an awareness that there is inspiration and always something more to learn from everything and everyone around you.

Visitors can enjoy the IQ tests, learning clinics (e.g. jewellery-making, film-making and guitar playing), movie screenings, food, carnival sideshows, interesting games (cyber gaming team tournament, paintball target shooting competition and a renowned cashflow game), and much, much more.

There will be live performances by local celebrities throughout the carnival. Asia’s leading hip-rock band Pop Shuvit and aspiring singer Dasha Logan who is the daughter of the late Loganathan of the legendary Alleycats, are set to take the stage by storm. Independent bands that are also lined up for the carnival include High Society, 1300 and Ocean of Fire.

Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the WOU exhibition booth for information on the programmes offered..Clowns, jugglers and fire dancers will further spice up the day-long event.

The climax of the evening will be the prize-giving ceremony for WOU’s Post@Postcard Contest – feel free to browse through the selection of entries at the postcard gallery booth anytime. Prizes will also be handed out for the IQ and paintball challenge.

Come and bring along your family and friends for an exciting and pleasurable outing,

Admission is free. You can download the programme here.

For inquiries/details, contact Corporate Communications at 04-228 9323 ext 230/ 233/ 235 or email yhlim@wou.edu.my.

Lots of photo opportunities as well as fun and games will be available for everyone, so don’t miss out on this great event!

WOU Open Day

Wawasan Open University’s regional offices will be having open day for the forthcoming July 2009 semester intake as follows:
WOU Penang Regional Office (PGRO)

There will be lucky draws, programme previews, counselling sessions and briefings on financial assistance conducted by the university. Don’t miss this opportunity to find out more about pursuing higher education through open and distance learning.

Date:
Sunday, 10 May 2009

Time:
10.30am – 4.30pm

Venue:
Wawasan Open University Main Campus
Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, Penang

For details, contact the Penang Regional Office at 7 China Street Ghaut, Penang. Tel: 04 – 263 3323 / 262 5359.

Open Day for the other Regional Offices are listed as below:

Kuala Lumpur Regional Office (KLRO)

Date:
Sunday, 17 May 2009

Time:
10.00am – 4.00pm

Venue:
Kuala Lumpur Regional Office
Level 3, Menara PGRM
8 Jalan Pudu Ulu
56100 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur

For details, contact the Kuala Lumpur Regional Office at Tel: 03 – 9281 7323/ 9283 8323

Kota Bharu Regional Office (KBRO)

Date:
Saturday, 30 May 2009

Time:
10.00am – 7.00pm

Venue:
Kota Bharu Regional Office
3956 Tingkat Bawah, Wisma Gerakan
Jalan Temenggong
15000 Kota Bharu, Kelantan

For details, contact Kota Bharu Regional Office at Tel: 09 – 748 7323

Ipoh Regional Office (IPRO)

Date:
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Time:
11.00am – 4.00pm

Venue:
Ipoh Regional Office
Wisma Gerakan
80 Persiaran Green Hill
30450 Ipoh

For details, contact Ahmad Khuzaimi of the Ipoh Regional Office at Tel: 05 – 2426 323 / 2436 323

Bandar Utama Regional Office (BU8)

Date:
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Time:
10.00am – 4.00pm

Venue:
Bandar Utama Regional Support Office
L2-6 & 7, Wisma BU8
11, Lebuh Bandar Utama
Bandar Utama
47800 Petaling Jaya

For details, contact the Bandar Utama office at Tel: 03 – 7629 7323/ 7123

Johor Bahru Regional Office (JBRO)

Date:
Sunday, 14 June 2009

Time:
10.00am – 5.00pm

Venue:
Johor Bahru Regional Office
17 & 19 Jalan Jaya 2
Taman Jaya
81300 Skudai, Johor

For details, contact the Johor Bahru Regional Office at Tel: 07 – 556 4323/ 6323

Post@Postcard Contest

For those who remember my previous post about an upcoming contest by Wawasan Open University, here’s the meat of the whole contest. Continue reading

The course material

Having started my MBA programme at Wawasan University, my first tutorial finally came. After years of not touching books (official academic studies type), I have to pick up the mantle once again for the next 2.5 years to 3 years.

Strategic Management

Since this is ODL (Open Distance Learning), there’s only one tutorial every month, which means all three subjects will be on the same day. Good and bad I suppose, the good is not having to return for classes on some other day, the bad? Well, it was rather tiring. It was good overall though. The first class was held at Disted College instead of the WOU Main Campus, not much difference I suppose, it’s still a classroom environment.

Marketing Management

For this semester I’m taking three papers, which are Strategic Management, Operations Management and Marketing Management. Of the three papers, I find Marketing Management to be most interesting and fun whereas Operations Management is a bit on the dull, dry and boring side. Plus the lack of production experience makes it a bit hard to digest. Well now, wish me luck, need to finish up three assignments by the end of the month, which is drawing ever so closer.

Get your cameras ready folks, as Penang’s very own Open Distance Learning institution, Wawsasan Open University is coming up with a photography contest starting next week! Below is all the info I gathered from their website:

“Wawasan Open University is organising a two-month web digital photography contest to encourage participants to capture the flexible and accessible nature of open distance and lifelong learning available at the university.

The competition themed ‘Your World, Your Classroom’ will run until April 16th and is open to everyone with no age limit. Attractive prizes await the winners while the first 100 participants will receive a WOU t-shirt.

The best entry to the contest is set to win a Macbook Air followed by one Macbook White as second prize and one I-Pod Touch as third. There will be 10 I-Pod Shuffles given away as consolation prizes.

WOU also promises a special prize of a Digital SLR Canon camera for the contestant who sends out his digital snapshot to the most number of friends, family and acquaintances.

The rule of the contest is simple: Take a digital photograph of yourself studying, where you are portrayed reading a book or browsing through your laptop in the most interesting background setting or environment imaginable, and then caption the digital snapshot.

“We want to show how WOU offers a golden opportunity for people to pursue quality tertiary education at their own pace and leisure. The easy IT connectivity in the world we now live has made studying anywhere, anytime, a reality,” said a WOU spokesperson.

To send in your entries, just click onto the web entry form at contest.wou.edu.my, follow the simple instructions and submit your postcard online.

For inquiries, call the Corporate Communications Department of the university at 04-2289323.”

So do look out next week as I bring you more information about this contest! Or you may choose to call them up directly to ask for further details.