There has been an unprecedented threat to Asian and global higher education as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak and it's impact on traditional classroom based learning as well as academic mobility. In light of this, the role of AUA is more important now than ever. Universities are required to maintain the standard of education through the new modes of online and hybrid learning, and create and adapt to new ways of teaching in order to ensure students' learning outcomes remain on par with before. AUA member universities have been developing new and innovative teaching and learning initiatives to address the current challenges in order to benefit their students, faculty and staff. Read on below to find out more about these initiatives.
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Admissions
[NU] About Admission in the Context of Quarantine
Aizhamal Zhazykpayeva, the Director of the Admissions Department of Nazarbayev University, talked about the changes the student admission and recruitment process had in the context of the emergency and also shared with us preliminary admission results of the current year.
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Educational Technology
[PKU]Peking University's CARSI sees 25-fold increase of users since joining eduGAIN
CARSI focuses on building an authentication and authorization infrastructure for educational institutions and users so that web resources developed by universities or deployed on internet can be visited by university faculty and students easily.
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Free Online Courses
[THU]THU launches free online course on "Drug Discovery in Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19"
In order to provide information about virus detection and our ways of fighting against the ongoing outbreak, faculty in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Tsinghua University, partnering with the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI), have been rapidly organizing to set up a MOOC – Drug Discovery in Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19.
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[THU]THU offers free tutorial courses on "Shifting Your Teaching Online"
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[UTokyo]UTokyo Participation in edX and Coursera's Special Assistance Program against COVID-19
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Laboratory Activities
[UTokyo]Checklist for Resumption of Laboratory Activities
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Learning Hubs
[NU]Innovative Learning Hub and Distance Learning at Nazarbayev University
The Innovative Learning Hub, a unit under the direction of the Office of the Provost, is an open space platform that provides resources and support to develop innovative approaches to learning and teaching for NU faculty. Also, the Hub offers multimedia guidance on how to design courses, teach and assess in online and blended modes.
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Online Education
[THU] Online Education Special Dialogue: Keypoints and Reflections
A special dialogue co-organized by THU and UNESCO explored the challenges facing higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic and shared university case studies, best practice, and experience in online education.
Key points and Reflections (Part I)
Key points and Reflections (Part 2)
[THU]THU Online Education Weekly Newsletters
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Public Health Initiatives
[UTokyo] To the front lines of public health
UTokyo experts assist public health centers and hospitals with COVID-19 response.
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Student, Faculty and Staff Support
[NUS] CAFÉ sessions for FASS e-learning journey
Lecturers all over the world have been grappling with how to deliver quality classes in virtual space without compromising on the quality of student experience. To help with this issue, a group of NUS Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) instructors has started a series of sharing sessions aimed to help colleagues move their classes online more effectively.
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[UTokyo]Understanding Psychological Responses to Stress – for UTokyo Faculty and Staff members
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