Online Class System (OCS)
Details of the organization
Name *
College of Engineering and Petroleum Online Class System (OCS)
Country *
Kuwait
Website (URL)
http://www.eng.kuniv.edu
Type *
Governments
National implementation mechanism
The organization has a strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level:
Yes
The organization has a national e-strategy:
Yes
Information about the project
Project title *
Online Class System (OCS)
Title acronym
OCS
Description *
The Office of Engineering Education Technologies (OEET) at college of engineering and petroleum at Kuwait University noticed the importance of using ICT in education and took the initiative of creating an Online Class System (OCS). It was so challenging to start the project at 2005 where most instructors resisted using ICT in education, and due to the fact that engineering topics are hard to simulate unless a big investment is undertaken. OEET started small with an open source MOODLE Virtual Learning Environment and very slowly started to add new courses every semester and building a case study to show to other instructors how using ICT in education had a positive impact. OEET had a clear strategy to extend the reach of ICT to all instructors by conducting awareness workshops and annual competition to attract more instructors to get involved in using OCS. Instructors started using tools and features in OCS that facilitate peer interaction, synchronous and asynchronous communication.
Project website
http://www.eng.kuniv.edu/ocs
Geographical coverage *
International implementation
Countries of implementation
Kuwait
Status *
Completed
from 09/01/2005
to
04/06/2006
Project documents
OCS-Online Course System.docx
WSIS information
WSIS action lines related to this project
*
E-learning
Millenium Declaration Goals related to this project
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Project type *
Training initiative
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