1. ทิศทางเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและการสื่อสารเพื่อการศึกษา
และวิจย
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ดร.สุ พจน์ เธียรวุฒิ
ประธานกลุ่มเอ็มทีสแควร์ (MT2: Mobile Technology for
Thailand)
29 พฤษภาคม 2555

2. ICT for education and research
• ICT to facilitate learning
• ICT to facilitate research
▫ To facilitate collaboration among researchers
▫ To facilitate creation of innovation
▫ Platform for R&D in ICT field

3. ICT Change and Implication
• Broadband: Video/HD content delivery
• Wireless: Ubiquitous access
• You-Tube: Timeless archiving
• Search: Customized access to knowledge
• Blog: The rise of pro-sumers
• Social network: Community trust
• Unified communication: Enclosed world of
individual

4. Big Picture
Application
Wi-Fi
ADSL WiMAX
FTTH 3G/4G

5. Technology Trends
5
Computing + Communications + Contents
“My relevant content, anywhere, anytime, in
the format I want.”

6. Implication to teaching
• Life is tougher for future teachers as the
students learn to…
▫ Open “Google” instead of open book
▫ Copy-and-paste instead of own writing
▫ Ask the bloggers instead of the teachers
▫ Share the answers instead of the questions
▫ Tweet up to the minutes
• Teacher is no longer a conduit of knowledge!!

7. How to teach in new ICT era?
• Focus on thinking skill
▫ Why?
▫ Alternatives?
▫ Analytical skills
▫ Knowledge creation skills

8. • Role of teachers:
▫ Teaching thinking
▫ Moderation of group learning and collaboration
▫ Demonstration of thinking skill
▫ Integration of ICT impact to knowledge
acquisition in each discipline

9. ICT Impact on Science Teaching
• Half-life of knowledge is shrinking
• From oral presentation to realistic virtualization
• State-of-the-Arts or History of Sciences
• How can we patch piecemeal knowledge to form
a solid discipline?

10. ICT Impact on Mass Communication
• Shift to consumer choice
• Demographic changes
• Needs of consumer strength/protection
▫ Short term: consumer guide to new media
consumption
▫ Long term: media literacy
• Still there are needs of authoritative media

11. ICT and History
• Making history is a daily-life task
• Massive archiving of events and contemporary
interpretation
• Any needs for an authoritative account of
events?
• New role of historians?

16. Alan V. Oppenheim – author of most widely used
textbooks in Signal Processing.

20. iOS programming class teaches by people from Apple.

23. iTunes U
• เป็ น opencourse เปิ ดให้บุคคลทัวไปเข้ามาศึกษาได้
่
• มหาวิทยาลัยสามารถทาระบบที่คล้ายกันเพื่อให้บริ การแบบจากัดเฉพาะบุคลากร
และนักศึกษาภายในมหาวิทยาลัยได้

25. Moodle (Moodle.org)
• Open-source software
• Platform for teachers and students
• Blogs, videos, lecture notes, assignments,
discussion groups, …

26. Source: moodle.org

27. Moodle statistics
Source: moodle.org

29. UI can be customized

30. Famous Moodle
• Try Google and you would see many universities
and schools around the world are using Moodle.

33. Trends
• Social networking
• Cloud computing
• Cyber security
• Aging society

34. What are needed for ICT research?
• Computing and network facility for modeling
and test

35. Use of ICT as a facilitator in doing
research
• Promote communication and information
exchange among researchers
• Collaboration between academic sector and
industry
• Access to information
• Many things can be done – blogs, discussion
groups, online library

37. Source: innocentive.com

38. More to explore…
• open innovation
• intellectual property market

39. Challenges
• Students:
▫ Access to knowledge: acquisition methods,
devices, tools
▫ Collaboration: tools, community
▫ ICT capability & Non-ICT capability
• R&D:
▫ New ICT-based research methods
▫ Networking for researchers
▫ Test-bed: platform for innovation
▫ IPR and global knowledge conduit

40. Thank you!
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Twitter: @supott