CIT introduces two new Web 2.0 services - Blog.nus and Wiki.nus - for staff and students this new Academic Year. Read on to find out more about these exciting developments in NUS.
CIT’s Global Classroom is undergoing a major overhaul. Take a peek at what lies ahead for the classroom.
Career skills online - that's what NUS Career Centre's new initiative promises. Find out about this groundbreaking courseware, developed with the assistance of CIT.
The CIT website and our quarterly newsletter, IDEAS, have gone through major revamps. We also add a new publication which will track the latest developments in educational technology. Learn more about these changes and how you can subscribe to updates from all our publications.
CIT has purchased additional units of the Classroom Performance System. You can now loan units to support a lecture of up to 300 participants.
CIT has launched a comprehensive Campus Partnership Programme, which promises to bring the use of IT in teaching and learning to the next level in the National University of Singapore.
CIT participated in NUS Team Challenge in December. Find out what our staff thought of the programme.
For the second year running, CIT has been lauded for outstanding VOICE participation.
The Classroom Response System allows lecturers to get instant feedback during classes. NUS Business School (Career Services) Deputy Director Foo Yuk Meng relates his success with this new system.
Scheduling Centra eMeetings is now easier thanks to the Centra plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. With this plug-in, you can schedule Centra eMeetings directly from Microsoft Outlook. Read on for installation instructions.
The National University of Singapore was involved in the Adobe Higher Education Leadership Forum. This two day forum took place on 28 & 29 Sept, featuring technological ingenuity in teaching and learning as well as research and administration.
The CIT Auditorium, located at Computer Centre, has undergone a major revamp. Take a peek at our state-of-the-art videoconferencing and webcasting venue.
The Student Assistantship Multimedia Certification Scheme (SAMCS) was launched on 30 March 2006. This apprentice-style scheme allows students with budding talent in audio-visual, graphics and animation production to develop their skills and get paid for work.
Radio Pulze, the NUS students' radio station, was launched on Valentine's Day. IDEAS brings you behind the scenes to explore the technology that enables Radio Pulze's operations.
Mr Aaron Tan Tuck Choy's module website for Programming Methodology CS1101X has been chosen by the students as the best module website for the second year running. He becomes the first consecutive winner of the Students' Choice Award!
As of January 2006, CIT has been ISO 9001:2000 certified for another three years. On a related note, CIT also came away with two prizes at the NUS Centennial Quality Service Day 2005/06. These reflect CIT's commitment to quality and continual improvement.
Tech-savvy students have been taking advantage of podcast lectures in NUS since Semester 1 AY 2005/2006. If your lectures are webcasted, they are turned into podcasts at the touch of a button.
CIT will be scaling up its podcasting services in Semester 2 AY 2005/2006. We will also be offering the podcast option for NUS and Public Events.
NUScast has done NUS proud by distinguishing itself as the Best Business Enabler (Education) in the MIS (Managing Information Strategies) I.T. Excellence Awards 2005.
BreezeLive retains the familiar layout of webcast lectures while enhancing functionality. Through desktop capture, BreezeLive frees faculty from their dependence on PowerPoint presentations for webcast lectures.
To streamline and enhance our webcasting services, CIT has moved Staff Events and NUS Events webcasts to the my NUS Staff Portal. We have also begun providing RSS feeds for NUS Events and Public Events.
Podcasting - the pipe dream of many educational technologists and educators worldwide. A reality in NUS!
IVLE has been upgraded to Version 7.6. As part of this upgrade, IVLE has taken a step up to high availability Enterprise-level hardware. Find out more about IVLE's upgraded systems.
The CIT Multimedia Team continues to maintain high standards, being recognized as communications industry standard bearers for the eighth year running. Read about our team's award-winning efforts.
We encourage NUS staff and students to make use of the Digital Media Centre for all their multimedia needs.
CIT and the Faculty IT Units work jointly to provide IVLE, e-learning and software support to academic staff. Find out more about the Faculty E-Learning Support Initiative.
NUS' first postgraduate distance learning course will be facilitated by CIT's services. Read about our support for the Master of Science in Financial Engineering (by Distance Learning) degree, which takes in its first cohort of students in July 2005.
NUS students and faculty may have noticed several changes to the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) during the semester break. These changes are part of an IVLE upgrade, from version 7.4 to 7.5 on 18 December 2004, which introduced a RSS feed reader and live Lecture Theatre feedback among other enhancements.
The students have voted, and their choice is Lecturer Aaron Tan Tuck Choys module website for CS1101 Programming Methodology, an introductory School of Computing module.
With the help of CIT, NUS Department of Mathematics and the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS), China have been conducting an ongoing series of weekly seminars. These seminars, webcast to audiences at both ends, are a boon to researchers and graduate students alike.
Looking for a place to edit, scan and print photos? Or edit audio-visual materials? Look no further than the Digital Media Centre, located at Yusof Ishak House.
Own your personal copy of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 for only $65!
A total of 560 students responded to an online survey on the Webcast lectures recorded for Semester II 2003/2004.
The School of Design and Environment (SDE) for Semester 1 2004/2005 will began recording selected lectures from their 7 lecture rooms from a central location. Ms Pearlyn Ang from the Faculty's IT Unit mentioned the following reasons for proceeding with this remote webcast recording facility.
The application of broadcast-conferencing-based multi-camera video technology to teaching and learning in medicine has always been a special capability of Centre for Instructional Technology (CIT). Dr Davide Lomanto, Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre (MISC) at NUH, called upon this service in January of 2004.
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