FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Theme: Educational Challenges in the World Community of the 21st Century

Papers:

1. Educational Challenges of the 21st Century: The Vision of Quality, Jacques Hallak

"The vision of quality of education is very much a function of the missions of the education system: educationm training, social insertion, preparation for work, and for citizenship."

2. Values for a Changing World, Lourdes R. Quisumbing

"Therre is a feeling of dissatisfaction with the way we have educated our youth. We have fed them with knowledge and information to the exten of overloading their minds with more and more data than they can understand, interpret, or much less appresiate."

3. Educational Scenario of the 21st Century: Between Dream and Reality, Dato Asiah Abu Samah

"Our children, born since the end of the second world war, have already experienced several major revolutions created by discoveries -concerning the atom, the computer, the biological-genetic breakthrough, the surgical transplant of human organs, as well as new views on moral issues."

4. Values-Based Technology Planning, Vincent D. Jansen

"Quality has to do with the individual child, teacher, school and member of the community. How can we measure success and quality if the goal of our action is not clearly defined?"

5. Research and Development of In-service Teacher Training Curriculum for Multimedia Software Development, Fumiko Shinohara, Shigetaka Matsuno and Terumi Nakano

"The advent of the so-called multimedia, which is characterized by stronger interactivity using the computer as a unified media, is brought about by faster processing, bigger storage capacity and smaller microprocessors and by the emerging research and development in several technologies such as database, interface, liquid crystal display and CD-ROM."

6. Quality Education: The Malaysian Vision and Experience, Ariff kasim

"The emphasis in the 1990s is to move towards capital-intensive and technological-sophisticated industries. This is aimed at providing the foundation towards the attainment of the status of newly industralised nation by the year 2020."

7. Producing for Asian CHidren Towards the 21st Century, Regina Lopez-Roy

"In the Philippines, 90 percent of the television programmes for children are dominated by foreign-produced shows. Seventy percent of these shows are violent in nature."

8. Confidential Printing in the Next Century, Richard Russel

" Examination by disputation was commonplace until printing was invented and went on at British universities, at least, until early last century. I earn my living by being involved in examination printing, for which confidentiality is often essential."

9.Key Elements and Real Issues in School Improvement, Leonard O. Pellicer

"In days gone by, American public school were known for teaching the three Rs -reading, wrinting and 'rithmetic. With the so-called reform movement, we have witnessed the modern-day Three R's -reform, restructuring and reinvention."

10. High Performance Reegineering: An Empowerment Model for Philippines 2000, Jerry Perez de Tagle

"The rapid and successful implementation of comprehensive change is now a necessity. Business process reengineering, right sizing, self-directed work teams, core competency restructuring, total quality, information technology integration, and paradigm shifting, are the requisites for high performing corporations."

11. Inovations of Teacher Education in Korea, Kuk Bom Shin

"The intrinsic goal of Korean Education is "Education of Koreans as the Prospective Leaders for the 21st Century." Consequently, the future directions for educational policies are established: accomplishment of sound personality, pursuit of excellence, promotion of autonomy, realization of equality and enhancement of hope for a better future."

12. Cyberspace, Technology, Values, and Education: Quo Vadis?, Jerome F. Keating

"There has always been controversy in public education over the role schools should play regarding the values of a society. What obligation do schools have in teaching values? What values should they teach? How do public schools differ from private schools regarding values?"

13. Education in the 21st Century: Forging New Partnerships to meet New Challenges, W. Ann Reynolds

" We stand at the threshold of the next millenium. In the past decade alone, we have witnessed breathtaking changes: the end of the Cold War and the growth of the global marketplace; the sucstantial changes in patterns of immigration; new trends in employment; and the amazing explosion in technology and information networking."

14. Flexible Systems for the Schools of Tomorrow, Ramon Y. Dimacali

"My objective is to get you excited about the prospects of a whole new approach to learning with the help of information technology. In so doing, I hope to be able to help you thik of the many ways by which you can take full advantage of the benefits of information technology to shape the future of tomorrow's generation of professionals."

15. Learning Technologies for a New Century, Janet P. Whitla

"Im recent years, we have created some of the most powerful tools in history to help us organize and understand the world, tools we call learning and communications technologies. These tools are extraordinary expanders of our mental abilities as well."

16.Information Highways in the Making: The French Approach ti Education and Training, Bernard Loing

"If we consider that, in the meantime, terminal equipment such as personal computers are becoming more and more sophisticated, convivial, and thus more intelligent, we can conclude that the presence of more and more meaning and intelligence on the line, from beginning to end, can only be favourable to the development of educational systems on IT."

17.Open and Flexible Delivery Systems for the Future, Reidar Roll

"The new technologies, capacities and tools will not be available to the traditional education sector alone, but to all corporations that wish to produce and deliver knowledge in organized forms."

18. The Process Approach in Developing Multi-Media Materials for Distance Education, Florangel Rosario-Braid and Mary Ebitha Y. Dy

"The need to re-engineer resulted from the realization that "more of the same" in doing things simply does not fit into our dynamic world made even more complex by megatrends, such as globalization and information superhighway."

19. The Trends of Critical Viewing Skills as Media Education, Akira Ichikawa

"Mass media are useful tools for getting new information, but entertainment and commercial advertisements are the dominant contents being communicated to mass publics today. Television is claiming a growing amount of individuals' and societies' leidure time, and dismissing people's awareness of political and social reality, traditional value systems of culture and ethics."

20. Multichannel Learning: The Malaysian Experience, Hamidah Yusof and Satinah Syed Saleh

"In many poor and remote areas of almost countries, innovative approaches to educational access such as multi-grade classrooms, mobile teachers, and distance education are bringing school to children rather than forcing children to travel long distances to find a school."

21. Classroom Technologies of the 21st Century: How Different?, Boey Chee Khiew and Myint Swe Khine

"The 21st Century will not see a rapid and dramatic change. It is very likely that the existing low-tech media resources will still be very much in use and, for that matter, even the chalkboard and the printed page."

22. EduQuest: The Philippine Experience in Classroom Technology, Ma. Teresita P. Medado

"EduQuest uses the computer as a tool for learning rather than as the object of study. In this way, the computer becomes a powerful aid in the redevelopment of the learning process. We can channel its power to evolve new teaching models and philodophies that allow children to become participative learners and doers."

23. The Challenges of Integration and Diffusion of Educational Technology in Open and Distance Learning, Abdul Khan and Patricia McWilliams

"Although there is some reason to be optimistic about the future of educational technology and its application in distance and open learning, there still remains a number of barriers to growth and expansion in a significant way."

24. The Globalisation of Higher Education, Anthony L. Pritchard

"Today we see the merging of the principles and practice of open and distance learning with those of conventional learning. This convergence of educational paradigms leads us towards a new educational paradigm of the information age."

25. Education Policy -A Global or Local Agenda? Reflection on Brunei Darussalam, Chris Nuttman and Diana Cheong

"As a social institution, education does not operate in a socio-political vacuum and many societal constraints exist which challenge any potential that education may have."

26. Open Learning: A Different Approach To UP Education, Celia T. Adriano

"I believe it is not a question of which will prevail (face-to-face or distance teaching), but when such sub-systems are in place, the bes option to reach out to more people is through the distance and open learning mode."

27. The Alive Method in Teaching Languages through Distance Education, Mohammed Al-Ruwai and Mohammed Abdel Raouf Al-Seikh

"We can use Internet to open innumerable new channels of information which the student can use to learn the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking in a target language."

28. Using the Internet to Support Rural Schools In Saskatchewan: The Wilcox Model, Leigh Calnek

Schools in Saskatchewan, Canada are currently examining ways in which they can connect to the Internet as well as how the Internet can be used to support a school and its program. Wilcox Elementary School is a small three-teacher, 50-students school located within the local dialing area of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It has permanent connection to the Internet. The author outlined how the school has used its aging computer technology to provide significant Internet access for its students from any of the computers in the schools. In addition, he reviewed the network tools currently made available to students and how the school is attempting to integrate this new technology into its existing curriculum.

29. Southeast Asian Participation in Multinational REsearch and Apllying Results in Southeast Asia, W. Frank Hull IV

"How else can we begin to plan and adapt teaching and education to the future if we are accomplishing today?"

30. Research in Higher Education: Past, Present, Future, Dean K. Whitla

"One of the major problems that confronts those of us in higher education is that much of what we do and the way it is done has been chiseled in stone by thousands of teachers and students teaching and learning aver the centuries."

31. Research and Teaching using Network Facilities, Vincent Lacey

"Because of the numerous advantages to be obtained from the use of micr-technology in the field of education, it is anticipated that teachers will dominate the use of computers in the future."

32. Meeting National Educational Goals Through the Diversification of the Junior Secondary School, John D. Mulhern

"The SMP Terbuka and the SMP Kecil are two of the ten educational approaches authorized by the Ministry of Education and Culture to meet the Government of Indonesia's mandate to provide all students with access to public education through Grade 9."

32. Developing Creativity: The Classroom Technology for the Next Generation, Aurora H. Roldan

"Creativity is that highly-developed human capacity to grasp and grapple with reality through discovering, thinking, developing, and producing markedly unusual and superior results -whether abstract or concret."

34. Buiding Connections for Tomorrow's Learning Through Multichqnnel Learning, Stephen Anzalone and Andrea Bosch

"We believe that educational policy and practice should look toward strategies that place greater attention on the ways that learners connect or might connect to sources of information, knowleddge, and skills."

35. Borderless Thinking: Creating A Global Learning Society, Norah Maier

"There should be a great paradigm shift, a co-existence between man and nature. And we should accomplish this not for ourselves, but for our children and our children's children."