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Bloomberg |
Fireflies |
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Concepts |
- Creative & innovative use of technology to facilitate distant learning
- Enhance learning experience for quality
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Why the need? |
- Globalisation & regionalisation separate people from places of work & education
- Continuously learning for knowledge-based economy
- Proliferation of networking & communications as well as personal technology
- Fitness into busy schedule & reduce learning curve
- Interactivity for learning, discussion, exchanges and adjustment
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What is needed? |
- Content: what relevant lessons & education is offered & in what ways
- Relevance: am I going to use or learn for hobby
- Access: ease of accessing, organisation of content, networking
- Familiarity: how to know more, wide scope, narrow focus, links, layout ease
- Technology: hardware, software support, general functions, specialist functions
- People: driven, talented, hardworking, passionate, motivated
- E-site: well layout, structured, designed, continuously updated, well linked, relevance, refreshing, entertaining, yet learning, well publicised
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Objective |
- To facilitate technical people with various backgrounds, education and working experiences to converge for active learning, interaction, sharing & entertainment under one E-roof
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Scope |
- Research content by teaching & learning (U, Internet, interaction)
- Research demand by relevance, needs, wants & time (end users, nodes)
- Research & improve upon E-site as a facilitator of teaching, learning, sharing & entertainment E-hub
- E: electronic, easy, e-novation, e-tegrative and engineering
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Plan |
- Startup performance = f(members, time, resources, technology, environment, quality / quantity, use)
- Recruitment: people driven
- Analysis: strategic external & internal analysis of needs - supplies
- Formulation: design of startup thrust
- Design-implementation: dynamic simultaneous design & implement cycle, responsiveness to feedback
- Testing: customer base & orientation
- Publicise: advertisement, right timing, relevance, encouragement, 1st in queue
- Listing: public IPO for capital expansion & global facilitation
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