This is an acknowledgement from a participant in one of the Web2.0 short courses, The participant, Ian Cosmas, who is an academic staff of the university put out this acknowledgement in the university's email. It is encouraging and i have taken the liberty to post verbatim the acknowledgement email here.
Dear Dora/Ismael/David,
I just returned from attending the Web 2.0 Social Media
Technologies used in Education and Learning course which ended yesterday.
I'd like to thank you all for organising courses that
benefit staff.
Although I am aware of Web 2.0 in theory (and some of the
others also are), the course was practical and enabled us to practically apply
the Web 2.0 social media technologies. The social media tools learnt can
be immediately applied in an educational context to facilitate online and real
time collaboration, research and learning in the University amongst staff and
students.
It is pleasing to see what is happening now to upgrade
the Web 2.0 computer skills of staff in the campus. The world is fast
evolving and technology is a key enabler for change in institutions and
organisations globally, and PNG is no exception. The introduction of these
technologies in various departments will foster a change in teaching and
learning in terms of quality education as well as the improvement of current
academic processes.
I envisage that after staff and students are trained in
the use of Web 2.0 social media technologies and Google Classroom, we should
start to see the emergence of the modern, digitally driven University of
Technology - we can start to live up to our name, i.e. "The University of
Technology".
I do understand that there is still fair bit of work to
be done such as the departmental network upgrades which need to happen so the
departmental networks sync with the 03b satellite broadband network.
Having said that, we have removed the biggest hurdle and have good progress so
far in terms of the implementation of the O3b Satellite Broadband
network.
Thanks
Ian
IT
Lecturer - MCSEM, MACS (CT)
