International Collaboration
Department of International Collaborations
Our missions are both to support OUJ’s international exchange programs with overseas open universities and lifelong learning (LLL) institutions and to improve international advancement and competitiveness of Japanese Higher Education (HE) institutions. For the missions, we collaborate in the research and development with the overseas core institutions for ICT-enhanced education and in those with international standardization organizations, and utilize the outcomes in our operations for supporting HE institutions.
From the era of NIME (National Institute of Multimedia Education), we have been engaged in the collection of the educational information and learning content on ICT-enhanced education. After our merger into OUJ, we expand our workplace into the LLL, promote overseas surveys and international collaborative researches, and provide the outcomes to LLL community.
- We promote further collaboration with the overseas core institutions for ICT-enhanced education, such as EDUCAUSE in the U.S. and KERIS in Korea, and those with the LLL institutions, such as Open University (OU UK). We collect and analyze information about policies, progressive efforts, good practices toward ICT-enhanced education, and provide those to Japanese HE/LLL institutions.
- We facilitate international sharing and retrieval of learning objects through the GLOBE consortium and several consortia for OpenCourseWare movements, such as OCWC and JOCW, and support Japanese HE institutions to publish their learning objects throughout the world. We also enhance collaboration with Asian institutions as a hub institute in this region.
- We promote international standardization of online tests for effect measurements of ICT-enhanced education, quality assurance of learning content, connectivity of learning objects repositories by collaborative work with international and domestic standardization bodies, such as IMS/GLC, ISO and eLC.
- Based on “Guidelines for quality provision in cross-border higher education”, which was published by UNESCO and OECD, we promote to develop the standards of the curriculum development procedures and the methodologies and indexes to assure the quality.
