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ePolicy In Practice - How is a University in Bangladesh Becoming Digital?
- By Dr. Pär-Ola Zander - Department Of Communication and Psychology
Aalborg University, Denmark
Background for ePolicyInPractice
� May 2011, Aalborg University & signed a MoU with University of Dhaka
� This project is deepening this partnership further
� I will present an overview of what we plan to do
Research Idea - Domain � A lot of efforts are put into Digital Bangladesh,
vision 2021 � Implementation
� Evaluation
� Yet no one knows the effects of Digital Bangladesh on the institutional level in higher education � Therein lies our contribution � Broad approach: Neither research on hardware, nor
software, nor humans, but their interaction
ePolicyInPractice � Discover and document
novel ways for students to learn through ICT
� Discover novel ways of administrating university through ICT
Developed University
An exploration of the mechanisms of digitalization - How is the policy ‘felt’? - What can be generalized to other universities?
e-Didactics and PBL � Teacher and student-driven innovation (user-driven
innovation)
� How? � Course design workshops and needs analysis
� Explore “post-lecture” approaches in Bangladesh
� Infuse well-tried “western” practices to these lead users
� Not “best practice”, but “best inspiration”
E-Infrastructure � Infrastructure
� Communications
� Case processing (Booking resources, promotion, travel expenses…)
� Computerization of infrastructure is possible! � Strictly technically. No problem.
� Challenge: Change mindsets, find smart workflows
Infrastructure
Researching Infrastructure � Why?
� Teaching is not independent from its infrastructure
� Signal? How are teachers’ motivations to adopt ICT affected by the state of administration?
� Agility: Changes in curriculum, teaching forms
� The interesting question is not if this must change � What happens when it is changed? � Systematize local knowledge � Investigate by participatory scenario creation and
need analysis
Future � 2011, The forthcoming days:
� Workshops, interviews, observations � Generating motivation
� 2012: Workshops on how the identified ideas can be supported and realized
� Scope of project depends on financial situation � Money currently bottleneck.
Resources
� AAU resources (time)
� DU resources (time & facilities)
� Pending funding applications (DFID, DANIDA, EU)