Subprogram 5: Guidance in Learning Industries

Objectives

1. Working alongside with the online science park, we will deepen e-learning standards and technology, to raise the international competitiveness of domestic enterprises.

This program will help operators raise technical standards in five areas: learning standards; teaching platforms; learning objects; developmental tools; and adaptive materials. The major objectives in 2004 are:

• Use e-learning industry standards to create a learning system
• Establish a science park learning objects repository, and assist the science park by providing services
• Research and develop an industry standard platform API to help solve problems of domestic manufacturers
• Analyze Mobile Learning related application and technology, and establish a central learning environment
• Research a results-based teaching model for teaching materials and its associated tools; and develop high level standardized multi-media teaching materials.

2. Promote e-learning, help industries conduct international and domestic marketing, in order to publicize our successful e-learning experience overseas.

This program will assist operators to grasp business opportunities and expand international markets in five areas: information sites, promotion events, market information, sales support, and consultation. The major objectives in 2004 are:

• Maintain the biggest and most resourceful Chinese e-learning site in the region
• Promote and deepen e-learning applications
• Analyze global and domestic e-learning market information, to assist domestic enterprises in grasping market opportunities
• Support e-learning operators’ overseas sales, to publicize our successful e-learning experience

3. Promote an e-learning quality management system. We will work with industrial policy and law to conduct a well-functioning environment for e-learning industrial development.

This program is going to achieve this goal by working in four areas at the same time: quality control, capital raising, study and analysis of the law and industrial policies. Thus, operators can develop their business in a well-functioning environment. The major objectives in 2004 are:

• Guide and assist e-learning operators, and raise the quality of services and teaching materials
• Host meetings and conferences to attract investors to invest in the e-learning industry and provide opportunities for operators to meet each other and exchange ideas and experiences
• Implement Taiwan’s e-learning industry policy white-paper
• Implement Taiwan’s e-learning industry related law

4. Foster collaboration among industries and establish a compatible team.

This program will strengthen operators' wills for collaboration and foster the construction of the value chain system in domestic e-learning industries in order to be internationally competitive. It will work in four areas: research and development, industry-university collaboration, international cooperation, and resource integration. The major objectives in 2004 are:

• Promote LCMS research and development cooperation
• Use government resources to assist operators developing products
• Import mature technologies and experiences from overseas and work with major foreign manufacturers; and encourage strategic alliance and cooperation among manufacturers
• Help to turn school’s R+D results into products, and assist industry-university collaboration

Task Items

1. Use the exchange standard of e-learning industry to do a trial version of guiding and counseling the online science park operators .

2. Establish an object repository for the online science park.

3. Research and develop the standard API for industry platform; analyze other associated platforms such as IMS LIP, Competence, Enterprise; promote the standard API to domestic enterprises and help them solve platform integration problems.

4. Study and analyze Mobile Learning- associated technologies, along with good methods and experiences from overseas, to come up with a research report for establishing domestic mobile learning environment and technology.

5. Learn from other countries, to import the best editing tools and methods to create our first two high-standard multi-media teaching materials.

6. Maintain the most resourceful e-learning site in the Chinese language region. This site will continue to post the newest e-learning global trends and our successful domestic examples to increase business opportunities.

7. Host international e-learning conferences. This will not only help mature our domestic e-learning technology but also create new value for e-learning applications.

8. Analyze the information collected on market opportunities in Taiwan, Mainland China, the United States, and Japan, to serve as reference for domestic e-learning operators. Complete one report for e-learning technology and market analysis every quarter. Also gather and analyze the e-learning industry market opportunities and industry information for the Asia-Pacific region to serve as reference for domestic e-learning operators.

9. Support and host business sales events and conferences and many other forms of activities for domestic e-learning operators, in order to get international recognition.

10. Guide and provide consultation to e-learning operators and manufacturers of teaching materials about e-learning quality related management

11. Hold related activities such as a CEO conference for fostering investment in e-learning industries. Invite companies with high potentiality for growth in the e-learning related industries to participate in at least one conference. Interact with venture capitalists, stock brokers, and people from the related industries. We expect to let people know more about the nature, future prospects, and investment value of e-learning industries, through personal interaction.

12. Implement the e-learning industry policy white-paper to express government’s stand on promoting e-learning and to reach a common understanding among government, industry, research institution and schools.

13. Implement Taiwan’s e-learning industry related law, to provide reference for government.

14. Promote LCMS. The early services are used to generate feedback and as the reference for modification to achieve the final goal of providing a steady and user- friendly system

15. Take advantage of government’s resources, to assist operators in using existing tools and technologies to create new products

16. Cooperate with major foreign manufacturers such as IBM and Oracle. Import mature technologies and experiences to open business opportunities and develop markets.

17. Host activities to encourage industry-university collaboration. Foster the interaction between industries and universities. Combine the abilities of industries and universities. Strengthen operators' abilities for research and development, and build strategic alliances. Foster the cooperation with international e-learning institutions to promote domestic e-learning industry’s international status.