DEFINING AND USING AN

E-LEARNING PLATFORM AT THE

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF
TIMOR LESTE
Transforming Timor-
Timor-Leste / 6-
6-Julho-
Julho-09

SARA MOREIRA
DEFINING AND USING AN E-LEARNING PLATFORM IN¹
▫ FRANCISCO RESTIVO OF▫EAST
THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ¹
FRANCISCO
TIMOR DIONÍSIO²
1 Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
2 Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
ABSTRACT

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SUMMARY
1. What is a Digital Divide Context?
2. Building a country
• East Timor
• University in East Timor
3. E-Learning Project
• Moodle @ UNTL
4. Next steps
• Visioning a sustainable future

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DIGITAL DIVIDE
Source: slideshare.net/nextbyramla
«There currently exists a gap
between people who enjoy the
benefits of technology and those
whose lives could be
significantly improved by it.»
Source: Digital Divide Network

• Why technology when there is poverty?

• What are the challenges that technology
needs to face?
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EAST TIMOR
BUILDING A COUNTRY FROM THE GROUND

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1975 1991 1997 1999 2000 2002 2003 2007

• The first country of the millennium

• Much to do in the telecommunications and ICT
sector
• Scarce resources
• Available to only few people

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EAST TIMOR
HIGHER EDUCATION

• Higher Education in Timor

– UNTL
– The language
• Building partnerships
– Portuguese Cooperation Programme /
FUP / UNTL
– University courses in Portuguese at UNTL
• Act in prioritary fields of study
• Train timorese teachers for the future

(Professora Sara)
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E-LEARNING PROJECT
WHY?

To support the future To teach

- Keep the right data at the right - Providing more contents to the
place students
- And keep it safe - Enhancing their contact with ICT

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MOODLE @ UNTL
PLANNING

Team: Sara, Zulmira, Euclides e Augusto

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MOODLE @ UNTL
ADMINISTRATION

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MOODLE @ UNTL
CASE STUDY: OPERATING SYSTEMS

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MOODLE @ UNTL
CASE STUDY: SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS

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MOODLE @ UNTL
USERS TRAINING

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E-LEARNING PROJECT
FROM THE STUDENTS POINT OF VIEW, A SURVEY

MOST PART OF THE STUDENTS… Have used a computer and

have created an email
account for the first
HAVE NOT used Moodle after OS, though
they WOULD LIKE TO, reportedly. time in 2005 but don’t
have one
Usaste o Moodle para:
CONCERNING MOODLE…
64%

55% 55%

45% 45% Have found it intuitive

36% Agree that it has
27%
enhanced their
learning and it will
allow them to find
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better & more jobs
Descarregar
materiais da
exercícios
durante as
actividades
das aulas
trabalhos os colegas mensagens à
no chat professora e
pessoal
Have become more
disciplina aulas colegas
confident about ICT
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NEXT STEPS
VISIONING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE…

• University: Make it sustainable

– Moodle @ UNTL

• Timor Leste: recognize the main role

played by ICT for development
– Creative solutions for ICT sector in Timor
– Train people

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CONCLUSIONS
• Digital literacy and distance learning
enhance development
• Supporting infrastructures are missing
• Making information available does not have
to be expensive
– Moodle is open source free software
• People are needed to produce / reuse
meaningful contents

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CONTACTOS

Email
saritamoreira@gmail.com
Global Voices
http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/sara-moreira/
Blog
http://saritamoreira.blogspot.com
Twitter
http://twitter.com/saritamoreira

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