ALCom = APEC Learning Community

To - reduce knowledge divide and eventually to share prosperity in the APEC region

By - cooperative work, research, and human resources exchange via online and offline human networks

With - ALCoBs (APEC Learning Community Builders) who are qualified teachers, supporters, and learners in the APEC region

  Who are the APEC Learning Community Builders (ALCoBs)?

• Core members of the ALCom, who are learners, teachers, and supporters qualified and selected from each economy
• Pioneers of the ALCom to establish, develop, and maintain the community
• Key contact persons who voluntarily and actively organize and perform their own activities with a new vision of the future for the education in the APEC
• Main driving forces to reach ultimate goals of the ALCom through various activities such as cooperative work, cooperative research, knowledge sharing, and the exchange of human resources

 

• Participate in Internet Volunteer Activities in domestic/abroad
• Develop a working model of Instructional Contents
• Collect and share information on the best practices of using ICT
• Identify the needs and understand other economy teacher ALCoB

 

• Participate in divergent collaborative assignments/activities
• Share information for learning and discovery activities
• Study and/or evaluate the recommended contents (e.g. APEC Sister School Network & APEC Cyber School)

 

• Support and advise on ALCoB activities, encourage active participation, and provide incentives
• Participate in the ALCoB activities

  ALCoB Internet Volunteering

• ALCoB can make a plan and conduct the Internet volunteer program (IIV)
• IIV leaders may form cells or groups for the ALCoB Internet Volunteer(AIV) Project
• At least once a year, ALCoB members will visit targeted economies and support the use of ICT in education.
• Helping other economies operate the AIV in the future

 

• Virtual spaces for all kinds of online activities such as
  • Sharing Information and knowledge
  • Forming Cells and Groups
  • Conducting Cooperative work
  • Research
  • Social Activities (e.g., cell-chatting)
  • Accumulating / Retrieving Knowledge and Information
• Online quarterly-updated magazine that ALCoB autonomously report on the progress/results of projects and/or research
• Sharing practical knowledge as well as academic knowledge
• Succeeding to experiences and know-hows from ACEN Webzine

 

• Local economy and international level workshop
• Exchanging knowledge and know-hows among ALCoB
• Invite experts to Expo on e-learning
• 2003. Oct/Nov: First International ALCoB Workshop
  (Prepared by ALCoB with Korean IACE coordination)

 

• Publishing quarterly online academic journal (APEC Cyber Education Journal: APCJ) by ALCoB Supporters with the coordination of ACEC-Study Secretariat (ACEC-SS)