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Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Open Learning Centre THE ANNUAL REPORT 20 21 SEAMOLEC Office: Jl. Cabe Raya, Pondok Cabe, Tangerang Selatan 15418, Indonesia. Phone: (62-21) 7423725, 7434154 Fax: (62-21) 7422276 www.seamolec.org [email protected] THE CENTRE OF EXPERTISE IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING. SEAMEO Regional Open Learning Centre (SEAMOLEC) is one of the 26 Centres WELCOME TO under the auspices of Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization SEAMOLEC (SEAMEO) focusing in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). Owing to various programs that become its core tasks, like; trainings, consultancies, research and development, and information dissemination, SEAMOLEC is assisting the SEAMEO Member Countries to find alternative solution to enhance the quality of its people through Open and Distance Learning (ODL). TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Executive Summary 8 Regional Leadership 9 Research and Development 27 Training 32 Consultancy Services 32 1. Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (MoECRT) Indonesia 42 2. National Family Planning Coordinating Agency (BKKBN) 43 3. Ministry of Transportation 44 4. University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (UNTIRTA) 46 5. SEAMEO Centres 50 Regional Visibility 51 Partnership and Linkages 55 Information Exchange 55 1. Digital Resources Development 56 2. Promotion and Media Exposure 66 Sharing Best Practices 66 1. SEAMEO-The University of Tsukuba Symposium IX (Virtual) 2021 66 2. SEAMEO Congress 2021 68 3. International Webinar of 7 SEAMEO Centres in Indonesia 70 Implementation of SEAMEO 7 Priority Areas 71 Promoting TVET 71 1. Common Asia Tourism Curriculum (CATC) Webinar Series and Online Course Development 79 2. GIZ E-commerce Training 81 Reforming Teachers Education 83 Harmonization in Higher Education and Research 83 1. The South-East Asian Sales Competition (SEASAC) Project 89 2. Kampus Merdeka (Independent Campus) 91 Adopting 21st Century Curriculum 92 Organizational Development 93 Staff Development 94 Financial Viability EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT 2021 PAGE 5 In 2021, SEAMEO SEAMOLEC proudly acknowledged its twenty-four years of providing services to Southeast Asian countries in the area of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). At present, the area of ODL has significantly gained its popularity across the globe. Especially last year, the year 2020 has been a hard time for everyone when the Covid-19 pandemic has brought life around the world to a standstill. This condition is expected to have enormous consequences to many life sectors, and for sure it is having a devastating impact on global education as well. Large-scale national efforts in utilizing technology to support remote learning, distance education and online learning are emerging and evolving quickly. Such conditions have driven SEAMEO Regional Open Learning Centre (SEAMOLEC) to strive for capability in providing alternative solutions to assist the partners in answering these challenges. Furthermore, this year SEAMOLEC has set target to improve the quality of ODL through its national and regional programmes. The main objective is to support teachers and educators to overcome challenges during the pandemic by utilizing distance learning and educational technology. During the pandemic, not all teachers are ready to organize online learning. Therefore, SEAMOLEC responsively arranged various programmes to help and facilitate teachers in managing their online classes effectively. All people of the world have certainly woken up to the need to be online and to have digital/ICT literacy. Since the beginning of the 21st century, researchers have been emphasising the fact that the students who lack of ICT literacy skills will be ineffective and inefficient to work in the future. The situation that forced everyone to change their mindset and to use technology as the main tool of communication, trading, and learning, has brought everyone to a higher level of technological capabilities. To respond to this situation, SEAMOLEC prepares various programmes to serve education stakeholders, this includes teachers, students, and the wider public. In this Annual Report of 2020/2021, SEAMOLEC presents its programmes and activities into 4 main areas: Regional Leadership, Regional Visibility, Implementation of SEAMEO 7 Priority Areas, and Organizational Development. 1. Regional Leadership In the regional leadership area, we focus our report on the 3 out of 4 core tasks of SEAMOLEC: Research and Development, Training, and Consultancy Service. During this pandemic, the role of ODL is very important. Ready or not, almost all educators in Southeast Asia must conduct the teaching and learning process separately from their students. With reference to that, SEAMOLEC is encouraging the development of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in a structured and sustainable manner. SEAMOLEC Research and Development (R&D) division developed ODL models in 4 stages: planning, learning media development, implementation, and evaluation. Starting last year, there was a shift on the implementation. The preparation and the development parts that were used to be conducted in the hybrid mode, in 2020, we were forced to do it fully online. Within the year of 2020 SEAMOLEC developed 7 ODL models, and in 2021 the centre is developing 8 ODL models. Further explanation and development of Research and Development activities can be read in this report. The development of those models are supported by SEAMOLEC research grants. To be able to continue to innovate and provide solutions to various educational problems with distance learning, in 2021, SEAMOLEC also supports the ODL research and development in the form of a competitive research grant. In terms of capacity building activities, SEAMOLEC develops ICT-based training in ODL that are conducted in 3 modes: face-to-face, hybrid, and fully online. The training programmes were designed by 3 clusters: Distance Learning Assistance and Quality Improvement Programme, Training Package Programme, and ICT-based Tailored Training Programme. Thousands of participants have gained benefits from these training programmes. SEAMOLEC believes that collaboration is a pillar in helping institution providers realize their goals to promote access to education at a reasonable cost and high quality. One of the core tasks of SEAMOLEC is providing consultancy services to its partners, especially the ones related to ODL. Each partner has its own challenges and uniqueness in its implementation of ODL based on their needs. Through this programme our partners are assisted to develop, implement, and utilize ODL as an alternative solution for learning services provided for their learners. PAGE 6 ANNUAL REPORT 2021 2. Regional Visibility SEAMOLEC established partnerships with government and non-government education institutions to collaborate and promote quality improvement and best practices in the field of ODL. The purpose of the partnership programme is to strengthen collaboration between institutions, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic where most of the education institutions conducted ”Learning from Home” using the Distance Learning method, which SEAMOLEC takes part as its roles and expertise. SEAMOLEC partners are varied from basic, secondary, higher education level, non formal and informal education, ministries, and other institutions. This year new collaborations were made with 27 new partner institutions in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In terms of information exchange, annually SEAMOLEC develops digital learning content to support its ODL programmes. In 2021, SEAMOLEC updated the Terms of Conduct and open license as a reference for digital content developers, updating the module of Artificial Intelligence, and creating a chatbot module. To elicit social and public awareness, the Centre attempts to create positive publications in sharing information related to Open and Distance Learning (ODL) within the region. The objectives of these activities are to create a wider impact by providing contributions to the public's knowledge and to encourage them to benefit from the Centre’s programme. Due to Covid-19 pandemic, the Centre has been limiting its face-to-face activities, and finding alternative ways by using social media as a great way to stay connected with the public while physically separated. As a highlight of social media activities, the Centre’s accounts have gained significant increase in numbers of followers within the year 2020/2021. More than 50.000 followers have been added to various social media platforms and all are very active in terms of engagement with the posts. SEAMOLEC is limiting its printed publication and encouraging more active use of social media by providing more interesting posts on its feeds called ‘insights’. The insights posts cover information related to ODL ranging from technology updates, fun facts, tips and tricks, and many more. Not only through its publication efforts, SEAMOLEC also shares its best practices to the wider public by presenting in international webinars invited by its partners. SEAMOLEC Director presented in SEAMEO Tsukuba Conference 2021, SEAMEO Congress 2021, and International Seminar held in celebration of Indonesian National Education Day 2021 to support the series of events held by the Ministry. 3. Implementation of SEAMEO 7 Priority Areas Responding to the SEAMEO 7 Priority Areas, SEAMOLEC has conducted several activities in line with priority areas number 4: Promoting Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Programme, number