ENTERS 2008

What is ENTERS?
Dear international partners, on behalf of Taiwan K-12 teachers and students, we would like to invite our international partners to join our ENTERS project in 2008 –Educational Networking in Taiwan for Excellence in Resource Sharing. In the global village connected by the Internet, industries from different walks of life utilize information technology to reform the enterprises, to promote work efficiency, and to improve the quality of service. The application of the information technology facilitates the prosperous development of modern society. There is no exception for education. Both teachers’ teaching and students’ learning should incorporate the advantages of modern technology. Consequently, continuous changes could be made in accordance with the facilitation modern technology could provide with. Recognizing the importance of information technology to students’ learning, the government in Taiwan is establishing an online environment to prepare students for the information society in the 21st century and to promote their problem –solving abilities. Meanwhile, it is crucial that students need to understand the world more and their international awareness and perspective should be fostered to cope with the globalization. With the strong support from Ministry of Education (MOE), we have begun to design and create an online learning environment for students in Taiwan. The core spirit lies in our students’learning collaboratively with international partners. In echo with this mission, we plan to conduct a project-based learning (PBL) project-- Collaborative On-line Network and Culture Exchange Project in Taiwan. In this plan, we hope that students from different contries will be invited to study with Taiwan student via internet. All together students will learn asynchornously and synchronously through the Internet. Based on the WebQuest theory, one team from Taiwan will match with the other team from abroad as follows:
1. They plan their own projects and formulate the topics.
2 They discuss the problems online and finally come to the solutions.
3. Such a process-oriented project includes the learning processes as follows:
(1). To formulate topics
(2). To decide learning tasks
(3). To establish the exploring processes and the procedures
(4). To seek the resources
(5). To conclude the project
This project will recruit 20 schools from the elementary to high school level in Taiwan. Each school teams coached by 1-3 teachers. The details are published in the following website: http://enters.stu.edu.tw/PBL For more information about PBL, please refer to the following website:
1. http://course.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/s031705/EDD5169F/
2. http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/bowman/index.htmx.htm
3. http://et.sdsu.edu/APaxton-smith/eslwebquest/WebQuest.htmsmith/eslwebquest/WebQuest.htm
4.http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/8059/CurriculumQuest.htmlCurriculumQuest.html 5.http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/oceanpollution/introduction.html
6.http://inshow.idv.tw/webs/oldstreet/default.htm

We look forward to seeing you on line soon!

Truly yours, Committee of ENTERS, Taiwan
If youwant to know more about this activity, please mail to

jerome@mail.stu.edu.tw