CUHK Launches Territory's First Cloud-based eLearning Platform 創建香港首個雲端教育平台
19 Apr 2015, Sun
由中大主導，與香港教育學院、香港理工大學、香港科技大學、香港城市大學、香港浸會大學、嶺南大學、香港大學攜手合作創立的「知識與教育交流平台」(KEEP)正式面世，是本港首個支援線上學習的一站式雲端平台，匯集各種線上學習工具、應用程式及教育資源，供市民登記使用。
KEEP於2014年獲大學教育資助委員會資助，總資金一千五百萬港元，開發期為三年。KEEP首席研究員包括計算機科學與工程學系金國慶教授、統計學系潘偉賢教授及卓敏教育心理學講座教授侯傑泰教授。
KEEP現時主要有四大功能，包括：
KEEPSearch──匯集及整合與教育相關的信息及資料，已收集以香港地區為主的網上教育資料達300萬項。
KEEPCourse──讓用戶透過KEEP進入多個國際大型公開網上課程平台如Coursera、edX、ewant 和學堂在線，選讀課程。教師亦可簡便使用線上工具，如Open edX、Google Course Builder、Moodle、Open Canvas，創建課程。再把課程連結分享給學生。
KEEPCatalog──集合各類教育軟件，方便學生尋找做功課和簡報用的合適軟件。
KEEPoll──供免費建立投票活動，讓用者經由網上或手機短訊的方式參加投票，投票結果可即時在網上查看或匯出成其他格式，從而增加課堂互動性，提升學生的學習興趣。
The University has launched KEEP (Knowledge & Education Exchange Platform), a cloud-based eLearning platform developed and initiated by CUHK with its partner institutions and funded by the University Grant Committee (UGC). KEEP aims at offering a personalized educational portal for users to easily search, subscribe and access content related to education from the KEEP Cloud Ecosystem. KEEP is now open for subscription.
KEEP is support by UGC with a grant of HK$15 million for three years. Its principle investigators include Prof. Irwin King, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Prof. Poon Wai-yin, Department of Statistics; and Prof. Hau Kit-tai, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Educational Psychology.
Major features of KEEP are as follows:
KEEPSearch— an in-depth directory and search engine with dedicated and exclusive educational resources with over three million education-related webpages being crawled and indexed;
KEEPCourse— providing cutting-edge eLearning platforms for teachers and students to experiment blended-learning on advanced MOOC environments such as Coursera, edX, ewant, xuetangX, etc., as well as LMS systems such as Moodle, Open edX, Open Canvas, Course Builder, etc.;
KEEPCatalog— a showcase collection of the best-in-class software, hardware, and services for teaching and learning;
KEEPoll— providing real-time web and mobile polling service to increase student engagement and teaching quality.
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