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Research Institute for the Built & Human Environment
Creating an effective higher education partnership between Europe and Asia in the Built Environment through the use modern distance learning technologies
Kaushal Keraminiyage, Dr Dilanthi Amaratunga, Dr Richard Haigh
ECE conference 2007
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Layout• Background• The EUARSIA project• The scope of the study• Curriculum development
framework• Current status
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Background• Disasters can occur at any time in
anywhere around the world.• But, low-income developing
countries– Face high levels of disaster risk and they
experience higher levels of mortality (RICS, 2006).
– Often fail to launch successful long term disaster recovery programmes due to lack of financial and intellectual resources.
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Case of Sri Lanka
Potuvil in Sri Lanka after December 2004 Tsunami
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Case of Sri Lanka
Kosgoda - in Sri Lanka after December 2004 Tsunami
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Case of Sri Lanka
This was a hotel in Potuvil Sri LankaBefore the December 2004 Tsunami
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Case of Sri Lanka• Preparedness, Relief and Recovery
– Lack of awareness is one of the major reasons behind the mammoth death toll (Karim, 2005)
– Availability and utilization of short term financial and humanitarian aids for immediate relief
– Poor response capacities of local institutions (specifically commercial and infrastructure related) has been identified as a reason behind unsuccessful post-Tsunami recovery activities.
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Case of Sri Lanka
• The role of higher education institutions to address the need of enhancing the response capacities– Local and Global Knowledge– Post Tsunami Sri Lanka as a case to
enhance the global knowledge
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The EUARSIA project
• An international research collaboration – 3 European higher education institutions (Salford
leading) – 2 Asian (Sri Lankan) higher education institutions– Funded under the ASIALINK programme
• To enhance the capacities of the higher education institutions (local and global) for training, teaching and research activities required for the creation and long-term management of public and commercial facilities and infrastructure.
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Scope of this study
• Development of a curriculum on the creation and long term management of public and commercial facilities and elements of infrastructure
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framework
Issues and characteristics of joint curriculum development Literature review
Outcome would be genericFlexibility issues
Request partners to submit related curricular details (e.g. module specifications) to a central
database based on the identified curriculum strengths and gaps of each partner
Investigation of issues and methodologies related to curriculum development
Investigate the characteristics (e.g. module contents) of existing facilities and infrastructure
management curricular within European and Asian partner institutions and identify gaps
Development of the module baseLiterature reviewDiscussions with partnersPartners submit modules to a central database
Use of the Virtual Environment for Built Environment Research (VEBER) – http://veber.buhu.salford.ac.uk
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Curriculum development framework
Evaluate the standards / pre-requisites / skills demands of the submitted curriculum details
(modules)
Build the module base and the structure for the proposed joint curricular
The Joint Curriculum
Standardizing the module base
Module Compatibility Framework
Skills and requirements Audit
Curriculum customisation
Options to select different modules form the module base
Ability to customise the curricular for individual needs
Self skills / requirements assessment for partners on module basis
Customised curriculum to suit individual skills and requirements
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framework• Current status
– Module collection is completed (more than 20 modules)
– Module compatibility evaluations and skills audits being carried out
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Acknowledgement• The authors wish to acknowledge that the
EURASIA project is funded by the European Commission under the Asia – Link program.
• This paper has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this paper are the sole responsibility of EURASIA and can under no circumstances be regarded as representing the status of the European Commission
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