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Electronic resources and services
to support academic process at AUCA
Battalova Sania
American University – Central Asia
Director of Information Resources and Technology
E-Services provided by IRThttp://irt.auca.kg/
• e-Course system (Moodle)
• e-Reserve system
(Moodle environment)
• E-Portfolio (Mahara)
• E-Library (DSpace)
• E-survey tool
(SurveyMonkey)
AUCA e-Course system: http://e-course.auca.kg/
AUCA e-Course system: http://e-course.auca.kg/
• Online Course Management System (based on Moodle Open Source Software), can be used to supplement traditional face-to-face classroom activity or to deliver a completely online course.
• Includes tools for managing student communication and grades,
sharing content, collaborating outside of class, administering quizzes and surveys, and communicating with email, forum or chat.
• Is being used as a tool to keep student majors or student groups informed and to collaborate with other professors in research projects.
• Is being used as an information and collaboration environment for the University working groups (administrative and/or academic)
AUCA e-Course system: course example
AUCA e-Course system: usage statisticshttp://irt.auca.kg/en/e-course_statistics/
# Title Courses InstructorsRegistered Students
Degree Programs
1 American Studies 7 7 86
2 Anthropology 12 5 97
3 Business Administration 6 4 80
4 European Studies 5 2 48
5 International & Business Law 7 2 80
6 International & Comparative Politics 6 5 89
7 Journalism & Mass Communications 8 4 135
8 Master of Business Administration 6 4 33
9 Psychology 14 6 304
10 Sociology 11 6 306
Supporting Programs
1 Arts & Recreational Sports 6 2 156
2 English Language 1 1 29
3 Mathematics & Natural Sciences 4 2 86
4 First Year Seminar 7 1 119
Totals 100 51 1648
AUCA e-Course system: Student’s responds
• Very positive to work with the system
• Have no problems with the E-course technology
• Have an opportunity to work at home
• Have better opportunity to communicate with instructor
• Students prefer to take course in which teacher use the E-course system
AUCA e-Course system: faculty responds
• Do not need too much time to learn (regularly 2 training sessions and some consultations)
• Many features to organize the course• Possibility to use any file formats (video, audio,
video lessons as well)• Changing of teaching methodology (active
learning approach)• More possibilities for collaboration (faculty-
students, faculty-faculty)
AUCA e-Course system: how to start
• Follow the link http://e-course.auca.kg/ • Set up an account• Submit ‘Electronic Course Request Form’ (find the form at
the IRT web-site or the e-Course web-site)• Fill in a course by resources and activity (information
resources, assignments, forums, quizzes)• Enroll students in a course• Have all required support and consultation: Senior
Specialist for eLearning – Maya Sharsheeva, [email protected], tel. (ext): 300
AUCA e-Reserve system: http://library.auca.kg/en/crs/
•eReserve is a part of the e-Course system• e-Reserve is an opportunity to provide an access to learning materials in the framework of your course for your students in electronic (digital) format. •E-Reserves extend the Course Reserves to those outside of the Library by providing a digital copy of the required reading•Library specialists will help you to place the materials at the system.
AUCA e-Reserve system: examples
AUCA e-Reserve system: examples
AUCA e-Reserve system: statistics
Course Name Number of courses
Instructors Registered students
American Studies 3 1 36
Business Administration 1 1 15
MBA 2 1 24
Mathematics and Natural Sciences 1 4 110
Total 7 7 185
AUCA e-Reserve system: how to start
• Go to the Library web-site – Electronic reserve section http://library.auca.kg/en/crs/
• Complete online or printed e-Reserve request form
• Bring your materials to the Library
• Have all required support and consultation: by phone 66-10-88 (275 int.) or by e-mail [email protected]
AUCA e-portfolio system:http://eportfolio.auca.kg/
• to present yourself effectively, properly, creatively, professionally, up-to-date
• to make the information visible
• to update your profile the information regularly
• to control and operate the ePortfolio content access
• to store and to show of the personal achievements
Showcase of the personal accomplishments
AUCA Personal professional information – the way to start
Start to create your ePortfolio:
http://eportfolio.auca.kg
How it may look like: area of your creativity
AUCA ePortfolio “Easy to make” template
• “Key points” of the academic career
• Basic Knowledge For the Beginners
• To make the process easier and faster
• Background for future development of the personal e-Portfolio – be creative!
AUCA e-Portfolio system: how to start
• Open web browser http://eportfolio.auca.kg
• Login with the username and password that you would normally use when you log on to AUCA's computer network.
• Complete the Account form with your details. Required items: proper First name and Surname, valid Email address.
• Press the button ‘Submit’
• Create your own e-Portfolio
• Have all required support and consultation: Senior Specialist for eLearning – Maya Sharsheeva, [email protected], tel. (ext): 300 or Sania Battalova, (tel/ext. 273)
What news at the AUCA Library:http://library.auca.kg/
• Research databases (new databases access available)
• Electronic books collection (all subjects)
• AUCA Digital Library news
AUCA Digital Library http://elibrary.auca.kg:8080/dspace/
e-Survey tool (SurveyMonkey)http://www.surveymonkey.com/
• Survey Monkey is an easy-to-use tool for the creation of online surveys
• It has an intuitive Web interface, which makes it easy for even non-technical folks to create surveys and export collected data
• It has advanced features, like the ability to branch questions based on response and exporting to different formats, including HTML, CVS and SQL
An example: AUCA web-mail surveryhttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7JFZNWN
AUCA e-Survey tool
AUCA e-Survey tool: how to start
• Go to the IRT web-site: http://irt.auca.kg/ - Web-survey tool
• Complete a request form
• Get a login and password to access the system
• Have all required support and consultation: Maya Sharsheeva, [email protected], tel. (ext): 300 Marat Kuldashev, [email protected], tel(ext): 207Sania Battalova, [email protected], tel(ext): 273