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Smart Solutions be given consideration for decision making.
Content alone will not bring OUM to the The second project is the system that would
frontiers of open education. Systems support the literacy project.
particularly, smart and integrated solutions
are needed. OUM is inspired to ensure Similarly, each of niches areas under
effective use of analytics, machine learning, respective faculty has its own history, present
and artificial intelligences. One such scenarios and aspired future. One niche
solution that is being worked under a area that has been identified, Sustainable
university’s internal fund is the development and Green Solutions is the general theme
of predictive models to that can identify that is used to manage PhD students
learners who has potential to drop-out, to under STEM that engaged and connected
not meet the CGPA criteria to graduate and through the common theme on Sustainable
thereby introduce interventions, as well as Development, which marks the creation of
detect the impact of the interventions that window for inter-disciplinary studies. That
has been introduced. The model is based one direction under an expert researcher.
on existing data that will be built to evolve The university hopes each academic can craft
using time-series data capture. The existing their own area of expertise and be engaged
and real-time data that are used to build in consultancies.
the model will support many different types
of solutions at OUM. This emphasizes the As a mean to share and connect the expertise
need for CRI to ensure academic freedom, of OUM academic with the public, knowledge
sharing of research findings, foster openness sharing webinars are organised by CRI
while ensuring that the fund invested by the every year. Knowledge Dissemination Note
university results in tangible outputs that also accompanying the webinar is also published
for the public consumption.

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