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Good Practices from AAOU Members

development, an advanced programing Educational Media and Technology
instructional model, the development of Educational media and technology play
information, media and digital literacy important roles in creating viable learning
in distance higher education, and a and instruction in distance education
benchmarking research project exploring that support student learning through
comparative higher education policy. personalized learning approaches achieved
by the advancement of educational
Distance Training technology. Therefore, STOU has allocated
Research and development in distance significant funding to conduct research
training at STOU were funded with regard to and development in this area. Also the
responding to one of STOU research missions distance media fund produces educational
which is the provision of STOU services to media and technological tools created by
communities. Nearly all services produced STOU researchers to support teaching and
by this type of research were related to the learning at STOU. Examples of research and
provision of learning and training provided development in this area include the blended
to Thai people throughout the country educational media, designing sound media
through various distance education formats. production, e-book teaching development,
Examples of research and development in and virtual classroom model.
this category include a web-based instruction
for strengthening leadership of school Curriculum Evaluation
administrators, the distance training on Curriculum implementation is the process
assessing preschool students’ development of transferring contents in terms of
and learning, a virtual library, and intelligent knowledge and skills to students. Evaluating
books for hearing impaired students. effectiveness and limitations of curriculum

Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU)