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Associate Expert
Miho Taguma works on two different projects:
1) E-learning in Post-secondary Education and Training
The project aims at generating evidence-based suggestions to policy makers on how to best support e-learning initiatives in post-secondary education and providing institutions with information on good practice and challenges in developing and evaluating e-learning courses. The CERI carried out a qualitative survey that cover a wide range of themes such as institutional strategy and e-learning forms; platforms and infrastructure; access to e-learning; teaching and learning; students and markets; staff and materials; funding and government; organisational change, scenarios and barriers. The respondants of the survey are 19 tertiary education institutions from 11 OECD member countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Switaerland, the United Kingdom and the United States) and 2 non-member countries (Brazil and Thailand).
http://www.oecd.org/document/28/0,2340,en_2649_37455_31820060_1_1_1_37455,00.html
2) Recognition of non-formal and informal learning and credit transfer (cross-division collaboration for the Directorate of Education's Education and Training project)
How can we promote 'Lifelong Learning for All'? One important way is to value all types of learning outcomes regardless of where learning takes place - formal, non-formal and informal. Credit accumulation and transfer can function as an effective pathway to bridge between the formal, non-formal and informal sectors. The project aims at collecting evidence of benefits (economic, social, educational and psychological) as well as potential risks by recognising outcomes from non-formal and informal learning. The OECD will carry out a stock-taking exercise by mapping out currently existing policies and practices concerning recognition of non-formal and informal learning. It will also research on the 'process' (what works and what does not) by launching a pilot model in participating countries.
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Education:
2003 - Diplôme de recherche et d’Etudes Appliquée (DREA) in intercultural education and multimedia - Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France
1996 - Master's degree in Education (M.Ed) - Boston University, Boston, USA
1994 - Bachelor's degree (BA) in comparative culture - Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Professional experience:
September 2003 ~ present
Associate expert, OECD, CERI, Paris, France
October 2001 ~ August 2003
Consultant, UNESCO, Education Sector, Paris, France
September 1997 ~ August 1999
Interviewer, evaluator, and interviewer trainer for a language proficiency test as well as e-learning tutor for Waseda University, contracted by ALC Press;
Summer 1998
Lecturer for an adult course at Showa Women’s Open College, Tokyo, Japan
September 1996 – August 1998
Lecturer, Teacher Trainer, Curriculum coordinator at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa University, contracted by Westgate Corporation, Tokyo/Kanagawa, Japan
Spring 1997
Teacher at Promom Prum college sent by ERIC (Education Resource and Innovation Center), Promom Prum, Cambodia
Spring- Summer 1996
Teacher at a foreign branch campus of Showa Women's University, Boston, USA
Spring 1993
Reporter to carry out an ethnography on the Massai sent by a media production company, TVMAN UNION, Narok, Kenya
* Important publications/selected bibliography: OECD publications, other OECD documents (staff papers/presentations); other publications.
OECD publications:
- E-learning in Tertiary Education: where do we stand?, OECD, Paris.
- article in the OECD Observer (forthcoming)
Other publications:
- The European handbook for Quality and standardisation in E-learning. Ehlers, U., Pawlowski, J. (Eds). Contribution of an article, ‘Quality in tertiary e-learning: managing a balance between divergence and convergence’. (forthcoming.)
Contact details:
OECD
2 rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
Tel: +(33) 1 45 24 92 65
Fax: +(33) 1 44 30 62 20
Miho.taguma@oecd.org
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