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Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Educations (CUPIDE)
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_org - assumed 'prj_org' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 40 Lead Organisation	University of the West Indies
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_toa - assumed 'prj_toa' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 52 Type of Project Activity	Development project with ICT4D component
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_url - assumed 'prj_url' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 64 Project URL	http://www.cupide.org
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_description - assumed 'prj_description' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 78 Brief Description	CUPIDE is an alternate name for the UNESCO-UWI project for the Enhancement of Human Resource Development in Distance Teaching, Administration and Materials Distribution, funded through the Japanese Funds in Trust for Capacity Building. The development objective of the project is to develop the human resources within the region through enabling each of the five participating universities to develop and deliver quality distance education programmes using ICTs. In this way, the competitiveness of the region in general and the institutions in particular will be enhanced, participation in the knowledge society increased Ã¢â‚¬â€œ not only as users, but also as generators of knowledge Ã¢â‚¬â€œ and cost savings realised in the use of the technology for distribution of the course materials and the teaching and administration of programmes. In order to increase access to education and training opportunities through the enhancement of distance education delivery methods by the use of ICTs (including Web-based technologies), the project will have the following immediate objectives: To develop an expandable framework to accommodate a multiplicity of technologies, known and unknown To select appropriate enabling technologies and media To acquire appropriate hardware and software for the telecommunication network, materials distribution and reproduction, teaching and administration. To identify programmes to be developed for delivery using ICTs and to develop them. To identify and provide in the initial stage and where necessary technical assistance in the development of the technical, administrative, and educational systems based on the use of ICTs. To identify appropriate personnel (academic, administrative, technical) in each institution to be trained in ICTs for teaching, administration, and materials delivery, thereby building the human resource capacity in the provider institutions. To train the persons who have to use the technology including students. To identify the requisite recurrent budgetary support. To establish with the support of CARICOM and other such bodies strategic linkages with providers and manufacturers. To establish/strengthen links between universities. To gather baseline data (including existing studies) on matters such as technology in the region; use of ICTs by the universities in the region for distance education; other initiatives in the region; learning styles. To develop projections of prospects for expansion to other institutions at different levels of the educational system. The overall goal of this collaborative project is to develop the human resources within the region through enabling each of the five participating universities (The University of the West Indies, the University of Technology, Jamaica, the University of Guyana, the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, and the University Quisqueya [Haiti]) to better develop and deliver quality distance education programmes using ICTs. In this way, the competitiveness of the region in general and the institutions in particular will be enhanced, participation in the knowledge society increased Ã¢â‚¬â€œ not only as users, but also as generators of knowledge Ã¢â‚¬â€œ and cost savings realised in the use of the technology for distribution of the course materials and the teaching and administration of programmes. CARICOM is a partner institution in the management of the project.
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_contact_name - assumed 'prj_contact_name' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 90 Contact name	Professor Stewart Marshall
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_contact_email - assumed 'prj_contact_email' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 102 Contact email	phone: (876) 927 2831
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_contact_phone - assumed 'prj_contact_phone' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 114 Contact Phone/Fax	fax: (876) 977 3494
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_address - assumed 'prj_address' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 126 Regular Postal Address	c/o UWI Distance Education Centre, UWI, Mona Campus Kingston 7 Jamaica
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_aff_org - assumed 'prj_aff_org' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 138 Affiliated Organisations	University of Technology, Jamaica; the University of Guyana; the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, and the University Quisqueya (Haiti)
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_fund_agencies - assumed 'prj_fund_agencies' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 150 Funding Agencies	Japan Trust Funds for Capacity Building
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_beneficiaries - assumed 'prj_beneficiaries' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 162 Target Beneficiaries	People of the Caribbean
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_start_date - assumed 'prj_start_date' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 174 Start Date	25-11-2006
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_end_date - assumed 'prj_end_date' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 186 End Date	25-11-2006
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_budget - assumed 'prj_budget' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 198 Project Budget	NA
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_status_description - assumed 'prj_status_description' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 210 Current Status	ongoing
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_cnt - assumed 'prj_cnt' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 222 Countr(ies) Involved	Regional
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_sec - assumed 'prj_sec' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 234 Sector	Education
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_ict_description - assumed 'prj_ict_description' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 246 Description of ICT Components	Use of ICTs, including web based technologies, to enhance distance education delivery methods in the Caribbean.
Notice: Use of undefined constant prj_mdg - assumed 'prj_mdg' in /home/vidyarat/public_html/carisnet.org/dbCarisnet/view/projects.view on line 258 Millennium Development Goals	2. Education
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Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Educations (CUPIDE)