Bridging the Gap in Educational Resources
Curriculum Guidelines of 12-year Basic Education was published in 2019 to guide high school students to explore their interests and foster their autonomous learning abilities through diverse fields of study. However, since regular and vocational high schools located in rural areas (hereinafter rural senior high schools) are inaccessible or too
Maximizing Education through Interlibrary Services
In situations characterized by abundant resources and limited funding, libraries can maximize the resources they can provide to teachers and students within an organization by engaging in active collaborations and participating in alliances. These alliances also allow libraries to share their own collections with other libraries that have insufficient resources.
Summer Online School (SOS) Returns!
In 2020, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) held its first Summer Online School (SOS) program, which offered 20 engaging online courses from each of its colleges to up to 2,165 students. Among them, 540 students were high school graduates and prospective university students. The academic credits earned through
Over 350,000 Users Registered in Ewant, NYCU’s First MOOC Platform
In October 2013, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University established ewant, the first massive open online course (MOOC) platform in Taiwan. This platform assists higher education institutions in Taiwan in advertising and promoting their MOOCs and has currently signed collaboration agreements with 100 universities and academic units in Taiwan
Audiobooks for the Blind — NYCU’s Movement in Continuous Humanistic Care
To protect the rights of people with visual impairments, the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University library first devised plans for creating audiobooks in 1998. Following consultations with multiple parties, the library decided to collaborate with six magazine publishers, including CommonWealth Magazine, Crown Magazine, and Evergreen, and recruit volunteers for
NYCU-IIT Double-Degree Virtual Campus for Doctoral Students
The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented foreign students from pursuing their studies in Taiwan. To address this problem, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) has provided remote courses for students to continue their education, establishing a special virtual campus project for students enrolling in dual-degree with Indian Institute of Technology