Universities are thus natural incubators which provide a framework to support lecturers and students in their efforts to start new ventures (Taylor 2012; Levi 2014).
Educational crowdsourcing applications of this nature support lecturers, students, and professionals in communicating with each other, primarily asking questions and receiving solutions.
Also, the Learning Designer environment (Laurillard et al., 2013) supports lecturers and teachers in capturing their pedagogical ideas, testing them out, revisiting them, allowing them to build on others' ideas, and share them with the community.
This chapter describes the design process of X-Space, a collaborative classroom facility at Taylor's University Lakeside Campus in Malaysia that supports lecturers' and students' collaborative learning activity using relevant educational technology.
Instead of tutorials or lectures, support from lecturers comes through online forums, email exchanges, phone conversations and Skype.
This system also supports the lecturer with the organisation and administration of tests.
This is also about the provision of digital education and technical support to lecturers and students.
Aside from many tasks including preparing teaching materials, examination papers, laboratory sheets, markings papers, doing research, and some administrative support tasks, lecturers are now required to do intensive OBE assessments and Continual Quality Improvement (CQI) planning and implementation for every module they handle.
It supports the lecturers' action, even though a recent poll by Opinionpanel found that eight out of ten students opposed it.
