Happy Employees Work Better

The 9th "Happy Employees Work Better" workshop was held on 24 to 25 January 2024 at Furama City Centre Hotel, Singapore. The workshop is a collaboration between ASK Training Pte Ltd and Living Better. The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, Chief Happiness Coach of Living Better.

The outline of the workshop covers the following topics:

• The Happiness DNA
• Importance of workplace happiness
• The workplace happiness DNA
• Happy purpose – building a sense of purpose
• Happy people - nurturing the Happiness DNA
• Happy practices - keeping employees happy
• Happy culture – sustaining a happy workforce

Personal Resilience and Wellbeing

The 2nd "Building Personal Resilience and Wellbeing" workshop was held on 21 August 2024 at Furama City Centre Hotel, Singapore. The outline of the workshop is as follows:

• Resilience and Wellbeing
• Define resilience and wellbeing
• Evaluate current levels of resilience and wellbeing
• Building Your Resilience
• Emotional Resilience
• Cognitive Resilience
• Adaptive Resilience
• Action Planning for Ongoing Resilience and Wellbeing
• Creating an action plan to enhance resilience and wellbeing.

The workshop was organised in collaboration with ASK Training Pte Ltd and Living Better and facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, Founder and Chief Happiness Coach. Various instruments are used to assess the levels of wellbeing, resilience, fixed/growth mindset and burnout and techniques to manage the 4 zones of energy (Performance, Survival, Burnout and Recovery) were shared.

The workshop ended with a personal action plan for each participant to raise their resilience and wellbeing.

OBE Seminar at Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam

L.Y.D.I.N.C Ltd. Company (LYDINC), in collaboration with Education Quality International, successfully organized a hybrid seminar on "International Quality-Standard Outcome-Based Education and Self-Assessment at Program Level" at the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology on 13 Augsut 2024.

Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, Founder and Principal Consultant of Education Quality International  delivered virtually a topic on "Fundamental and Advanced OBE for Higher Education and Trends of Higher Education Curriculum Development" at the seminar.

17th Self-Assesment Report (SAR) Writing for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment

The 17th blended workshop on "Self-Assessment Report (SAR) Writing for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment" was held from 5 to 7 August (onsite) and 26 August 2024 (online). The onsite workshop was hosted by the AUN-QA Network and Education Quality International in Bangkok, Thailand and attended by participants from universities in the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. 

At the online workshop, participants received feedback on their SAR writing assignments. They were given a template to guide them in writing the complete SAR for successful AUN-QA programme assessment. The workshop was faciliated by official AUN-QA training specialists Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc and Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin.

Future-Ready Education (OBE Ecosystem)

Future-ready education or OBE Ecosystem is conceptualized based on the principles of future-ready outcomes-focused, ecosystem-focused and stakeholders-centred.

It is based on the management strategy of ecosystem approach and future sensing, stakeholders agency, collaboration and shared responsibility in designing ecosystem defined programmes. The theoretical basis are growth mindset, future skills and lifelong learning, measurable WISER outcomes, criterion referencing and integrated constructive alignment. WISER outcomes are outcomes that are formulated based on the Work of the future, Integrated constructive alignment, Significance and SMART, Ecosystem perspective and Real-world learning. It aids in designing curriculum content that is holistic, integrated and future-ready.

The process of education in future-ready education emphasizes student holistic development and wellbeing, and real-world learning. Curriculum planning in future-ready education is ecosystem, agile, holistic with integated constructive alignment and future-ready. It requires curriculum to be future-ready, integrated, real-world learning and flexible.

(c)Education Quality International (2024)

AUN-QA Community Project for Myanmar Universities

The AUN-QA community project aims to provide universities in CLM countries with greater opportunities to harmonize their education within the ASEAN higher education area as well as to uplift their higher education systems, develop and sustain their quality assurance at programme and institutional levels based on AUN-QA framework.

As part of the larger aim, the AUN-QA Network has launched a 5 years (2023 to 2027) community project for universities in Myanmar involving the following 3 phases:

• Phase 1a - Data and information gathering and selection of study programmes to undergo AUN-QA programme certification;
• Phase 1b - Training representatives of the participating universities on the AUN-QA programme framework (version 4) and gaps analysis of the selected study programmes as well as the documentation of IQA Manual and IQA plan;
• Phase 2 - Self-Assessment Report (SAR) preparation and writing; and
• Phase 3 - Preparation of AUN-QA programme assessment.

The kickoff workshop (online) has begun on 17 January 2024 and lasted through 30 January 2024. During the 5-year period, relevant training workshops, coaching and hand-holding activities will be held to the participating universities for uplift their selected study programmes to meet the AUN-QA programme standards. 

The second workshop was held in Bangkok from 30 July to 1 August 2024 and 24 participats from 6 universities in Myanmar attended the workshop on Programme Improvement and IQA Documentation. The hybrid workshop was faciliated by Dr. Raymund Sison, Dr. Prastawa Budi, Dr. Thuyen Ngo Van, Dr. Kageeporn Wongpreedee, Dr. Porngarm Gswu, Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc and Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin.