Happier Career, Happier Life

The 17th "Happier Career Happier Life" workshop was held on 13 June 2025 at Holiday Inn Atrium Hotel, Singapore. The outline of the workshop is as follows:

• Overview of the happiness DNA 
• The science of happiness in career
• Personality profiling tools to find suitable career choices including numerology, NERIS Type Explorer® and bazi (Eight Characters)
• Job crafting to redesign work to suit one’s values, strengths and passions
• Understand the kinds of work stress and how to manage them
• Appreciate the future of work and how to stay relevant

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 techniques to manage stress were shared and practised such as muscle relaxation, meditation, laughter yoga, stretching exercise and breathwork.

OBE Ecosystem Approach to Future-Ready Education Hsoted by the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP), National University of Laos (NUOL)

The OBE Ecosystem Approach to Future-Ready Education workshop was held on 4 to 5 June 2025 in Vang Vieng and was graced by Dr. Reginald Pastrana, SSA of LAO/037, Asst. Prof. Thongsouk Keomany, Vice President of NUoL and Dr. Somdeth KeovongSack, Acting Dean of FLP. More than 60 participants from NUoL, FLP, FLA (Faculty of Law and Administration, Champasak University), and representatives from the Ministry of Education and Sports, Lao PDR and the Lux037 project office attended the capacity building workshop. A curriculum review meeting was held on 3 June 2025 as a prelude to the OBE Ecosystem workshop. The curriculum review and the workshop were faciliated by two experts - Dr.Nguyen Thi My Ngoc and Johnson Ong Chee Bin.

The aims of the workshop were to advance OBE implementation in a holistic and unified way by identifying and mapping the ecosystem that affects the design of study programmes as well as to equip participants with the competencies to review and re-design curriculum based on the OBE Ecosystem Framework. The experts shared good practices of integrated curriculum implemented in universities within and outside ASEAN for the participants to consider. They also shared examples of undergraduate programmes offered by the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and University of Economic and Law, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City. Besides, the use of AI as a tool in curriculum design and development was shared and discussed. 

The workshop was concluded with the experts outlining the way forward with key follow-up actions including establishing the ecosystem of FLP and relate it to each study programme, ccollecting the ecosystem intelligence including stakeholders’ needs and reflecting them into the curriculum, applying integrated curriculum, specialisations, tracks, minors, greater emphasis on teaching and learning and student assessment to assure of constructive alignment and real-world learning, and finally to monitor and report the objective and subjective measures of both programme and course learning outcomes of the programme.

Assessor Training for AUN-QA Programme Assessment at Mynamar Maritime University (MMU)

 A 3-day online training on "Assessor Traning for AUN-QA Programme Assessment" was held on 21, 26 and 29 May 2025 for Myanamr Maritime University as part of the AUN-EQI commuity project. More than 20 participants attendeded the workshop and they were trained to carry out desktop assesssment, stakeholders' interview and assessment report writing. The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin and Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc.

Happy Employees Work Better

The 12th "Happy Employees Work Better" workshop was held on 22 - 23 May 2025. 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

1st UM-EQI SAR Writing Workshop in Davao City, the Philippines

The 1st collaborative workshop between University of Mindanao (UM) and Education Quality International (eqi) on SAR Writing for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment was held from 7 to 9 May (onsite) and 30 May 2025 (online).

The workshop was hosted by UM in Davao City, the Philippines and attended by more than 50 participants from 16 HEIs in the Philippines. The workshop was an overwhelming success and was rated excellent by the participants.

ADDIE Training Workshop for National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Lao PDR

An ADDIE training workshop was held for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Lao PDR on 11 to 13 March 2025 as part of the 1-year project to review and enhance the one-year judicial training programme to better prepare future judges, prosecutors, and lawyers needed for their professional practices. 

The workshop was the first of the three series to be held for the NIJ administrators and trainers in 2025. The workshop was led by international curriculum experts Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin and Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc and attended by 30 participants from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor (OSPP), the People’s Supreme Court (PSC), and the Lao Bar Association (LBA). 

Source: https://justiceprojectlaos.com/strengthening-curriculum-design-and-evaluation-for-judicial-training-in-laos/

18th SAR Writing for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment

The 18th blended workshop on "Self-Assessment Report (SAR) Writing for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment" was held from 25 to 27 March (onsite) and 11 April 2025 (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.