Happy Employees Work Better

The 17th "Happy Employees Work Better" workshop was held on 24 - 25 September 2026. 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 workshop began with the evolution of the happiness economy, discussed extensively on the 8 dimensions of happiness DNA with a self-assessment instrument to measure the happiness level of each of the 8 dimensions, and the strategies and practices to raise and sustain the level of happiness for individuals and organizations.

2nd Cohort of PSQ-EQI Workshop on SAR Writing in Manila, the Philippines

The 2nd Cohort of PSQ-EQI Workshop on SAR Writing for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment was jointly hosted by the Philippines Society for Quality (PSQ) and Education Quality International (eqi) in Manila from 9 to 11 September 2026 with an online session on 1 October 2026.

The workshop was attended by participants from 12 HEIs in the Philippines.

Happier Carrer, Happier Life

The 21st "Happier Career Happier Life" workshop was held on 14 August 2026, a colloborative  workshop organised with ASK Training Pte Ltd and Living Better and facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, Founder and Chief Happiness Coach. Various profiling tools were shared to aid career choices and techniques to manage stress were practised such as muscle relaxation, meditation, laughter yoga, stretching exercise and breathwork.

Building Personal Resilience and Wellbeing

The 8th "Building Personal Resilience and Wellbeing" workshop was held on 13 August 2026. 

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. 

9th DLSMHSI International Conference on Health Sciences Pedagogy

Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, Founder and Principal Consultant, Education Quality International (eqi) was invited to speak at the 9th DLSMHSI International Conference on Health Sciences Pedagogy at De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute on 28 July 2026,

He shared the topic on "Reimagining OBE in ASEAN Higher Education: Building Future-Ready Graduates in the Era of AI".

530th AUN-QA Programme Assessment at University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC)

The 530th AUN-QA Programme Assessment at University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) was held from 21 - 23 July 2026 in Davao City, the Philippines. Four study programmes were assessed and Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, led the programme assessment for Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering with Asst. Prof. Siriluk Ruangrungrote from Thailand.

OBE Ecosystem Approach to Future-Ready Education

The 10th AUN-EQI workshop on "OBE Ecosystem Approach to Future-Ready Education" was held on 7 - 10 July in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop was a collaborative capacity building initiative between ASEAN Quality Network (AUN) and Education Quality International (eqi) and was attended by participants from universities in the Philippines and Thailand.

The OBE Ecosystem Framework (Version 6) which was recently updated to embrace emerging and future trends in higher education such as world's future of work, future-ready curriculum, student agency, skills-first, authethic assessment etc. The following fundamental principles of OBE ecosystem framework were extensively discussed:

• WISER outcomes: outcomes: learning outcomes that are formulated based on the world's future of work vertical and horizontally aligned, significance and SMART, ecosystem perspective and real-world learning.
• Ecosystem curriculum design: The system to design future-ready curriculum requires both outside-in (ecosystem) and inside-out (microsystem) approaches with an emphasis on integrated curriculum best practices and designs.
• Real-world learning: learning should involve real world challenges and real-world tasks in bridging the gap between theory and practice gap so as to develop graduates’ work readiness by focusing on nurturing attributes towards employability and lifelong learning.
• Integrated constructive alignment: curriculum should embrace an integrated (vertical and horizontal) constructive alignment within and outside the programme and institution with the ecosystem.

Case studies were held to reinforce the underatnding and application of the OBE Ecosystem Framework.