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.

Happy Employees Work Better

The 16th "Happy Employees Work Better" workshop was held on 2 - 3 July. 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.

1st Cohort of PSQ-EQI Workshop on SAR Writing in Manila, the Philippines

The 1st 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) at The Manila Hotel from 12 to 14 May 2026 with an online session on 4 June 2026.

The workshop was successfully concluded with participation of  56 participants from more than 20 HEIs in the Philippines.

ELOs System and Principles Workshop for Universities in Myanmar

The two-day training workshop on ELOs System and Principles for Universities in Myanmar was held on 27 and 28 April 2026 (online) by Education Quality International (eqi) which is a strategic partner in the AUN-EQI community project.

The workshop focused on ELOs system and principles covering key terminology, learning taxonomy, formulation and measurement of ELOs, design of student assessment, constructive alignment and the use of AI as an aid to validate ELOs and the design of marking scheme.

The workshop was attended by more than 40 participants from the 6 participatig universities in Myanmar.

20th SAR Writing Workshop for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment

The 20th blended workshop on "Self-Assessment Report (SAR) Writing for Successful AUN-QA Programme Assessment" was held from 31 March - 2 April (onsite) and 17 April 2026 (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 Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.

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 eqi - Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc and Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin.

Building Personal Resilience and Wellbeing

The 7th "Building Personal Resilience and Wellbeing" workshop was held on 27 March 2026 at Holiday Inn Atrium, 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. 

Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) and Course Syllabus Development at Champasak University, Lao PDR

The workshop on Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) and Course Syllabus Development for Champasak University was held on 9 – 11 March 2026 in Pakse, Lao PDR. The opening of the workshop was graced by Mr. Saly Detmoongkhun, Vice President of Champasak University, after the opening remarks by the Dean of Faculty of Law and Administration, Champasak University, and Dr. Reginald Pastrana, Senior Sectoral Advisor, Lux Development Programme LAO/037.

It aims to equip participants with the competencies to design future-ready curriculum and to develop course syllabi. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Nguyen Thi My Ngoc and Mr. Johnson Ong of Education Quality International (eqi) and attended by about 40 faculty members from Champasak University.