4th EU-SHARE Policy Dialogue

The 4th EU-SHARE Policy Dialogue titled "Towards a Shared Understanding of Quality Assurance in ASEAN" was held on 26 and 27 October 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The dialogue was attended by more than 160 delegates representing ministries, universities, national accreditation bodies, professional bodies, student unions and experts from ASEAN and Europe. The 2-day dialogue aims to:

• raise the importance of QA in higher education
• understand the regional QA standards
• discuss the ASEAN Quality Assurance Framework (AQAF)
• share QA experiences

Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA Expert, a member of the EWG-QA work group attended the dialogue as part of the delegate.

EU-SHARE Working Group - Quality Assurance (EWG-QA) Meeting

The EU-SHARE Working Group on Quality Assurance held its 5th meeting from 24 and 25 October 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was hosted by AQAN and Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA expert represented AUN at the meeting. The meeting discussed the selection of universities for institutional assessment, guidelines for AQAF pilot implementation, and preparatory training for EQAAs and HEIs.

14th AUN-QA Workshop for Accomplishing Programme Assessment

The 14th AUN-QA Workshop for Accomplishing Programme Assessment was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 18 to 21 October 2016.

The 4-day workshop aims to introduce the AUN-QA framework and enhance quality assurance practices based on the latest version of AUN-QA framework at programme level (3rd version). The content of the workshop encompasses:

• Introduction to quality assurance in higher education 
• AUN-QA framework and criteria at programme level 
• AUN-QA quality assessment process 
• PDCA Approach to self-assessment 
• Self-assessment report (SAR) writing 
• Change Management 

The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA Expert together with Dr. Tan Kay Chuan from the National University of Singapore. The workshop was attended by 29 participants from universities in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.

Curriculum Design, Development and Evaluation for the Universities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)

The SEAMEO RIHED Workshop on "Curriculum Design, Development and Evaluation for the Universities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)" was organised and hosted by SEAMEO RIHED from 3 to 6 October 2016 in Bangkok. The workshop was graced by Dr. Chantavit Sujatanond, Centre Director of SEAMEO RIHED with a keynote address by Prof. Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon, MD, Secretary-General/Coordinator of SEAMEO TROPMED/Network.

The expected learning outcomes of the workshop are:

1. Apply the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) approach to curriculum design, development and evaluation
2. Identify the stakeholders’ needs of a study programme
3. Map the curriculum of a study programme
4. Apply Bloom’s taxonomy in writing learning outcomes
5. Evaluate instructional and assessment methods to achieve learning outcomes
6. Design student assessment rubrics
7. Apply constructive alignment of learning outcomes, teaching and learning and student assessment
8. Apply Context-Input-Process-Product (CIPP) methodology in curriculum evaluation

The workshop was designed and led by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, Principal Consultant of Educational Quality International (Singapore) and co-facilitated by Dr. Ong Duu Sheng from Multimedia University, Malaysia.

The Workshop was attended by 36 participants from the GMS-UC universities in Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.