8C-3 Leveraging on Virtual Engagements Towards Sustainable Partnership – Case Study of UTM (20mins)
Tracks
C
| Wednesday, March 15, 2023 |
| 2:25 PM - 2:45 PM |
| 110C |
Details
Institutional Internationalisation is one of the utmost agendas for every Higher Learning Institution (HLI) around the globe to enhancing their academic and research quality and also sustaining their visibility and branding. This strategy is extremely important as the world has become more open and everyone in the HLI is in need to interact, working together and maintaining a sustainable partnership. One of the significant elements in internationalisation is visiting and meeting partners and potential partners from different countries to explore cooperation or sustain collaborations. However, the pandemic of COVID-19 has restricted traveling and visiting other partners abroad. Since early 2020, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has come out with an innovative and effective means as an alternative approach by introducing the Virtual International Engagement or VIE. VIE is a medium where we meet other partners in a well-planned time frame, ordered agenda, tailored presentation, and with specific focused objectives. To date, UTM has made VIE sessions with 100 HLI from 40 countries. In this session, I will share the experience of UTM in organizing the VIE, including the challenges and impacts of the activity in ensuring UTM could maintain its visibility and branding in the global world.
Learning Objectives:
After this session, the attendees will be able to
• learn and practice the new, effective, and innovative approach of virtual engagements as shared by UTM in order to sustain or create new partnership.
• use lessons learnt from experience-shared discussion during the presentation on the challenges and impacts of the VIE session in helping UTM maintain its visibility and branding.
• provide diverse options to cater for new uncertainties in enhancing the international education sector.
Target Audience:
International offices of higher education institutions, academia, TNE, and students
Target Audience Level:
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Presenter(s)
Prof Nor Haniza Sarmin
Professor of Mathematics
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Leveraging on Virtual Engagements Towards Sustainable Partnership – Case Study of UTM
2:25 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Dr Nor Haniza Sarmin (Prof Niza) is the Acting Director of UTM International and a Professor of Mathematics at the Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.
She received her BSc (Hons), Master and PhD in Mathematics from State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, USA. Her specialization of research is in Pure Mathematics.
Chairperson
Erik Lithander
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
The University of Auckland
