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Poster Session 3A

Thursday, March 16, 2023
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Exhibition Hall 3 & 4

Presenter(s)

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Prof Alexandra Angress
Professor; Departmental Coordianator for International Affairs, Faculty of Business and Law
TH Aschaffenburg - Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences (AUAS)

Asia-Europe COIL - “Civic Engagement and Sustainable Development”

Biography

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Alexandra is professor and international coordinator at THAB and has launched the ASEM COIL pilot project with Dr. Nurliana Binti Kamaruddin, AEI (https://aei.um.edu.my/ss2022#). She created the initiative “Your campus of the future” and is joned by her colleagues Prof. Dr. Sabrina Weithmann who also heads the university’s green office, Madeleine and colleagues from partner unis.

Abstract:
The poster details recent effort between the Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya and Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany in co-hosting the annual Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summer School. The AEI ASEM summer school is an ongoing initiative that seeks to enhance the balanced mobility of students, researchers and academics between Asia and Europe in line with one of the decisions of ASEMME 4 in May 2013, Kuala Lumpur.

With a new format the initiative in 2022 seeks to take collaboration between participants of Asia and Europe to the next level with a COIL themed “Civic Engagement and Sustainable Development”. The COIL initiative focusses on a student-led workshop and forum to allows students to discuss and explore different aspects of the theme in a multicultural setting with participants from Asia and Europe. With a flexible two -week program schedule blending synchronous and asynchronous phases and facilitated group work with modules by speakers students identify different forms of civic engagement and sustainable development formats activities in the Asian and European regions, identify barriers and jointly explore ways as to overcome them.

Lessons learned will be shared to encouraged similar partnership initiatives to help universities integrate SDGS as basis for future collaboration programs.

Learning Objectives:
Attendees will
•Learn how such a multilateral COIL based on selected SDGs can be conducted successfully.
•Gain an insight into how the theme of civic engagement and sustainable development can be explored to promote mutual understanding across regions and enhancing partnership.
•Learn lessons that will be shared for the development of initiatives of innovative Education Program Development.

Target Audience:
Students, Education Providers, Lecturers and Education Policy Decision Makers and Stakeholders

APAIE thematic strand 1 but also strand 2 apply with regard to partnerships New forms of partnerships to meet sustainability goals

Target Audience Level :
All

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Prof Tim Stewart
Professor
Kyoto University, Japan

Innovating to Support Students’ Academic Writing

Biography

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Tim Stewart has been an international educator for over 30 years. He helped to found tertiary institutions in Canada and Japan where he served in major leadership positions. For the past five years, he has led teams of materials writers at Kyoto University in Japan’s ancient capital.

Abstract:
While Japan is popularly imagined as a leader of technical innovation, change is extremely slow in many sectors; education in particular. The unexpected Covid-19 pandemic forced school leaders to innovate quickly by adopting digital solutions to deliver instruction online. The presenter describes an institutional move at a Japanese university away from standard print-based commercial textbooks to the creation of unified digital course books. This move was part of a major curriculum reform made to ensure the sustainability of the English academic writing course. After the curriculum was revised in 2015, survey data was collected from the 50 teachers and 3,000 students on the course about the commercial books first used. The data from 2016 to 2021 consistently showed dissatisfaction with the selected commercial textbooks which prompted full-time instructors to take the initiative and produce an institutional E-book for the course. The presentation outlines the obstacles encountered to create and get approval for the original course materials. Next, the process of piloting and revising the new E-books is highlighted. This process includes questionnaire responses of students and teachers who engaged with the digital material. The session closes with questions from the audience and invites recommendations for expanding the innovation.

Learning Objectives:
•Insights into how innovation is received in Japan’s educational environment
•The process of sustaining collaboration for materials development

Target Audience
-Student support, teaching/classroom instruction, curriculum and material developers

Target Audience Level: Intermediate

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Prof Maxim Khomyakov
Dean
University of Central Asia

International Higher Education and Regional Sustainable Development : Eurasian Cases

Biography

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Prof. Maxim Khomyakov is a UCA Dean of Arts and Sciences, and a visiting fellow at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). He previously was a vice-director of St.Petersburg campus of HSE University (2017-2020), and a vice-president at Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2009 – 2017). In 2016-2020 he contributed greatly to the formation of the BRICS Network University.

Abstract:
The session aims at discussing mission and activity of the universities with a clear regional (as different from the national and global) focus. The main questions are: (1) what kind of internationalization are the regional universities and/or networks pursuing, and, more importantly, (2) what is the added value of the regional focus in comparison with traditional national or global outlook? Presentation starts with brief discussion of the history of regionalization in higher education and proceeds with the analysis of the four cases of the regional universities and networks: European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Shanghai Cooperation Organization Network University, University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan), and BRICS Network University. The author demonstrates that each of these four cases is based upon specific understanding of the regionalization and of the mission of the regional university: integration of the region (EUI), sustainable development (UCA), neo-imperial “soft power” (SOC NU) or vague “people-to-people collaboration” (BRICS NU). The author argues that only first two cases provide us with a genuine case for regionalization of the higher education. In the Global South context, moreover, it is sustainable development which plays pivotal role for growing regionalization of higher education.

Learning Objectives:
•Better understanding of the processes of regionalization of higher education, especially in the context of the Global South,
•Capacity to analyze regionalization according to the concept of the region and according to the mission and vision of the higher education institution. Understanding of the regionalization based upon (1) development, (2) regional integration, (3) soft power, (4) general people-to-people connection,
•Better understanding potential role of the higher education in sustainable reginal development in the context of the Global South.

Target Audience:
The target audience is broad university administrators (especially those involved in making strategic decisions) as well as university staff dealing with international and regional partnerships. Session might be of interest to those interested in the role of the higher education institutions in regional development, SGDs and other related subjects.

Target Audience Level:
Intermediate

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Ms Elena Williams
Higher Education Consultant and PhD Candidate
The Australian National University

‘Building sustainable partnerships? Indonesian experiences of Australia’s New Colombo Plan’

Biography

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Elena Williams is a higher education consultant and PhD candidate at The Australian National University, researching the impact of student mobility on Australia-Indonesia relations. She previously served as Indonesian Resident Director with The Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), and is a current board member with DFAT’s Australia-Indonesia Institute.

Abstract:
Since 2014, more than 10,000 Australian students have studied and interned in Indonesia through the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan (NCP) initiative, building relationships with numerous Indonesian ‘host’ communities. Yet, while the experiences and learning outcomes of Australian students are increasingly accounted for, far less is known about the ways study abroad programs impact Indonesian host communities, despite their integral role in ensuring the success of programs such as the NCP. This raises questions as to how host communities benefit from study abroad, whether these partnerships are equitable and sustainable, and whether the NCP is indeed meeting its stated goals of deepening people-to-people relationships. Drawing on focus group and interview data with more than 100 Indonesian respondents as part of my PhD fieldwork, this presentation highlights host communities’ own views on the NCP, offering unique and timely insights into the ways the NCP is impacting these communities directly. Understanding these impacts will help international education practitioners and researchers better understand student and host community experiences as we transition back to in-person delivery, and offer valuable ‘lessons learned’ for researchers and practitioners elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region facilitating NCP programs.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will:
•Understand the latest evidence-based data regarding host community NCP experience in Indonesia from more than 100 Indonesian host community members, affiliated with the ACICIS Study Indonesia program and New Colombo Plan;
•Explore the gaps in understanding host community experiences, and reflect on the ways we can build meaningful partnerships with regional universities, businesses and civil society groups through the NCP as we return to the region;
•Be encouraged to reflect on their own approaches to designing and facilitating NCP programs based on host community experience, and understand the importance of designing and facilitating NCP programs based on host community input for future cohorts.

Target Audience:

This session will be of interest to:
•Learning abroad/ scholarship practitioners, especially those working with New Colombo Plan scholars and mobility grant recipients in the region;
•International education researchers and academics, particularly those facilitating NCP programs in the region;
•Australian and Asia-Pacific government and university policymakers interested in The New Colombo Plan.

Target Audience Level:
Intermediate

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Mr Daniel Chin
Regional Manager - Southeast Asia
Queensland University of Technology

“How do Regional Australian Universities approach Student Recruitment in Thailand?”

Biography

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Daniel Chin is Regional Manager (Southeast Asia) at the Queensland University of Technology. Prior to this role at his alma mater, Daniel worked exclusively for regional Australian universities, engaging in Southeast Asia. He hopes that through evidence-based research and insights, universities will realise the importance of long-term investment into the region.

Abstract:
This session explores the approach taken by regional Australian universities in recruiting students from Thailand. Thus far, limited research on international student recruitment has been conducted in the context of regional Australian universities – which have differing value propositions and marketing approaches to their metropolitan counterparts. Increased investment into Southeast Asia (SE Asia) is often mentioned as a strategic solution to offset risk from high-volume markets, with Thailand frequently highlighted as a key country within the region. Thailand’s potential as a source country for Australian universities is due to its economic development, growing middle-class and government initiatives driving demand for improved education standards (Buasuwan, 2018; Rhein, 2017).

This session therefore aims to share the approaches utilised by regional Australian universities in recruiting students from Thailand, by analysing perspectives obtained from active practitioners in the field. These perspectives were obtained through detailed conversations with Southeast Asia recruitment practitioners at regional Australian universities. Through thematic analysis of these practitioner interviews, the session will share key insights into the strategies adopted by regional universities.

It is expected that the session’s niche focus will produce unique perspectives for consideration by student recruitment practitioners and their respective leadership teams.

Learning Objectives
•The marketing and recruitment strategies used by regional Australian universities in Thailand
•The importance of committing towards building a long-lasting brand in Thailand for future recruitment success.
•The role of push and pull factors in devising a regional strategy

Target Audience:
Student recruitment practitioners, marketing/communications managers, and agent relation teams.

Target Audience Level:
Beginner, Advanced

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