International online education forum during COVID-19
Lecturers in 10 Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam are invited to participate in an international online education forum to be hosted by Australia’s University of Tasmania in June and September this year.
Dr Vinh To at the University of Tasmania (Photo courtesy of the organising board)
Hanoi (VNA)ไ - Lecturers in 10 Southeast Asiancountries including Vietnam are invited to participate in an internationalonline education forum to be hosted by Australia’s University of Tasmania inJune and September this year.
The project, entitled Australia-ASEANAcademics Forum: Online Education during COVID-19 and Beyond, is funded bythe Australia-ASEAN Council under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Tradeof the Australian Government. It is led by a research team including Dr VinhTo, Professor Victoria Carrington, Professor Sharon Fraser, and ProfessorMonica Cuskelly from the School of Education at the University of Tasmania. Through a series of webinars andinterviews, the forum will invite academics from the 10 Southeast Asiannations, namely Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, to discuss the readiness,practices and challenges they have faced delivering online lectures duringCOVID-19, and the mutual benefits of engaging in an academic forum toenhance online teaching in higher education in both Australia and SoutheastAsia. Vietnamese-origin project leader Vinh Tosaid: “Having a deep connection with Vietnam made me more aware of myresponsibility to make contributions to the Southeast Asian region. “COVID-19 had required the majority ofacademics in Southeast Asia to move to online education for the first time.This was challenging in the many cases where all previous experience had beenin traditional face-to-face teaching. This project aims to help improveparticipating ASEAN academics’ knowledge and skills to teach online.”
The project Australia-ASEAN Academics Forum: Online Education during COVID-19 and Beyond, is funded by the Australia-ASEAN Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian Government (Photo courtesy of the organising board)
Academics from the University ofTasmania and selected universities in Southeast Asia will be invited to shareexamples of high quality online teaching practice in various disciplines -education, humanities and social sciences, health, ICT, business and economics. “The project also aims to support theAustralian Government’s international relations policy and the Australia-ASEANCouncil’s people-to-people link objective, especially during COVID-19, byestablishing and fostering the multilateral relationship between academics andinstitutions in Southeast Asia and Australia for ongoing partnership andcollaboration,” Dr To said. The project will officially begin inJune this year, with rounds of webinars taking place in the same month andSeptember. The webinars will be available to 300 academics or more,and lecturers in the focus disciplines in Vietnam and other SoutheastAsian countries are invited to register at this link. //australiaasean.org/asean-information-and-consent/
For more information, please visit theproject website //australiaasean.org/.
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Dr Vinh To at the University of Tasmania (Photo courtesy of the organising board) 
The project Australia-ASEAN Academics Forum: Online Education during COVID-19 and Beyond, is funded by the Australia-ASEAN Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian Government (Photo courtesy of the organising board) 
