The Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM announced in a statement yesterday that it co-organised “The 13th Higher Education International Conference on Education Innovation and Teaching Quality Assurance in the Post-Pandemic Era” with the Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) online via Zoom early this week.
The statement noted that more than 30 experts from different parts of the world such as Bangladesh, India, Macau, Mongolia, Portugal and the UK presented their papers, with the online conference attracting international participation from more than 200 experts and PhD candidates. Scholars also presented papers in “six parallel sessions exploring innovations, teaching and learning quality assurance of higher education in the post-pandemic era”, while the use of information technology under the trend of online education were also explored.
According to the statement, IPM President Im Sio Kei, said that because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact and development, there have been continuous adjustments in teaching models in response, with a “significant” difference from “traditional teaching models”. The statement added that this was the seventh time that IPM and APQN hosted the higher education international conference, with this edition focusing on “exploring education innovation and quality assurance in the post-pandemic era”. The conference was held on Monday and Tuesday.
The statement pointed out that “renowned scholars of higher education quality assurance” were invited to deliver keynote sessions. The statement underlined some of the sessions. Among them were “Quality & Mobility beyond Borders: Exploring Innovation in the New Normal” by Jagannath Patil, chairperson of Asia Pacific Quality Register (APQR), which suggested that countries support the construction of “IT infrastructure and train educators to move to digital teaching”, as well as for “evaluation institutions to construct a framework of accreditation for online courses, actively engage in building a bridge to the digital future”.
Another session was+ titled “Innovation in Quality Assurance in the Post-Pandemic Era” by Vicki Stott, CEO of Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) in the UK. The statement noted that in Stott’s session, post-pandemic assessment methods must be “continuously innovated”, with attention paid to “protecting academic integrity and tackling cheating, plagiarism and academic misconduct in the online landscape”.
This handout photo provided by the Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) yesterday shows participants in the “The 13th Higher Education International Conference”, which was organised in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) on Monday and Tuesday.
