IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 1

 Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit is organized by the Quality in Education Think Tank (QiETT) of International Academy of Quality (IAQ) on 9 & 10 and 16 & 17 Dec 2022. It is the first global virtual summit arranged by QiETT. Dr. Matthew Barsalou (Co-chair, QiETT) is the summit moderator.

Dr. Kamran Moosa (CEO, PIQC Institute of Quality, Pakistan; Chair, QiETT) was the first speaker and his topic named “Metacognition: Improving Students Quality of Learning – Students Perspective”. Firstly, he explained metacognition that defined as recognition, understanding and control of one’s own thinking and learning process.

Then Dr. Moosa briefed students’ quality chain and quality requirements of employers & society. He identified seven changing trends from decreasing value-added learning to degradation of physical and psychological fitness under changing learning environment.

And then Dr. Moosa mentioned the Bloom’s Cognitive Domain and Teaching Trigonometry at the ‘Application Level’. He compared teacher’s capability and student’s learning based on six domains under Bloom's taxonomy.

After that he evaluate student’s learning outcomes (SLO) and discussed how to align an unaligned course. The student feedback form was also demonstrated to survey SLO for online classes performance. 

Finally, summary of results was demonstrated that teachers could understand student learning capability on different quality tools in this case. He added success equal to IQ plus EQ. Lastly, Dr. Kamran Moosa concluded that only knowledge is not valuable but skill must be addressed. Both hard & soft skills must be developed by students and teachers. Building a better world means setting up foundation of students on sound Knowledge, Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Law Obedience and creating opportunities for better business opportunities for them.

Dr. Pedro Saraiva (Vice-Rector of the NOVA University of Lisbon; President of the Portuguese Association for Quality) was the second speaker and his presentation entitled “Entrepreneurial Universities Education”. Firstly, Dr. Saraiva explained what is an entrepreneurial and innovative Higher Education Institution (HEI) that to empower students and staff to demonstrate enterprise, innovative and creativity in teaching, research and the third mission.

Then he explained why creative thinking in education because of different world, skills, people, values, priorities, organizations and societies, etc. 

And then he discussed people behavior changed in the digital era. Therefore, Maslow Pyramid should be extended to add the connectivity needs as fundamental.

After that Dr. Saraiva encouraged to run out the comfort zone to learning zone and panic zone. He said role models are vital! He raised some creative environments for positive collisions and provided flexible solution such as MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, so as to redesign where we work and learn.

Lastly, he promoted disruptive innovation in education and the role of low-tech high-quality learning. He gave final message about that awards, rewards, incentives, recognitions and sharing are important in creative thinking.

I (Adjunct Professor, CityU; Former Chairman, HKSQ) was the last speaker and my topic named “Innovation Methodology & Training Cases in Hong Kong Universities”. In the beginning, I introduced the first IAQ/ANQ Symposium organized by IAQ in Hong Kong in 2012 and successful kick off education initiative in Asia Pacific.

Then I introduced HKSQ Model on development of quality professionals (QProfD Model) to align the needs between industry and universities. In order to fill those gaps, HKSQ had different professional certificates including CQE, CSSGB, CSSBB and CLabQS to accredit some local universities courses if met our body of knowledge. HKQF aligned with EQF was also briefed.

After that I briefed recently revamped courses in both CityU and PolyU for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, so as to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship contents. One of example in CityU named “Professional Engineering Practices”.

Another revamped course named “Management of Innovation and Technology”. I added much more innovation contents including TRIZ and China original innovation methodology named “Extenics”. So students learned Extenics to generate their new products/services as well as using business model to give a proposal pitching for investor during the final group project presentation. 

Finally, I showed students’ project self-evaluation results and selected some projects for demonstration. It concluded that innovation plus startup and entrepreneurship training had synergy effect to let students to learn the concept to create their ideal product and employ business model skill to convince investors for realizing their dream. 

Q&A Session performed at the end.

Reference:

IAQ website - https://iaq.wildapricot.org/

QiETT - https://iaq.wildapricot.org/QiETT

Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit - https://events.zoom.us/e/view/amT-30XSS821AXQoi59ULQ?id=amT-30XSS821AXQoi59ULQ

 

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