IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 2

 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. The day 2 was chaired by Dr. Matthew Barsalou (Co-chair, QiETT) on 10 Dec 2022.

Dr. Lars Sorqvist (President elect, IAQ, Sweden) was the first speaker and his topic entitled “Education 4.0 – Getting high-quality education with blended learning”. Dr. Sorqvist briefed the Industry 4.0 and Quality 4.0 and he questioned what about education in a digital world.

Then he briefed the historical online opportunities through satellite-based conference since 1996 and then e-learning in 2002 but weak interest from student. After Covid-19 pandemic, 100% digital education performed over a night. 

Dr. Lars Sorqvist said the new normal is blended that combining online education (IRT – in real time) with face-to-face classroom education (IRL – in real life). And then he compared both teaching mode.

After that he discussed the learning characteristics for online pedagogics including shorter lectures, breakout rooms discussion, teacher commitments as well as technology employed for digital teaching. 

Finally, he discussed the important area for development future face-to-face learning. Some points were discussed including “Need for a higher level of interaction”, “Social and networking activities”, “Reflections and interactive learning”, “Flipped classroom and active learning”, “Time to learn”, “Need for new and creative learning environments” and “Never-ending learning”, etc. 

Prof. Moustfa Noureldin Hassan (Vice-Chancellor for International Cooperation, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University Dubai-UAE) and his presentation title was “Global implementation of Benchmarking Framework for Online Higher Education”. Firstly, he introduced Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University is the first accredited university for online education in the Arab world and has established since 2002. 

And then Prof. Hassan briefed the benchmarking framework journey since the lauch of the international consortium in Feb 2019, Dubai.  

After that the benchmarking framework dimensions were introduced that included “Teaching & Learning”, “Learner Services”, “Technology Environment”, “Outcome and Impact on Society”, “Diversity and Inclusiveness” and “Organizational Aspects”. There are 37 indicators in six dimensions.

Finally, Prof. Hassan demonstrated the criteria of dimension I and explained the marking range from 1 to 5 based on students’ satisfaction such as 1 (<30%), 2 (30%-50%), 3 (51%-70%), 4 (71%-85%) and 5 (>85%).

Lastly, Prof. Hassan showed some results and introduced a tool of benchmarking framework website that involved more information.

Dr. Ngo Van Nhon (President, IQAD; Chairman, VQAH) was the last speaker and his topic named “Sustainability Education Development with Integrated Management Systems Approaching”. 

In the beginning, Dr. Ngo introduced ISO 9001 and ISO 21001 framework where ISO 21001 is more specific to education field. 

Then Dr. Ngo compared 7 principles of ISO 9001 and 11 principles of ISO 21001. It was found three additional principles more than ISO 9001 and they were “Accessibility and Equity”, “Ethical Conduct” and “Data Security and Protection”. Moreover, the main focus of ISO 21001 is boarder than ISO 9001.

After that Dr. Ngo also showed the additional requirement comparison clause to clause with PDCA cycle. 

Finally, Dr. Ngo demonstrated a case study in the Education and Training Department of Son La Province that found significant achievements resulting from IMS implementation (ISO 9001 and ISO 21001).

At the end of summit, Q&A session was performed.

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

IAQ Symposium and Forum:

20120803: ANQ Congress 2012 - Day 2 (The IAQ session entitled "Quality in Healthcare”) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2012/08/anq-congress-2012-day-2.html

Leaflet - http://www.hksq.org/anq2012/doc/IAQ_Session_02082012.pdf

20131018: ANQ Congress 2013 Bangkok – Day 2 (The 2nd IAQ/ANQ Symposium) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2013/10/anq-congress-2013-bangkok-day-2.html

20150924: ANQ Congress 2015 Taipei – Day 2 (The 4th IAQ/ANQ Symposium) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2015/09/anq-congress-2015-taipei-day-2.html

20151025: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Welcome Cocktail - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary.html

20151026: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Day 1 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary_26.html

20151027: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Day 2 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary_27.html

20151028: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Gala & Networking Dinner - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary_28.html

20160514: The International Academy for Quality (IAQ) General Meeting and Dinner - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/05/the-international-academy-for-quality.html

20171013: The 2nd IAQ World Quality Forum 2017 in Bled, Slovenia - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-2nd-iaq-world-quality-forum-2017-in.html

20180921: The International Academy for Quality (IAQ) General Meeting and QiETT Symposium - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-international-academy-for-quality.html#more

20191206: The 3rd IAQ World Quality Forum & 13th Shanghai International Symposium - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-3rd-iaq-world-quality-forum-13th.html

20221209: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 1 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher.html

20221210: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 2 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher_10.html

20221216: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 3 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher_16.html

20221217: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 4 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher_17.html

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

 

IAQ Symposium and Forum:

20120803: ANQ Congress 2012 - Day 2 (The IAQ session entitled "Quality in Healthcare”) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2012/08/anq-congress-2012-day-2.html

Leaflet - http://www.hksq.org/anq2012/doc/IAQ_Session_02082012.pdf

20131018: ANQ Congress 2013 Bangkok – Day 2 (The 2nd IAQ/ANQ Symposium) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2013/10/anq-congress-2013-bangkok-day-2.html

20150924: ANQ Congress 2015 Taipei – Day 2 (The 4th IAQ/ANQ Symposium) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2015/09/anq-congress-2015-taipei-day-2.html

20151025: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Welcome Cocktail - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary.html

20151026: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Day 1 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary_26.html

20151027: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Day 2 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary_27.html

20151028: IAQ World Quality Forum 2015, Hungary – Gala & Networking Dinner - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/iaq-world-quality-forum-2015-hungary_28.html

20160514: The International Academy for Quality (IAQ) General Meeting and Dinner - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/05/the-international-academy-for-quality.html

20171013: The 2nd IAQ World Quality Forum 2017 in Bled, Slovenia - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-2nd-iaq-world-quality-forum-2017-in.html

20180921: The International Academy for Quality (IAQ) General Meeting and QiETT Symposium - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-international-academy-for-quality.html#more

20191206: The 3rd IAQ World Quality Forum & 13th Shanghai International Symposium - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-3rd-iaq-world-quality-forum-13th.html

20221209: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 1 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher.html

20221210: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 2 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher_10.html

20221216: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 3 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher_16.html

20221217: IAQ QiETT Future of Quality in Higher Education Summit – Day 4 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/12/iaq-qiett-future-of-quality-in-higher_17.html

HKSQ Webinar on Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to Determine the Associations Among Factors that Drive Performance

 HKSQ and TQM co-organized webinar on “Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to Determine the Associations Among Factors that Drive Performance” on 9^th Dec 2022. CityU EngD Society was a supporting organization. This webinar gave a brief overview of what SEM is, how it differs from common statistical models such as linear regression, and when it may be more useful than other statistical models. Before the webinar, Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman, HKSQ) introduced Hong Kong Society for Quality and the guest speaker – Dr. Frank Reichert (Assistant Professor of Interprofessional Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, HK SAR).

In the beginning, Dr. Frank Reichert introduced what is structural equation modeling (SEM) that can model unobserved, latent variables. It estimates a set of regressions simultaneously and examine the fit between theoretical model and empirical data.

Then Dr. Reichert mentioned the measurement in SEM based on theoretical assumptions (or hypotheses). They often employed theoretical constructs that cannot be observed such as aggression, motivation, intelligence, self-efficacy and project performance, etc.

The construct means latent variable that cannot be measured directly. After that he briefed when to use SEM. It is dealing with latent variables that have clear hypotheses and would like to test the relationship between multiple variables.

And then different models are introduced including Path Models, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Composite Analysis, as well as, Structural Regression Model, etc.

Finally, he introduced different SEM software for application. 

Some literatures are suggested for further study.

Lastly, we had Q&A session to discuss the application of SEM in real case.

Reference:

HKSQ - http://www.hksq.org/

CityU EngD Society - https://engds.org/

Dory Garden Grand Opening

 Minda and I were honor to be invited by Dr. Vincent Fung to join his friends startup Dory Garden Grand Opening on 3^rd Dec 2022.  Dory Garden is invested by a company from Science Park and employed their technology for Oyster. So, this grand opening introduces their product to all guests. We took a photo during enjoying oyster.

The Dory Garden is located in Nim Wan Rd, Lau Fau Shan. Driving is better but we took a taxi also convenience. It also provides camping services.

When we arrived, Dr. Jess Gu led us and introduced the environment.

The grand opening started and Mr. Gary Wong gave welcoming speech.

Then they performed a roasted pig cutting ceremony.

All guests tasted the roasted pig.

Dr. Jess Gu introduced the operation of handling the Oyster. 

Then Dr. James Leung introduced the technology of using Selenium (Se) to activate Oyster growth and self-cleaning. The life cycle of Oyster is from 6 months to 3 years depending on types of Oyster. Their technology is to keep oyster for 2 days fresh.

The taste is very good. I don’t like to eat fresh oyster because of creamy texture. But I like this oyster after treatment is chewy texture (爽口). 

After that we visited the camping facilities.

These areas are reserved for nourishing oyster farm. 

Vertical farm for vegetable was also tried and demonstrated there.

If you are interested in knowing more, they have Facebook page.

Actually, we had met before in PolyU on 22 Sep 2022.

Reference:

Seafruit Depuration Limited - https://www.hkstp.org/our-community/innovator-directory/company-details/?company=seafruit-depuration-limited