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University will lead online education forum for ASEAN nations
The University of Tasmania will run an international forum to share best practice in online teaching for 300 academics in various disciplines from universities across South-East Asia.
The project, titled Australia-ASEAN Academics Forum: Online Education during COVID-19 and Beyond, is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia ASEAN Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Through a series of webinars and interviews, the forum will invite academics from the 10 ASEAN nations to discuss the practices and challenges they have faced delivering online teaching during COVID-19.
The leader of the project, Dr Vinh To from the university’s School of Education, said COVID-19 had required the majority of academics in South-East Asia to move to online education for the first time. This was challenging in the many cases where all previous experience had been in traditional face-to-face teaching. This project aims to help improve participating ASEAN academics’ online delivery of higher education.