Module 3: Education Leaders Innovation
Forum and Learning (ELIF)
Lead Center:
SEAMEO RETRAC, Vietnam
Project Description
Title: Module 3: Education Leaders
Innovation Forum and Learning
(ELIF)
Target Group: Education Administrators
and Practitioners
Lead Center: SEAMEO RETRAC
Timeline:
Year 2014 -2015
Overview of Module 3
 It is designed for education administrators and
practitioners of primary, secondary, and tertiary
education in Southeast Asia Region.
 It focuses on innovative practices and approaches
in teaching and learning.
 It convenes two forums, in 2014 and in 2015.
 Each forum has its focal theme and areas of focus.
 It develops 10 innovative solutions to ASEANwide issues in education and Human Resource
Development (HRD).
 It envisions of establishing a network for research
and development of education innovation and
building a culture of innovative teaching and
learning among the education administrators and
practitioners in the Southeast Asia Region for a
more integrated ASEAN community.
 It uses blended learning approach.
Objectives
1. To provide the education administrators and practitioners with the
current best practices and innovative approaches to teaching and
learning;
2. To set a venue for education administrators and practitioners to come
together and identify key issues that they are faced with, and design
innovative solutions, especially in the area of teaching and learning
approaches through forums and online learning community;
3. To build a culture of creative and innovative approaches to teaching
and learning among the education administrators and practitioners in
the region for a more integrated ASEAN community.
4. To establish a network for education innovation among education
administrators and practitioners in Southeast Asia Region
Plan for Year 1, 2014
Activity: Forum 1
Theme:
Innovations in Education:
Innovative Approaches to Student
Learning and Development in
Southeast Asia Region
Focus Areas:
 Life Skills and 21st Century Skills
 Innovative teaching and learning methods, including
the use of new education technologies
 School and community innovation and good practices
Dates:
 Face-to-Face session June 22 – 26, 2014
 Online session
Venue:
July 2014 – December 2014
SEAMEO RETRAC, Vietnam
Method
Forum 1 employs a blended learning mode, a combination of
face-to-face (f2f) and online learning sessions.
A. F2F learning session constitutes lecture/presentation and
Q&A. Q&A will lead the participants to small group discussions
enabling them to generate creative and innovative solutions of
the identified key issues that education administrators and
practitioners in the region are faced with.
B. Online learning session consists of 3 parts.
Part 1 - a pre-forum engagement and preparation
Part 2 - after the forum 1 f2f session (deepening forum 1 and
linking forum 1 and forum 2)
Part 3 – after the forum 2 f2f session ( deepening forum 2, and
completion of the two 2 forums)
Year 1 Activities
Dates
Activities
Outputs
March 1,
2014
 Recruit International Consultants
(2)
 Recruit participants (33)
 Design needs survey
questionnaire
 Conduct needs survey
 Design the course content; prepare
the core/ supplementary materials
(f2f & online), assessment,
structure the forum, schedule the
events
 Recruit resource persons (3)
 Develop materials for f2f
presentation
 Identify facilitators (6)
 2 International Consultants
April 1,
2014
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List of participants
Needs survey questionnaire
Needs survey result
Needs survey report
Course content – f2f & online
Course instructional materials
Course assessment materials
Forum structure and program of
activities
 3 resource persons
 Presentation materials from the 3
resource persons
 6 facilitators
Dates
Activities
Outputs
April 21,
2014
 Brief the resource persons and train  Prepared resource persons and
/orient the facilitators for f2f
facilitators
learning sessions
May 12,
2014
 Planning and preparation for
Forum 1
 Review the f2f instructional
materials and Online instructional
materials
 Develop the platform of learning
community
 Design activities for mid-forum
learning community
 Organize the participants resource
materials
 Design the monitoring and
evaluation system
 Design sustainable learning
community for use by SEAMEO
Centers after June, 2015
 Calendar of activities for Forum 1
 Reviewed f2f & online instructional
materials
 Platform of learning community
 Mid-forum learning community
activities
 Participants instructional materials
(f2f & online) are available.
 Monitoring and evaluation system
available
 Sustainability plans
Dates
Activities
Outputs
June 16–
20, 2014
 Virtual meeting (pre-forum
orientation)
 Participants core/supplementary
materials are posted.
 Arrival of the participants
 Virtual meeting records – attendance
 Improved understanding of Forum 1
 Online core/supplementary materials
available
 List of actual participants
Forum 1 Session
5 or more innovative solutions
June 22,
2014
June 2326, 2014
July 1,
2014 -
 Resource persons presentation
 Records of attendance, presentations,
 Plenary sharing and discussions
discussions, survey forms
with facilitators
 Document levels of activity and
 Consultants oversee, monitor and
participation
evaluate the forum session
 Networking among education
throughout
administrators and practitioners in the
Region
Monitoring and evaluation
 Surveys
 Interviews
 Reports for dissemination of the results
 Online learning community – on-  Enhanced innovative skills in teaching
going
and learning
 Surveys
Benefits and added Value
• Participants
 Improved creativity and innovation in teaching and
learning approaches in ASEAN context as they apply
the knowledge and skills learned back in their own
institutions
 Developed the culture of creativity and innovation
among education administrators and practitioners in
SE Asia Region during the 2-year project
implementation, and pass it on to their own
community of educators
 Established a network of education administrators
and practitioners in the region for education
innovation in ASEAN context
• SEAMEO
 Strengthened collaboration with SEAMEO Centers
fulfilling its mission to continue building and
developing human capacity in Southeast Asian
Region
 Made the SEAMEO College project materials
available for use by the Region for integrated ASEAN
community and beyond for globalized education