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SEEM President, Prof. Dr. Khairiyah Mohd Yusof will be featuring as one of the distinguished Speakers in the 8th International Research Symposium on Problem Based Learning 2021 (IRSPBL2021).

IRSPBL will take place from 15-17th August 2021 virtually from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. The first session for Prof. Khairiyah will take place on Aug 16th (Monday).

Since 2007, the Aalborg Centre for PBL has been running the International Research Symposia (IRSPBL) and Regional Research Symposium (RRSPBL) nearly all over the world. Some of the latest events have been in India, China, Colombia and Malaysia and we have invited the hosts for having a conversation on the impact of these symposia activities.

What is happening in the region concerning change to more active learning and PBL? Has PBL become more widely used? Are there barriers in changing engineering and science education? What are the strategies for future institutional or regional activities? These will be the content of the Conversations on Regional and Global Change, which is one of the event highlights.

Conversations on Regional and Global Change include renowned experts:
▪ Professor Gopalkrishna H. Joshi (KLE Technological University, India),
▪ Professor Jian Lin (Tsinghua University, China),
▪ Professor José Ismael Peña (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
▪ Professor Khairiyah Yusof (UTM, Malaysia)

On the 17th of August, Professor Khairiyah Yusof (UTM, Malaysia), who is also the founder of Centre for Engineering Education (CEE UTM) will deliver a talk titled “Ensuring meaningful quality learning”.

A brief synopsis about the talk: Meaningful learning allows learners to make connections between what they learn and their life as well as future aspiration, making what they learn applicable and useful. The aim of
this interactive workshop is to guide participants to identify effective approaches for quality meaningful learning based on sound principles. Elaborations on various approaches, including PBL, that have been
shown to be effective in helping students attain meaningful learning will be articulated to guide participants to design their own classroom implementation. This workshop is designed to have the participants experience some of the meaningful learning activities during the workshop, which can be implemented in physical, blended, or on-line
learning. Participants are recommended to use computers to gain most from this workshop.