At the October 2021 UMAP board meeting, the Board voted to expand UMAP country eligibility in Central and South America to include: Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. We look forward to welcoming representatives from these countries to our consortium in the years ahead!
New Pledge of Agreement Form
At its October 2021 virtual meeting, the UMAP Board approved the use of a newly updated Pledge of Agreement form. The new form is available for download from the Prospective Members section of this website.
Previous versions of the Pledge of Agreement form will continue to be honoured and all member institutions with previous versions of the agreement will maintain their membership status.
New institutions wishing to become members will need to use the new version of the form. Anyone with questions may contact the UMAP International Secretariat for help.
Global Perspectives Webinar: Redefining Teaching and Learning Pedagogies in the New Normal
The ‘new normal’ brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has unexpectedly created both challenges and opportunities in the way universities deliver teaching and learning to their students, beyond the traditional four walls of the classroom. Universities must continue to ensure that learning objectives and outcomes are achieved, or even surpassed, despite sudden mechanism changes in the methods and modes of teaching and learning, which include student evaluations and assessments. Rapid adjustments and adaptations to infrastructure and issues of access to technology aside, evolving innovative and effective pedagogies are crucial to this endeavour. It is therefore important for educators to re-think and re-design pedagogies to focus on learning flexibility, online learning, study management, technology, classroom learning and online interaction to meet the challenges faced in the current and post COVID-19 pandemic era. The invited speakers in this webinar will highlight the experiences of their higher education institutions in achieving this whilst also posing realistic and relevant questions for the future.
Registration:
www.ubd.edu.bn/globalperspectiveswebinar.html
(via Zoom Platform)
International Virtual Learning Engagements: Webinar
This webinar focuses on the practice of international virtual learning engagements that take place in Malaysian and Japanese International Higher Education Institutions(HEI). The Covid-19 pandemic has required many HEIs to strategize the delivery of education by incorporating technology-based learning. Programs such as Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and Virtual Exchange had been in existence before the pandemic. The awareness and interest in these forms of activities has recently increased as HEIs find the need to have alternatives and solutions in sustaining internationalization. Many have also developed international creative activities and programs such as international virtual summer programs, short-term programs, or chat and interaction-based activities to ensure intercultural learning and internationalization still continues. All in all, this webinar will share the experiences and strategies of the panelists in offering international virtual learning programs at their respective universities, their collaborative efforts with partner universities, and also their conceptualization of international virtual learning activities.
Date : 29 October 2021 (Friday)
Time : 10.00 a.m (GMT +8)
Registration : https://tinyurl.com/TIFO3 (via Zoom Platform)
Webinar Information Website: https://www.ukm.my/pha/tifowebinar3/
Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/OIRUKM/
Going Global: Empowering Virtual Exchange in 2022 and Beyond
Join our colleagues at the American Higher Education Alliance in their Thought Leadership Series focusing on Virtual Exchange.
As higher education institutions around the world evaluate their new norms for educating students, one thing is clear: things are still different. Going Global: Empowering Virtual Exchange in 2022 and Beyond is a thought leadership series designed to help faculty and academic leaders incorporate international education experiences into their curriculum without requiring students to travel. Though this approach is particularly timely right now, our esteemed speakers will build the case and demonstrate the value of virtual exchange becoming an integral part of every curriculum and every student’s learning outcomes. Designed to go from a macro to a micro level of understanding, the Going Global series will provide participants with strategies to develop or increase COIL virtual exchange initiatives at their institutions. Visit the event webpage to register for webinars taking place October 19, November 9, and December 14, 2021.