THE SPEAKERS

Dr. Michaela Martin

IIEP-UNESCO Programme Specialist

Theme: Flexible Learning Pathways (FLP) in Higher Education - What Challenges and What Solutions for External Quality Assurance (EQA) Agencies?

Dr. Susanna Karakhanyan

INQAAHE Immediate Past President

Theme: INQAAHE’s International Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (ISG)

Dr. Michael K. J. Milligan

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, ABET

Theme: Developing a Training Program for Evaluators and Team Leaders

Dr. Yaping Gao

VP Member Services & Global Partnership, Quality Matters

Theme: Quality Assurance for digital and blended learning, challenges and innovative approaches

Dr. Deb Adair

CEO Quality Matters & INQAAHE President

Theme: Quality Assurance for digital and blended learning, challenges and innovative approaches

Mr. Bowen TAN

Programme Specialist, UNESCO ICHEI

Theme: Quality Assurance for digital and blended learning, challenges and innovative approaches

Dr. Libing Wang

Chief of Section for Educational Innovation and Skills Development (EISD) at UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok, Thailand

Theme: Fostering quality of flexible learning pathways

Prof. Dato DR. Mohamad Shatar Bin Sabran

CEO Malaysia Qualifications Agency (MQA), Malaysia

Dr. Susanna Karakhanyan

Higher Education Policy & Regulation Director at the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), United Arab Emirates

Dr. Esther Huertas

Head of Quality Assurance Department, Agency for Quality Assurance in the Catalan University System (AQU Catalunya), Spain

Horia Onita

QA student expert, Member of the Global Student Forum (GSF) and Vice President of European Students Union (ESU), Belgium

Prof. MORI Rie

Professor, National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education (NIAD-QE), Japan

Theme: Independent lifelong learning system through credit-hour accumulation and its quality assurance

Dr. Christina Ng

Senior Registrar (Development), Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic & Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), Hong Kong

Theme: Preparing Hong Kong for the journey of developing micro-credentials

Dr. Esther Huertas

Head of Quality Assurance Department, (AQU Catalunya)

Theme: Short Learning Programmes: a flexible pathway to access tertiary education

Dr. Michale S. McComis

Chief Executive Officer, Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC)

Theme: One Path is a Narrow Journey

Dr. Bryan Maguire

Director of Quality Assurance, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), Ireland

Theme: Development of new quality assurance guidelines for online learning

Zhuang Seraya

(National Chengchi University, Taiwan), China

Theme: Hybrid-Teaching in Hong Kong Higher Education Under COVID-19 Pandemic: Quality of Teaching and Learning

Mag.ª Diane Freiberger

Managing Director, Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA), Germany

Theme: The Use of Learning Analytics in HEI

Dr. Duncan Priestley

General Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Nazarbayev University

Moderator

Dr. Lia Blaj-Ward

Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University

Theme: Hallmarks of Success Playbooks: Enhancing quality of digital teaching and learning

Amrita Narang

Quality enhancement and standards specialist, QAA, UK

Theme: Hallmarks of Success Playbooks: Enhancing quality of digital teaching and learning

Miras Daulenov

Rector of the Narxoz University, Kazakhstan

Theme: Quality Assurance in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Opportunities and Approaches

Sergey Pen

Provost (Rector) of Maqsut Narikbayev University (KAZGUU), Kazakhstan

Theme: Embracing the Digital Frontier: Balancing Innovation and Quality in Teaching and Learning for Academic Excellence

Ms. Perliter Walters-Gilliam

President and Principal Consultant, NBBE Consulting

Theme: Evaluation of Challenges for the accreditation and oversight of Third-Party Ed-Tech Providers

Ms. Kimberlee Moore

Doctoral Candidate, University of Liverpool

Theme: Evaluation of Challenges for the accreditation and oversight of Third-Party Ed-Tech Providers

Ziwei ZHOU

Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR; National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Theme: Policy transformation in China’s Transnational Higher Education: Quality assurance and impacts

Prof. Angela Yung-Chi Hou

Associate Dean, College of Education, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Theme: Did the Value of Joint / Dual Degree Programmes via Virtual Delivery Getting Lesser During the Pandemic?

Christopher Hongyi Tao

Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR; National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Theme: Hong Kong Branch Campuses in Greater Bay Area: Motivations, Quality assurance, and Impacts on Higher Education Regionalization

Dr. Fabrizio Trifiro

Head of Stakeholder Engagement and International Quality Reviews, Ecctis/UK ENIC UK

Theme: Internationalisation of quality assurance vs. quality assurance of internationalisation: a typology of quality assurance activity in an internationalised context

Dr. Yaping Gao

VP Member Services & Global Partnerships, Quality Matters (QM), USA

Theme: Quality Online Course Sharing for Cross-Border Online Education

Mr. Eduardo Ramos

Director of International and Professional Services, The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), UK

Theme: Enhancing cross-border education through collaboration and flexibility: a study from the QAA's QE-TNE scheme

Mr. Martin Boswell

Registrar, Wellington Institute of Technology and Whitireia Community Polytechnic, New Zealand

Theme: Quality assurance dysfunctions, within ‘integrity’ INQAAHE value

Dr. Whitfield Green

Chief Executive Officer, Council on Higher Education (CHE), South Africa

Theme: Towards a new future for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa

Dr. Britta Zawada

Director, Institutional Audits, Council on Higher Education (CHE), South Africa

Theme: Towards a new future for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa

Umankulova Onolkan

EdNet Kyrgyzstan

Theme: The relationship between national values of the society, higher education system and chosen form of independent accreditation in Kyrgyz Republic

Dr. Hayfa Jafar

Director Institutional Effectiveness – American University of Iraq

Theme: Analysis of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practices at Canadian Publicly Funded Community Colleges: Toward Student Success

Dr. Oleg Legusov

International Student Advisor, Seneca College, Canada

Theme: Analysis of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practices at Canadian Publicly Funded Community Colleges: Toward Student Success

Dr. Scott G. Blair

Director of Accreditation and Quality Assurance at AIAASC, USA, Vice President of CANIE-Europe (AIAASC / CANIE)

Theme: The importance and urgency of embedding education for sustainable development (UNESCO 2030) into accreditation standards and quality assurance practices

Dr. José Luis Mateos-González

Senior Advisor, Internationalisation and Knowledge Generation Department (AQU Catalunya), Spain

Theme: Fostering the equity agenda in quality assurance: the development of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) indicator system in Catalonia

Dr. Anna Prades

Head of Internationalization and Knowledge Generation Department of the Agency for Quality Assurance in the Catalan University System (AQU Catalunya), Spain

Theme: Fostering the equity agenda in quality assurance: the development of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) indicator system in Catalonia

Dr. Karen Belfer

Executive Director, Ontario College Quality Assurance Service (OCQAS), Canada

Theme: Quality Assuring, but at what cost?

Dr. Yvonne Overdevest

Senior Policy Advisor NVAO, Netherlands,and member of ENQA’s working group on academic integrity

Theme: Academic Integrity and ENQA quality assurance agencies: where do we stand and where are we headed?

Ms. Sue Hackett

QQI, Ireland, and Chair of ENQA’s working group on academic integrity

Theme: Academic Integrity and ENQA quality assurance agencies: where do we stand and where are we headed?