Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL): GRDS International Conference Summary, held at Bangkok, July 2017

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL)

18th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL)

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Conference Center, Bangkok, Thailand

This summary captures a two day program with presentations, panel discussions and interactive dialogue. Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) conference is one of best academic event in Teaching and Education theme, which took place on 19th & 20th of July, 2017 at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Conference Center, Bangkok, Thailand. The event brought together around 20 Participants from around 10 different countries to review and discuss the latest challenges of Teaching and Learning Issues. Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) is known to have valuable networking opportunity and set the stage for further cooperation among the participants of different countries.

The conference began with opening remarks by Honourable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context on Learning and Teaching Issues.

The main aim of this conference was:

To discuss latest challenges/researches being faced by the Society regarding Education
Generating academic and professional relationships
Boosting morale and confidence of researchers in an international platform
Networking among the participants
Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism

We would begin with session 1. The details are as below.

Session 1: Welcome and opening Speech

In the Opening of the conference, Our Honourable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their Speech to the conference highlighting the problem emerging all around the world .

Potjanee Kamolrat

(University Lecturer, Srinakharinwirot University International College for Sustainability Studies, Bangkok, Thailand)

Navidreza Ahadi

(Institute Of International Studies, Ramkhamhaeng University, King Mongkut’s Institute Of Technology, Ladkrabang Bangkok, Thailand)

Highlighted the context related to Education issue emerging around the world.

Session 2: Technical Session

In this technical session Participants of Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) presented their papers related to their Research and Study. Some of the major issues that were discussed can be outlined as:

1. "A Comparative Study of Different Cognitive Flexibility, Competition Anxiety, Learning Engagement, Learning Interest, and Continuous Improvement Attitude on Students’ Competitive Performance in Project Design" Presented by Jian-Hong Ye Affiliated to Department of Industrial Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

2. "Reasoning in Primary Mathematics and Science" Presented by Alan Cross Affiliated to Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England

3. "Turkish student teachers attitudes toward teaching in university-based and alternative certification programs in Turkey" Presented by Erdem Aksoy Affiliated to Faculty of Education, Department of English Language Teaching, TED University,Turkey, Ankara.

In order to Promote Young Researchers, GRDS International conferences, Provides Young Research Scholarship in the form of full Registration fee waiver to participate in such events.

In each, GRDS International conference, best paper award is given to best researchers. In Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL), Best paper award is given to the participants with best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) conference, Best Paper Award was given to paper ‘Student perception of facilitation strategies that enhance instructor presence in online courses’ Submitted by Dr. Chuang Wang and Florence Martin Affiliated to University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA .