GRDS International Conference held at Rome, Italy, June 2018

CONFERENCE SUMMARY 

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

2018 8th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL)

University of Washington - Rome Center (UWRC), Piazza del Biscione 95, 00186 Roma, Italy

This summary captures a two-day programme with presentations, panel discussions and interactive dialogue. Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) conference is one of the best academic event in Teaching and Education Theme, which took place on 07-Jun- 2018 to 08-Jun- 2018 at University of Washington - Rome Center (UWRC), Piazza del Biscione 95, 00186 Roma, Italy. The event brought together 55 participants from (United Kingdom, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Spain, Iran, Turkey, Albania, Algeria, Ireland, Ghana, Bangladesh, Croatia, Germany, Japan, West Indies, Kenya, etc) to review and discuss the latest challenges of teaching, Education and Learning. 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 Honorable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context on Education.

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 on an international platform
• Networking among the participants
• Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism

The conference is structured in such a way that each participant gets the most from the conference and can cherish the time and efforts that has been invested to attend the conference. The details of this conference are below:- 

Session 1: Welcome and Opening Speech 

In the Opening of the conference, Our Honorable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their speech highlighting the problem emerging all around the world. Our first Keynote speaker delivered the speech on "Evolving Education through Powerful Partnerships in the STEM Industry". Following is the glimpse of the conference:-

Dr. Lauren B. Birney 

(Assistant Professor in the School of Education, Pace University, New York)

Juana M Ortega-Tudela (Plenary)

(Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, University of Jaen, Spain)

Session 2: Team Building Activity

In order to break the ice between the participants and make them know each other in a better way, Global Research and Development Services conducts a team building activity in every conference. This helps the participants to gel with each other and also serves the purpose of discussing topics which have social, cultural, economic, political, etc importance and possible measures to eradicate such problems. Diversity is the key element of this activity because of which participants get to know about issues of other countries. Participants actively participated and shared ideas about the issues and got a chance for networking and building long-term relationships. This session helped participants to interact with each other and after this, we moved towards our Technical session 3, in which outstanding speeches on outstanding topics were discussed and questions from the audience were addressed:- 

   

Session 3: Technical Session

In this technical session participant from all around the globe presented their papers related to their research and study. Some of the major issues that were discussed can be outlined as:

1. "A Twofold Benefit of Engaging Students in a Film-Making Project: A Case Study in Oman" presented by Hranush Ginosyan Affiliated to Center for Preparatory Studies, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

2. "Supporting Diverse Students' Sense of Belonging as Science Achievers--A Model for 21st Century Education" presented by Susan Belgrad Affiliated to College of Education, STEM Innovations, California State University Northridge, Northridge, California, USA

3. "The Evaluation Of A Workshop Project To Construct Analytical Skills Test For Teachers" Presented by Rungrudee Klaharn Affiliated to Educational and Psychological Test Bureau, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Global Research and Development Services makes continuous efforts in transforming the lives of people around the world through education, application of research & innovative ideas. In order to promote Young Researchers, Global Research and Development Services International conferences, Provides Young Research Scholarship in the form of full Registration fee waiver to participate in such events. This gives immense encouragement to the researchers who have brilliant ideas to exhibit their research work on the International platform. Global Research and Development Services aims for promoting research and talent of scholars by giving the scholarship to 5 selected applicants for each conference. 

Best Paper

In each, Global Research and Development Services International conference, the Best paper award is given to best researchers. In our conferences, the Best paper award is given to the participants with the best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In 2018 8th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL), Best Paper Award was given to paper:

Matti Koivisto (Head of School of Technology, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Finland)

Kubra Aksoy(Hasan Kalyoncu University, Department of Foreign Language Education, Gaziantep- Turkey)

• The conference picture gallery is available here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/adtelweb/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1102488349889197
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• The conference proceedings can be downloaded here: https://adtelweb.org/proceeedings/43.pdf