AIEC is very proud to announce that Juhani Kyyrö has joined us in the global role of Executive Director and assumes responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Association. Juhani's previous breadth of training project management and education advisory experience should hold him in good stead to work with the fifty plus consultants affiliated with the Association currently.

Having worked within an international context for 23 years Juhani has been responsible for many start-up operations and training projects in the US, Canada, Europe and the Far East, utilizing his management skills and project leadership experience in change management, business transformation and implementation strategies, international recruitment, staff training, competency modeling, motivation and collaborative team building.

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AIEC is pleased to announce that we have joined forces as a registered consultancy with the Asian Development Bank (ADB). With more than $17.5 billion in approved financing, ADB is a major contributor to Asia's economic development and one of our key geographic areas of focus. Together our organizations look forward to delivering educational projects that create economic and development impact.

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VISION
AIEC, The Association of International Education Consultants Pte Ltd, Singapore, aspires to become an outstanding regional and international educational consultancy by promoting the highest level of excellence in all aspects of education, and by offering significant high-quality professional services to the education community.  AIEC will seek to become the Regional Leader in educational consultancy wherever it operates.

MISSION
As a leading education consultancy, AIEC’s mission is to

• become established as an organization renowned for its excellence;
• be the consultancy of first choice for schools and colleges in the regions in which it operates;
• enhance the standards of excellence in education-provision in these regions, thus aiding in the development of local social and living standards. 

In offering its services, the Consultancy will encourage its school- and college-clients to:

• strive for excellence in their educational activities;
• identify priority needs and pursue them to greatest effect by
• updating existing programmes,
• developing new programmes.

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On the 22nd September 2011 AIEC was invited to the New York Institute of Technology in Bahrain to offer a morning of professional development discussion to the lecturing staff. The discussion pivoted around teaching issues, and teaching strategies were suggested to help alleviate problems which are typical across the GCC.


The emphasis was on cross-cultural expectations between a multi-cultural teaching cadre and their mainly Arabic cohorts. The development of empathetic teaching methods was introduced with specific examples of simple strategies which help to reduce barriers to acquisition and the consolidation of learning.  Debates were encouraged as to best-practice methods utilising established online technologies, such as anonymous asynchronous forums to support gender-separated cohorts and shift the learning paradigm towards a supportive community of learners.


Genuine examples of previous regional successes were introduced, along with rationale for multi-representational links to promote autonomous and exploratory learning as well as facilitating peer teaching by flipping classes.  Related concepts such as the promotion of vicarious and peripheral learning were also debated in this animated and engaging seminar.

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Moderation of curriculum and grading for courses administrated across multiple delivery sites is necessary to insure consistency of content and assessment of student performance. The goal is to provide common reference points for grading scales and content in order to guide markers in multiple campuses, thus ensuring fair and equivalenced grading within multicultural settings.

Moderation is one of the functions that AIEC provides.

Briefly, moderation is a process involving the objective comparison of materials gathered from across multiple sites to affirm that students are learning the same material and have the same learning objectives, and that assessments are graded in standard and consistent manner; usually in the final year of a program). By conducting the moderation process, a course grade from one site is essentially equivalent to that in another site.

Seen as such, moderation is a quality control processes that must be rigorous to guarantee consistency and appropriate grading. AIEC gathers materials including syllabi, learning objectives, rubrics, and assessments and compares them in a fair, objective, and arms-length manner.  The outcomes are curricular development, staff development and quality assurance compliance with fewer opportunities for student grievance.

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Introduction

This workshop will demonstrate and explain how MOODLE activities and resources can be used to creating active student-centred learning. Attention will be given to linking the technology with the teaching and learning practices. Best practice examples of Moodle activities and resources will be showcased. There will be an opportunity during the workshop for participants to work on course (re)design for blended learning. The focus will be on using Moodle activities and resources to create better learning conditions for all students. Resources and tip sheets on teaching, learning and assessment methods for use with Moodle and other learning management systems will be provided. You are invited also to bring your own course materials and ideas in order to use these for planning and building your Moodle class site.

Dr. Ken has substantial international experience with development and delivery of e-learning university courses and programs. As Director of the College of Education at Massey University in New Zealand, he was responsible for establishing new degree programmes in special education and educational psychology. He developed flexible distributed e-learning program for training school psychologists and teachers throughout New Zealand. At the University of Calgary in Canada, he was responsible for developing new e-learning qualifications for teachers and school psychologists.

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The Association of International Education Consultants is very pleased to announce that Susan Sabra has joined our consultancy team. Susan has a great deal of experience in IT management with an M.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering. Susan is currently undertaking her Ph.D and has recently moved from her university position in the GCC to teach at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan.

Fluent in Arabic and French Susan has published and was a reviewer for the DICTAP 2011 conference in France in addition to publishing other papers in international conferences; she has acted in various consultancy roles and delivered many training workshops for ministries and corporate entities. Susan's areas of expertise lie mainly in SLA/OLA's, change management implementation, ITIL as well as Balanced Scorecard implementation and ISO certification processes.

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AIEC Consultant, Prof. Torin Lucas

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