SEAMEO VOCTECH’s Strategic Initiatives in
Response to COVID-19 and fast changing
technology
Awang Alias bin Hj Abu Bakar
SEAMEO VOCTECH

Background• Established in 1990, SEAMEO VOCTECH Regional Centre for Technical and Vocational Education andTraining (TVET) has been serving the 11 members of SEAMEO (the Southeast Asian Ministers ofEducation Organisation) particularly in enhancing TVET systems through capacity building, research,and information sharing.
• The Centre offers training programmes to TVET personnel from the member countries in variousareas ranging from:••••••

curriculum development and evaluation,
leadership and management,teacher education,
research and development,
information and communication technology in education, andtechnical and vocational skills training in collaboration with its partners.

• Types of training programme:• Regional Training Programme (5/year)• In-country Training Programme (at least 5/year)• Customised Training Programme (at least 4/year)

SEAMEO VOCTECH’s Strategic Initiatives in Response to
COVID-19 and fast changing technology• Training:• Has shifted from primarily physical face-to-facetraining to blended and fully online training modes.

• Research:• From in-person data collection and online to more
online with minimum in-person mode of datacollection• Knowledge sharing:• Has shifted from print-out publications and physicalmeetings to blended and fully digital and online
sharing.

Using learning management systems:
Moodle and Thinkific.
• To enhance interactivity, video conferencing
tools such as Zoom and MS Teams are used forsynchronous learning and recorded videos andanimations for asynchronous learning.
• To address the transfer of skills through handson activities, the Centre uses animation and inprogress for using Virtual Reality and later
Augmented Reality.

Publish the information and curate the knowledge
and to be shared in Online platform: http://SEAVET.net

SEAMEO VOCTECH’s Strategic Initiatives in Response toCOVID-19 and fast changing technology
ServiceBefore COVID-19

1. Training and Physical training mode:
professional • 5 Regional Training
development• 5 In-country• 6 Customised

During COVID-19
Online training mode:• 3 Regional Training completed, 2 onschedule
Blended training mode:• 2 blended, 3 online (on schedule)
Physical and blended mode:• >15 customised training (10 completed,many more to be scheduled)

Status• Maintained• Maintained• Increased

2. Research and • 1 primary researchinnovation• 3 research validation• 4 primary research (more blended datacollection approach)• 3 research validation• Increased

3. Information
andknowledge
sharing.

• Mostly online or digital forms, except few
printouts when needed. Development ofRegional Knowledge Platform: SEA-VET.net• Enhanced• Most meetings are online, except thedomestic/national-level meetings.

• Increased• Printout and online Journal,
Nesletter, Proceedings,
research reports, training
materials.
• Physical meetings and fora

Development of training skills online

Learning managementsystem• Manage digitalcontents• Online multi-way
asynchronous
communications• Assessment

Enhanced withsynchronous learning• Webinars• E-fora• Videoconferencing

Enhanced with online
hands-on activities• Animation
• AR
• VR

Information and knowledge sharing• SEA-VET.NET
is Southeast Asia's
one-stop shop for
TVET informationand knowledge everything on asingle platform aimed at TVET
policy-makers,
practitioners andacademics.

SEA-VET.NET STATISTICS

SEA-VET.NET STATISTICS

SEA-VET.NET STATISTICS• Vision: TVET practitioners in SEA
have access to the latest
information and knowledge on asingle platform• Mission: Create insights for TVET
professionals by providing
curated knowledgehttp://sea-vet.net

Thank you