Amid social distancing and international travel restrictions during this pandemic, international exchange and collaborations continues on! Co-organised with teachers from Hiura Junior High school and Hiroshima University High School, the Season 1, Session 1 of the Design-Technology Education Online Exchange Forum was successfully completed yesterday (6 June 2020) with about 20 over participants that include Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and etc.. The invited speaker for Session 1 was Prof. LIN Kuen-Yi from the National Taiwan Normal University.

This platform is created to allow exchange of ideas for teaching and learning Design-Technology, a subject closely related to design education at junior high school and high school level. There will be 6 sessions in Season 1. Up-coming sessions will include invited speakers who are design education practitioners/researchers from Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan. Season 2 will be expected to be planned in the future.