On 8-12 July 2025, Asst. Prof. Dr. Jeeranuch Buddeejeen, Director of the Office of University Press, represented Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) at the 2025 International Conference on Open Innovative Education (ICOIE2025), hosted by Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU).
HKMU organizes the ICOIE conference annually with the following aims:
- provide a platform for sharing quality research, effective practices, and well-formulated views relevant to open and innovative education;
- facilitate networking and cross-institutional collaboration among researchers and educators in fields of educational innovation and/or openness; and
- promote studies and advancements in open and innovative education.
The ICOIE2025 Conference featured discussion and knowledge sharing from leaders and experts in the following themes:
- Insights from Systematic Reviews: Research and Practice in ODDE and AlEd;
- From Access to Impact: Rethinking Digital Transformation in Open Education;
- Transdisciplinarity: Knowing for the Future;
- Equipping World Ready Graduates: The T-Shaped Student, Work-Integrated Learning, and SoTL as Keys to Success; and
- A critical perspective on new trends in higher education and lifelong learning.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Jeeranuch Buddeejeen presented her work titled “Integrating Design Thinking and Project-Based Learning in Competency-Based Education: A Case Study of a Certificate Program in Product Design and Digital Marketing” at the ICOIE2025 Conference The conference details, including the conference publications, are available at the conference website: https://www.hkmu.edu.hk/icoie/.
