The Teacher Training Center and Educational Leadership and Evaluation Institute of STUST recently held the "2021 Academic Seminar on Inquiry, Practice and Reflection on Independent Learning." In response to the severe domestic pandemic, the seminar was held in an "online seminar" format. It was instructed by the Ministry of Education and co-sponsored by the STUST Center of Education Training and Educational Leadership and Evaluation Institute, with the assistance of the Global Chinese Creativity Society.

[Professor Jin-Chuan Li, Director of Teacher Training Center and Educational Leadership and Evaluation Institute of STUST as well as Director of Teacher Training Center, was delivering a speech in the online seminar.]

The organizer, Associate Professor Jia-Chi Wang of the Teacher Training Center mentioned that self-directed learning is an important learning image highlighted in the twelve-year national education syllabus. As the twelve-year national basic education is promoted and the importance of teacher professional development continues to be recognized, this symposium focused on "inquiry, practice and reflection on independent learning", with a conference keynote speech, two theme forums, and several oral and poster presentations.

[Associate researcher Yong-Shan Hong from the Curriculum and Teaching Research Center of the National Academy of Education was giving a lecture at the conference.]

In the morning, the keynote speech of the conference invited the Associate Researcher Yong-Shan Hong from the Curriculum and Teaching Research Center of the National Academy of Education to give a lecture on "Investigation, Practice and Reflection of Autonomous Learning," followed by the first theme forum of "Humanities X Scientific Research," which was chaired by Assistant Professor Shi-Shiang Song from the Interdisciplinary Bachelor Degree Program in Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University. The interlocutors included Yuan-Long Zhu, principal of Taoyuan Dayuan International High School; Shi-Sheng Shiao from Kaohsiung City Government; and Mr. Guo-Zhen Huang from Pin Shuetang for the establishment of private institution. In the afternoon 58 posters were arranged to publish papers at noon and put them in the cloud for the seminar participants to read online.

[STUST Teacher Training Center and Teaching Evaluation Institute held an academic forum in the 2021 Independent Learning Inquiry, Practice and Reflection.]

In the afternoon, the second theme forum of “Initiation of Innovation: Inquiry and Practice” invited Assistant Professor Shiao-Chi He from the Institute of Education of Providence University. The interlocutors included Associate Professor Shue-Liang Fan, Executive Director of the Innovation Base of the Department of Business Management, Soochow University; Tian-Hao Yan, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of LIS Situational Science Textbook and Taiwan Online Education Development Association; and Instructor Wan-Jun Yan of Banqiao High School in New Taipei City. The afternoon session began with three video conference, six oral presentation sessions, and a total of 18 oral presentation papers. There were more than 115 participants in the oral presentation meeting.

[Online presentations by participants of the 2021 Academic Seminar on Inquiry, Practice and Reflection of Independent Learning, organized by the STUST Teacher Training Center and Teaching Evaluation Institute.]

The number of participants in this online seminar were more than 150, and the online interaction was enthusiastic. Professor Jin-Chuan Li, Director of the Teacher Training Center, encouraged the participants that at this severe time of the pandemic and that everyone can still maintain Participate enthusiastically in this online seminar although everyone’s work and learning methods have been changed. He admired everyone's learning spirit and hoped that everyone would be working together to overcome difficulties and continue to learn rather than stay slack in pandemic prevention.