 Welcome to CBS 2018 here in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio that we built here with Supervidy Aranvith, who is from the Chudlongcom University in Bangkok. So Dr Aranvith, thank you very much for joining us in the studio today. It's my pleasure to be here. Now I'd like to start off by talking about capacity building. This is the global ICT capacity building symposium, that's what CBS stands for. Perhaps you could, there's been a number of conversations here about approaches in teaching and learning. Perhaps you could give us a few insights into what you might see as an innovative approaches to this. So when we say about innovative approach, it means that the teaching has to be changed, revised, than the traditional method. So if we talk about traditional method, it means that the teacher will be in front of the classroom and give the face-to-face conversation and teaching to the student. But when we talk about the innovative approach, it means that when it's changed, the teacher also has to adapt the way that they teach to the student. So for example, like the cost instead of the peer lecture for 16 weeks for the semester. So now it has to include the amount of the activity so that it could motivate the student for the creative thinking. So all that activity could be like some of the project based, or like the teacher could provide beforehand the lecture. So it's like a pre-cast assignment. The student could watch the lecture, but then the time in the class would be more of the active discussion or maybe some quiz to test the knowledge. So that is one of the examples. And are you putting these ideas into practice at your university? Yes, at our university we have, like in the Faculty of Engineering, we have adopted this concept since 2014. And we have several set of classes that we choose or the instructor would like to try the new, like the active learning approach. So we start from, because mainly our concept is based on the CDIO, the Conceived Decide Implement and Operate Standards. So for that it means that the typical class, it has to change, like for example the course syllabus. They have to add a little bit of the activity in or some of the project based in. And teachers also have to go under the training so that they know what the purpose of the new and it's become the student center. So we have adopted that for several years now. We got the university give the incentive grant as well to the instructor who would like to try this approach. And so far it's quite successful. What about distance learning? I mean that's opening up education for people who might not be able to spend all their time on campus or who might not be able to devote a specific amount of time to their education. They might be balancing it with family and work and that kind of thing. What are your impressions on that? I believe distance learning is good, especially if we talk about lifelong learning. So I believe that now we have many of the open courseware, like in the US we have MIT and many universities. But also in our university, our vision is also to support the lifelong learning to not only the students of our university, but also the people outside who are interested to get new practical knowledge. So we have the Chulalongkron University, the massive open online courseware that started in 2016. We have 27 courses and we have like 50,000 registrations. So I believe that that's quite like it's opening up the learning era. And it's also attracting people to your university as well by becoming more aware of it online on that kind of thing. But I just wanted to ask you in terms of a little bit further along in terms of the future workforce, what do you think are the tools necessary nowadays for people to be bearing in mind when they're looking at getting jobs in the future? I believe that today everything is more technological driven, especially like ICT play the important role on this fast growing world. So the students, they cannot be only have the technical strength, but the soft skill strength is very important, like the interaction with others, the teamwork ability to learn more by gaining knowledge from outside. So I believe that very important. And I think the student is aware of that as well. The company also, I think they also in needs of that, but today they are more collaborated with the university. Like they giving scholarship, giving funding support or work with students on the project in the last year. So that's how they give some insight for the student as well, like what would be the real problem when they go out and work. Finally, you've travelled a long way to be here for this symposium. What's the value of attending this event for you? I believe that it is my first time in the Dominican Republic. And I believe like, because this meeting I exposed with a lot of the experts and also like the key stakeholders. I mean, not in my area, not in my region. So mainly like what he spent from the North America, South America and Europe. It gives me a very good exposure and also to learn the experience from other region. That could give me very good feedback back when I'm back to my country. Dr Armed, thank you very much indeed. Okay, thank you very much.