CONFERENCE SUMMARY
Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL)
20th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL)
Universitat de Barcelona – Edifici Històric, Barcelona, Spain
This summary captures a two day program with presentations, panel discussions and interactive dialogue. Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) conference is one of best academic event in Teaching and Education theme, which took place on 26th & 27th of July, 2017 at Universitat de Barcelona – Edifici Històric, Barcelona, Spain. The event brought together around 60 Participants from around 15 different countries to review and discuss the latest challenges of Teaching and Learning Issues. Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) is known to have valuable networking opportunity and set the stage for further cooperation among the participants of different countries.
The conference began with opening remarks by Honourable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context on Learning and Teaching Issues.
The main aim of this conference was:
1.To discuss latest challenges/researches being faced by the Society regarding Education
2.Generating academic and professional relationships
3.Boosting morale and confidence of researchers in an international platform
4.Networking among the participants
5.Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism
We would begin with session 1. The details are as below.
Session 1: Welcome and opening Speech
In the Opening of the conference, Our Honourable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their Speech to the conference highlighting the problem emerging all around the world .
Dr. Janina Cünnen
(Language Teaching Centre (SLI), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany)
Elham Zakeri
( School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia )
Highlighted the context related to Education issue emerging around the world.
Session 2: Technical Session
In this technical session Participants of Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) presented their papers related to their Research and Study. Some of the major issues that were discussed can be outlined as:
1. “Moving Faculty-Student Culture towards Differentiation & Neurodiversity” Presented by Erica Herro Affiliated to Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Stevenson School, Carmel, USA.
2. “Leadership challenges facing school principals in South African schools” Presented by Prof.Dr. Vimbi P.Mahlangu Affiliated to Department of Educational Leadership and Management, College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa.
3. “Does subject choice in a joint honours degree affect graduate employability?” Presented by Louise Pigden Affiliated to Joint Honours, University of Derby, Derby, England, U.K.
In order to Promote Young Researchers, GRDS International conferences, Provides Young Research Scholarship in the form of full Registration fee waiver to participate in such events. The participant was :
Meryem Laadem
( Moulay Ismail University, School of Arts and Humanities, Meknes, Morocco)
(Paper Title: E-learning Integration in Higher Education: Focus on Moroccan Departments of English)
In each, GRDS International conference, best paper award is given to best researchers. In Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL), Best paper award is given to the participants with best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL) conference, Best Paper Award was given to paper ‘The Effectiveness Of The Flipped Classroom And Debate Teaching In A Postgraduate Module’ Submitted by Qing Ye Affiliated to International Business School Suzhou,XiAn Jiaotong-Liverpool University,Suzhou China and to paper ‘Experiential Learning: A Case Study Of Teaching Fashion Journalism Course At Kimep University’ Submitted by Saltanat Kazhimuratova Affiliated to Department of Media and Communications, College of Social Sciences,KIMEP University,Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The conference picture gallery is available here:
Our Upcoming Conference:
The conference proceedings can be downloaded here:
Video gallery can be downloaded here:
GRDS Official Blog 
