2.1 Meetings (CoI online meetings, TransEET webinars, Twinning workshops)

Communities of Interest (CoIs) as a group of people with different backgrounds interested in pursuing the same goal help bridge discipline gaps in developing educational solutions. TransEET has been using CoIs as an environment where participants identify and integrate each other’s unique contributions. TransEET employs regular meetings in the form of online meetings, webinars and twinning workshops as main platforms for fostering the exchange of knowledge, concepts and prototypes from CoIs. Twinning workshops involve training members of COIs to implement the educational solution from a specific CoI as a means of seeking feedback for improvement and enabling others to adopt the solution. To cater to financial limitations, online webinars are used to enhance knowledge sharing and feedback among CoIs’ members. In contrast, online meetings have been used for each CoI to plan, and implement their educational solutions and the possible ways to disseminate them to other CoIs and the public at large. 

The fact that members of the CoIs share and collect feedback from others on specific educational solutions at various levels of development such as concept development, design or prototype continuously, makes the iterative process a key aspect of implementing CoIs meetings. The main goal of adopting iterative processes is to ensure continuous refinement of proposed educational practices.  In the design phase, team members contribute initial ideas that reflect their specific domain perspectives. In the review phase, each participant provides feedback based on their own expertise, be it pedagogical, technological or methodological. This feedback highlights not only the strengths and weaknesses of the prototype but also underlying assumptions that might otherwise go unchallenged. The refinement phase then allows these prototypes to be revised in the light of the collective input, leading to subsequent iterations that integrate a wider range of knowledge.
Based on this, we show that the development and improvement of education solutions or practices is an endless opportunity that requires a platform for the continuous exchange of ideas among members of CoIs. We perceive the dissemination of the concepts, designs or prototypes for education purposes as a means to learning various aspects to consider for developing comprehensive solutions. The feedback that requires improvement makes you better than exposing your weaknesses. Therefore, you should always explore opportunities to engage in CoIs exchange and use it as a room for learning issues that you once never considered important and be reminded of those you ignored before.