Preface of The 4th CAPEU Conference 2017
The 4th Consortium Asia-Pacific Education Universities (CAPEU) 2017 is one of a series of international conferences held by Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa), Indonesia, in collaboration with some universities in Asia, South East Asia, and Pacific as well as with other institutions. Unesa held this event as its commitment to research activities and collaborations to strengthen the academic climate in Asia and beyond. This event is a perfect platform for senior and junior researchers in the fields of sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics to exchange experiences and ideas and to build a network. In addition, this conference will certainly help improve scientific publication of researchers and lecturers.
The theme of this year event is "Innovations for Human Talents". This two-day conference aims to bring together educators, graduate students, researchers, and faculty members of the CAPEU and of other countries to contribute to the concept of the STEM in education and to formulate goals on how this can be applied and implemented in their respective countries. The researchers can do their bit with their research findings in promoting better achievement of research innovation for the betterment of human life.
This conference has attracted much attention from scientific communities from diverse background of research interests. There are 130 research-based papers submitted and presented at the conference. Out of the submitted papers, the selected ones, around 56 papers, will be published by IOP Publishing. The papers have a wide range of topics, namely education, teaching and learning, assessment, community engagement, job opportunities related to STEM, and parents' involvement in enhancing STEM. The topics are not limited to, but mostly of the above-mentioned areas of interest.