Proceedings of the 4th Vocational Education International Conference (VEIC 2022)

Conference name: Proceedings of the 4th Vocational Education International Conference (VEIC 2022)
Date: 24 May 2022
Location: Semarang, Indonesia (Online)
Website: http://veic.ft.unnes.ac.id/home

The 4th Vocational Education International Conference (VEIC 2022) was organized by Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia. This year conference was successfully conducted on May 24, 2022 with the theme of “Post-pandemic Challenge in Technical and Vocational Education and Training of Higher Education.” Due to the impact of COVID-19 and government travel restrictions, this year annual conference was also conducted virtually via Zoom meeting and broadcasted on YouTube as in the previous year.

The conference was opened by Academic Vice Rector of Universitas Negeri Semarang who was also giving a brief information about the university. After that, four keynote speakers from Germany, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, and Indonesia delivered their keynote speech in the plenary session. Each of them delivered the speech in 45 min and followed by 15 min Q&A session. All of the speakers requested to join Zoom meeting in delivering their speech. Moreover, qualified and experienced moderators from Faculty of Engineering Universitas Negeri Semarang guided this session. More than 900 participants were excitedly joined in Zoom meeting to take part in the opening ceremony to the end of plenary session.

After the plenary session, the 53 presenters from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan were divided into nine meeting rooms in Zoom based on the manuscript’s topics to have a parallel session presentation. Each room had a moderator who managed the presentation and Q&A session. They had 10 min presentation and 5 min Q&A session allocation time. All of the presenters and participants in each room had a fruitful discussion, so it can improve participants’ understanding based on the material presented. It also aims to exchange ideas among others.

Despite the pandemic situation, the most profound appreciation was given to the partner, committee, keynote speakers, presenters, participants, and those who have supported so that this virtual conference was successfully conducted. All of the participants joined and took part in all of the session without any significant problems. At the end, the best presenter from each parallel room was announced to appreciate their great effort in preparing the presentation. As the proof of conference participation, all keynote speakers, presenters, and participants got a certificate from the committee after the conference.

This proceeding is the compilation of 51 accepted manuscripts from the presenters. It presents the research results, ideas, information, and application related to the theory, design, development, implementation, testing, or evaluation in the areas of vocational education. Various topics in vocational education fields are covered in this proceeding.

The concept of vocational education is applied in the following topics:

(1) E-learning
(2) Simulation in Learning
(3) Vocational Education Challenges
(4) Blended Learning
(5) Education Engineering Research
(6) Innovative Teaching and Learning
(7) Learning and Content Management

We hope that this volume can give contribution to the further development of vocational education. Moreover, we hope everyone enjoy reading this volume of proceeding and get advantages in developing idea of the research in vocational education field. We appreciate the effort and the hard work from those involved and look forward to a more successful conference next year.