A delegation from the University of Macau’s (UM) residential colleges participated the RC forum hosted by Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an during 20-22 July 2017. At the forum, Prof Haydn Chen gave a keynote speech on “Elements on Establishing Modern Residential College” and “Experiential Residential Learning” offered by UM’s residential colleges. Participants and representatives were from over twenty universities from China, Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Xi’an Jiaotong University published a Residential College Book based on selected essays from this year forum participants. Eight essays from UM delegation were chosen to print and publish in the book, this figure accounts for 20% of the total essays.

澳門大學住宿式書院代表團於201772022日前往西安參加“2017年兩岸四地高校現代書院制教育論壇” 。2016年該論壇在本校舉行, 今年承辦由西安交通大學主導探索現代書院內涵與通識教育,研究子題包括通識教育與教學方法研究、大學生的學西方法與效率研究、書院導師的工作理念與思想認知、導師與學生之間的新型互動關係等。

程海東教授向500多名書院代表分享了 建置現代高校書院的重要元素及澳門大學體驗式書院學習的理論和實踐,精彩的演繹獲得全場熱烈迴響。鄭裕彤書院副院長李偉權博士也在論壇上的專家報告中介紹澳門大學鄭裕彤書院的國際化角色;此外,澳大學生代表在專題分組討論中,也分享了書院教育對其個人學習和成長的助益。大會論文集《現代高校書院制教育研究》共收錄了澳大師生8篇論文,占論文總數的20%,顯示了澳大書院系統深厚的學術研究。