| Sumario: | Issue This symposium focuses on curriculum arrangements, experience sharing, innovative teaching methods, and improving student engagement. Content The education in Taiwan is discipline-based and lacks lessons that are multidisciplinary. This problem can be clearly seen in the difficulties in motivating an aging society industry in Taiwan. Two major and current problems are (i) The difficulties in communication between the medical fields and the design fields; and (ii) The difficulties among various disciplines in the medical system to understand and communicate with each other. Taiwan's educational system is rigid in the sense that students can only take classes that belong to just one department. Furthermore, a constant pursuit for higher education is part of Taiwan's culture, in that knowledge from textbooks is over-emphasized7.This causes society to praise students who are knowledgeable about only a single discipline. Taiwan is on course to go from being an aged society to a hyper-aged society by 2025, when the elderly are estimated to account for one-fifth of the population. Faced with these structural transformations in demographics, the demands of services and industries will inevitably change. How can education empower students to cultivate valuable insights to anticipate future needs and also adequately prepare them to face flexible and dynamic environments? How can education be reinvented to provide students with creative thinking and a comprehensive vision that compels students to become not only followers of values, but also creators of them? Structure The schedule consists of four oral presentations including commentary (15 minutes each) followed by a panel discussion (20 minutes). Presentation contents include: (i) an innovation dual-instructor teaching method for multi-disciplinary education focusing on aging society; (ii) the connection between service-learning and elderly care; (iii) integration of ICT and health care; (iv) the sleep health and aging psychology services on the cloud. Conclusion This symposium focuses on sharing the experience of an innovative teaching model. It helps break barriers between different professionals and foster true collaboration and deep interaction between different professionals. Through the panel discussion, the participants will have the opportunity to interact with the experienced instructors and discuss possible education models for cultivating multidisciplinary talents for the aging society.
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