Background Information
Dr.Chaiyong Brahmawong was born in Roi-Et, Thailand in
1940. After completing Matayom Suksa 6 (10th Grade) in 1956,
he got a fulbright scholorship to take up his pre-university classes (Grades
11-12) at Bangkok Christian College in Bangkok.
Dr.Chaiyong had dreamed to be a teacher since his childhood. After passing the university entrance examination, he was admitted to the Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn Univerity in 1960;thus fulfilling his long dream to be a teacher. He earned Bachelor of Education degree in Secondary Education (Teaching English and Mathematics) in 1964. While teaching English in a secondary school in Bangkok, he continued a graduate program and earned a M.Ed in Audio-Visual Education from the Department of Audio-Visual Education, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University in 1966.
After receiving his master's degree, he took up a job as the Manager and Principal of Srisilapa Withayalai School in Roi-Et Province during 1966 and a teacher at Roi-Et Witthayalai School in 1967.
In August 1967, he went to the United States to work for a master's degree program in School Administration (1967-68) and a doctorate program in Instructional Technology (1968-72) at the School of Education, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California under a Fulbright/Hayes Scholarship. The doctoral dissertation was "A Proposed Plan for Setting an Educational Television Station for Open Universities in Thailand."
Upon his return to Thailand in October 1972, he joined the Department of Audio-Visual Education under the Chairmanship of the late Professor Sampao Varangkura as an instructor and Chairman of Educational Technology Program. Here, he developed two innovative instructional approaches, namely (1) "Learning Center Classroom" Approach and (2) Chula Plan for Multi-media Package Production. These two innovations have later been incorporated as parts of teacher training curriculum in Thailand.
While working at the Faculty of Education under the Deanship of Professor Dr. Prachoomsuk Achava-Amrung, a well known and prominent educator, he was appointed Assistant Professorship in 1975 and Associate Professorship in 1978. Under her leadership, Dr. Chaiyong was encouraged to initiate various educational innovations, especially in the field of educational media, instructional systems development, and training.
In 1976, Dr.Chaiyong was a visiting lecturer attached to the AV Media Research Group under Professor Tony Bates at the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England. In the same year, he joined a UNESCO consultant team under Mr. Herbert Marchl on the Communication Technologies for Education Project under EDPITAF, Ministry of Education in the Philippines.
Upon his return to Thailand, he was appointed a member of the Planning Committee for Thailand's Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) which was established under the Royal Charter in September 5, 1978 and assumed the post of founding Director of the Office Educational Technology from 1979-1987.
During 1987-1992, Dr.Chaiyong joined UNESCO/UNDP in various educational and training projects in Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Japan, Laos, India, Pakistan, and Bangaladesh. He also joined the National Institute for Multi-Media Education (NIME) in Chiba, Japan as an international scholar two times in 1988 and 1992.
Dr.Chaiyong's contributions to education in Thailand include the development of (1) Chula Plan for Multi-Media Package Production, (2) Learning Center Classroom System, (3)STOU Plan for Distance Education of Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, (4)SUT Plan for Borderless Education of Suranaree University of Technology in Korat Thailand, (5)EBA Plan for Experience-Based Learning Approach presently being developed and tested at Bangkok Christian College and Kasem Pittaya School in Bangkok.
One outstanding work of Dr.Chaiyong is the discovery of six Life Vitalis Theories (known in Thailand as LV theories) indicating that life is governed, controlled, and supported by a form of energy, more than 17 times faster than light). Without LV, life cannot exist either in physical states in the forms of animals, human-beings, plants) or spiritual states in the forms of Buddhas, Arahantas, Brahmas (Formless /Arupa or Form/Rupa), gods, goddesses, fairies, ghosts, giants, and various levels of inhabitats of hells). LV Theories shows how the mind works and assimilate themselves in the physical forms (bodies).
Presently Dr.Chaiyong is a full professor and Chairman of the Department of Educational Technology and Communications at the School of Education, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open university and Director of the Borderless Education Project, Suranaree University of Technology (http://borderless.sut.ac.th), Korat, Thailand. He is also the founding President of the Association for Educational Technology in Thailand.
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