The Centre for Instructional Technology combined to sponsor one tree in the Plant-A-Tree project, part of NUSSU SAVE's Campus in a Tropical Rainforest program. The project aims to plant trees on-and-off-campus.
Gopi, Hock Heng, Haixin and her daughter
The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences participated in eLearning Week from 04 to 08 October 2010. During the week, more than 291 academic staff conducted over 255 modules online. This amounted to 1,545 lectures, tutorials and seminars in total.
Video Production Workshop
The Centre for Instructional Technology conducted a video production workshop for students of SW3202 Communication and Public Education. This workshop, conducted on Thu 16 and 23 September 2010, covered basic video production skills. It equips students to use video competently and effectively as these skills are required in the course of their work. The workshop is a regular feature in this module, of which Senior Fellow John Ang says:
The reason for the success and popularity of the module is due, in large measure, to [CIT's] input and partnership.
Students getting hands-on experience with video production equipment
An interview with Dr Lee Hon Sing, NUS Business School
We have glimpsed the future. In the Star Wars movies, we see people communicating over interstellar distances using holographic representations and projections without any lag.
While that is a long way off, our present technology can bridge more earthly distances. These are various forms of conferencing - audio, video and web - which provide for different needs.
in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 September 2010
by Jeff Young
Singapore—Next month a major undergraduate division of the National University of Singapore will ask students to stay out of the classroom for a whole week—and force professors to teach online instead. It's an unusual drill to prepare for any unexpected campus shutdown, and it was inspired by the SARS outbreaks of 2003 and last year's concerns about H1N1.