Month: December 2022
3.0 Major Events
The following major events in 2022 gave NUS colleagues the opportunity to initiate and sustain conversations on teaching and learning both within and beyond the campus community: Higher Education Campus Conference (HECC) 2022 Educator-in-Residence Programme (EiRP) 2022 NUS Teaching Awards
3.1 HECC 2022
With the theme of “Forging Ahead Beyond the Pandemic”, CDTL’s Higher Education Campus Conference (HECC) 2022 resumed on 7-8 December 2022 with live in-person paper presentations, lightning talks and poster presentations, and virtual interactive keynote lectures by Professor Martha CLEVELAND-INNES (Open, Digital and Distance Education) and Professor Peter FELTEN (Engaged Learning and Relational Feedback). Best…
3.2 EiRP 2022
EiRP 2022 Dr Martha CLEVELAND-INNES, CDTL’s Educator-in-Residence Programme (EiRP) Scholar 2022, engaged with the NUS community remotely through online channels, due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 situation. She delivered the EiRP-Ruth Wong Memorial Lecture on Education entitled ‘The story of blended learning: An evolution of higher education through teaching, learning, and technology’ and a…
3.3 Teaching Awards
The University promotes teaching on campus through various Teaching Awards – the Outstanding Educator Award (OEA), the Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA), the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA), and the Honour Roll. These awards serve three important functions: (1) recognises teachers who excel in their profession, (2) indicates the importance that the institution accords to…
4.0 Supporting Colleagues in Teaching and Learning
CDTL develops and runs programmes, series, and sessions which enable NUS academics to explore and critically reflect on their teaching practice in order to enhance their students’ learning. Programmes Series Sessions
4.1 Programmes
Professional Development Programme-Teaching (PDP-T) The Professional Development Programme-Teaching (PDP-T) is offered to NUS early-career academics with fewer than 3 years of higher education teaching experience. Conducted twice annually, the PDP-T provides a collegial environment to help new faculty explore and critically reflect on their teaching practice, in order to improve their students’ learning. The programme…
4.2 Series
Education Grant Writing Course CDTL has collaborated with the Institute for Applied Learning Sciences and Educational Technology (ALSET) to conduct an Education Grant Writing Course. The course is designed to prepare faculty members to write and submit applications for teaching and learning research grants. The key purpose of this course is to help colleagues plan and…
4.3 Sessions
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) CDTL offers Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions to support a wide range of teaching and learning needs. CDTL moved all its academic development work online in 2021, and this continued for most of our CPD sessions in 2022. Moving our work online allowed us to model the kind of practices that…
5. Supporting NUS-Wide Initiatives
CANVAS Migration NUS conducted a review of the available learning management systems (LMS) last year and recommended the adoption of Instructure Canvas as a replacement for the current LMS, LumiNUS. CDTL is managing the transition to Canvas and will be the system owner going forward. The transition is expected to allow for more intuitive engagement…
6. Teaching Enhancement Grants (TEG)
The Teaching Enhancement Grants (TEG) provides monetary support for scholarly projects that investigate and aim to improve instructional, pedagogical, curriculum, and assessment practices so as to advance students’ understanding. The grant is intended to promote a reflective approach to university teaching and student learning. It is further expected that the results from these projects will be…
7. Publications and Outreach
The CDTL Publications Team has been reflecting on the lessons learned and good practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. We started a blog, Teaching Connections, in April 2020 as a platform for sharing good teaching practices, resources, and personal reflections among NUS faculty members. Through editing and publishing the blog posts, we learned that teachers are…