Digital Education

by Sarah Somarajan Priya   It seems apparent that remote learning is going to be around for a while. Whilst many educators work towards ensuring curriculum design, delivery and assessment are made clear and accessible to all students, students are expected to adapt to these changes and learn accordingly in an online classroom. Research has […]

by Anita Toh   A major challenge in flipped lessons is getting the students to complete the requisite pre-class work prior to the in-class sessions. Most pre-class work involve students reading texts, viewing powerpoint slides, watching videos and then completing a task sheet or quiz, or participating in a forum discussion. When I was designing […]

by Blog Facilitators, featuring Cao Feng and Susan Lee   Student engagement is a key factor that contributes to the success of an online learning environment. In a language or communication course, students may view engagement in the form of interaction or socialization that supports the development of academic and interpersonal skills, as well as […]

by Anita Toh and Tetyana Smotrova   My colleagues, Misty Cook, Tetyana Smotrova and I created an eLearning module called “What’s your point? Strategies for Clarity and Conciseness” to help students work on common writing errors. These errors were observed sporadically in different students’ work but were difficult to address in a whole-class context. The […]

by Lynette Tan Yuen Ling   Context I teach on the IEM (Ideas and Exposition) modules of CELC (Centre for English Language Communication) to students from the residential colleges at Utown NUS. One of the pedagogical strategies that I employ is that of blended learning, where reading material is scaffolded for students such that key […]

by Shobha Avadhani   This post is based on the important and interesting conversation across the posts on the subject of the “flipped” classroom that our esteemed colleagues have written. The first post [1] raised some vital questions about the assumptions underlying the “flipped” classroom that needed to be unpacked. In the second post [2], the point was made that […]

by Wong Jock Onn   Recently, the flipped classroom seems to be the talk of CELC, what with some more modules being flipped. While this might be a bit of an exaggeration, it seems true that the idea of a flipped classroom has been under the limelight for some time, at least among some circles. […]

by Jonathan Tang   Is the flipped classroom being talked about too much? Is it overrated? Is it but a fad? Is it totally innovative and novel as to warrant unprecedented enthusiasm? Is there too much talk about what flipping is and too little about what it isn’t? Is technology-enhanced flipping dominating discourses on the […]