Learning Innovation Festival 2020

Welcome and Introduction to LIFE

Dr. Yeo Wee Loon
Centre for Teaching Excellence
Singapore Management University

Introduction by AUN-TEPL Chairman

Associate Professor Lieven Demeester
Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Singapore Management University

Enabling the Educational Ecosystem for AUN-TEPL's Success with MERLOT's Open Educational Services 

Dr. Gerry Hanley
Director, CSULB Center for Usability in Design and Accessibility (CUDA)
Executive Director, MERLOT and SkillsCommons

Learners’ access to quality educational content multiplies the power of faculty teaching. MERLOT provides free and open access to online educational content across a diversity of academic disciplines and provides the open educational services to enable individuals, institutions, and communities to discover, share, adopt, and curate online educational content. The presentation will demonstrate how MERLOT can be incorporated immediately into your institutional strategies.  Through the AUN-TEPL community’s collaborative efforts, institutions and individuals can accelerate their success in educating all they serve.

Forming the AUN-TEPL Resource-sharing Community

Associate Professor Lieven Demeester
Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University

Instructors in the AUN+3 Universities design and create many excellent digital resources, especially so during this pandemic period. Since its establishment, the AUN-TEPL Thematic Network has set out to address missed opportunities of not adopting a common approach for AUN+3 instructors to: 

1. scan, select, and use digital resources developed at other AUN+3 members
2. review and endorse available digital resources
3. share self-developed digital resources with other AUN+3 instructors

In this presentation, Professor Lieven Demeester will share the rationale of forming a community in sharing readily available digital TEPL resources within AUN+3. Professor Demeester will also lay out the strategy, support structures and plans in supporting members along this collaborative journey with our partner, MERLOT, and fellow AUN+3 members.

Practical Considerations for Selecting and Applying Creative Commons Licenses

Ms. Melody Chin
Singapore Management University

Creative Commons (CC) licenses enable creators to share their work and allow others to use their material based on certain conditions. For instructors, adopting CC licenses facilitates making their own educational resources and digital learning objects openly available to other instructors and institutions in a standardised manner. How are Creative Commons licenses related to copyright? What are the different types of licenses and the key considerations? This presentation serves as a practical introduction for selecting and applying creative commons licenses as an essential part of the process for sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) on platforms such as MERLOT.

Q&A and Wrap-up

Dr. Yeo Wee Loon
Centre for Teaching Excellence
Singapore Management University

Supporting Personalised Learning Online: A Focus on Inclusivity and Compassion

Assistant Professor Tracy Zou
The University of Hong Kong

Professor Gina Marchetti
The University of Hong Kong

When designing online learning, it is essential to acknowledge that our learners are from diverse backgrounds with different needs and degrees of access to the learning resources.

Tracy and Gina will share practices and approaches from the perspective of inclusivity and compassion that cater to diverse learner needs and support personalised learning.

The Approach of Educational Filmography

Dr. Kosmas Marinakis
Singapore Management University

Hear from Senior Lecturer Kosmas Marinakis as he shares his experience with Video lectures used in his Economics class to deliver effective asynchronous lessons. In this session, Kosmas will share the benefits and the challenges of educational filmography, both from his end but also from the student's perspective.

Engaged and Empowered Learners: Pedagogical Practices Supported by Classroom Response Systems

Assistant Professor Namkang Sriwattanarothai
Mahidol University

“Learning begins with student engagement, which in turn leads to knowledge and understanding” (Shulman, 2002; p.38).

When the students engage in learning, they actively involvement and put effort into learning resulting in knowledge acquisition, cognitive development, higher-order thinking skills, etc. Therefore, engagement is not just a proxy for learning but a fundamental purpose. This presentation will discuss the pedagogies of engagement to make students become drivers of their learning in an online and/or in the class. Some readily available classroom response applications which can create the learning spaces filled with motivation will be included.

Medical Training in Virtual Environments

Dr. Mores Prachyabrued
Mahidol University

This presentation focuses on virtual environments for medical training. One involves the design of a story-driven, stress-inducing environment for inoculating medical personnel to stressors. The other provides vascular access training focusing on visual landmark inspection, correct needle insertion, and haptic sensations when the needle pierces the body.

Gamification Transformation

Assistant Professor Aidan Wong
Singapore Management University

Assistant Professor Fiona Clare Williamson
Singapore Management University

Hear from Assistant Professor Aidan Wong and Assistant Professor Fiona Clare Williamson as they share how they used Gamelead to gamify their classroom content. Aidan and Fiona will also be sharing their experiences, challenges and feedback from students.