Speakers
Dr. Yuanto Kusnadi
Associate Professor (Education)
School of Accountancy
Academic Director (SMU-X)
Recipient of various teaching accolades, including the SMU-X Excellent Teacher Award in 2021, Dr. Kusnadi has over ten years of teaching experience in accounting for entrepreneurs, financial management, analytics for financial instruments, and experiential learning through real-consultancy projects.
He has also conducted research on issues in corporate finance, accounting, and corporate governance for international firms; as well as experiential & innovative teaching pedagogy, leading to notable publication.
Dr. Darlene Machell Espena
Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies (Education)
College of Integrative Studies
Course Coordinator for Big Questions
Associate Fellow at the Prinsep Street Residences
Dr. Espena has taught courses on International Relations on Film, Film in Southeast Asia, Cultural History of the Cold War in Asia, and Big Questions. Her research includes cinema, dance, and politics in postcolonial Southeast Asia, cultural history of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, and cultural discourses on education in Singapore. Before joining SMU in August 2018, she was a Research Fellow at Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE). She has held teaching positions at De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.
Her current book project is entitled "Heralding the Nation: Cinema and Politics in Postcolonial Southeast Asia, 1945-1967."
Inquiry into discipline-specific student learning is a central element of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Instructors may apply the findings of disciplinary SoTL studies to improve their teaching and learning practices or curriculum design.
In this Webinar, Associate Professor Yuanto Kusnadi (SOA) and Assistant Professor Darlene Machell Espena (CIS) will share their personal experiences with conducting SoTL in their disciplines. Yuanto and Darlene will also share how the discovery of the nexus between teaching and SoT led to their professional growth as a teacher, scholar and mentor.