Theme: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Specialisms: Flipped Classroom
Facilitator: Laura Zhou, EDC
Facilitator: Chi Ming CM Wong, HTI
Speaker: Adrian Michael Lee, Associate Professor, Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore
Date: 18 Oct 2024
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Venue: Online-Zoom
Student learning is positively influenced by the amount of active participation in the learning process. Technology is often leveraged as a means to engage students, although care should be taken to recognise the pedagogical advantage of the technology rather than its ability purely to engage. Blended learning is a relatively recent model that, by combining face-to-face activities with online experiences, effectively incorporates technology into education. For example, in the flipped classroom approach, technology is used to facilitate the transmission of content and so allow for the repurposing of face-to-face classroom time for activities that are likely to lead to higher-order learning outcomes. In this sharing, I want to highlight the elements of blended learning that have the potential to lead to effective, efficient, and flexible learning.
About the speaker
Adrian Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry and also the former Deputy Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). There, his primary responsibility was overseeing professional development programmes. However, his background is in the Sciences—he holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. His interests in education are wide-ranging and include technology-enhanced learning (especially blended learning), chemistry education, interdisciplinary education, and student living–learning experiences. In education, Adrian looks to further a conversation that is both evidence-based and research-informed that becomes part of an academic’s scholarly reflective teaching practice.
EDC Coordinator: Leo Wong
