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The Physics Professor’s Suitcase of Traveling Science Wonders!
The Physics Professor’s Suitcase of Traveling Science Wonders! Sow Chorng Haur was a member of the Academy from 2009 to 2018 “To fuel students’ enthusiasm …
How to Effectively Engage Students when Teaching Interdisciplinary Modules
How to Effectively Engage Students when Teaching Interdisciplinary Modules In recent years, the National University of Singapore has been emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary learning …
A Class Of Their Own: Building the future with data
A Class Of Their Own: Building the future with data “It all started in my childhood with Lego blocks. I’ve always liked to build things,” …
A Class Of Their Own: Education and the ecosystem
A Class Of Their Own: Education and the ecosystem Mr N. Sivasothi, or “Otterman”, the moniker he adopted early on in his career to relate …
A Class Of Their Own: Engineering the self
A Class Of Their Own: Engineering the self “Doing my best for my students—it’s natural. It’s what we should do as ordinary human beings, that’s …
A Class Of Their Own:
Inspiring the next
generation of dentists
A Class Of Their Own: Inspiring the next generation of dentists NUS Dentistry’s Associate Professor Kelvin Foong led an MOE- funded Programmatic Tertiary Education Research …
A Class Of Their Own: Passing on the legacy of thinking
A Class Of Their Own: Passing on the legacy of thinking “All teachers are the sum of all other teachers who have ever taught them. …
A Class of Their Own: The accidental professor
A Class of Their Own: The accidental professor For this “accidental professor”, as Professor Jochen Wirtz wryly describes himself, teaching was never part of the …
A Class Of Their Own: The lecture as performance art
A Class Of Their Own: The lecture as performance art What makes a lecture special? “There’s nothing like a live performance,” says NUS Engineering’s Professor …
Titian Naluri: Connecting the Past and the Present in Malay Dance
Titian Naluri: Connecting the Past and the Present in Malay Dance The values of a culture are embodied (literally and figuratively) in its dance forms …
The Issue of ‘Face’ as an Obstacle to Participation in Group Projects, and How to Improve Group Dynamics in an Asian Context
The Issue of ‘Face’ as an Obstacle to Participation in Group Projects, and How to Improve Group Dynamics in an Asian Context When I ask …
MAYA YATRA: A FEMINIST READING OF CLASSICAL TEXTS THROUGH BHARATANATYAM
MAYA YATRA: A FEMINIST READING OF CLASSICAL TEXTS THROUGH BHARATANATYAM Part of NUS Arts Festival 2018, in celebration of NUS Indian Dance’s 40th anniversary and …
University Teaching Awards 2021
University Teaching Awards 2021 The OEA recognises outstanding achievements in teaching, including instruction, educational design, assessment and feedback, as well as the wider adoption of …
geNiUSchannel and geNiUSbooks on LumiNUS
geNiUSchannel and geNiUSbooks on LumiNUS This is a staff guide to integrating geNiUSchannel and geNiUSbooks contents into LumiNUS modules. Click here to go to access …
Know about MOOCs
Know about MOOCs What Is a MOOC? A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who …
Blended Learning 2.0 at NUS
Blended Learning 2.0 at NUS Blended learning is not new. NUS teachers have been using blended learning as a teaching strategy over many years. Despite …
How to Effectively Induct Students into the Flipped Classroom Paradigm
How to Effectively Induct Students into the Flipped Classroom Paradigm The flipped classroom format is a type of blended learning where students are required to …
How to Design Unforgettable and Satisfying Learning Activities that Help Students Learn Better
How to Design Unforgettable and Satisfying Learning Activities that Help Students Learn Better One of the interesting topics that arise when I converse with students …
Alleviating Student Anxieties Through the Telegram Messaging App
Alleviating Student Anxieties Through the Telegram Messaging App Since I began teaching in 2017, I found that there are other challenges to interdisciplinary learning unique …
#AreuOK
#AreuOK As part of the #AreuOK campaign, NUS conducted a validated, anonymous survey between January and February 2021 to understand the mental health of NUS …
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
PhET Interactive Simulations project
The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
edX
edX is a non-profit, massive open online course (MOOC) provider. The majority of edX courses are entirely free to access and most also offer an optional verified certificate track for a fee that varies per course. Courses may consist of video and text content, discussion forums, and a number of problem and assessment types.
Coursera
Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
NUS has signed up to Coursera to offer its own MOOCs.
Cool4Ed
The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.
Connexions
A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.
Chemistry Collective
A collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams.
Brilliant: Maths and Physics
An environment to anyone with internet access and a passion for mathematics or physics.