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geNiUSbooks is an interactive ebook sharing platform, hosting a wide collection created by NUS staff and students. These ebooks enhance the modern reading experience by going beyond mere textual communication, to incorporate videos, images, 3D objects, and other interactive elements!
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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 …

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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 …

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A Class Of Their Own

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,” …

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A Class Of Their Own

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 …

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A Class Of Their Own

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 …

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A Class Of Their Own

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 …

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A Class Of Their Own

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. …

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A Class Of Their Own

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 …

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A Class Of Their Own

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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#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 …

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions" -- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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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.

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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.

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Futurelearn

A range of free, open, online courses from leading UK Universities.

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FlatWorld 

Affordable priced textbooks.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Brilliant: Maths and Physics

An environment to anyone with internet access and a passion for mathematics or physics.

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The Learning Innovation Fund – Technology (LIF-T)

The Learning Innovation Fund – Technology (LIF-T) was created in 2012 to seed faculty TEL projects across the institution, support MOOCs and blended learning modules. LIF-T has played a significant role in allowing for innovation in TEL at NUS and contributed in a big way to building a culture of technology-enhanced teaching and learning at the University.
Faculty of Engineering

Multimodal augmented reality for enhanced learning in robotic surgery

Multimodal augmented reality for enhanced learning in robotic surgery Multimodal augmented reality for enhanced learning in robotic surgery Ren Hongliang Faculty of Engineering Bioengineering 2013(2) …

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Second Generation-Patient Safety in Surgical Education (PASSED)

Second Generation-Patient Safety in Surgical Education (PASSED) Second Generation-Patient Safety in Surgical Education (PASSED) Alfred Kow Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Surgery 2015(1) Click …

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Self-access Language Learning Environments (SALLE) with a Common Back-end Authoring System for all Language Courses

Self-access Language Learning Environments (SALLE) with a Common Back-end Authoring System for all Language Courses Self-access Language Learning Environments (SALLE) with a Common Back-end Authoring …

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LIFT

ShowNTell – HTML5 based whiteboard screen recording & publishing system

Very effectively reduced the number of students aproaching a lecturer before exam and long waiting hours for their turn for personal consultation.
Effectively reduced the face-to-face sessions of project group presentations in our courses. Group presentations were done through showntell and shared with the TAs/lecturer for grading.
In addition, it is used to record presentations and collaborate during e-learning weeks where classroom setting is abandoned.

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LIFT

Studionet: An Online Community for Learning Digital Design Tools and Techniques

Studionet: An Online Community for Learning Digital Design Tools and Techniques Studionet: An Online Community for Learning Digital Design Tools and Techniques Patrick Janssen School …

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LIFT

Teaching CS1010 introductory programming on a massive scale

Teaching CS1010 introductory programming on a massive scale Teaching CS1010 introductory programming on a massive scale Ben Leong School of Computing Computer Science 2013(2) Click …

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Faculty of Engineering

Technology-enhanced platforms beyond flipped classroom for large classes for CE1109 Statics & Mechanics

Technology-enhanced platforms beyond flipped classroom for large classes for CE1109 Statics & Mechanics Technology-enhanced platforms beyond flipped classroom for large classes for CE1109 Statics & …

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LIFT

The Good Citizen VR Experience

The Good Citizen VR Experience The Good Citizen VR Experience Malcolm Mahadevan Heng Jiun Yi Derek, Crystal Soh John Yap Yong Loo Lin School of …

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Duke-NUS

Use of smartphone technology in a community-based educational program for medical students

VR for Spatial Computational Thinking VR for Spatial Computational Thinking​ Patrick Janssen School of Design and Environment – Achitecture 2020(2) Click Here to visit the …

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Faculty of Engineering

Virtual/ Augmented Reality Enhanced Learning for Chemical Engineers

Virtual/ Augmented Reality Enhanced Learning for Chemical Engineers Virtual/ Augmented Reality Enhanced Learning for Chemical Engineers Yap Swee Kun Sachin Jangam Faculty of Engineering Chemical …

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