Understanding how AI works, its limitations and potential, can help us better adapt the way we work. My thoughts on NUS AICC (2023) course.

A course, a community, an approach
Understanding how AI works, its limitations and potential, can help us better adapt the way we work. My thoughts on NUS AICC (2023) course.
Before I started ONL, I briefly read about the shift in learning approaches — from behaviourism (which was how we were taught growing up) to social constructivism. In my own education journey, we did not have much of project works or group work in our curriculum, but we sometimes hear the term “study group” — […]
What did I gain from ONL ? Looking back at my ONL journey with contentment, gratitude and a sense of accomplishment, I feel this course opened several channels that will keep on flowing for my entire academic career. Knowing how… Continue Reading →
Honoured guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, my fellow colleagues… Credit: hotpot.ai image generator. As we come to the end of our 3 months of learning together, I just wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to 2 groups of people. First, thank you to the organisers of this ONL journey. It has been […]
The webinars and group discussions around this topic got me thinking about how I would like to create effective online/blended learning. One of my group members introduced me to a new word: mechanisms (thanks Ziad!). As I understand it, mechanisms are the big-picture strategies which we use to achieve our goal. For some reason, as […]
Despite it be the online environment or not, the assessments should always be aligned with the intended learning objectives and planned accordingly to assess higher order cognitive skills. The traditional view point of testing knowledge has shifted to assessing skills and application. In order to achieve this there are multitude of assessment techniques implemented. In […]
Collaboration is a skill. How can we facilitate students in developing this skill through collaborative learning? Collaborative learning is defined as “a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together,” (Dillenbourg, P.,1999). and on simplified terms as joint problem solving. Student collaboration has shown to improve outcomes if done […]
This week’s ONL topic shed light on the essential elements required for effective collaborative learning. In my PBL Group meeting, one of the members asked these questions: “What’s so wrong with “divide and conquer”? I’ve always done it this way… Have I been doing collaboration wrong all this while?” This made me think more carefully […]
The COI framework can serve as a guide to help educators plan and implement multi-modal educational experience for their students.
Learning Communities in Theory From the start, this was always going to be an interesting topic to me! I am a strong believer in the power of collaborative learning (Smith & MacGregor 1992), and the thought of students coming together to share their varied experiences, germinate new ideas, and bring them to fruition fills me […]
Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness Growing up in a typical Asian family, these values were predominant: .. The more you give away, the less you have. .. You’ve worked so hard, keep it for yourself. .. There is no free lunch in this world. If someone gives you a gift, you should […]
Open learning is a relatively new concept, which has changed the traditional perceptions on higher education from ‘reserved ‘ to more ‘widely available ‘ learning resources. In this movement Open Educational Resources are made available in public domains in order to promote accessibility of knowledge and resources to a wider global community. Open learning is […]