Beautiful, Inspiring Presentations in 21st Century Higher Education
How does one combine the love for presentations, MOOCs and durians in a single week? If not in less than 48 hours? Last week I had to overcome 2 challenges, first was to figure out how to present 50 slides in 10 minutes. To present a 9-month work in 10 minutes was not an easy…
Over forty presentation software out there. Canva, Piktochart, Visme, Prezi, GoogleSlide, Haiku Deck and Powerpoint – to name a few. They can help you design your next presentation, or can they? I’ve covered some of top presentation tools in my free MOOC ACE That Presentation. It’s where you can certainly pick up more than 30 useful strategies…
What a funny word “plagiarism”… It’s pronounced like ‘play-ge-rizm’. In the academic world, one cannot ‘play-play’ with it. But this word that doesn’t sound like English, yet it is English. Wonder where it came from? These are some of my thoughts as I search and re-search on plagiarism, a topic that I’d talk about in…
Giving a live lecture wasn’t that difficult in the beginning of my career as a lecturer. I remember my first lecture. I walked into DK X lecture hall with my thermos and a white MacBook. Came in well-prepared, days earlier. Set it up and started talking to students. Yes, I was nervous. I talked fast.…
Learning in the Era of Digital Transformations A day before the historic Malaysia’s 14th General Election, I attended an excellent talk by Prof. Asha Kanwar at Wawasan Open University in Penang. Prof. Kanwar is President and CEO of Commonwealth of Learning (CoL). It’s about how people approach learning in the digital era. ‘People’ here could…
I am working on the curriculum design and development of a Malaysia MOOC that is funded by the European Union under the COMPETEN-SEA project. This capacity building project for Malaysia MOOC is focused on up-skilling and empowering single mothers with entrepreneurial knowledge and know-hows. It’s a project-based MOOC involving a committed and multi-talented team in diverse…