Beautiful, Inspiring Presentations in 21st Century Higher Education
The bottomline | Go beyond lectures and lecture notes After I announced the five micro-learning video modules to the first year pharmacy students, some students came to me and asked: Dr… can I have your lecture notes? This question is not unusual in the context of Malaysian students. With lecture notes, perhaps many students feel…
At the beginning of this semester I asked my 2nd year undergraduates, Who has a website? Out of the sea of students, only one put up the hand, ever so gingerly while looking for another one from other students. Looking for support… Then I said, we’re going to do a website assignment this semester. The…
Below is an example of infographic that my students and I are going to re-create in my hands-on infographic workshop. The design of infographic is inspired by Health Research Funding infographic design. Since the workshop is for 2 hours, I’ve re-designed it for the allocated time. In my workshop, among the things you will learn…
I simply love how data are being presented (or represented) in Data Viz project by ferdio, a company specialising in infographics. Though it’s a project in beta stage, I found the website, which itself is an infographic, displays a wonderful array of data visualisation. Furthermore, data visualisation is categorised by families (chart, plot, table), data input…
It’s the time of the year again, new semester just kicks in, new pharmacy students take their first tentative steps into the realm of university life. And the third and fourth year students have started (seriously) thinking about their future. For graduates, what options do I have post-convo? It’s a long post; the table of…
I have been teaching chemistry for over a decade now. Every semester, one of the most favourite questions coming from my students would be, Doctor… should I memorise the structures??! That takes me back to how I started learning chemistry, that is when I was in the secondary school. Formula upon formula, and the one…