Beautiful, Inspiring Presentations in 21st Century Higher Education
I was invited to deliver a talk today on my teaching strategies during the pandemic. The invitation came from Prof. apt. Muchtaridi, who is currently at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD). He was my former student in USM. His invitation came out of the blue – after watching my chemistry teaching videos on…
It’s my fourth year of serving as a judge for QS Reimagine Education Awards. This time, I requested for VR and AR technology category – and was assigned to applications from many parts of the world including Australia, Africa, Europe and the US showcasing projects in STEM subjects, social sciences and from design schools. While…
Today I went through tutorial videos of my students teaching their own group members. Every year Dr Yap Beow Keat would help run a CADD workshop for 2nd year students in FAR212 course. But we could only cater it for perhaps half the class (~60 students). So this year, we decided to ‘turn’ the learning…
Spending 1 hour just talking about binding interactions between a drug and a protein target is no fun. Hydrogen bonding, van der Waals, dipole-dipole moment. No fun for me, as I’ve been doing it for the last 10-odd years. Repeating the same thing, year in, year out. And no fun for students, presumably ‘soaking’ in…
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…
How to Unlock Yourself from … I hardly believe I have come to this point of my career as a lecturer. Where I started to share keys to unlock oneself from the ‘prison’ that one sets up. It’s been an interesting 9-month journey–a journey into awareness and being authentic. In this first lecture on Central…