First Principal Fellow from Singapore

Nachamma Sockalingam, Program Director, Learning Sciences Lab, Office of Undergraduate Studies, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) became the first Principal Fellow from Singapore.

Publications

Channel NewsAsia commentary

Channel NewsAsia featured a commentary piece by Dr Nachamma Sockalingam, Assistant Director of Learning Sciences Lab at SUTD. 

Conferences

SUTD in APAIE conference (25 to 29 March) 

SUTD had a strong presence at the recent APAIE conference, with (1) our President, Prof Chong Tow Chong, in the Plenary talk, (2) SUTD colleagues from Office of International Relations and Marketing sharing and linking with global universities, and (3) LSL’s lead Nacha presenting with Associate Provost for Education, Prof Pey Kin Leong, on “Empowering Future Ready Graduates: The SUTD Way”

Publications

SUTD Pedagogy Newsletter 2017

1. Providing Prior Knowledge for “Digital World” Class Using GamesOka Kurniawan (ISTD).
2. Teaching Tips for Flipped Classroom, Bina Rai (SCI) and Yajuan(Julia) Zhu (SCI).
3. Interactive Teaching and Learning Using Technology,Lee Chee Hui (EPD) and Teo Tee Hui (EPD).
4. White Space, Tara Dankel (HASS).
5. Tactile Mathematics, Sergey Kushnarev (ESD).
6. Diagramming Case Studying Oliver Heckmann (ASD).
7. Teaching Asia and the Great Books Nazry Bahrawi (HASS).
8. A Multidisciplinary 2D Project Arlindo Silva (EPD), Christine Yogiaman (ASD), Huang Shaoying (EPD), James G. Wan (ESD), Nilanjan Raghunath (HASS),Pey Kin Leong (OED).
9. Learning to Teach as Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) at SUTD Nachamma Sockalingam (LSL), Ng Jia Yi (GTA), Nguyen Thi Ngoc (GTA) and Tan Chee How (GTA).
10. SUTD Creates a New Space:The Academic Media Studio, Mohamed Idham Bin Mohid (Ed Tech).
11. Interview with Prof Tom Magnanti - Nazry Bahrawi and Nachamma Sockalingam.
12. Interview with Prof Pey Kin Leong - Nachamma Sockalingam.

Conferences

1. Maths, Physics, Social Science and Design: What Do They Have in Common? By Arlindo Silva, Yale-NUS STEM Conference.
2. SOTL: A New Paradigm for Educational Development in Higher Education, By Nachamma Sockalingam, Yale-NUS STEM Conference.
3. Flipped Classroom Approach to Teaching Biology, Bina Rai, Yajuan Zhu, Blackboard Conference.
4. A Blended Learning Approach to Teaching a Teaching Course Using Blackboard, by Nachamma Sockalingam, Blackboard Conference.
5. SOTL Approach to Faculty Development, by Nachamma Sockalingam and Prof Pey Kin Leong, Euro SOTL 2018.

Publications

Foong, S. (2016). A Design-Centric Control Education with a Competitive Flavor. ASME-DSCD Newsletter.

Sockalingam, N. (2016). Technologies in Higher Education: The Predicted, the Predicaments and the Possibilities.

Sockalingam, N. (2016). Engaged teaching to enhance teaching and learning. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 6(2), 122-128.

Conferences

Some of our faculty and LSL members presented at the recent Edutech conference, in November 2016.

Dr. Dawn Koh, Lecturer, EPD, presenting in TeachTechTalks on Active Learning for Non-Major Biology Students in University. Dawn shared her case study of teaching Genetics in SUTD, using a MIT developed simulation that allows students to experiment and analyse fdata pertaining to genetics.

Dr. Nachamma Sockalingam, LSL, presenting  in the Tertiary Leaders Track on Integrating 21st Century Skills in Teaching and Learning. Nacha shared SUTD's unique academic straucture and pedagogy and proposed a broad set of guidelines to consider in integrating 21st Century skills in Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Sergey Kushnarev, Lecturer, ESD, presenting in the TeachTechTalks that "The human brain is not designed for maths, but it is made for language and stories". Sergey shared that storytelling creates more vivid, powerful and memorable images in a listener’s mind than does any other means of delivery of the same material and illustrated how  mathematics could be taught via storytelling,  to engage and motivate students.