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Seminar |
Presenters |
Noted |
J
A
N |
Conduct of Open
Book Examinations |
A/P K. P.
Mohanan (FASS)
A/P Winston Seah (ENG)
Prof S. M. Tang (SCI)
A/P Walter Woon (LAW) |
Students being intelligent people will jump through
the hoops no matter where you put [them].... What open book examinations allow us to do is
put the hoops in a real life position rather than an arbitrary place. —A/P Walter
Woon |
F
E
B |
Using Project Work to Enhance Learning |
Dr Marcelo Ang
(ENG)
Dr Michael Chew (FAB)
A/P Tan Chew Lim (SCI) |
Successful project work must have well-defined
objectives. They can be specific or general depending on the kind of project but the
advisor must very clear on what he or she expects of the student. The student must know
the deliverables for the project. —Dr Marcelo Ang |
M
A
R |
Enhancing Student
to Enhance Learning
Programmes |
A/P Belal E.
Baaquie (SCI)
Dr Daphne Pan (CDTL)
A/P Augustine Tan (FASS) |
Many students think they're prepared for university
because they assume it's just more of what they've been doing. We need to disabuse them of
of that notion. It's not more of it. It's a different kind of learning they
need to engage in. And many are not aware of that. —Dr
Daphne Pan |
A
P
R |
Curriculum Review: How much
ground to cover? |
Dr Grace Ong
(DEN)
Mr Stephen Phua (LAW)
A/P Yeo Swee Ping (ENG) |
TQM of the university's curriculum: There's a risk
that we'll have a university full of features but no total quality because there is
insufficient integration of the...improvements we are making....They [need to] work as a
coherent whole. —Mr Stephen Phua |
M
A
Y |
Creative Thinking |
Dr Lam Khee
Poh (FAB)
Prof Ng Soon Chye (MED)
Dr Wayne Patterson (FASS) |
The challenge for teachers is to find means of
identifying and rewarding creative thinking, which so often contradicts conventional
thinking, while at the same time requiring that conventional wisdom be absorbed and
mastered. —Dr Wayne Patterson |
A
U
G |
Creative Thinking Revisited |
Prof Herbert
Eleuterio (ENG) |
The key to creativity is problem visualization and
formulation....Most people are not prepared to handle ill-defined problems because they
have learned to solve problems by defining problem causes too narrowly and then proposing
solutions that are too short-sighted. |
S
E
P |
Educating for Life: IQ and EQ |
DVC Prof Hang
Chang Chieh |
Are you willing to sacrifice short-term rewards and
try to achieve something more substantial?....[The ability to delay gratification] is a
very important emotional strength....Many scientists and scholars fail to undertake the
really big projects that could make the critical difference in their careers. |
O
C
T |
Tenure = Good Teaching + Good Research? |
Prof Lee Soo
Ying (SCI) |
The tenure process is not perfect. Sir Geoffrey
Wilkinson was at Harvard as an Assist Prof from 1950-57...There was a tenure review and
Harvard said not good enough. Wilkinson went back to Imperial College...took up the first
chair in inorganic chemistry and won the Nobel Prize in 1973. |
