The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes in all sectors including higher education. The traditional system of teaching and learning has been greatly challenged which has necessitated immediate changes to education delivery across the world. The impact has pushed the educational system to…
When faced with a challenge, designers tend to rise above with creative solutions that suit their needs. Migrating to teaching and learning fully online, due to the pandemic has been a great challenge for everyone. Students and lecturers alike have had to face various trials on the technical…
From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching has shifted from the traditional face-to-face in-class interaction to being completely online where the interaction was done through the various software platforms. The author shares some of the platforms she has tried and tested.
How to perform the…
Four years ago, Maslisa joined the Department of Art, Design and Media at ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University as a Lecturer, and now serves as a programme leader for the BA (Hons) Design Communication Programme. Learning through active exploration is one of the educational approaches adopted at ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University,…
As we now traverse a second year of online teaching and learning, we can look on both technological and pedagogical developments from extended adventures in the digital realm. This brief article draws on a number of the author’s research projects in the arena, and provides three overarching…
By Vijaya Malar Arumugam, Belinda Fong & Karen Lui
Employability is a catchphrase that echoes around the halls of all institutions of higher learning. Graduate unemployment has been attributed to the fact that young individuals do not have the skills to take on ‘real’ or full-timed salaried jobs, and often floundered when faced with work-related…
Digitalisation is transforming the values and domains of existing industries. Technological advances as driven by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) are evolving at an incredibly fast rate, revamping the way we live, work and function as a society. Emerging from the digital evolution is…
The pace of change is accelerating, or so everyone tells us. On a daily basis, things may seem much the same but big changes are constantly taking place unnoticed. One such change is the rising globalisation of tertiary education.
The change is partly driven by decreasing costs of air travel which…
