AUN-TEPL Webinar Series
Here is a space where members of the ASEAN University Network (AUN) can research, practise, and share knowledge within a learning community. In particular, this community will be focused on the field of personalised learning and the myriad technological tools. which can help us to leverage each student’s unique needs, preferences, and level of competency so as to increase the effectiveness of learning. In order to provide meaningful personalised learning experiences through the use of technology, we are constantly looking for best practices, technological tools or pedagogical approaches, or simply to deepen our understanding of TEPL and its possibilities.
Through the AUN-TEPL Webinar Series, we will have opportunities to hear from educators and experts who share their valuable knowledge, research and experiences on a range of topics in the TEPL domain. We began in April 2020 with the topic of ‘Creating Effective and Impactful Instructional Videos’, one of the most commonly used modes of content delivery to facilitate online, self-paced or differentiated learning. In this first webinar, faculty members from the different fields of language, medicine and digital arts in Mahidol University shared their experiences and tips on video creation. Next, we were introduced to the feedback system which was deployed to support competency development in the area of Information Literacy in Mahidol University. This was followed by a sharing by the Singapore Management University about its ongoing effort to develop a university-wide learning outcomes feedback system which serves to track, collect comprehensive feedback and facilitate the mastery of a suite of 21st century skills for every graduate.
Please follow our event updates as this webinar series continues to curate these live webinar sessions for the AUN community. Engage the presenters in the Q&A sessions, hear experts and fellow practitioners share their insights, and find out how you can be involved in the educational research collaboration in this thematic network.
We are glad to share with you the recordings of past webinars below.
Learning Innovation Festival (LIFE) 2021
07th Oct 2021
9.00am - 12.00pm (SGT, GMT+8)
In partnership with the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the Singapore Management University (SMU), AUN-TEPL Thematic Network was once again involved in the Learning Innovation Festival 2021 (LIFE) webinar. LIFE is an annual event that celebrates innovation in teaching at SMU and AUN+3 universities, and this year’s theme focused on Digital Learning Strategies-Charting the Path Forward.
Representatives from the AUN-TEPL Thematic Network co-lead universities (Universiti Malaya and Mahidol University) gave insightful presentations on the future of digital learning in their institutions and efforts to support academics in becoming effective online instructors during and beyond the pandemic.
Videos of selected presentations, as well as the presentation slides, are now available!
Venky Shankararaman
Vice Provost (Education)
Singapore Management University
The Future of Digital Learning in Singapore Management University
Prof Venky Shankararaman will discuss how SMU had to rapidly adapt to the challenges posed by the pandemic, the lessons learnt and present the implications of digital learning for the future delivery of SMU’s interactive pedagogy.
Farrah Dina Binti Yusop
Director, Academic Enhancement and Leadership Development Centre
Universiti Malaya
Academics as Effective Online Instructors: The Case of Universiti Malaya (UM)
Online teaching and learning is currently accepted and practiced as a new norm in the higher education setting. In this presentation, Associate Professor Dr. Farrah Dina Yusop will share University Malaya’s efforts to support its academics as effective online instructors, especially from the professional development perspective.
Nopphol Pausawasdi
Director, Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center
Advisor, Division of Academic Affairs
Mahidol University
Mahidol University's Adaptation to Digital Learning Strategy
This presentation highlights how Mahidol University rapidly adapted to an university-wide strategy in the use of digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic. The presentation also covers how Mahidol University plans to adopt Flexible Education with the support of technology to further enhance students’ learning.
Question & Answer Segment
Lieven Demeester
Associate Provost (Teaching and Learning Innovation)
Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Singapore Management University
Venky Shankararaman
Vice Provost (Education)Singapore Management University
Farrah Dina Binti Yusop
Director, Academic Enhancement and Leadership Development CentreUniversiti Malaya
Nopphol Pausawasdi
Director, Mahidol University Library and Knowledge CenterAdvisor, Division of Academic AffairsMahidol University
Hady W. Lauw
School of Computing and Information Systems
Singapore Management University
Algorithmic Approaches to Augmenting Lesson Slides with Relevant Online Videos
When reviewing lesson slides, students may benefit from additional learning resources in the form online videos relevant to the concepts discussed in the slides. In this talk, the speaker will share his experiences in developing Slide++, which seeks to identify online videos and even segments within videos relevant to each presentation slide.
Ijlal Naqvi
School of Social Sciences
Singapore Management University
Bodean Hedwards
Director of Enterprise and Immersion Initiatives, Faculty of Arts
Monash University
Collaborative Online International Learning for Tackling Global Challenges
The class on Social Entrepreneurship in the Indo-Pacific brought together 200 students from five universities in Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, and India. This course takes advantage of its online structure to convene student teams across these locations. The theme of international collaboration is reinforced by having students search for innovative responses to global challenges as framed by the sustainable development goals.
Launch of the AUN-TEPL Resource-sharing Community
08th Oct 2020
10.00am - 5.00pm (SGT, GMT+8)
Singapore Management University, together with co-leads Mahidol University (Thailand) and University of Malaya (Malaysia), is the leading the ASEAN University Network Technology-Enhance Personalised Learning (AUN-TEPL) Thematic Network with the mission of leveraging the potential synergy and data economies to improve students’ success through TEPL methodologies, collaboration and forming alliances to tap on the potential of big data.
As part of the key initiatives of propagating the use and exchange of digital resources, the AUN-TEPL Resource-sharing Community was launched by the Chairman of AUN-TEPL, Associate Professor Lieven Demeester on 8th Oct 2020 at the Learning Innovation Festival webinar. The event was organised by the Singapore Management University .
Gerry Hanley
Executive Director, MERLOT and SkillsCommons
Enabling the Educational Ecosystem for AUN-TEPL's Success with MERLOT's Open Educational Services
Learners’ access to quality educational content multiplies the power of faculty teaching. MERLOT provides free and open access to online educational content across a diversity of academic disciplines and provides the open educational services to enable individuals, institutions, and communities to discover, share, adopt, and curate online educational content. The presentation will demonstrate how MERLOT can be incorporated immediately into your institutional strategies. Through the AUN-TEPL community’s collaborative efforts, institutions and individuals can accelerate their success in educating all they serve.
Lieven Demeester
Associate Professor of Operations Management (Practice)
Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Singapore Management University
Forming the AUN-TEPL Resource-sharing Community
Instructors in the AUN+3 Universities design and create many excellent digital resources, especially so during this pandemic period. Since its establishment, the AUN-TEPL Thematic Network has set out to address missed opportunities of not adopting a common approach for AUN+3 instructors to:
1) scan, select, and use digital resources developed at other AUN+3 members
2) review and endorse available digital resources
3) share self-developed digital resources with other AUN+3 instructors
In this presentation, Professor Lieven Demeester will share the rationale of forming a community in sharing readily available digital TEPL resources within AUN+3. Professor Demeester will also lay out the strategy, support structures and plans in supporting members along this collaborative journey with our partner, MERLOT, and fellow AUN+3 members.
Melody Chin
Research Librarian
Singapore Management University
Practical Considerations in Selecting and Applying Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons (CC) licenses enable creators to share their work and allow others to use their material based on certain conditions. For instructors, adopting CC licenses facilitates making their own educational resources and digital learning objects openly available to other instructors and institutions in a standardised manner. How are Creative Commons licenses related to copyright? What are the different types of licenses and the key considerations? This presentation serves as a practical introduction for selecting and applying creative commons licenses as an essential part of the process for sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) on platforms such as MERLOT.
A list questions posted by participants were not able to be answered during the webinar due to the interest of time. You may download the presenter's responses to those questions here.
Design Choices in a University-wide Learning Outcome Feedback System for 21st Century Skills
19th Jun 2020
3.30pm - 4.30pm (SGT, GMT+8)
In line with Singapore Management University’s (SMU) commitment to delivering interactive, participative and technologically-enabled student learning experience, the university is developing and implementing an university-wide learning outcomes feedback system with the aim of nurturing broadly educated individuals, with depth of knowledge and essential workplace capabilities.
Lieven Demeester
Associate Professor of Operations Management (Practice)
Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Singapore Management University
Design Choices in a University-wide Learning Outcome Feedback System for 21st Century Skills
In this presentation, Associate Professor Demeester discusses some of the design choices made, such as the integration across courses, learning outcomes structure, attainment scale, link with grades, use of peer assessment, integration with eLearn, cohort benchmarking, and the pace of rollout. Associate Professor Demeester will also be sharing the results from student and instructor interviews and surveys from the most recent round of implementation.
With the use of the university-wide learning outcomes feedback system, instructors will potentially be able to enhance the profile of the course by formally linking it to the SMU graduate learning outcomes, systematically identify areas where students are struggling in order to adapt instructional strategies and assessments and improving the rating in the Quality and Frequency of Feedback.
A list questions posted by participants were not able to be answered during the webinar due to the interest of time. You may download the presenter's responses to those questions here.
Use of analytics systems to guide students in acquiring Information Literacy competencies - A Research and Practice approach
15th May 2020
3.30pm - 4.30pm (SGT, GMT+8)
The provision of timely and targeted feedback to students, through analytics systems, is one of the commonly used technology-enhanced personalised learning strategies in Higher Education today.
Join Associate Professor Dr. Patcharin Panjaburee in this webinar, where she shares how this analytics system works through a self-regulated flipped classroom approach from the perspective of a researcher and practitioner.
Patcharin Panjaburee
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Education at the Institute for Innovative Learning, Mahidol University
Use of analytics systems to guide students in acquiring Information Literacy competencies - A Research and Practice approach
Mahidol University has been leveraging such a system to provide feedback and learning suggestions to students on how they can effectively develop competencies in Information Literacy. This approach aims to nurture better problem solvers, thinkers and helps foster effective contributors, confident individuals and responsible citizens as part of essential 21st Century competencies.
A list questions posted by participants were not able to be answered during the webinar due to the interest of time. You may download the presenter's responses to those questions here.
Creating Effective and Impactful Instructional Videos
3rd April 2020
3.30pm - 4.30pm (SGT, GMT+8)
Effective instructional videos have become an integral part of higher education, serving as the main delivery mode for many blended learning courses especially in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Studies have shown that videos can serve as a productive part of a student’s learning experience when they are designed to include elements that help promote student engagement.
In this webinar, we will hear from 3 faculty members from Mahidol University who have extensive experience in creating and using instructional videos in their classrooms.
Videos of the presentations as well as the presentation slides provided by many of our speakers are now available!
Songsri Soranasathaporn
Associate Professor in English Language at Mahidol University
Co-founder (2008) and the Secretary General of The Thai Simulation and Gaming Association (ThaiSim)
Tools for Developing e-Learning Courseware
This presentation covers both instructional and technical considerations in the development of effective videos for Mahidol University’s online courses. An instructor’s perspective is share on the design of online courses.
Adisak Nartthanarung
Assistant Professor at Mahidol University
Orthopedic Surgeon at the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital
Digital Media and Personalised Learning Environment Development to Enhance Skill Teaching in Medical Students
Developing learners with the skills necessary to work in the future is an important goal of teaching in all professions, including the medical profession. There are many factors that affect the skill development of medical students. Mahidol University has developed digital media and an educational environment that can promote personalized learning by applying educational and information technology to help students develop knowledge and skills of medical students as well as building confidence in applying them.
Sujika Srinuntakul
Deputy Dean for Digital Media Technology and Training Services
Lecturer at Faculty of ICT
Mahidol University
Design and Development of Efficient Video for E-learning
This presentation shares some best practices of how to apply instructional design framework (ADDIE) and micro-learning concepts used in creating effective videos for online class. The presentation also analyzes how the use of byte-size learning contents and videos can enhance student’s performance in the learning and practice digital arts.
A list questions posted by the symposium participants were not able to be answered during the webinar due to the interest of time. You may download the presenters' responses to those questions here.