Full Description
This collection focuses on the challenges, lessons learned, and best teaching practices shared by educators in the higher education system in both the developed and developing areas of Asia. Organized into three sections, the book covers key factors that affect the successes of online education in Asia, including innovations in curriculum design; innovations in communicating with students; and innovations in assessments. In doing so, it provides educators important insights into the differences between teaching and learning in both the developed and developing areas of Asia and highlights the problems that still need to be addressed as technologies advance in the twenty-first century in STEM and non-STEM disciplines.
Contents
Section I: Curriculum Design.- 1. Microlearning: Understanding what it is and what it could be in the long-term.- 2. Practical Reflections on Meshing the Analogue and Digital Teacher Self Through Pushed Change.- 3. Strategies to Enhance Online Teaching and Learning of Systems Thinking and Dynamic Modeling.- 4. Pedagogical approach with an intent- Focussing on Interaction, Time and Pace during Covid-19: Lessons Learnt.- 5. Engaging students during the online learning process: The dialogues, structure and student autonomy.- 6. Bringing experiential learning to the classroom online in a communication course.- 7. Beyond the Effectiveness of Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perspective of Hong Kong University Students' Well-being.- 8. Learning to Teach Offline in Online Environment: Prospective Teachers' Perspective.- Section II: Innovations in student assessments.- 9. Going beyond migration - Let's transform assessment practice.- 10. The affective assessments during the online teaching and learning: Did I do it right?.- 11. The Use of Learner-Centered Pedagogies and E-portfolios to Facilitate Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers Development in an Asian System.- 12. Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills for the Students of Engineering.- Section III: Innovations in connecting with students.- 13. Navigating Digital Environments One Step at a Time during COVID-1: Digital Learning and Teaching at James Cook University Singapore.- 14. Teaching Delivery via Instant Messaging: Telegram Learning and Teaching Tips and Tales.- 15. ICT and 21st Century Skills for the Students of Engineering.- 16. Optimizing Artificial Intelligence Based Applications In Teaching Writing For Efl Learners.- 17. Student Readiness for Online Learning During the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Thailand.
