My Teaching Philosophy

I believe learning engineering subjects must be a fun journey for students. Learning for the students is to appreciate and to grasp a fundamental concept, and to bring that concept to solve a complex problem later in their life. 

I believe the whole thing about teaching must be about designing learning for the students, not too much about lecturing in front of the class. This is where the technology comes as the backbone, where the fundamental concepts can be represented by digital interactive contents. The learning is carefully scaffolded in the learning platform where the students can learn the contents outside the class (flipped learning), and inside the classroom the activities are focused on students collaborating in solving problem to boost their critical thinking, discussion and reflection (collaborative learning). 

Teaching for me is therefore: 

  1. to build relationship with students-contents, students-students, me-students.
  2. to groom the 4C skills (collaboration, critical thinking, communication and creativity) of the students.
  3. to inculcate the culture of long-life learning.

Me - Student

Student - Student

Student - Content

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Summary of my Teaching Portfolio.

Teaching Portfolio

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Back in the early days

What was my teaching style when I first became a lecturer? Why did Mechanical Vibration become the subject with most students failed every semester?
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Why do I need to change?

Why can't I stay in my comfort zone? Why does the behaviour of the today's students and the rapid progress of the ICT make my conventional teaching style irrelevant?
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Classroom in your hand

Most students now have the most powerful device in their hands, which is the mobile phone. How do I design the learning so that the students can effectively learn from their phones?
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Flipped and Collaborative Learning

With the digital contents are already available online, the students can learn them before coming to the class, and learning activities in the classroom can be focused with problem solving and discussion collaboratively.
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Professional Development

To keep progressing, finding the right community to share and to gain best practices in T&L is important. This includes mentoring my colleagues to ensure sustainability of transformation in the faculty.
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