Participants of Professional Development Programme (Teaching) worked on research projects related to teaching and learning. This issue of CDTL Brief presents the first instalment of Research Projects done by the batch of PDP-T participants in April 2003.
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| Socratic Method for Engineering Education | |||
| Assistant Professor Xiang Cheng | |||
| Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |||
| I recently experimented with my classroom teaching experiment using the Socratic method with a graduate class at NUS. This experiment was inspired by the article, ‘The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling’, written by Rick Garlikov. Continue reading | |||
| A Survey of Tutorial Preparation and Participation | |||
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| We are new to teaching in NUS and we experienced low level of participation in tutorials. Is there anything that we can do about it? We believe that as instructors, we can influence the level of preparation and participation by carefully designing tutorials, and by adopting better pedagogical techniques. Continue reading | |||
| Increasing Student Participation: A Classroom Experiment | |||
| Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou | |||
| Department of Computer Science | |||
| At the Department of Computer Science, some of the undergraduate courses have large student enrolments. This is especially so for the lower level undergraduate courses. Lecturing to a large class poses some challenges. Continue reading | |||