Teaching online has its difficulties and teachers have shifted classes online as the pandemic engulfed the world in the first half of 2020. Some teachers have bemoaned the change while others have risen to the challenge and taken it in their stride. Perhaps, now is the time to reflect and take stock of the past …
As educators, even as we teach and nurture students to be the best version of themselves, we are also interested in acquiring new skills. We want to be well-equipped to give our students the best education that we can, and to do that, we must invest time––and sometimes money––in ourselves. For those of us who …
Have you crafted your virtual lesson plan? Along the way, did you run out of ideas to keep your students engaged in an online classroom? As teachers, we are always looking for ways to improve our lessons and to deliver the best for our students. That is just how we are wired. We always want …
Whether the setting is a physical or a virtual classroom, all teachers want what is best for their students. We will go above and beyond to provide the best learning experience for our students. After the Coronavirus hit and forced classes to shift online, some of us started to scour the internet for online teaching …
How are your lesson plans shaping up for the rest of the academic year? Are you struggling to make your classes more interactive? Do you experience any difficulties encouraging students to be engaged with your course content? Have you tried to incorporate multimedia content into your lessons yet? There are numerous online teaching resources on …
The whiteboard is the quintessential fixture of any physical classroom. Teachers use it to illustrate key points in their lessons. Students write on whiteboards to present their answers or to collaborate and create mind maps. Then, someone whips out a camera phone and snaps a photo to immortalise it on their class WhatsApp or Telegram …
Have you run out of ideas to engage students and to make online learning just as effective as face-to-face lessons? Is it becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the interest of your students in your course content? Are you starting to notice students’ lethargic reaction to your current online teaching strategy? If you have been lecturing …
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Covid-19 has changed the way we regard online learning forever. Never has there been such a prolonged period of school disruptions. E-learning days may have prepared us to teach online, but conducting such exercises on an annual basis may not have taught us how to increase the effectiveness of online teaching. This article will walk …
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Online learning has been around since 1989 when the University of Phoenix first offered bachelors and masters degree online. Online learning is not a new phenomenon, and remote learning has had an even longer history. As the Coronavirus pandemic swept across the world, schools have been forced to close, and students have had no choice …
Worldwide, the tuition industry is valued at over US$100 billion and is still projected to grow by an additional US$112.7 billion by 2025. In Singapore alone, the tuition industry is worth over USD$1 billion tuition. As Covid-19 forces tuition centres to shift their operations online, some increasingly view these developments as opportunities to tap global …
