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Experiential Learning

Blended Learning ≠ Video Making - My joyful journey of moving a course out of traditional lecturing

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In this sharing, Prof. Chii Shang has walk through some importance and tricks he learned from his joyful journey of converting a traditional lecture-base course to a blended, peer, team-project-based, and even experiential learning course, without the hassle of making lecture videos. The sharing itself was not a lecture/seminar; instead the audience has experienced blended learning and interactions with the speaker.

Creating Meaningful Learning Experience in Experiential Learning Course

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As it name suggests, the basis of experiential education involves learning from experience. However, experience alone does not necessarily lead to true learning unless the experience is carefully chosen, authentic and well-structured. Given “experience” is the heart of experiential learning education, the course design, instructor’s facilitation, and assessment are all working towards one goal: to provide the conditions and create the experience for learning to happen. In this seminar, the speakers will use ENGG2900D (Community Services Project: Underwater Robot Community Engagement Project) as a showcase of how to use underwater robot as a driving vehicle to create meaningful learning experience for both UST students and the targeted serve group of school children with special education needs (SEN) or the ethnic minorities. This SENG, SSCI, and SBM co-listed course* was offered twice in Spring 15 and 16 respectively, the speakers will share the experience gained in the design, implementation, and assessment of this experiential learning course.

Experiential Learning at UST: Mistakes, Lessons, More Mistakes…That’s Experiential

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“ ... I noticed a pattern in the way all of our team members worked that makes me smile when thinking about the future. That pattern stems from failure. There were many ...

A Fantasy-Adventure Approach to an Experiential Computer Music Course

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In this seminar, the presenter has shared their experience in restructuring the Computer Music course as an experiential course with fantasy-adventure lab assignments. He also demonstrated how the same fantasy-adventure approach can be applied to any course, even technical courses. Their inspiration was to set up the course like a Harry Potter potions class at Hogwarts. Just as a potion might change the disposition of someone, music rather magically modulates the mood of listeners.