Hi there Martin ,educators, Moodlers, learners and leaders,
I would like to put myself forward and volunteer for the group leader role.
Happy to introduce myself in more detail..
Cheers
Indu
Hello Martin!
Yes, I am the same Indu that you know.
Just a brief intro of myself for the rest in the group/forum.
I have a diverse background in Education, Engineering and Educational Leadership.
With my own experience receiving education from India, Singapore and Australia, I am acutely aware of the cultural, technical and pedagogical ( application) differences in educational systems.
I have taught in the high school (1+year), trained engineering technicians on the job, Vocational Education and Training (VET)(10+ years) and currently involved in Higher ed ( Ad Dip, BE, ME ). I have experience in course development, curriculum development & design ,e-learning(Moodle and BlackBoard) & classroom design and delivery .I have been part of academic boards and teaching &learning committees during most of my educational career.
I am currently doing a PhD, involving both education and engineering (using bio sensors to detect student attention - has potential to assist both students and educators with the feedback of signals).
I believe in good pedagogy as a foundation towards inclusive and open educational system that caters to diverse learners. Learning theories have distinct approaches to address the individuality of the learner. However, they have commonality in the practice of teaching. Learning is a social process and effective learning can be achieved when the learner is interested and engaged. By designing learning activities learner-centric; where learners can participate in their own learning styles, discover from their perspective, learning and unlearning through social knowledge construction, effectively allowing the learner to resolve the tension between the social, emotional and intellectual understanding in their own safe environment.
Again, the pedagogical approach would differ, depending on learner cohort ( young vs adult learners).
I am no means an expert and an very keen in participating and co-creating in this forum, to learn from others around the world who are on the ground tackling these issues on a day-to-day basis.
Cheers
Indu
Yes, I am the same Indu that you know.
Just a brief intro of myself for the rest in the group/forum.
I have a diverse background in Education, Engineering and Educational Leadership.
With my own experience receiving education from India, Singapore and Australia, I am acutely aware of the cultural, technical and pedagogical ( application) differences in educational systems.
I have taught in the high school (1+year), trained engineering technicians on the job, Vocational Education and Training (VET)(10+ years) and currently involved in Higher ed ( Ad Dip, BE, ME ). I have experience in course development, curriculum development & design ,e-learning(Moodle and BlackBoard) & classroom design and delivery .I have been part of academic boards and teaching &learning committees during most of my educational career.
I am currently doing a PhD, involving both education and engineering (using bio sensors to detect student attention - has potential to assist both students and educators with the feedback of signals).
I believe in good pedagogy as a foundation towards inclusive and open educational system that caters to diverse learners. Learning theories have distinct approaches to address the individuality of the learner. However, they have commonality in the practice of teaching. Learning is a social process and effective learning can be achieved when the learner is interested and engaged. By designing learning activities learner-centric; where learners can participate in their own learning styles, discover from their perspective, learning and unlearning through social knowledge construction, effectively allowing the learner to resolve the tension between the social, emotional and intellectual understanding in their own safe environment.
Again, the pedagogical approach would differ, depending on learner cohort ( young vs adult learners).
I am no means an expert and an very keen in participating and co-creating in this forum, to learn from others around the world who are on the ground tackling these issues on a day-to-day basis.
Cheers
Indu
I'm very interested in the subject of your PhD. Do you have any information or resources where I can read more about that? Also, can you detect differences in attention with different types of pedagogy? For example, would you be able to use these sensors to measure student attention in a lecture class vs. an active class, etc?
Hi Ryan,
There are some papers around in this area... i have pasted a few that I used in my early literature review stage. I am still in early stages of my research and dont have any published work yet..
As for your question if you can detect differences in attention with different types of pedagogy, ABSOLUTELY. There are evidences from early research that there is a clear distinction on how our brain waves react to a "passive" vs "active" class ( I am using the work passive loosely here). This area of using bio sensors to detect attention or enhance how we learn ( both giving control to learner or educator) is vastly unexplored. There are so many branches of application that it is sometimes hard to narrow down!!