SIM Teaching Matters

For this episode I am joined by Dr. Paul McAfee. He is an instructor of business, teaching Capstone Fundamentals of Strategic Management for University at Buffalo within SIM for 9 years.  In 2022, Paul completed his PhD with a dissertation on experiential learning. He has a website where he shares his insights in experiential learning and pedagogy: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING - Experiential Learning - McAfee (paulmcafee.com) and you can follow him on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/paulmcafee

Welcome back everyone to a new year, where we continue to share the experiences, thoughts and practices of our SIM Associate lecturers. This week I am joined by 2022 Teaching Excellence Award winner Mabel Tan. She teaches Marketing in UOL and has been with SIM for 3 years. To support her students through the challenging curriculum, she has implemented scaffolding and formative assessment in her teaching. 

For this episode I am joined by Goh Boon Yeow, 2022 Teaching Excellence Award winner and Lecturer for UB at SIM for almost 5 years. He shares how he applies boundary-crossing as an instructional tool to make his psychology courses more engaging and help students gain a deeper understanding as well as develop their critical thinking skills. 

Today I had the privilege of interviewing Professor. Belinda Tynan after her keynote speech at the SIMGE Education Conference 2022 “Pedagogical transformation in the age of digital learning”. In her keynote, Professor Tynan shared her insights on the challenges and opportunities for higher education teaching staff as we emerge from the global pandemic in her keynote speech “How Higher-Ed faculty can embrace digital transformation in their teaching role”. My conversation with her was of a more personal nature as she shared her beliefs and experiences in education. 

For this episode, I am joined by 2022 Teaching Excellence Award-winner Loris Hew. She has been teaching for 10 years and today we talk about the expectation versus reality in teaching. 

On this episode, I talk to Ong Chin Choo, SIM Associate Lecturer and 2022 SIM Teaching Merit Award-winner. She teaches marketing and shares with us her insights in student engagement and how to improve it. 

On this episode, SIM Associate Lecturer and 2022 SIM Teaching Excellence Award-winner, Tan Kheng Teck shares his experience with EdTech tools Slido and Whiteboard Fox in the classroom. 

On this episode, SIM Associate Lecturer Nicholas Woo shares his HEAR method to improve student engagement in the classroom. 

Dr. Maylyn Tan, Assistant Dean and Head of Academic Development in SIM joins me on this podcast episode to talk about Applied Learning. 

Welcome to our new SIM Teaching Matters Podcast series. I am your host, Laura Visser, taking you on a journey through the teaching experiences, lessons learned, and advice of our faculty, senior staff, and industry experts. New episodes will be posted every other week on News & Events (sim.edu.sg).