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Teaching Workshop 2018:
Industry-Based Learning

On 26 February 2018, NAFA’s 10 Teaching Workshop
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took place with three invited speakers: Christy Chung
(Ngee Ann Polytechnic), Asmah Alias (National Heritage
Board) and Sheriden Newman (Soul Signature).
It covered a spectrum of possibilities on industry-based
learning; frameworks to build collaborative relationships
with industry partners; learning experiences from such
collaboration; and challenges in the process and industry
expectations. Students from 3D Design; Dance; Design
and Media; and Theatre presented insights from their
experience in industry attachments. Breakout sessions
then enabled lecturers and students to explore ways to
better arrive at enhanced learning outcomes, for future
industry-based placements.

eFiesta 2017

The second occurrence of NAFA’s
eFiesta took place at the Kwan Im
Thong Hood Cho Temple Library from
16 to 20 October 2017. The focus for Photo credit: Resorts World Sentosa
this eFiesta centered on raising
awareness of Technology, Pedagogy
and Content Knowledge (TPACK)
in the arts, and to use new media
to inspire new ideas in learning.
Chaired by Senior Lecturer and
Programme Leader of Learning
Enhancement, Grace Leong,
the week-long event included
National Institute of Education’s
Associate Professor Gwendoline
Quek delivering a keynote address
on Information and Communications
Technology (ICT), in modernising
art teaching and education. Other
invited external speakers included
Dr Daniela Plewe (National University
of Singapore), Mark Papayoanou
(Republic Polytechnic) and Associate
Professor Joyce Koh Hwee Ling
(National Institute of Education). Halloween Horror Night 7
Blended learning projects from all
three academic schools were also
showcased at the Library. For the fourth year in a row, our students collaborated with
Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) to design a scare zone for
Halloween Horror Night 7 (HHN7). The project began in
iLEARN@NAFA January 2017 with a workshop conducted for our Year 2
3D Design’s Diploma in Design (Interior and Exhibition)
students by RWS’ artistic directors. Our students then
In August 2017, NAFA launched a new Learning created a proposal, which they presented to the HHN7
Management System (LMS) i LEARN@NAFA, serving a board. The final design was showcased, at HHN7 at RWS,
total of 700 faculty and 4580 student users. This move to a from 29 September to 29 October 2017, with one lucky
cloud-hosted environment took place 14 years after being student earning an internship with RWS from May to
on a self-hosted LMS. With the new LMS, students are able July 2017.
to access educational resources and collaborate with peers
using their mobile devices. This intuitive system also enables Six Fine Art (painting) students also worked on one of the
lecturers to communicate with their students, manage Halloween Houses, using the selected theme of Gore Pop.
student learning and progress, and monitor participation. The students had to present their portfolios, attend a site HIGHLIGHTS
Professional development workshops have been designed to visit for environment study, and complete the collaborative
enable the faculty to jump-start the adoption process. project within a day.

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