From the Back Cover
This book serves as an essential intervention where the innovative, evidence based and contemporary teaching, learning approaches, strategies and learning support systems to be incorporated in the learning process are presented, supported with findings. It addresses the complex challenges and limitations in practice supported with evidence, hence providing possible approaches to address them. It also addresses an interesting scope of topics that are both contemporary and essential to almost all academics that have a high responsibility to nurture, develop, train and equip learners both at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels at the university with the relevant skills and competencies.
"The book combines a succinct review of business education, learning science and teaching theories and presents evidence-based yet pragmatic research insights and analysis related to teaching and learning scholarship" - Professor Bob Fox, Curriculum, Office of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education & Student Experience), University of New South Wales, Australia
"I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in contemporary and transformative ways of teaching and learning in higher education, especially in the current pandemic as well as post-pandemic age." - Professor Chee-Kit Looi, Professor of Education, National Institute of Education, and Co-Director, Centre of Research and Development in Learning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Kumaran Rajaram is a Senior Lecturer and Course Chair where he lectures, leads a team of senior instructors, responsible for the curriculum & learning design of management and leadership courses in the Leadership, Management and Organization Division at the Nanyang Business School. He earned his PhD with Distinction in Business and Management (majoring in Organizational Learning, Learning Culture and Science). As an acknowledgment for his quality performance, he was nominated for the 2012, 2013, 2014 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. As a research affiliate-fellow with Centre for Research and Development in Learning, he performs cutting-edge research in Organizational Science, Learning Analytics, Culture of Learning, Learning Culture and Internationalization of Business Higher Education. He is an expert, scholar-practitioner in business management, organizational science leadership, change management and a research scholar who specializes in learning analytics, organizational learning and development, management education, culture of learning and internationalization of higher education. He has received multiple competitive school, university and national level research grants and awards on topics related to pedagogical innovation and leadership competencies. He has published in management education, learning culture in multi-disciplinary context, learning analytics and internationalization of higher education. He was instrumental in transforming and implementing the flipped-classroom pedagogy, adopting problem-based and team-based learning in the course that he chairs. Dr Rajaram is also the inventor of various innovative learning interventions. Dr. Rajaram is the Founder and Executive Director of Research Lab for Learning Innovation and Culture of Learning. He was nominated for the Outstanding USQ Professional Alumnus 2012, 2013 and Outstanding USQ Academic & Research Alumnus 2014, 2015 and 2016. He was awarded the John Cheung Social Media Award 2016, NTU EdeX Grants 2016 & 2017 and MOE TRF Grant 2017.
