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Day 1
Day 2
22 September 2025 at 9:00 am — 22 September 2025 at 9:30 am
Registration and Morning Refreshments

Wee Cho Yaw Plaza - Auditorium (ABS-01-AUDI)

22 September 2025 at 9:30 am — 22 September 2025 at 9:45 am
Welcome Address

Prof Tan Ooi Kiang - Deputy Provost (Education)

Wee Cho Yaw Plaza - Auditorium (ABS-01-AUDI)

22 September 2025 at 9:45 am — 22 September 2025 at 10:45 am
Keynote - Productive Failure for Teaching & Learning

Professor Manu Kapur

Wee Cho Yaw Plaza - Auditorium (ABS-01-AUDI)

Abstract

If learning from failure is intuitively compelling, why do we wait for it to happen. Why don’t we intentionally design for it, and harness it for deep learning? In my talk, I will describe what Productive Failure is, how, when and why intentionally designing for failure in a safe way can lead to deep learning, and its implications for how we can design powerful learning environments for developing conceptual understanding, creativity, and transfer.

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Professor Manu Kapur
22 September 2025 at 10:45 am — 22 September 2025 at 11:00 am
Break
22 September 2025 at 11:00 am — 22 September 2025 at 12:00 pm
The Value of Education Research for Pedagogic Practice and Professional Development: A Panel Conversation

Moderator: Dr Sophia Tan - Head, Centre for Teaching, Learning & Pedagogy

Together with faculty members who have been awarded internal and external education grants:

  • Dr Hsieh Yi-Chin - Senior Lecturer, Language and Communication Centre, School of Humanities
  • Assoc Prof Andy Khong - Deputy Associate Provost (Student Life), President's Office
  • Dr Teo Chee Chong - Associate Chair (Students), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Assoc Prof Sreenivasulu Reddy Mogali - Associate Professor (Teaching), Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Wee Cho Yaw Plaza - Auditorium (ABS-01-AUDI)

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Professor Manu Kapur
22 September 2025 at 12:00 pm — 22 September 2025 at 1:30 pm
Lunch cum Book Signing
22 September 2025 at 1:30 pm — 22 September 2025 at 4:30 pm
Workshop - Designing for Productive Failure

Professor Manu Kapur 

Wee Cho Yaw Plaza - Seminar Room 9 (ABS-02-SR9)

Abstract

In this workshop, I will outline principles that go into the design of tasks, participation structures, and social surround necessary to implement Productive Failure. Participants will undergo a cycle of PF themselves to induct principles of PF from given cases, followed by a consolidation of the key design feature. In the second half, participants will work in groups to design a PF unit in their domains.

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Professor Manu Kapur
23 September 2025 at 9:00 am — 23 September 2025 at 9:30 am
Registration

Wee Cho Yaw Plaza - Seminar Room 9 (ABS-02-SR9)

23 September 2025 at 9:30 am — 23 September 2025 at 12:30 pm
Workshop - Designing for Productive Failure

Professor Manu Kapur 

Wee Cho Yaw Plaza - Seminar Room 9 (ABS-02-SR9)

Abstract

In this workshop, I will outline principles that go into the design of tasks, participation structures, and social surround necessary to implement Productive Failure. Participants will undergo a cycle of PF themselves to induct principles of PF from given cases, followed by a consolidation of the key design feature. In the second half, participants will work in groups to design a PF unit in their domains.

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Professor Manu Kapur
23 September 2025 at 12:30 pm — 23 September 2025 at 2:00 pm
Lunch cum Book Signing