Nadya Shaznay Patel

Assistant Professor (Education; Language, communication and culture; Psychology)

Singapore

Dr Nadya Patel has twenty years of teaching and workshop facilitation experiences. She leads a faculty community of practice for critical thinking in the disciplines, and teaches interdisciplinary courses on critical thinking and communication skills, and critical-design thinking in design innovation. Previously, she taught engineering leadership, community leadership, critical thinking and writing, and English for academic purposes in NUS. She conducts professional development workshops for faculty on pedagogical and instructional approaches to improve teaching and learning practices. For professionals and executives, she conducts consultancy training on business communication, empathetic leadership communication and effective professional communication. Her applied research interests include dialogic scaffolding, critical-design thinking skills, multimodality in instruction, and human-centric approaches for business innovations.

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Establishing Social Presence for an Engaging Online Teaching and Learning Experience
Development of Criticality in Thought: A Conceptual Framework for Online Student Discussion Forums in Higher Education
Making Critical Thinking Explicit and Visible with Dialogic Scaffolding
Understanding Critical Thinking: A Minimal English Approach
Assessing student CT skills in the disciplines: Partnering students in designing online quizzes for applied learning
Is it graded? Using online discussion forums to develop criticality in thought

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