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pain points, basically areas which students struggle with.” run economic growth and foreign exchange intervention.
The e-learning objects feature animated visuals, graphs,
She realised the approach of explaining the theoretical audio elements, as well as chunked bite-sized
concepts on the whiteboard, drawing graphs and writing explanations for students to revisit if they were still
formulae while speaking to the whiteboard, was not unclear. The concepts were chosen because of their
helping students to learn. That got her wondering about complex nature, as evident from the high concentration
how to better bridge technical theories with her industry of student questions in these areas over the years.
anecdotes. One idea she hit on was to use different Feedback from students about the e-learning objects was
modalities to make the theories come alive for students.
positive. Swee Liang shared that compared to previous
This eventually led to the development of two e-learning
objects for students in the Introductory Economics and
International Economics courses on the concepts of long
