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Swee Liang also believes in encouraging students to take plethora of educational technology offerings a more

greater ownership of their learning. Students have the targeted and strategic endeavour.
option of generating progress reports that identify areas
for additional reinforcement, enabling them to self- Swee Liang has explored both developing teaching tools
evaluate their progress. in-house from scratch, and utilising existing third-party
resources. She noted, “Creating digital resources from
Some considerations for innovation scratch allows you to innovate and align content and
assessment to the learning outcomes in the course.
When prompted for her advice for instructors thinking of Adopting third-party resources allows you to leverage on
adopting similar technology innovations, Swee Liang advances in technology and learning theories embedded
suggested looking to students' pain points to determine in the system.” The educational technology industry is at
where to target their efforts. These could be gleaned a stage where there are tools that provide viable support
from observing students’ reactions, listening to their for practically every learning purpose, or where one can
feedback and diagnosing the way they apply lesson be customised and developed relatively easily for more
concepts to a given problem or situation. Having the pain specific needs.
points in mind makes exploring the potentially confusing

With such technological richness to choose from, and support readily available from CTE, educators need only
tap into and lead with their natural curiosity to open up unexpected doors of teaching possibilities. In Swee
Liang’s words, “Be curious on how to solve students’ pain points and they will benefit from your innovation.”