Tag: inclusivity

• English Pronunciation in a Global World MOOC Great Success

  

  I had posted earlier that our MOOC had completed its second run. We had such an amazing time organizing and running it. It presented us with such great learning opportunities. It gives me immense pleasure that our MOOC – this wonderful, empowering, educational miracle created by Dr. Laura Rupp has created an outstanding record by…

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  5 Jan 2020

  Academic, Awareness, diversity, Education, Online

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• Last Controversial? Day in Basel

  

  On our last day in Basel we decided to visit the Kunstmuseum. The museum boasts of the largest and most significant art collection in Switzerland. I can confirm that they indeed have a vast array of artworks, which needs much-much-much more than one day for viewing. The art pieces that stood out for me included…

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  5 Jan 2020

  Academic, Art, Audience, Awareness, Education, Photography, Read, Story, Travel

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• Planting the Seed of a Growth Mindset

  

  The core of our beliefs rest in two types of mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. In this post I will be putting forth some of my learnings on how to nurture the growth mindset. When I say “growth mindset” I mean the conviction that my passions, skills, talents, can be developed further.…

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  20 Feb 2019

  Academic, Apoorva, Art, Audience, Awareness, Books, diversity, Education, Gender, Read, Story, Travel

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• Field Notes on “Diversity sensitive education, the International Classroom and the Mixed Classroom” for Talent, Diversity and Internationalisation

  

  At the Vrije Universiteit (VU), the International Office along with the LEARN! Academy offers the “Mixed Classroom in Practice” – a cutting-edge workshop that provides a hands-on, bottom-up approach to pedagogical diversity training. I am one of the facilitators of this workshop.  I had worked on a project to explain why we use the term…

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  23 Nov 2018

  Academic, Audience, Awareness, diversity

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