Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a research-intensive university with globally acknowledged strengths in science and engineering. The university has roots that go back to 1955 when Nanyang University was set up. Today, NTU has four colleges with 12 schools, and three autonomous entities, the National Institute of Education,  the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and the Earth Observatory of Singapore.

NTU provides a high-quality global education to more than 23,000 undergraduates and 10,000 graduate students. The student body includes top scholars and international olympiad medallists from the region and beyond.

Hailing from 72 countries, the university's 3,000-strong teaching and research staff bring dynamic international perspectives and years of solid industry experience.
Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
The Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) supports Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in the key functions of teaching, research and publication. We manage the edveNTUre (Blackboard) eLearning portal as well as provide a wide range of services for staff and faculty on a job request basis.

Our Mission
To advance the quality of educational development to significantly enhance student learning and professional teaching in the community. 

Our Vision
The Centre will be known as a provider of choice with a national and international reputation for leadership in advancing the development of blended learning in higher education.


Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching • Nanyang Technological University
76 Nanyang Drive, Level B1, Block N2.1, Singapore 637331
Tel +65 6790 5223 • Fax +65 6791 1846
1. Building an infrastructure for next generation learning
Next generation infrastructures are required to support learning continuity models where every student and educator are provided with the resources they need anytime, and anywhere using a range of access devices and internet connections. Topics of interest include cloud computing services, distance education and management systems, web accessibility, and issues on building such infrastructures for the 21st century learning models.
2. Learning resources & content management
Learners can avail to the huge amount of open educational resources and online learning materials from their institutional course-sites, but may not find them useful due to poor delivery and appropriate linkages of the resources to the learning outcomes. Educators tend to shy away from such (and free) resources as they are concerned about copyright and IP issues, and finds sharing of web content challenging. Share your views on the above issues and others related to the development and management of learning resources for community of educators and learners.
3. Emerging learning technologies & applications
What are the emerging technologies and applications that impact teaching and learning in your institution? How do we evaluate these solutions? New social media and collaboration sites offer tremendous opportunities to advance learning, but raises concerns about privacy and other challenging practices that may affect its potential for elearning implementations.
4. Empowering educators for online learning and assessment
Leveraging on technologies to improve learning and assessment of the learner leads to higher expectations of the teaching staff to be equally effective in the use of technologies to connect and facilitate learning. New teaching methods and models are developed to build the capacity for 21st century educators and towards more self-directed learning and collaborative learning strategies with Web 2.0 tools. This forum will also share on effective policies, staff incentive systems and strategic learning roadmaps for various staff groups.
5. Active Learning Designs and Activities
Good learning designs and development of appropriate learning activities are said to be effective for learning to occur. Researchers and educators have found that in order for high quality learning to be realised, the faculty is expected to constantly engage the learners through key performance tasks that build on their understanding of specific learning outcomes. Share your user experiences and thoughts on the use of Learning Activity Management Systems (LAMS) or similar tools that have achieved learning objectives.
6. Classroom Technologies
To accommodate a diversity of learning styles and teaching methods, changes in the physical learning environment are evolving with new classroom technologies and tools, such as classroom management, recorded lessons, clickers and virtual worlds. What are some effective classroom-of-the-future designs and implementations?
7. Mobile Learning & Mobile Social Networking
While we recognise the benefits of mobile computing devices and services, questions are often raised on how such ubiquitous technologies can add real value to the student learning experience. Social networking apps on smart- phones are also generating healthy debates on potentials and threats to m-learning implementations. Do you have similar issues and concerns to share? Or you may have a good story to tell about implementing mobile learning to your students.
8. Continuing e-Education & e-Training
Continuing education workshops and courses are offered to the alumni and public in institutions of higher learning and adult learner training institutes. Young learners are always on the move in their workplace and it is therefore not surprising to see more CET courses, seminars and workshops being put online. Topics for discussion include distance learning, blended learning, communication and collaboration tools, authentic assessments and e-Academy models.
9. Learning Environments
In the past decade, educational institutions have been using centralised learning environments and tools to support and manage traditional teaching and learning processes. With the advent of Web 2.0 and social media, educators are increasingly looking into virtual learning environments (VLEs) or course management systems that are more responsive to individual users. Personal learning environments (PLEs), mobile learning apps or VLEs with features that offer students greater control of their own learning and goal settings are portrayed as possible answers to this debate. What are your views on the current and future learning environments? Come and share about your issues, problems and solutions of using your institutional LMS for the young generation of learners.