Evidence-Based Teaching for the 21st Century Classroom and Beyond

Dr. Kumaran Rajaram is a Senior Lecturer and Course Chair where he lectures, leads a team of senior instructors, responsible for the curriculum & learning design of management and leadership courses in the Leadership, Management and Organization Division at the Nanyang Business School. He earned his PhD with Distinction in Business and Management (majoring in Organizational Learning, Learning Culture and Science). As an acknowledgment for his quality performance, he was nominated for the 2012, 2013, 2014 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. As a research affiliate-fellow with Centre for Research and Development in Learning, he performs cutting-edge research in Organizational Science, Learning Analytics, Culture of Learning, Learning Culture and Internationalization of Business Higher Education. He is an expert, scholar-practitioner in business management, organizational science leadership, change management and a research scholar who specializes in learning analytics,organizational learning and development, management education, culture of learning and internationalization of higher education. He has received multiple competitive school, university and national level research grants and awards on topics related to pedagogical innovation and leadership competencies. He has published in management education, learning culture in multi-disciplinary context, learning analytics and internationalization of higher education. He was instrumental in transforming and implementing the flipped-classroom pedagogy, adopting problem-based and team-based learning in the course that he chairs. Dr Rajaram is also the inventor of various innovative learning interventions. Dr. Rajaram is the Founder and Executive Director of Research Lab for Learning Innovation and Culture of Learning. He was nominated for the Outstanding USQ Professional Alumnus 2012, 2013 and Outstanding USQ Academic & Research Alumnus 2014, 2015 and 2016. He was awarded the John Cheung Social Media Award 2016, NTU EdeX Grants 2016 & 2017 and MOE TRF Grant 2017.

• Chapter 1 – Transformation: 21st Century Teaching and Learning Competencies.- Chapter 2 –A blended, flipped classroom and team-based approach: Critical Thinking, Engaging and Collaborative Learners.- Chapter 3 –Authentic Learning Support Systems/interventions for Team-based and flipped classroom for collaborative learning and to assess real-time contributions and participations in class.- Chapter 4 – Social-psychological Intervention to develop Competency and Skills Development in Cognitive Empathy.- Chapter 5 – Student centric learning with Active and Experiential Activity based Learning.- Chapter 6 – Reflective peer review feedback for leadership ability development in students.- Chapter 7 – Online Learning, Learning through social media and e-platforms.- Chapter 8 – Concluding Thoughts on the 21st  Century Classroom and Humanistic Management Education as a treadle for a better society.