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Joint Polytechnic Academy for Educators (JP-AcE)
Adult Education

Workshop: From Intuition to Insight: Making Sense of Data to Empower Thriving Learning Environments

25 July 2025

(In collaboration with IAL) Are our learners able to meet the learning outcomes? Who among them is struggling?

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By addressing these questions promptly, we can:

  • Identify content that learners find difficult to grasp.

  • Recognise and support students facing challenges.

While classroom observations provide intuitive insights, we now have an additional tool at our disposal. Guided by appropriate questions, we can design classroom activities that generate data for visualisation and analysis. We can then validate our observations with data and analyse student performance over time, enabling timely and more precise interventions.

We will experience the above with a hands-on exercise using PowerBI where we will create visualizations to help answer these questions. By the end of this introductory course, we will gain a deeper appreciation of how data can assist us in supporting our learners better.

Note:

To participate in the hands-on exercise, you will need to have MS Excel and PowerBI Desktop installed on your device. This exercise is optional, and a demonstration will be provided.

PowerBI Desktop can be downloaded for free from the following url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494&msockid=07a9dfdc779f66132448c9c976da6763 (opens in new tab)

Details:

  • Date: 25 July 2025 Friday

  • Time: 2.00pm – 5.30 pm

  • Venue: Experiment Room, Inlab Level 6, Institute for Adult Learning, 11 Eunos Road 8, Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore 408601. (Nearest lift lobby is Lobby B)

  • Workshop Facilitator: Mr Mike Wee

This image shows a profile photo of Mr Mike Wee and an infographic of his career history.A well rounded and dynamic IT professional, Mike Wee has more than 20 years of working experience in using, deploying, supporting and teaching Enterprise Systems. The companies he has worked for include BMW, Mercedes-Benz and HP. He is currently a full-time lecturer in the School of InfoComm Technology- Ngee Ann Polytechnic and teaches both full-time students (young adults) and part-time students (adult learners) the intricacies of enterprise systems, from ERP to CRM to Analytics, Data Visualisation, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. He is involved in the development and teaching of the following Diplomas, offered by Ngee Ann Polytechnic: Diploma in Data Science (pre-employment - PET) Specialist Diploma in Data Analytics (continuing education and training - CET) Specialist Diploma in Applied Generative AI (continuing education and training - CET) He also develops and teaches short data analytics courses to institutions like SMU and OCBC. In addition to being a lecturer, he is a also a Senior Education Specialist, with a special interest in promoting the use of EdTech in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Mike holds a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University and a Master of Education (MEd) from the University of Adelaide. He also holds a bachelor’s degree (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. Mike is certified in ACTA and is a certified Scrum Master. In his spare time, he builds and flies quadcopters and “enjoys” crashing them. Build-fly-crash-repair-repeat.