Creative Commons is a licensing system that gives authors a way to share their works within certain guidelines. Educators can use such works for lecture materials, or websites, as long as it is properly attributed.

Preetam Rai from the Teaching and Learning Centre gives us an overview of how to cite works released under Creative Commons.

Materials engineering is normally seen by students as a dry subject that is difficult to learn.

Lim Choon Boo gives us an outline of an innovative approach to the teaching of materials engineering that includes experiential learning, mind maps, inventing a product and videos.

Virtual Worlds are becoming very popular as places to collaborate, build and learn.

Preetam Rai gives us some insights into why he became interested in virtual worlds and how they are being used by companies, educational institutions and individuals to communicate and learn.

Preetam Rai outlines two pilot projects that used Second Life at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

The first involved the students from the Diploma in Aerospace Technology (where they built aircraft and related objects) and the second involved students from the Real Estate Business diploma (who collaborated online to create virtual buildings).