I attended the Chinese New Year celebrations in Dickson (Canberra) in 2023 and noticed the high number of Western based people actually taking part in the celebrations – that is, the lion dancers, the people giving out red envelopes, the face painters and even some of the singers were mostly Western people. Plus, a large […]
Scenario-based learning (SBL) is an immersive training environment where learners are presented with simulated work challenges – and then based on their choices and decisions, they receive realistic feedback as they progress (and traverse) through the course. Unlike many e-courses, where learners passively absorb information by reading a text and taking a test afterward, in
The realisation hit me like a sudden, sweeping chord change on a worn vinyl record. It was early 2002. I was living in Hsinchu, Taiwan, working as an English teacher, spent from long days of lesson planning, correcting grammar, and managing classrooms full of noisy young children. Then, a piece of news drifted across my
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Hong Kong – 2014 There is a distinct, breathless geometry to living in Hong Kong, a city that forces you to recalibrate every instinctual boundary of personal space. Back home in Australia, space is an unconsidered luxury – rooms breathe, hallways stretch, and walls rarely press inward with the polite yet absolute persistence of a
Taipei – 2003 The morning light in Taipei did not merely dawn; it bruised the horizon, a slow, humid violet that eventually surrendered to the heavy, golden haze of a Sunday. I found myself sitting on the weathered stone steps of the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, a spectator to the quiet theatre of the city’s