Dr Bina Rai
Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering, College of Design and Engineering,National University of Singapore (NUS)
Dr Bina Rai is a microbiologist, bio-engineer and an avid educator. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, NUS. She is the course lead for two technical electives, BN3402 - Bioanalytical Methods for Engineers and BN4701 - Serious Games for Health. She views herself as an educational innovator and instructional designer dedicated to bringing joy and play back into the classroom. Dr Rai has and will continue in her passionate pursuit to contribute to the advancement of science and engineering undergraduate teaching. Dr Rai actively teaches and conducts research about gamification, virtual reality simulations and serious games for education and healthcare applications, in collaboration with Serious Games Asia and SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Medical Simulation (SIMS). Aligned to her interest in scientific communication, she has published about her teaching efforts in various online platforms and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching (JALT). As a result of her continued efforts to enhance instruction, learning and assessment, Dr Rai was awarded the Tertiary Educator of the Year at Edutech (Asia) Awards in 2017 and won the Innovplus Award 2020, a competitive learning innovation grant challenge awarded by IAL and SUSS.
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