This post was updated April 9 at 9:19 p.m. I am used to feeling like an audience member in my professors’ lectures. Their passion for their research usually plays like a live YouTube video essay.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polytechnics are transforming lecture halls into production studios and social spaces for students. (PHOTOS: TEMASEK POLYTECHNIC, ...