CETL Seminar: Complementary Expertise: using multi-disciplinary collaborations to research pedagogy in higher education

Dr Andrys Onsman@HKU
Abstract
Academics in all the world’s higher education institutions are facing the twin pressures of researching and teaching but nowhere is that more evident than in the research intensive universities. One way to “kill two birds with one stone” is to do serious and publishable research about your own practice as a researcher who is passionate about teaching. By collaborating with a teacher who is passionate about researching, the best of both worlds can be brought to the table. Discipline-based education journals are slowly inching up the ranking tables – which is a win-win situation for both parties. This seminar draws on personal experience for examples of how such collaborations can be brought to successful conclusions.

Date    : June 5, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time    : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue   : Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building
Speaker : Dr Andrys Onsman

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar130605.

For enquiries, please contact Mr William Yieu by email wyieu@hkucc.hku.hk .

Please click on the following link for a short biography of Dr Onsman:
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/Dr_Andrys_Onsman.pdf

CETL Seminar: Assessment of learning, for learning, and as learning: new strategies, practices and ideas

Abstract
Assessment tasks are increasingly moving towards incorporating a teaching strategy. Although the formative and summative aspects of assessment are still very powerful and useful constructs, the function of encouraging students to acquire knowledge and skills as they complete an assessment task is also gaining traction. From the simple idea of allowing students to change MCQ responses in the light of answers given to later questions (and tracking those changes), to encouraging students to make deliberate mistakes in order to learn, assessment tasks are increasingly designed to allow students to gain new insights rather than simply be records of achievement. How is this expansion of assessment purpose made manifest in environments where there are increasingly larger class sizes, increasingly more demands on the time of the academic, and increasingly longer (and more transparent) institutional compliance check lists? Where can we find world’s best practice? How can we incorporate it in our own teaching?

Date : June 3, 2013 (Monday)
Time : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue : Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Speaker : Dr Andrys Onsman

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar130603.