The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has been working on a series of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) named “HKUx” since joining edX, the non-profit online education platform founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University.
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Message from University Libraries
Training session: BankScope and ORIANA
BankScope contains detailed financial information for up to 31,000 public and private banks worldwide. Each bank report contains a detailed balance sheet, income statement and interim reports with up to 16 years of information. It also provides ratings, news and detailed ownership information and bank structures.
ORIANA is a comprehensive database of around 12 million public and private companies across the Asia-Pacific region. It combines data from numerous resources. The financial information is in a standardized format for cross-border analysis.
Interested users should register here.
For enquiries, please contact Information Services Division at libis@hku.hk.
Information Services Division
HKU Libraries
Message from University Libraries
Main Library & Yu Chun Keung Medical Library Extended Opening Hours,
1-26 May 2014
The Main Library and Medical Library will extend the opening hours for the coming Revision Week & Assessment Period from 1-26 May 2014:
Main Library:
Daily: 8:30am – 6am of the following day
(except Special Collections, AV & Reserve Collection, and Level 3 Collaboration Zone)
Medical Library:
Monday – Friday: 8:15am – 6am of the following day
Saturday: 8:30am – 6am of the following day
Sundays & Public Holidays: 10am – 6am of the following day
All service counters will be closed outside the normal operating hours. In order to thoroughly clean the library, all users and their possessions must be cleared by 6 am each morning. Items not removed from each desk will be removed by staff on duty and can be collected at
Main Library:
After 9 am (10 am on Sundays & Public Holidays) at the Lending Services Division on the G/F;
Yu Chun Keung Medical Library:
After 10 am at the Circulation Counter.
During the extended opening hours, contract security guards will be stationed in these two libraries to provide basic security services. When the circulation counters are closed, users can check out/in books using the self-check stations (G/F and 4/F in Main Library, and one in Medical Library). While there is no counter service, all public computers, printers and copiers will be available but no refill of printing paper will be provided.
For enquiry, please call 2859-2203 or 2241-5945.
Best wishes
Peter Sidorko
University Librarian
Message from Faculty of Education
CITE & Faculty of Education Joint Methodology Workshop –
About the Workshop
As social creatures, our online lives just like our offline lives are intertwined with others within a wide variety of social networks. Each retweet on Twitter, comment on a blog or link to a Youtube video explicitly or implicitly connects one online participant to another and contributes to the formation of various information and social networks. Once discovered, these networks can provide researchers with an effective mechanism for identifying and studying collaborative processes within any online community. However, collecting information about online networks using traditional methods such as surveys can be very time consuming and expensive. This workshop will explore automated ways to discover and analyze various communication networks from social media data.
Please register at
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=516&category=cite
CITE & Faculty of Education Joint Seminar –
About the Seminar
In just a short period of time, social media have altered many aspects of our daily lives, from how we form and maintain social relationships to how we discover, access and share information online. Now social media are also beginning to affect how we teach and learn in this increasingly interconnected and information-rich world. The use of social media has been growing in academic settings, with some surveys reporting adoption rates as high as 80% among university classrooms. However, the question remains, how do educators and learners know that their particular use of social media is beneficial to their teaching or learning? The objectives of this lecture is (1) to demonstrate the affordances and potential roles of social media in learning, as well as (2) to provide methods and measures that help researchers and educators evaluate the use of social media for teaching and learning based on automated analyses of social media texts and networks.
Please register at
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=515&category=seminar
About the Speaker
Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Management at the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. He is also the Director of the Social Media Lab, a member of the Institute for Big Data Analytics at Dalhousie University and a co-editor of a new, multidisciplinary journal on Big Data and Society published by Sage.This year, Dr. Gruzd is co-organizing the 2014 Social Media & Society Conference and co-editing a special issue on Measuring Influence in Social Media for American Behavioral Scientist. The broad aim of Dr. Gruzd’s various research initiatives is to provide decision makers with additional knowledge and insights into the behaviours and relationships of online network members, and to understand how these interpersonal connections influence our personal choices and actions.His research and commentaries have been reported across Canada and internationally in various mass media outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, Nature.com, The Atlantic, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and The Canadian Press.