Category: CETL

e-learning News from EPSU – November 2013

Professional Learning Events

This month the EPSU is offering a workshop on Google Apps for Education (GAFE). GAFE provides students with a space where they can author work and collaborate with one another. GAFE also gives teachers a space to interact with their students. To find out more and to sign up for the workshop please visit http://epsu.cetl.hku.hk/6nov2013/. We are planning new workshops for this semester and would be happy to hear from you if you would like us to deliver a workshop within your Faculty. Contact Dr. Iain Doherty.

Massive Open Online Courses

Work continues on the development of three Massive Open Online Courses to be offered through the edX platform commencing Autumn 2014. The University will be hosting edX on Friday 15th November as edX provides training to staff from different institutions. EPSU staff will be attending the training and meeting with edX staff to discuss MOOC developments.

Moodle Enhancements

The e-learning Enhancement Task Force manages the process of making recommendations to ITS for Moodle enhancements. A report was submitted to ITS this month with recommendations to test eight new plugins including a plugin to take student attendance and a plugin to automatically notify students of important course information. If you have something that you want to see in Moodle contact Dr. Iain Doherty.

Panopto Upgraded to Version 4.4

Panopto system was successfully upgraded from version 4.3 to 4.4 on October 18. The new version brings new features and improved system performance and stability. For more details, please visit https://helpdesk.panopto.com/entries/24869427-Panopto-4-4-1-Change-Log

Panopto and Moodle Hands-on Training Courses

The ITS Panopto and Moodle hands-on training courses in November are now open for registration. Details can be found at http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=training/cc-schedule/Nov2013

CETL Workshop: Teaching Excellence Award Scheme Workshop

Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

Date: 14th November, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Abstract
This workshop is open to all teaching staff who are interested in finding out more about the Teaching Excellence Awards. Staff will be provided an overview of the award scheme, the key selection criteria and advice in preparing an evidence-based teaching portfolio. Staff who are thinking about applying in the next round are strongly encouraged to attend. Staff who are not sure, or would simply like to know more about the scheme, are most welcome.

For more information about the workshop and the award scheme, please contact Dr Cecilia Chan from CETL at 3917 8534 or email her at Cecilia.Chan@cetl.hku.hk.

For details and online registration, please go to:

http://www.cetl.hku.hk/workshop131114/

For information on registration, please contact Ms Ivy Lai by email at laichun2@hku.hk.

TEAS

EPSU Workshop: Google Apps in an Hour

Facilitator: Mr Nicky Ng, Instructional Designer, CETL
Date: 6th November, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Google provides a variety of free online applications that could be useful in teaching and learning. The workshop is designed for colleagues who are interested in using Google Apps as a tool for their teaching, research or for general productivity. The workshop presentation will cover:

1) How to create a Google account and access Google Drive
2) Google Documents, Google Presentation and Google Spreadsheet
3) How to get other apps from Google Market Place

The presentation will be followed by “hands on” time with support from EPSU staff. You can use this time to explore any of the features demonstrated in the first part of the workshop.

It is recommended that participants bring a laptop with the Chrome browser installed. Participants also need to register for a Google account before attending the workshop.

This workshop builds on the previous EPSU Google Apps for Education seminar. This time, more detail on Google Apps will be provided and there is time to gain practical experience.

For further details and to register online, please visit: http://www.cetl.hku.hk/workshop131106/.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Ivy Lai by email at laichun2@hku.hk.

EPSU Google Google Apps

CETL Seminar: Principles for Designing a Curriculum to Develop and Assure Student Learning Outcomes

Speaker: Associate Prof Romy Lawson (PhD), OLT National Teaching Fellow,
Director, Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, University of Wollongong, Australia
Date: 30 October, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Abstract

Quality in teaching and learning is a key issue in Higher Education in Australia. Therefore it is important for institutions to be able to make the expectations they have for their students explicit and then assure that these expectations have been achieved. The question is how do we ensure that these attributes get developed during degree programs and how can evidence that can lead to continuous improvement be captured. The initial focus to achieve this has to be reviewing the curriculum and assessment design to make sure a holistic, integrated, collaborative and maintainable approach is being adopted to foster these expectations throughout the program. This approach is a cultural change for some academics and so in conjunction with curriculum design, leadership strategies to support change must also be adopted. This work is funded as part of an Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching, National Teaching Fellowship.

About the speaker

Romy Lawson is the Director of Learning, Teaching & Curriculum at the University of Wollongong, having previously been the Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning at James Cook University and Teaching & Learning Coordinator at UTS Business School. Associate Professor Lawson has been actively involved in teaching and learning development in higher education for over 18 years in both the UK and Australia. Recently she led a National OLT Strategic Priority Project – Hunters & Gatherers: Strategies for Curriculum Mapping and Data Collection for Assurance of Learning. She has also been a team member for two other ALTC funded projects: Embedding Professionally Relevant Learning in Business Education; and Facilitating staff and student engagement with graduate attribute development, assessment and standards in Business Faculties. Her research has focused on constructive alignment in curriculum design; the effect of different assessment on student learning; curriculum mapping; leadership strategies for curriculum renewal; embedding professional learning in the curriculum; engaging staff and students with graduate attributes; and the impact of professional development on teaching.

ONLINE REGISTRATION

For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai , CETL
Phone: 3917 8996; Email: laichun2@hku.hk.

CETL Learning Outcomes

e-learning News from EPSU – October 2013

New Teachers Using Moodle

If you are new to HKU and are thinking about using Moodle in your teaching, please visit the EPSU website. EPSU provides a range of pedagogical support services for staff including one-on-one consultations, course development support and multimedia programming. Get in touch with Dr. Iain Doherty – if you would like to meet with us.

Save One Third of Your Marking Time

The University now has a license for GradeMark, an application that works in conjunction with Turnitin to provide a timesaving solution for marking & providing feedback to students. Details about the functions of GradeMark can be found on their website athttp://turnitin.com/en_us/features/grademark. GradeMark has now been implemented and the EPSU will be providing workshops on how to use GradeMark. If you would like us to provide tailored workshops for your Faculty / Department etc. please get in touch with Dr. Iain Doherty. Longer term GradeMark will be evaluated by the TDG team to gauge usefulness for colleagues along with students’ experiences.

Professional Learning Events

In September the EPSU presented a series of joint workshops with ITS to introduce new colleagues to Moodle. Over 70 colleagues joined the various workshops. The EPSU also delivered a lunchtime seminar to colleagues at the Centre for Applied English Studies with nearly 50 colleagues attending. We are planning new workshops for this semester and would be happy to hear from you if you would like us to deliver a workshop within your Faculty.

EPSU Project Work

EPSU continues to support teachers across the university with their teaching and technology needs. We have an exciting and diverse range of projects including producing interactive materials for students to learning Chinese, creating an online web platform for students to engage in problem based learning and creating a mobile platform to support students in experiential learning. If you think that we might be able to help with your technology needs get in touch withDr. Iain Doherty.

Have Your Say With Moodle

The University e-learning Enhancement Task Force (EETF) has continued to manage the process around requests to enhance Moodle so that the system meets the specific needs of Faculties. If you want to see changes to Moodle you can make a request by self-enrolling in the EETF Moodle Site. To self-enroll follow the following procedure:

Go to http://moodle.hku.hk
Click on “Courses” in the navigation menu on the left hand side of the page.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and type “elearning” in the search box.
The search results will include “EETF e-learning Enhancement Task Force [2012]“
Click on the course title.
You will be asked to log in to the HKU Portal.
You can then self-enroll in the course.

Panopto and Moodle Hands-on Training Courses

The newly introduced Panopto and Moodle hands-on training courses conducted by IT Services in October are now open for registration. Registration and details can be found at http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=training/cc-schedule/Oct2013

e-learning EPSU Moodle Panopto

CETL Seminar: Adding Realism to Professional Legal Education at the University of Hong Kong: Action, Reaction and Reflection

Abstract
Legal education in Asia has been undergoing significant changes to integrate experiential learning models aimed at enhancing learning environments to facilitate interactivity and realism. These have included law clinics, simulation and internships, while also taking advantage of information technology. With support from TDG and TEFS programmes, the speaker piloted a project to add realism to the vocational legal education in Hong Kong through HKU’s PGC in Laws programme (PCLL). Two ground-breaking initiatives, first of their kinds in Asia, were introduced and involved the Simulated Professional Learning Environment (SimPLE) and Standardized Clients (SCs). SimPLE introduced a simulation e-Learning platform for transactional learning, placing learners in a professional context simulating their future workplace that involved aggregates of transactions, multiple solution paths, distributed between tools, colleagues, resources, anticipated and unanticipated problems and individual constructions of knowledge and experience. In the Standardized Clients (SCs) initiative, people lay to the law discipline, but trained to present standardized scenarios to students, comment on and assess students’ communicative competence. The speaker will explain what prompted him to undertake the project, how these initiative were tried out at HKU’s PCLL, what students’ initial responses were and sketch out future plans.

Speaker: Mr Wilson Chow, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, HKU
Date: 9th October, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

About the Speaker
Mr Wilson Chow, Associate Professor, joined this University in 1995 as the first full-time local teacher in the Department of Professional Legal Education, Faculty of Law. Responsible for the curriculum reform and development in the HKU PCLL since 2001, he spearheaded all related reform proposals and reports over the years. As Head of the Department between 2005 and 2011, he has accumulated extensive, successful experience in team-leading to achieve major goals. Wilson has presented at various international conferences and co-authored a number of journal articles and book chapters on legal education reform.

For details and online registration, please go to:
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar20131009/

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For enquiries, please contact Ms Ivy Lai by email laichun2@hku.hk.

Law Education PCLL

CETL Workshop: Teaching Excellence Award Scheme Workshop

Organized by Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)

Date: 2 October, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

For more information about the workshop and the award scheme, please contact Dr. Cecilia Chan from CETL at 3917 8534 or email her at Cecilia.Chan@cetl.hku.hk

ONLINE REGISTRATION

For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai, CETL
Phone: 3917 8996; Email: laichun2@hku.hk.

TEAS

e-learning News from EPSU – September 2013

New Teachers Using Moodle

Save One Third of Your Marking Time

EPSU in conjunction with ITS and Library has been awarded a TDG to implement GradeMark. GradeMark works in combination with Turnitin to provide a timesaving solution for marking and providing feedback to students. Details about GradeMark can be found at http://turnitin.com/en_us/features/grademark. GradeMark will be implemented for Semester One 2013 and the EPSU will be providing workshops on how to use GradeMark. If you would like us to provide tailored workshops for your Faculty / Department etc. Please get in touch with Dr. Iain Doherty.

Professional Learning Events

The EPSU will be jointly presenting a series of Moodle workshops with ITS in September. This joint approach will provide staff with a technical (ITS) and pedagogical (EPSU) perspective on using Moodle in teaching and learning. Following on from a recent Google Apps for Education Seminar, the EPSU is responding to requests to conduct a “hands on” workshop on Google Apps for Education workshop. The workshop will be conducted in September.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Many of you will have seen the University announcement concerning The University of Hong Kong joining edX. The EPSU is currently working with three Professors to deliver MOOC courses commencing September 2014. This is an exciting time for HKU and an opportunity for the University to showcase its teaching to the world.

Have Your Say With Moodle

Go to http://moodle.hku.hk
Click on “Courses” in the navigation menu on the left hand side of the page.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and type “elearning” in the search box.
The search results will include “EETF e-learning Enhancement Task Force [2012]“
Click on the course title.
You will be asked to log in to the HKU Portal.
You can then self-enroll in the course.

New Moodle Features and Enhancements

Along with the Moodle upgrade is its new capability to automatically detect a user’s device type and render a suitable theme layout for viewing through the user’s smartphones or tablets via a browser. Turnitin plugin has also been updated to the newer release to achieve better integration with Moodle. Moreover, the following new features were added as well in the summer:

Course Content Block
Course Menu Block
Portfolio
Outcome
Upload file in Wiki
Allow theme changes in URL
DragMath
PDF submission
PDF feedback
Participation Map

Moodle Upgraded to Version 2.4.4

The University’s Moodle system was successfully upgraded to version 2.4.4 on 4 August 2013. The new version comes with a collection of system fixes and improvements over the previous version 2.3.1. The release note has more details: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.4.4_release_notes.

Panopto and Moodle Hands-on Training Courses for Staff

The newly introduced Panopto and Moodle hands-on training courses conducted by IT Services in Jul are now open for registration. Registration and details can be found at http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=training/cc-schedule/Sep2013

EPSU Moodle Panopto

EPSU Moodle Workshops: 11 – 13 Sep

ITS and the e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit are offering a series of 3 workshops on enhancing teaching and learning through the use of Moodle. The first part of each workshop will be presented by ITS and will cover the “how to” of the core Moodle features and techniques that will be featured in the pedagogically focused second part of the workshop. There will be time for hands on in the final part of each workshop. The workshops are as follows:

Moodle and Course Content. This workshop will cover uploading files and videos, presentational techniques and how to use Moodle Page and Book
Moodle for Supporting Student Learning. This workshop will cover the Moodle features Choice, Quiz, Lesson and Assignment
Moodle for Creating Interaction. This workshop will cover the Moodle features Forum, Glossary and Wiki

The workshops are scheduled to run for one and half hours will focus first on technology (half an hour) and then on pedagogy (half an hour). There will be time to get hands on with Moodle in the final half hour of each session.

Whilst the workshops have been designed to build on one another, it is not necessary to attend all three workshops.

Workshop	Date	Session A		Session B	Venue
Moodle and Course Content	11 Sept 2013 (Wednesday)	9:30 – 11:00am	or	11:30am – 1:00pm	Rm 201, Run Run Shaw
Moodle for Supporting Student Learning	12 Sept 2013 (Thursday)	9:30 – 11:00am	or	11:30am – 1:00pm	Rm 201, Run Run Shaw
Moodle for Creating Interaction	13 Sept 2013 (Friday)	9:30 – 11:00am	or	11:30am – 1:00pm	Rm 201, Run Run Shaw

Online Registration

For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai, CETL
Tel: 3917 8996
Email: laichun2@hku.hk

EPSU Moodle

CETL Workshop: Improving assessment to enhance the quality and productivity of higher education

This workshop helps participants explore how to improve assessment and the quality and productivity of higher education.

Date: Sept 23, 2013 (Mon)
Time: 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Facilitator: Dr Hamish Coates

To begin, I review underpinning contexts and concepts, then analyse two case studies that expose key methods and opportunities. To conclude this first portion of the workshop I present a model that institutions and academics can use to implement structured assessment partnerships.

Next, participants are invited to reflect broadly on how they would use the model to improve assessment, to identify the best single change they could make, and to detail what would be required to make this change work.

The workshop concludes by drawing together participants’ proposals, evaluating the value and feasibility of each, and drawing broader conclusions about how such effort can improve higher education.

Concluding remarks focus on work underway to impel change in this area, such as international transparency initiatives, the development of assessment resources and services, and building professional capacity and community.

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/workshop130923.

Assessment