Seminar: The Learning Management System: Adapt or Disappear – Nov 22

Speaker : Dr Iain Doherty, Director of EPSU, CETL
Date : November 22, 2012 (Thursday)
Time : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue : Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Abstract

The Learning Management System is coming under increasing criticism as a teaching and learning tool. In particular, critical voices talk about: content and interactions that are restricted to registered users, the lack of user control, the lack of user authoring tools and the prevalence of alternative applications and services that align much more readily with the ethos of a Web 2.0 era. In this seminar I will critically discuss the Learning Management System as a teaching and learning tool and ask what the Learning Management System has to offer in an age that defines our students as networked life–long learners.

About the speaker

Dr Iain Doherty is the Director of e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU), CETL.  He has over fifteen years of experience in the areas of education and technologies and was Director of the Learning Technology Unit, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland from 2004 -2011. He has a practice oriented research focus, has published extensively and remains “hands on” with technologies to ensure that his work is informed by a thorough working knowledge of technologies that might be used to enhance teaching and learning.

For details and online registration, please go to:

http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar121122/

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

Seminar: Enhancing teaching and learning through technology: from devices to people and processes – Nov 19

Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

Date : November 19, 2012 (Monday)
Time : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue : Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Speaker: Professor Grahame Bilbow

In October 2010, the National Union of Students in the UK published a report entitled Student Perspectives on Technology: demand, perceptions and training needs. This report described the potential for harnessing ICT to enhance university teaching and learning, and highlighted the changing demands and interests of students in relation to e-learning. Among other things, students were by no means convinced about the universal value of e-learning; nor were they convinced that their teachers had the skills to exploit the potential that did exist.

This seminar will explore the developing notions of digital visitors and digital residents and consider how these notions can improve our understanding of students and their learning styles, and teachers and their teaching styles. It will also suggest ways in which new technology is challenging some of our views about the nature of learning and teaching in universities.

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar121119.

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

Please click on the following link for a short biography of Professor Bilbow:
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/Prof_Grahame_Bilbow.pdf

Seminar: What is meant by Quality Teaching in Higher Education? – Nov 16

Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

Speaker: Professor Michael Prosser, Visiting Professor, CETL, HKU
Date: 16th November, 2012 (Friday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2 pm
Venue: Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building

Abstract
We often talk about quality teaching in higher education. We talk about quality assurance of teaching. We talk about how to evaluate quality teaching. We talk about how to support and develop quality teaching. We talk about how we can recognise and reward quality teaching. However, we rarely talk about what we mean by quality teaching. In this presentation, I wish to argue that quality teaching in higher education is teaching which affords high quality student learning. But what is high quality student learning in higher education and how can it be afforded? I will outline a model of teaching and learning, outline some of the research into the variation in the ways teachers approach their teaching in higher education, and show how this variation is related to the ways in which students approach their learning. I will conclude with a view on what constitute high quality teaching in higher education.

For details and online registration, please go to: http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar121116/

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

Workshop: Criteria, Standards and Judgement Practice: Making Assessment a Shared Enterprise – Nov 21

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

Speaker: Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith, Griffith University, Australia
Date: 21 Nov, 2012 (Wed)
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Abstract
This presentation will focus on the nature of quality assessment as it involves the use of criteria and standards. Of special interest is the pedagogic use of stated features of quality and how they can be incorporated into a dialogic approach to learning and teaching. Also considered will be the source of criteria and standards and how judgement can be understood as drawing on three categories of criteria namely stated criteria, latent criteria and meta-criteria. The ideas explored in the session have direct relevance to quality assurance methods and moderation practices involving the use of standards.

Biography
Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith is Dean (Academic) for Arts, Education and Law at Griffith University. Previously the Dean of the Faculty of Education, she has also been a sole or chief investigator on a significant number of ARC and government funded projects over the last decade. These have been primarily in the fields of literacy and assessment, with particular focus on teacher judgment, evaluative frameworks and the literacy-curriculum-assessment interface.

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

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Workshop: Assessment and feedback: encouraging expert-like behaviour among students – Nov 20

Date         : November 20, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time         : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue       : Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Facilitator : Professor Grahame Bilbow

Students’ reports on the assessment and feedback they experience at university suggest that practices vary considerably both within and across institutions. Despite the move in recent years towards the outcome-oriented curriculum and a greater level of integration of assessment within courses, it is still common for students to misunderstand the forms and purposes of the assessment and feedback they experience while at university.  It is also not uncommon for university teachers to use assessment and feedback in ways that confuse students, and in ways that do not align with curriculum outcomes.

Using research conducted in the teaching and learning of Physics, this workshop explores the trajectory from novice to expert, and considers ways in which assessment and feedback can be designed to elicit expert-like performance on the part of students.  In so doing, assessment and feedback can be better understood by students and assessment and feedback can demonstrate stronger alignment to curriculum outcomes.

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/workshop121120.

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

Please click on the following link for a short biography of Professor Bilbow:
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/Prof_Grahame_Bilbow.pdf

e-learning News – November 2012

From Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

For the full version of thE newsletter, go to:
http://epsu.cetl.hku.hk/elearning-news/.

e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit Services
The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU) exists to support Faculties with their e-learning needs. If you have an idea for a Faculty level workshop, please get in touch with Iain Doherty.

3 e-learning Workshop Series
Commencing 25th October the e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit is offering a series of 3 workshops which focus on practical ways to successfully incorporate technologies into teaching and learning. There is still time to register for workshops 2 and 3 by visiting here.

Local Moodle User Groups
The EPSU has been consulting with colleagues within Faculties to set up Faculty level Moodle User Groups (MUGs). .

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.

Get in Touch
Please feel free to get in touch directly with the e-learning Pedagogical Unit Director – Iain Doherty – with questions, issues, requests related to e-learning at HKU.

The Moodle Users Group
The Moodle Users Group meets most Thursdays at lunchtime for workshops on teaching practice using the Moodle LMS, including blended learning activity development.

e-learning seminars by the Faculty of Education and CITE
The Faculty of Education in conjunction with CITE hosts seminars by speakers on a range of e-learning topics, with a focus on innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning.

Release of new Moodle plugins and support block
Two new plugins were released on the Moodle production system in September:

  1. Quickmail – provides emailing capability within Moodle courses. It allows teachers (and optionally students) to email students or groups of students with attachments.
  2. Questionnaire – a survey-like type of activity. It enables teachers to create a wide range of questions to get student feedback e.g. on a course or on activities.

A “Moodle support” block has also been built and put on the homepage of every Moodle course. It contains the most frequently asked user support information.

Moodle Hands-on Training Courses for Staff
The Moodle hands-on training courses conducted by IT Services for November are now open for registration. The courses details can be found at here.

Conversation and Collaboration: Moodle for Common Core Tutors

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

Speaker: Mr. Darren Harbutt, Instructional Designer, CETL
Date: 6 Nov, 2012 (Tue)
Time: 12.45pm - 2.00pm
Venue:Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Abstract

The session will discuss current use of Moodle by CC Tutors and will present some Moodle functions focusing on collaboration and conversation, including forums and groups. Please bring along a laptop as there will be some hands-on time during the workshop.

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

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3e-learning Workshop Series

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

Date and Time:
Technology-assisted teaching and learning – 25 Oct, 2012 (Thu) 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Technology-enhanced teaching and learning – 1 Nov, 2012 (Thu) 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Technology-enriched teaching and learning – 8 Nov, 2012 (Thu) 12:45pm – 2:00pm

Venue:
Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Overview:

The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit is offering a series of 3 workshops which focus on practical ways to successfully incorporate technologies into teaching and learning. Based on the University’s e-learning Strategy, the workshops will cover the following areas:

  1. Technology-assisted teaching and learning: Using a range of Moodle features to add and display content in a functional and meaningful way, including the use of visuals and different types of media.
  2. Technology-enhanced teaching and learning: Defining different forms of learning and rethinking the classroom space.
  3. Technology-enriched teaching and learning: Presentations from colleagues at HKU who have made innovative use of Moodle.

The first two workshops are scheduled to run for 2 hours and will include presentation, discussion and hands-on time to put the theory into practice. The third workshop will showcase good practice from colleagues at HKU. Although the workshops are designed as a series, it is not necessary to attend all three workshops. Please bring a laptop to participate in the hands-on component.

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

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e-learning News – October 2012

From Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

For the full version of the October newsletter, go to:
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/elearning-pedagogical-support-unit/elearning-news/.

e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit Services
The e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU) exists to support Faculties with their e-learning needs. During August and September the EPSU ran Faculty level workshops for 6 out of the 10 Faculties.

New Staff Member
The EPSU is pleased to welcome Darren Harbutt to the EPSU team.

DOW – The Library Skills Tutorial on Moodle
With the collaborative effort of the e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit, Centre for Information Technology in Education and HKU Libraries, we are pleased to introduce DOW, the Library Skills Tutorial on Moodle.

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.

The Moodle Users Group
The Moodle Users Group meets most Thursdays at lunchtime for workshops on teaching practice using the Moodle LMS, including blended learning activity development. .

e-learning seminars by the Faculty of Education and CITE
The Faculty of Education in conjunction with CITE hosts seminars by speakers on a range of e-learning topics, with a focus on innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning.

Moodle Support Block
A Moodle support block is proposed to be established onto Moodle in early October.

Moodle Hands-on Training Courses for Staff
The Moodle hands-on training courses conducted by ITS in October 2012 are now open for registration.

Seminars and workshops on Moodle

Since September 2011, the e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit of CETL has been coordinating many Moodle skills-based, pedagogy-oriented, and staff development courses with various units (Computer Centre, LMS Working Group, CITE, Faculties and Departments). Check out the latest schedule below.

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