This special seminar is open to all staff and students. Students who have been involved in experiential learning or who are interested are most welcome.
Panelists:
Mr. John Lin, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture
Mr. Peter K.K. Lee, Honorary Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Professor Bennett Yim, Professor, School of Business
Date: 25 Apr, 2012 (Wed)
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
This hands-on series of workshops is intended to guide CC teachers and tutors in the use of the recently distributed Common Core marking rubrics. Participants will receive sample student work prior to the session, and the appropriate marking rubric. At the workshop participants will be invited to share their decisions in relation to the grading but more importantly to share the thinking behind the decision. In doing so we will explore individual understanding of ‘what counts’ in terms of the prescribed criteria and standard of performance.
Focus on essays
22 Mar 2012 (Thu)
Focus on reflective journals
29 Mar 2012 (Thu)
Focus on oral presentations
12 Apr 2012 (Thu) Cancelled
At the June 2011 meeting, Senate resolved that as part of the implementation of the university e-learning strategy, an e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU) be set up under the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL). I am very pleased to announce that EPSU is now in operation under the directorship of Dr. Iain Doherty, who joined the University on January 16, 2012.
The mission of the Unit is to support the University in achieving its strategic e-learning goals as set out in the 2011 “e-learning Strategy and Implementation” document (available from the website below). The Unit provides and co-ordinates e-learning pedagogical support to Faculties, monitors and evaluates e-learning initiatives, disseminates good practices and innovations in e-learning, and conducts research into educational technologies to ensure that the work of EPSU is informed by up-to-date knowledge and best practice. In addition, it will deliver a certificate course in instructional design and support faculty instructional designers.
To find out more about the EPSU, please go to http://epsu.cetl.hku.hk/. If you have any questions regarding e-learning support, please contact Dr. Iain Doherty, Director of EPSU, at idoherty@hku.hk.
Professor Amy B.M. Tsui
Acting Executive Director, Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
CETL Workshop: E-ngaging, E-ffective and E-fficient: Pedagogy with technology for large class teaching
Date: Jan 17, 2012 (Tue)
Time: 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Facilitator: Dr Cathy Gunn
It can be hard to distinguish the hype about new technologies from evidence of their educational merit. University teachers and senior managers need such evidence to inform decisions about what technologies to adopt, and when and why to use them to support good pedagogy in different teaching contexts. One stream of evidence shows how student learning in large classes is being transformed by creative, technology-dependent teaching strategies that can successfully engage each individual learner in the mass-scale and diverse contexts that are common in undergraduate classes.
Participants are invited to review a range of technology enabled teaching, learning and assessment strategies used in large classes, and to critique evidence that suggests they are becoming essential to engage learners, achieve high success rates and keep teaching workloads manageable in the current university context.
For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/workshop120117.
About the Facilitator:
Dr Cathy Gunn is currently Head of e-learning Group at the Centre for Academic Development, The University of Auckland. In her current role, Cathy leads and manages a multi-skilled professional elearning team in a central service unit that promotes the institutional strategic objective of excellence in teaching and learning.
CETL Seminar : Supporting curriculum renewal and innovation in a research-intensive university: challenges and opportunities
Date: Jan 19, 2012 (Thur)
Time: 12:45pm to 2pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Facilitator: Dr Cathy Gunn
This seminar outlines how a Capacity Development Framework – one of many theoretical models designed to manage strategic change – could keep a strategic curriculum renewal initiative on track in a large, research-intensive university, where a complex combination of external (government policy and international trends) and internal (institutional and individual) influences are present. The challenge of aligning institutional, Faculty and individual priorities and perspectives is acknowledged as significant in this context. The exceptional and timely opportunities created by a sector-wide curriculum renewal initiative in Hong Kong in 2012 are noted as powerful enabling factors. Evidence drawn from personal experience and published sources is offered to support the case presented.
For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar120119
For enquiries, please contact Mr William Yieu by email wyieu@hku.hk.
About the Facilitator:
Dr Cathy Gunn is currently Head of e-learning Group at the Centre for Academic Development, The University of Auckland. In her current role, Cathy leads and manages a multi-skilled professional elearning team in a central service unit that promotes the institutional strategic objective of excellence in teaching and learning.
Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU
Organized by
Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Date: 10 Jan 2012 (Tue)
Time: 9:15am-3:45pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
This one-day programme is a foundation programme in teaching and learning at the University of Hong Kong and is designed for teaching staff, regardless of previous teaching experience, who are new to teaching at HKU. The overall aim is to provide new staff with a better understanding of specific issues relating to teaching in Hong Kong and at HKU.
Some of the topics included:
The ‘Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU’ is a mandatory programme for all new academic and academic-related staff with full-time teaching responsibilities commencing on or after September 1, 2011, and should be taken within the first year of service. Please note there are no exemptions.
Early registration is encouraged as enrolment is limited. For course details and registrations, please refer to the following link: http://www.cetl.hku.hk/itl120110
Should you have any inquiries, please contact Ms. Eva Poon, CETL at 2859 8996 or email evapoon@hku.hk
Organized by
Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Date: 29, 30 Nov, 1 Dec 2011(Tue, Wed, Thu)
Venue: Rm 321, Run Run Shaw Building (29, 30 Nov)
Function Rooms A & B, Senior Common Room, 15/F, KK Leung Building (1 Dec)
Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm
This three-day ‘Advanced Teaching and Learning @ HKU’ programme is one of the foundation programmes in teaching and learning at the University of Hong Kong. The programme is designed for teaching staff who are new to teaching at HKU as well as for existing staff who are interested in curriculum renewal. The overall aim of this programme is to provide staff with an opportunity for in-depth application of the principles and concepts of scholarly, evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning. This programme builds on the one-day ‘Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU’.
During this programme, participants will engage in interactive activities which provide them with knowledge and strategies in curriculum design that align with the educational aims of HKU and the 4-year undergraduate curriculum reform. Each of the HKU educational aims is associated with specific institutional learning outcomes. This programme will help you to consider your course learning outcomes, your faculty/programme learning outcomes and their relationship to the HKU educational aims.
The ‘Advanced Teaching and Learning @ HKU’ is a mandatory programme for all new academic and academic-related staff with full-time teaching responsibilities commencing on or after September 1, 2011, and should be taken within the first two years of service.
Early registration is encouraged as enrolment is limited. For course details and registrations, please refer to the following link: http://www.cetl.hku.hk/atl1111
Future sessions are scheduled as follows:
Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU-Jan 10, 2012
Advanced Teaching and Learning @ HKU-Jun 5, 6, 7, 2012
Should you have any inquiries, please contact Ms. Eva Poon, CETL at 2859 8996 or email evapoon@hku.hk.
Jointly organized by:
Steering Committee on 4-Year Undergraduate Curriculum
Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Speaker: Mr Simon Kemp, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton
Date: Mon 24 Oct 2011
Time: 12:30pm – 2:15pm
Venue: LG-06, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong
Synopsis:
Integrating employability into the curriculum through experiential learning is an agenda of growing international importance for universities. Curriculum reform offers many opportunities for innovative solutions to address this issue.
This presentation will explore the benefits of experiential learning through a number of case study examples of teaching and assessment innovation, student engagement, volunteering, employer engagement and campus greening. A postgraduate module in Environmental Management Systems (EMS) at the University of Southampton will be used as one of the examples to demonstrate the multitudinal benefits that can occur from integrating employability through innovative experiential teaching and assessment methods. The difficulties in embedding experiential learning into the curriculum will be highlighted. It will conclude with a discussion of the potential benefits for students, universities, employers, and society from linking experiential learning with sustainable development activities.
About the Speaker:
Mr Simon Kemp is the Director of Employability and Employer Engagement, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton where he has worked since 1996. He has been recognised as an innovator in pedagogical theory and case study practice through the award of a National Teaching Fellowship from the UK’s Higher Education Academy. His teaching and research interests lie in Environmental Management Systems (EMS), Carbon Footprinting, Environmental Law, Waste Management, and Education for Sustainable Development. He has coordinated over a hundred sustainability projects with industrial partners for teaching and assessment projects in sectors such as construction and demolition, retail, freight handling, energy, waste, and health care taking some to ISO14001:2004. One of his main current projects is leading the University of Southampton in a national ‘Green Academy’ project to embed sustainability across the institution.
This workshop is a follow-up for staff who have begun to develop their Teaching Excellence Award Scheme application. Workshop participants will be expected to bring drafts of their application for discussion and further development. Participants should bring to the workshops any progress made so far on their application.
Date: 28 Sep, 2011 (Wed)
Time: 12:30pm – 1:45pm
Venue: Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU
Please visit http://www.cetl.hku.hk/teas110928 for more information.
Teachers are invited to join the one-day programme ‘Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU’, organized by CETL which is being offered twice on September 15 and September 21, 2011, from 9:45 am to 4:00 pm.
This one-day programme is a foundation programme in teaching and learning at the University of Hong Kong and is designed for teaching staff, regardless of previous teaching experience, who are new to teaching at HKU. The overall aim is to provide new staff with a better understanding of specific issues relating to teaching in Hong Kong and at HKU.
Some of the topics include:
-HK and HKU education system, e.g. 4-year curriculum reform, common core curriculum, academic advising.
-Assessment policy
-Strategic direction of e-learning at HKU
-Students: their demography, culture, expectations and transition to university
-English as the medium of instruction, policy and implications
-Teaching related opportunities such as Teaching Development Grants and Teaching Awards
-Different teaching and learning evaluation in HKU and how to enhance student learning
The ‘Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU’ is a mandatory programme for all new academic and academic-related staff with full-time teaching responsibilities commencing on or after September 1, 2011, and should be taken within the first year of service and there are no exemptions.
For course details and online registration, please refer to the following link: http://www.cetl.hku.hk/itl110915
Should you have any inquiries, please contact Ms. Eva Poon, CETL at 2859 8996 or email evapoon@hku.hk.