Seminar: E-learning Strategy and Philosophy

Date: September 7, 2011 (Wednesday)

Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Venue: Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building

Facilitator: Dr. Iain Doherty, Director of the Learning Technology Unit, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland

In this seminar Dr Iain Doherty will discuss the necessity of taking an approach to technology use that presages good teaching and learning principles. From this perspective e-learning is ‘learning led and technology enabled’ and ‘e’ can be understood to refer to ‘enhancement’ rather than ‘electronic’. Dr Iain Doherty will also discuss the challenges of supporting teaching in a research-intensive university in which academics are time poor with positions defined in terms of the traditional triad of teaching, research and service. He will outline the strategies that he has implemented in order to work effectively with academics in a way that leads to sustainable e-learning development.

About the Facilitator: Dr. Iain Doherty is Director of the Learning Technology Unit, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. He has been responsible for establishing and managing a unit with the remit to meet the flexible and distance learning needs of a large and diverse Faculty. This process has included defining and articulating an e-learning vision for the Faculty in line with University and Faculty strategic goals.

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/workshop110907.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Eva Poon by email evapoon@hku.hk.

3-Day Orientation to Learning & Teaching

A three-day orientation workshop will be held on June 21 to 23, 2011 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm at Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building for professional staff who are either new or experienced in teaching at HKU. The overall aim of the workshop is to provide participants with both knowledge and strategies in developing skills in course design. The workshop will also help participants consider the relationship of their Faculty or programme learning outcomes to the University’s six educational aims. Upon completion of the full three days, participants will receive a certificate of attendance that can be used in the Performance Review Development process. For more details and online registration, please access http://www.cetl.hku.hk/orientation1106.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Eva Poon at evapoon@hku.hk.

Induction to Learning & Teaching

A one-day workshop on “Induction to Learning and Teaching at HKU” will be conducted on May 31, 2011 at Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building. This workshop, organized by the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), will focus on providing participants with knowledge, strategies and applied skills needed for teaching at the University level.

All new teaching staff members at HKU are expected to attend the workshop. Upon completion participants will receive a certificate of attendance that can be used for their teaching portfolios and the Performance Review Development process. For course details and online registration, please access http://www.cetl.hku.hk/induction110531.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Eva Poon at evapoon@hku.hk.

Assessment Workshop Series

The fifth of the Assessment Workshop Series will be held on May 11, 2011 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm at Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building. The title of this workshop is “Have Your Say: Current Assessment Issues – A Roundtable Discussion”. Dr Cecilia Chan from the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) will be facilitating this workshop, in which a panel of experts in the area of assessment will be brought together to discuss current assessment issues. The discussants are Dr David Carless, Mr Rick Glofcheski, Prof David Kember and Dr Bruce Macfarlane.

For more details, please click here.
For enquiries, please contact Ms Eva Poon at evapoon@hku.hk.

Grading Descriptors and Rubrics

The fourth of the Assessment Workshop Series will be held on May 4, 2011 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm at Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building. The focus of this workshop is on standards of assessment and grading assignments using rubrics. Professor Michael Prosser and Dr Cecilia Chan from the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) will be facilitating this workshop.

The issue of standards in assessment in higher education is a vexed one. How we maintain, enhance, justify and explain our standards, other than in a norm-referenced way, is one of growing international concern. With the curriculum reform in Hong Kong, universities in Hong Kong are now adopting an outcomes-based approach. This entails moving away from a mixture of norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment to a standards-based approach based upon grade descriptors. In this workshop, some of the background to the use of standards based assessment will be outlined and the meaning of standards based assessment will be discussed. Participants will also have the opportunity to draft their own grade descriptors and grading rubrics for their courses.

For registration, please click here.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Eva Poon at evapoon@hku.hk

Assessment Workshop

The third of the Assessment Workshop Series run by the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) was held on April 11, 2011. Professor Margaret Price, Director of the Assessment Standards Knowledge Exchange, Oxford Brookes University Business School, facilitated the highly interactive workshop. Participants were invited to discuss among themselves various issues relating to assessment, in particular, to standards based assessment. Ideas were exchanged on the difficulties involved in working with standards based assessment, and solutions were suggested to increase the assessment effectiveness.

Click here to access the presentation slides used at the workshop. (HKU Portal login required)

Click here to access resources at the HKU Assessment Resources Centre.

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Institutional Survey Reports System

The Institutional Survey Reports System will be launched on January 17, 2011 to serve as the online platform for Faculties to retrieve institutional survey results from the HKU Student Learning Experience Questionnaire (HKUSLEQ). This System will enable Faculties to retrieve survey results and generate reports at curriculum and programme levels. Standard report templates are also available for downloading scores for the scales and the individual items.

The System will be launched in two phases:

  • Phase 1 – January 17, 2011 – will enable access to the data of more recent surveys;
  • Phase 2 – February 28, 2011 – will enable access to the data of more distant surveys.

The System can be accessed by academic staff and those administrative staff who have been granted access rights. Please follow the path below.

HKU Portal -> MyUIS -> Teaching & Learning -> Institutional Survey Reports

Faculties are also welcome to contact Dr. Maggie Zhao of CETL at myzhao@hku.hk for support in interpreting and utilizing survey data, and Mr. David Tsang at davidtsang@cetl.hku.hk for technical support in using the System.

To download the User Manual, please click here.

Enhancing Learning Experiences in HE

The Enhancing Learning Experiences in Higher Education: International Conference will be held on December 2-3, 2010 at the University of Hong Kong. Hosted by the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, the conference aim is to provide a platform that brings all our partners and stakeholders together, including higher education educators, researchers and students, to exchange knowledge and experience; to appreciate contribution and share achievements; and to update current trends and future development of learning and teaching in higher education.

The main theme of the conference is Enhancing Learning Experiences in Higher Education. There are twelve sub-themes covering a wide range of topics such as First Year Experience, Experiential Learning, OBASL, Assessment, and so on. Dr. Gary Poole, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth and the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching andLearning at the University of British Columbia, and Professor Caroline Baillie, Chair of Engineering Education for the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia, will be the keynote speakers at the conference.

More information

Poster

Three-day Orientation Workshop

Orientation to University Learning and Teaching at HKU

Date: Dec 7, 8, 9, 2010 Tue, Wed, Thur
Time: 9:30am-4:00pm
Venue: Rm 321, Run Run Shaw Building

This workshop is recommended for all faculty whether new to HKU or experienced in teaching at HKU but interested in curriculum renewal and learning more about applying an outcomes-based approach to student learning (OBASL).

Past participant comments:

“I feel like I am leaving with my course started and the tools to finish it.” (Oct. 2008)

“I enjoyed the sharing of experiences with colleagues, working on my course goals and learned many new ideas that I will apply in my teaching.” (June 2009).

“The facilitators have done a superb job to make this workshop useful, inspiring and thought provoking. Well organized sessions, open discussion; this is a good course to understand the 2010 reform.” (October 2009)

Enrollment is limited and early registration is recommended. For course details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/orientation1012

Any enquiries, please contact Ms Eva Poon by phone 2859 8996 by email evapoon@hku.hk.