Message from Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education
You are cordially invited to attend the following seminar organized by the Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education (IMHSE):
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm (Sandwiched will be provided)
Venue: LG1/F, Room LLG-S5, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building
Speaker
Mr Wojtek Dolkowsk, co-founder and CEO, MEDtube online platform (http://medtube.net)
Abstract
Background
Medical education differs from education in other fields. It is more regulated, vulnerable and has not changed too much over ages. It is more traditional and based on books, printed journals, lectures plus typically provided by more conservative teachers. Nowadays the multitude of technologies and availability of new formats as well as the need for improving efficiency are challenging the traditional education system. In 2010 two surgeons from Poland initiated the MEDtube project to improve physician education and communication between professionals globally.
Results
MEDtube platform was launched in mid-2011 and grew to the position of the largest video-centric social network for healthcare professionals worldwide. From the very beginning its founders shared the same philosophy and values. MEDtube ment to be open and for free (after registration) in opposition to traditional sources like expensive journals, books, programs (often unavailable, especially in poor countries). It was possible because MEDtube is based on user-generated content. Open Access is becoming essential to stimulate innovation and eliminate barriers that are blocking (or slowing down) improvement. There is a lot of room and need for new communication tools in healthcare. Aspirations of MEDtube founders are high – to be the largest platform for education and communication of professionals, recognized on all continents. The ambition is to revolutionize the way education is provided and communication between healthcare professionals is happening. There are over 13,000 videos available in all medical specialties (surgical videos, patient examination, lectures, animations, cases, webinars), all peer-reviewed. The MEDtube audience is exceeding 120,000 professionals each month.
Conclusions
Medical education needs to adapt to the changing environment as well as growing expectations of new generations of learners. MEDtube aspires to participate and to foster this evolution. In order to improve medical education and facilitate professional communication MEDtube needs allies – leaders all over the world who understand and share the same views.
Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education
CITE Seminar Series 2013/2014
CITE seminar – Tsunami of Educational Technology: Riding the wave
Date: 10 October 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Sangil Yoon (Sang), Stanford Graduate School of Business
About the Seminar
President John Hennessy of Stanford has warned that a tsunami of educational technology could change the landscape and role of American universities. With Stanford launching new MOOC platforms (i.e., Coursera, Udacity, NovoEd, OpenEdX) and offering dozens of free open online courses, the Stanford Graduate School of Businesses (GSB) decided not to stay on the sidelines of what many are calling a learning revolution. Two years ago, the GSB’s Academic Technology Services (ATS) group began its transformation of capabilities and capacities under the Technology in Pedagogy initiative. In this seminar, Sangil Yoon (Sang), who leads ATS, will discuss the group’s journey in developing the team, technologies, and facilities that have enabled the School to offer a variety of new programs (i.e., MOOCs, flipped classes, online custom and open certificate programs, executive education through HD video conferencing).
About the Speaker
Sangil Yoon (Sang) is the Associate Director of the Academic Technology Services group at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Reporting to the GSB’s CIO and Associate Dean, Sang is responsible for leading the 20 person Instructional Design & Technology, Research Analytics, and Media Services & Classroom Technology Services teams.
Sang has extensive experience with e-learning and systems management in higher education. He holds three degrees from Indiana University – Bloomington: a B.S. in Business Operations Management and International Business, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology. Sang’s research and recent teaching centers on emerging e-learning delivery models, including MOOCs, blended courses, and distance education via HD video conferencing. Previously, Sang served as the Office of Online Education’s Instructional Design Coordinator at UNLV. In this position, he managed a portfolio of 300 plus online courses and a professional development program for faculty and staff.
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:
Chi Wah Learning Commons is a campus hub for student-centered learning activities. It is for use by HKU staff and students only, and NOT open to the public.
During the summer holiday, a project to install automated access gates at all entrances to Learning Commons was undertaken. The gates will not only help us to monitor usage of the Learning Commons, but also enable us to collect better information helping us to plan for future needs.
We will activate the gates on opening the Learning Commons on the morning of September 30th, 2013 (Monday) and from that time you will need your staff card or student card to access the facility.
Please note that any visitors to the Chi Wah Learning Commons will need to arrange their visit with the Learning Environment Services Team in advance at ithelp@hku.hk.
If you experience any difficulties, both Learning Environment Services and Security Staff will be on hand at each of the entrances to provide you with help and assistance.
Learning Environment Services
Information Technology Services
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
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
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:
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
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.
This seminar discusses rationales and approaches for using learning technologies on campus to engineer an engaged student experience. It begins by exploring contemporary forces shaping campus-based higher education, looking in particular at the influence of learning technologies. I then unpack the concept of student engagement, drawing on theories and findings from a decade of large-scale research in Australia and abroad. I conclude with suggestions for how academic and support staff can use learning technologies to enhance students’ engagement in campus-based higher education.
Date: Sept 24, 2013 (Tue)
Time: 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue: Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building
Speaker: Dr Hamish Coates
ITS is pleased to organize Moodle and Panopto training courses for you to familiarize with our e-learning services available at HKU.
Moodle is the centrally managed Learning Management System (LMS) supporting e-Courses.
Panopto is the centrally supported lecture capture solution in HKU. It supports recording of audio and video input of your Windows/Macintosh laptop, synchronized with Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and desktop screencast.
Please register by clicking the “Register” hyperlinks below. The number of seats is limited. After successful registration, if you cannot attend, please cancel the registration to release the reserved seat for other colleague. Thank you.
OLB-135 = Room 135, Old Library Building
RRS-201 = Room 201, Run Run Shaw Building
CPD-1.21, Central Podium (CPD), Centennial Campus
If you have taken a Moodle hands-oncourse offered by the ITS, we recommend you follow up with an e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU) workshop and/or a Faculty of Education/ Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) seminar.
The EPSU of the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) offers pedagogically focused e-learning workshops, which leverage the central Moodle platform to enable good teaching practices. These workshops focus on teaching approaches and good teaching practices, complement the Moodle courses offered by the ITS and the Moodle seminars offered by the Faculty of Education/CITE, which tend to focus on innovative teaching practice using the new features available in Moodle.
In order to provide new University staff with useful information about the wide range of services offered by Information Technology Services (ITS), we will have a series of orientation activities running between late August and mid September:
ITS Orientation Seminars
ITS Orientation Trails
Exhibition Booths
1. ITS Orientation Seminars
New colleagues are encouraged to join an ITS Orientation seminar on one of the following dates:
August 29, 2013 (Thu) 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
August 30, 2013 (Fri) 10:30 am – 12:45 pm
September 4, 2013 (Wed) 2:30 pm – 4:35 pm
Each seminar will include a one-hour “Introduction to Information Technology Services (ITS)” which gives an overview of the comprehensive range of central IT and network services offered by ITS. In addition to the introductory session, a short presentation will also be given by Dr Iain Doherty about the role of the EPSU in supporting teachers who want to innovate in their courses through the use of e-learning. Colleagues can also attend the 3 parallel sessions through which we will introduce:
– Moodle Learning Management System
– Panopto Lecture Capture System
– Research supporting environment and High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities
In addition to the Orientation seminar, Orientation Trails will also be arranged during the first week of the semester (September 2-6, 2013) at the Learning Commons and centrally timetabled classrooms. The trails will familiarize new University members with the University’s learning environments and give practical demonstrations on the use of the IT/AV facilities. Classroom facilities at the Centennial Campus and Main Campus will be introduced during the orientation trails for staff.
Chi Wah Learning Commons at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm on September 2-6, 2013 (Assembly point: Main Entrance, Ground Floor by the water feature)
The Oval on 1/F, Knowles Building at 2:30 pm on September 2-6, 2013 (Assembly point: Ground Floor reception area, Knowles Building)
Just walk-in and no registration is required for joining the trails.
3. Exhibition Booths
A joint exhibition together with the University Libraries will be held in the first two weeks of the first semester.
During the exhibition, there will be display boards showing the core IT services, in particular the support for teaching and learning, and research, in the University. Staff will be there during designated timeslots to answer questions.
Details of the exhibition are tabulated below:
G/F, Main Library, September 2 (12:00 noon) – September 9 (5:00 pm)
G/F, Chi Wah Learning Commons, September 2 (12:00 noon) – September 13 (5:00 pm)
All new University members are welcome to join the above orientation activities.
Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education
