HKU Horizons Experience Award 2024-25

HKU Horizons Experience Award

The University of Hong Kong is committed to being Asia’s Global University and to providing students with a ‘total learning experience’ combining both disciplinary specialization and broad-based engagement with current and global issues. Teaching and learning is underpinned by three pillars – internationalization, innovation and interdisciplinary – in order to achieve impact.

In support of internationalization, the University has launched the HKU Horizons endeavor, with the specific aims to promote and provide educationally meaningful and robust Mainland and international (ML/INT) learning experience for undergraduate students. Awards are being established to encourage students to reflect on and to share their ML/INT learning experience, with a view to promoting and publicizing the HKU Horizons endeavor. 

Details of the Award

  • The award shall be known as the HKU Horizons Experience Award.
  • The Award competition shall be held annually in January.
  • There shall be three awards – with a top prize of $10,000 and two further prizes of $5,000 to be awarded.
  • The Awards shall be made to undergraduate students who shall submit a video of not more than three minutes capturing and reflecting on their ML/INT learning experience. Submissions may be made on an individual or a group basis.
  • Selection shall be made on the basis of the substance and value of the learning experience captured and also the quality of the video presentation.
  • The winning videos, acknowledged as “HKU Horizons Experience”, may be used by the university for promotional purposes, both internal and external. The student producer, individual or group, will be acknowledged as appropriate. The videos may also be refined as appropriate and authorised by the Horizons Committee.
  • Any of the awards shall be withheld in any year in which submission(s) are judged to be of insufficient merit.

Administrative Arrangements

  • The HKU Horizons Committee, supported by Horizons Office, shall oversee the management of the Awards.
  • The Awards shall be administered by Horizons Office and awarded by a Selection Committee comprising:
    • Vice-President & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching & Learning) and his/her designate (Chairperson); and
    • two members from the Horizons Committee.
  • The regulations of the Award may be revised subject to review by the Horizons Committee to meet future circumstances.

2024-25 Round

  • The 2024-25 Round of competition will be open from  February 1 – 28, 2025. Undergraduate students who are interested in joining the competition are invited to submit a video of not more than three minutes in English capturing and reflecting on their Mainland or international learning experience. Submissions may be made on an individual or a group basis.
  • Please upload your entry to YouTube and fill in the online form, providing:
    • the name(s) of the participant(s)
    • curriculum and year of study
    • name of the Mainland or international programme concerned
    • contact details, viz., email and contact number
    • YouTube link of the video (Upon uploading your video, please select “unlist” to avoid publication of your video on YouTube and provide English subtitles for any video content that is not in English)

Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning Fund

The Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning Fund enables innovative and immersive experiential learning projects/activities aligned with the Common Core. Students and/or teachers can apply for funding which enables students either individually or in teams to engage with transdisciplinary experiential learning involving real-life challenges beyond the campus. Activities should foster collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking, and should have local and/or global impact. Activities can take place in Hong Kong, in the Mainland, or internationally.

More details can be found on: https://commoncore.hku.hk/experiential-learning/ 

Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2022/23 (Second Round)

GHELC Experiential Learning Fund

GHELC Experiential Learning Fund

Dear colleagues,

The Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre is inviting applications for the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2022/23 (Second Round). The funding supports Faculties to introduce, expand or enhance experiential learning in their undergraduate curricula. The projects may or may not be credit-bearing and may or may not constitute part of the formal undergraduate curriculum.

The application period is from October 3 to October 31, 2022.

More details can be obtained from http://ghelc.hku.hk/experiential-learning-fund/

Regards, Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

Summer Sandbox Series: Signature Pedagogies

“Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning”

Signature pedagogies refer to the “characteristic forms of teaching and learning that organize the fundamental ways in which future practitioners are educated for their new professions” (Shulman, 2005, p. 52). Different faculties in HKU are known for their signature pedagogies such as problem-based learning in clinical disciplines. Despite being rooted within a particular discipline, much can be learned from these signature pedagogies that could be potentially applied to our own teaching and learning. However, these signature pedagogies have mostly been designed and delivered in face-to-face mode. With the pandemic necessitating constant shifts among face-to-face, online, and hybrid modes of teaching and learning, signature pedagogies need to evolve in lockstep.

The Virtual Summer Sandbox consists of four sessions. All sessions will give the participants a space for creative thinking, expert feedback, and support. We shall adopt the following format:

  1. Presentation: This part will involve a presentation on key aspects of the signature pedagogy being featured.
  2. Group discussion: The second part will involve group discussions organized into theme-based breakout rooms allowing us the chance to join a community of learners.

Registration: link

More information about the Summer Sandbox Series can be found here

See you online!

Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

Experiential Learning Seminar Series

Experiential Learning Seminar Series

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

Series Abstract

Practicing Experiential Learning is not the same after the pandemic. Are you inspired to see how other international leaders are engaging in online Experiential Learning? HKU CETL invites you to join us for an interactive Experiential Learning seminar series. We will have a dialogue with international speakers who will share with us how they engage students, embed theory into practice, overcome challenges, and identify opportunities for experiential learning. Please join us in this exciting series. All are welcome.

Learn more

Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2022/23 (First Round)

Message from Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

Dear colleagues,

The Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre is inviting applications for the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2022/23 (First Round). The funding supports Faculties to introduce, expand or enhance experiential learning in their undergraduate curricula. The projects may or may not be credit-bearing and may or may not constitute part of the formal undergraduate curriculum.

The application period is from April 1 to May 3, 2022. More details can be obtained from http://ghelc.hku.hk/experiential-learning-fund/.

Regards,
Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2020/21 (Second Round)

Dear colleagues,

The Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre is inviting applications for the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2020/21 (Second Round). The funding supports Faculties to introduce, expand or enhance experiential learning in their undergraduate curricula. The projects may or may not be credit-bearing and may or may not constitute part of the formal undergraduate curriculum.

The application period is from October 12 to November 6, 2020.
More details can be obtained from http://ghelc.hku.hk/experiential-learning-fund/.

Regards,

Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

HKU Horizons Experience Awards

Message from HKU Horizons Office

Dear Students,

HKU Horizons Experience Awards

In support of its internationalization agenda, the University last year launched HKU Horizons, with the specific aim to promote and provide educationally meaningful and robust Mainland and international (ML/INT) learning experiences for undergraduate students. 

In order to encourage students to reflect on and share their ML/INT learning experiences, the HKU Horizons Experience Awards have been established.  The HKU Horizons Experience Awards competition will be organized annually in January, with a top prize of $10,000 and two further prizes of $5,000 to be awarded.

To enter the competition, undergraduate students must submit a video of not more than three minutes capturing and reflecting on their ML/INT learning experience.  Submissions may be made on an individual or a group basis.

Awards will be made on the basis of the substance and value of the learning experience captured, and also the quality of the video presentation.  The winning videos, acknowledged as “HKU Horizons Experience”, may be used by the university for promotional purposes, both internal and external.  The student producer, individual or group, will be acknowledged as appropriate. The videos may also be refined as appropriate and authorised by the HKU Horizons Committee.

Submissions for the 2019-20 Round are welcome from January 2 to February 10, 2020 (2400).  Please send in your submissions to hoawards@hku.hk.  Further details can be obtained at http://tl.hku.hk/horizons/hkuhea.

Regards,

HKU Horizons Office

Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2019/20 (First Round)

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Dear colleagues,

The Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre is inviting applications for the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund 2019/20 (First Round). The funding supports Faculties to introduce, expand or enhance experiential learning in their undergraduate curricula. The projects may or may not be credit-bearing and may or may not constitute part of the formal undergraduate curriculum.

The application period is from April 1 to 30, 2019.
More details can be obtained from http://ghelc.hku.hk/experiential-learning-fund/.

Regards,

Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre