Message from Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre
Dear all,
Professional humanitarian workers from Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) will come to HKU and share with you about their stories and work in the frontline where medical and humanitarian aids are imminent.
Do come and exchange with them, or join their service initiatives to contribute for the betterment of humanity. Let’s equip yourself with the skills, knowledge and mindset in planning and managing your own service projects on poverty, global development, rural health, universal education, sustainable development, and many more!
MSF Professional Humanitarian Workshop in March:
Humanitarian Response in Emergencies
Date: 2 March 2015 (Monday)
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: T6, Meng Wah Complex
Speakers include: Luke Chu, Water and Sanitation Engineer (HKU Alumnus)
About the Workshop:
Experienced field workers will share how they work differently in various types of emergency response, how we adapt ourselves and work in natural disasters and for population affected by conflicts.
About the Speaker:
Luke Chu is a civil engineer. He joined MSF in 2011 and since then has worked in Afghanistan and South Sudan as a Water and Sanitation Technician.
Date : 16 February 2015 (Monday) Time : 12:30pm – 1:30pm Venue : Room 6-12B (Conference Room), Haking Wong Building, The University of Hong Kong
About the seminar
Experiential learning and project-based learning share their pedagogic foundation, while there is insu cient research on exploring their integration for enhancing student learning in real-life projects. This gap in knowledge is coupled with a paucity of sustainability pedagogy in higher education. While project-based learning and experiential learning are sometimes found to be used interchangeably both in literature as well as in practice, there are di erences between the two, particularly in the areas of construction and sustainability.
This seminar reports on a HKU Teaching Development Grants (TDG) project in which Project-Based Learning (PjBL) and Experiential Learning (EL) are integrated to enhance learning in sustainability embedded higher education. PjBL may involve real-life projects, with examples like case studies, eld trips and site visits. EL may include in-class demonstrations, eld trips, site visits and other forms of hands-on student participation as part of the learning process but may not necessarily be based on real-life projects. The project team and supporters will share the research ndings as well as the latest thinking and practice of project-based experiential learning for sustainability education across the University.
Registration of seminar
Attending this seminar is FREE, but advanced online registration is required on the first come, first served basis via https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=35322, where further information is also available. For enquiry on this seminar, please contact Dr Kelwin Wong (kelwin.wong@connect.hku.hk), or Dr. Wei Pan (wpan@hku.hk, +852 2859 2671) of the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong.
Deadline of registration: Thursday 12 February 2015.
Seminar rundown
12:15 – 12:30noon
Registration
12:30 – 12:35
Welcome Remarks
Prof S C Wong, Head of Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
12:35 – 12:40
Introduction
Dr Wei Pan, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
12:40 – 12:45
Overview of Project-Based Experiential Learning in The Common Core Courses at HKU
Prof Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Director of The Common Core Course Programme, HKU
12:45 – 12:50
Project-Based Experiential Learning for Sustainability Embedded Higher Education: The Perspective of CETL
Dr Cecilia Chan, Head of Professional Development, Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), HKU
12:50 – 1:10pm
Project-Based Experiential Learning for Sustainability Embedded Higher Education
Dr Wei Pan and Dr Kelwin Wong, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
1:10 – 1:25
Q & A
All participants
1:25 – 1:30pm
Closing Remarks
Dr Wei Pan, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Project team members and supporters
The project underlying this seminar is carried out and supported by a
University-wide team including:
Faculty of Engineering
Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
In this final version of the e-newsletter in Year 2014, we would like to share with you the GHELC Roundtable in “Ethics in Experiential Learning”. During the event, frontline experiential learning teachers from Faculty of Law, Social Sciences and Engineering as well as students and Non Governmental Organisations gathered together to explore the ethical terrain of experiential learning.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, with many fruitful rewards!
Best regards,
Dr. Albert Ko
Director
Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre
The University of Hong Kong
In this issue of e-newsletter we would like to highlight the effort of a group of students, turning a student volunteering project to a structured credit bearing experiential learning opportunity. Let’s get inspired and explore on how you can transform your ideas and projects into another experiential learning experience!
Best regards,
Dr. Albert Ko
Director
Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre
The University of Hong Kong
Date: 3 December 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:15pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 113, Knowles Building
Speakers: Ms. Lucia Choi Founder of “STIR” Student Take Initiative Rally; BSSc (Year 3) student, majoring in Psychology and minor in Social Policy & Community Building Ms. Mak Wing Yan Head of Children in Ministry, World Vision China Dr. George Wong Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering Ms. Lindsay Ernst Honorary Lecturer, Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law Ms. Jessie Chow Assistant Director, Experiential Learning, Faculty of Social Sciences
About the Seminar
This seminar will explore the ethical terrain of experiential learning activities. Experiential learning is a creative and powerful pedagogical method which takes students out of the classroom to tackle real-life problems by drawing on theoretical knowledge. It involves students interacting with various stakeholder groups, where ethical concerns arise. In this seminar, experienced experiential learning teachers, NGO representative and student will share their insights in ethical issues arise from their experiences. We hope it is the first step to formulate guiding questions for educators to identify and address ethical issues in designing experiential activities
Join us in the roundtable discussion, to explore and interact with our scholars, students as well as representative in NGO on ethical dilemmas and concerns in Experiential Learning.
We would like to share with you the “GOODPOINT”, which is a revitalized building housing multiple social enterprises managed by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) . This initiative by the HKCSS could be a potential experiential learning opportunity ready to be explored.
Happy reading!
Best regards,
Dr. Albert Ko
Director
Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre
The University of Hong Kong
Date: 24 November 2014 (Monday)
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: RR321, Run Run Shaw Buiding
Speaker: Professor Gary Cheung, Faculty of Dentistry, HKU
About the Seminar
This lunchtime seminar will present the experiential learning component in the course, International Capstone Experience (DENT 5031) in the Faculty of Dentistry. The course is offered to final year dental students to gain experience in outreach dental service to needy or rural overseas region. It is an integrative project that forms a capstone experience in the professional core of the curriculum in a global environment. With the support of the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund, eight students were sent to a dental school in India in Feb 2014 to learn about the dental outreach situation in India. Students were assessed on (1) quality of participation, communication and professionalism during organisation of the trip, actual visit and/or fieldwork; (2) professionalism and quality of clinical work during outreach dental service; (3) presentation of the project; (4) quality of documentation and self-reflection of learning in individual report; and (5) performance in oral examination.
About the Speakers
Professor Gary Cheung is a Clinical Professor in Endodontics at the Faculty of Dentistry, HKU. His research areas include: (1) Endodontic root canal instruments and related materials science, (2) Survival analysis of endodontic therapies, (3) Bonding in root canal-treated teeth, (4) Endodontic materials and applications, and (5) Regenerative endodontics. He is current in charge of the BDS curriculum as the Associate Dean (Undergraduate Education) as well as a member of the Dental Council of Hong Kong.
In this issue of our e-Newsletter we would like to showcase the experiential learning in Comparative Literature, which is insightful for the HKU community, especially for those who would like to include experiential learning component in your course.
Best regards,
Dr. Albert Ko
Director
Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre
The University of Hong Kong
We would like to introduce the Life Review Project - the Experiential Learning initiative by the School of Nursing to you in this issue of our E-Newsletter. Let’s learn more about how the Life Review Project facilitates and help the students to consolidate their classroom learning while transform it to knowledge in real life encounter.
In addition, the Experiential Learning Fund 2014-2015 (Second Round) is now open for applications. The application deadline is 27 October 2014 (Next Monday!). Faculties are welcome to discuss their experiential learning projects and applications with our team prior to submitting their applications.
Best regards,
Dr. Albert Ko
Director
Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre
The University of Hong Kong
Date: 3 November 2014 (Monday)
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: RR321, Run Run Shaw Buiding
Speaker: Dr. Esther Yau, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
About the Seminar
This lunchtime seminar will present the department’s new experiential learning course “Independent Documentaries: Theory and Practice” for Year 2 or 3 students to acquire auditory-visual literacy. Students formed groups to complete independent documentaries of local life using still and moving images gathered from Pokfulam Village (the main site) in partnership with an NGO, which provides liaison in the village. The course integrated knowledge of documentary art, technique, and ethics with the hands-on experience of completing an independent documentary.
About the Speakers
Dr Esther Yau has written on Hong Kong cinema and globalization, China’s Fifth Generation, gender and film, trauma and testimony, and New Wave directors. She has published essays in The Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, The Oxford History of World Cinema, Discourse, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and a few other journals. She has served as academic consultant of Chinese film exhibition projects at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the National Gallery of Art at Washington, D.C. She is presently working on a study of film testimony and local memory in the cinemas of China and Hong Kong. Her courses has adopted experiential learning components since the year 2010.
