Message from Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
Dear Colleagues and Students,
I am pleased to inform you that at its March 3, 2015 meeting, the Senate approved a “University Assessment Policy” and a policy on “Credit Transfer for Student Exchange”. The former articulates the institutional assessment policy and guides assessment practices in respect of undergraduate and taught postgraduate curricula; the latter outlines the principles for credit transfer for undergraduate student exchange, in connection with which corresponding adjustments have been made to the University’s “Credit Accumulation and Transfer Policy” (vide paragraph 17 and Annex II thereof). Both the “University Assessment Policy” and the “Credit Accumulation and Transfer Policy” are accessible at: http://www.cdqa.hku.hk/guidelines-and-forms.php.
Any questions relating to these policies may be addressed to Rebecca Ching, Head of the Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance Section, Registry (e-mail: recleung@hku.hk) or Jennifer Wong of her Office (e-mail: jsmwong@hku.hk) in the first instance.
Professor Ian Holliday
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor
(Teaching and Learning)
Message from Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance Section of the Registry
Applications are now invited for the Teaching Development Grants (TDGs). TDGs are intended to support projects and activities that will have an impact on the strategic development and promotion of Teaching and Learning. For priority areas and other details, please refer to Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)’s invitation circular dated March 6, 2015 (document 138/315, URL below):
Applications should be submitted to Ms. Synthia Chau, Secretary, Teaching and Learning Quality Committee, c/o Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance Section, Registry. TDG applications will be processed in batches according to the following cut-off dates in 2015:
1st round – Thursday, April 30, 2015
2nd round – Monday, November 16, 2015
3rd round – Monday, December 28, 2015
Message from Professor Ian Holliday, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Teaching & Learning)
Dear Colleagues,
Staff Teaching Space Experience Survey – February 2015
IT Services is conducting an online Teaching Space Experience Survey on behalf of the University from today till 13th March 2015.
The purpose of this survey is to gather information about your experiences and perceptions of the classroom environments that you use to deliver your lectures and seminars etc. in order to find out what you think is important and of any issues to be addressed.
Your opinions are valuable to us and this information will help us understand how we can provide better facilities to support your teaching. A separate survey investigating the student learning environment experience will be running concurrently.
The results of both will be used to inform the University Strategy for future development of Teaching and Learning Spaces over the coming planning period (2-3 years) to ensure that space provided for teaching and learning is fit for purpose and of good quality in order to enhance the student learning experience.
We are pleased to organize Learning Management System (LMS) – Moodle and Lecture Capture Services (LCS) – Panopto hands-on workshops for you to familiar with our e-learning services available at HKU.
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.
Setting up a new course and grading function on Moodl
Course Code
Moodle Course Title
Date
Time
Venue
Registration
MOD-001
Moodle Hands-on Workshop on Setting Up a Moodle Course Website
Note:
(1) KB110 = Room 110, Knowles Building
CPD2.77 = Room 2.77, Central Podium (CPD), Centennial Campus
(2) If you have taken a Moodle hands-on course 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.
Outstanding Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research 2014 Presentation Video by
Message from President and Vice-Chancellor
Dear Colleagues and Students,
I am very pleased to announce the winners of the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2014:
Dr. Michael G. Botelho, Faculty of Dentistry
Dr. Cheri Y.Y. Chan, Faculty of Education
Dr. Amy Y.M. Chow, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences
Ms. Miranda G. Legg, Centre for Applied English Studies, Faculty of Arts
Many congratulations!
The Selection Panel was deeply impressed by the awardees’ dedication to teaching, their tireless and creative efforts to make learning enjoyable and challenging, and the impact that they have made on their students’ learning.
The awardees will be honoured at the upcoming award presentation ceremony on Monday, March 30, 2015; and their names will be posted for a period of five years on the Teaching Excellence Awards Honour Board in the Main Library.
I would like to thank our external assessor Professor Dai Hounsell (Professor Emeritus, Former Vice-Principal, University of Edinburgh) in providing us with his expert advice in situ during the final selection process. I would also like to thank the other Panel members, Professor Ian M. Holliday, Professor Grahame T. Bilbow, Dr. David M. Pomfret and Mr. Brenton W.Y. Ng (student representative), for their assistance in this important exercise.
I look forward to seeing you all at the ceremony.
Professor Peter Mathieson, President
Chairman
Selection Panel for Teaching Excellence Awards 2014
Take your first step to HKU through the admissions talks, faculty talks, consultation sessions, and faculty information booths at 2015 Pathway to HKU (24 February).
The following scholarship schemes are now open for application. You may click the scheme titles for the eligibility conditions and the application forms are available at the Scholarships website.
Please submit your application to: awards@hku.hk
Deadline: 12:00 noon, February 18, 2015
For full-time Undergraduate students
(scholarship award ranges from HK$10,000-20,000.)
For both full-time Undergraduate and Postgraduate students
Taufik Ali Memorial Scholarships (for students with Muslim faith)
Value of each award: tuition fees (undergraduate)
tuition fees plus living allowance (postgraduate)
Best,
Kitty Wong
Director
Scholarships Office, The Registry Please check out for more information on scholarship opportunities, background and sharing stories at HKU Scholarships website.
Please note that all courses registered in SIS (Student Information System) have the correspondent electronic courses created in Moodle. Teachers, whose names are recorded in the Class Staff Information System (CSI) of SIS, can start uploading course materials. (Teachers can ask the Faculty contact point to add your name to CIS – details in http://moodle-support.hku.hk/contact/CSI) Teachers can enable students’ access to a Moodle course by clicking the “Enable for student access” link of the course in the “My e-learning” tab of HKU Portal.
Also, new services are rolled out on January 15:
(A) Two quick-start Moodle tips for teachers to set up e-Courses easily:
Quick Moodle course start-up video tutorials
Change the layout for new courses – using weekly layout instead of the default topic-based layout
(B) Two new features in the one-stop e-learning hub under the “My e-learning tab” of HKU Portal
The link “Library reserve materials” allows easy access by both teachers and students to the reserve materials of a particular course, if there is any hosted in the Library system.
The link “Moodle and Panopto usage report” allows teachers to quickly access to the students’ usage statistics of Moodle features and Panopto lecture capture service (LCS) of a course. (Details in http://moodle-support.hku.hk/moodle-and-panopto-usage-report)
Besides the above,
http://moodle-support.hku.hk hosts the online tutorials, user guides and FAQ and other Moodle and LCS support information.
Training workshops on Moodle and LCS using Panopto are scheduled on 19 and 28 January 2015. You can find the details and register to attend at http://moodle-support.hku.hk/training/schedule.
If you have any questions or want more information about Moodle, Panopto and training courses, please feel free to email us at elearningteam@hku.hk.
Public Lecture by Professor Sir Eric Thomas
Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol, UK
UK Education Champion, since 2013
President of Universities UK, 2011-13
Date : January 12, 2015 (Monday)
Time : 5:30pm Tea Reception
6:00pm Lecture by Professor Sir Eric Thomas
Venue : Conference Room, 11/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Enquiries : 2219 4892
The words “world class”, “global” and “international” are used with undisciplined frequency by huge numbers of universities in their public relations, marketing and student and staff recruitment. In many respects such use has so undermined the very description that external observers attach little importance to it. There are, however, universities that do transcend their location and their activity and that would be agreed by most observers to be world class and globalised.
This lecture will look at the criteria that could be used to construct these definitions and analyse their strengths and weaknesses. It will ask the question as to whether there are only a tiny number of universities that should responsibly use these epithets or whether many universities have so many of the characteristics that it is fair that they describe themselves in this manner. It will also look at the factors and events that have shaped our major universities into thinking and planning in a global manner rather than the more parochial normality of twenty years ago.
Speaker’s profile
Professor Sir Eric Thomas is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol, a position he has held since September 2001. He was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2013 for services to Higher Education.
He graduated in Medicine from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1976 and proceeded to obtain his MD by thesis in research into endometriosis in 1987. He trained as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and worked at both the universities of Sheffield and Newcastle. In 1991 he was appointed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Southampton and then became Head of the School of Medicine there in 1995 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences in 1998. He was a Consultant Gynaecologist from 1987 to 2001.
In July 2013, Sir Eric was appointed as the new UK Education Champion by the Government as part of its strategy to promote the UK education sector internationally. Sir Eric will also co-chair the new International Education Council alongside the Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts.
From 2011-2013, Sir Eric was President of Universities UK. He was previously Vice-President of UUK, Chair of its England and Northern Ireland Council and Chair of the Research Policy Committee. He was a Trustee and then Chair of CASE Europe from 2007-2014 and a member of the CASE Board in North America from 2010-2014.
Sir Eric is a Trustee of IntoUniversity and a Lay Trustee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He chaired the government Taskforce into Increasing Voluntary Giving in Higher Education, which reported in 2004. He was Chair of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) from 2003-2007 and was a member of the Board of the South-West Regional Development Agency from 2002 to 2008.
We are pleased to organize Learning Management System (LMS) – Moodle and Lecture Capture Services (LCS) – Panopto hands-on workshops for you to familiar with our e-learning services available at HKU.
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.
Reuse old course materials on Moodle
Course Code
Moodle Course Title
Date
Time
Venue
Registration
MOD-006
Moodle Hands-on Workshop on How to Re-use a Course and Its Materials
Note:
(1) KB110 = Room 110, Knowles Building
LG20 = Room CPD-LG20, Central Podium (CPD), Centennial Campus
(2) If you have taken a Moodle hands-on course 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.
Applications are now invited for the Teaching Development Grants (TDGs). TDGs are intended to support projects and activities that will have an impact on the strategic development and promotion of Teaching and Learning. For priority areas and other details, please refer to Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)’s invitation circular dated March 6, 2015 (document 138/315, URL below):
