We also organize training courses to assist colleagues and students in using our facilities. The following training courses are organized in the coming months and details can be found in the Training News (http://www.its.hku.hk/news/news170/training):
on using the Moodle Learning Management System and Panopto Lecture Capture Software (for staff only)
Please click here to check out the course schedule on Scientific Computation & Visualization
Parallel Programming with Workshop on Unix System and Applications
Introduction to MATLAB and on Software Asset Management training
There are many useful web services on the Internet, such as PBworks, Facebook, Second Life, Socrative and Basecamp, which are commonly referred to as Web 2.0 services. Some departments and staff members are using, or have expressed interest in adopting, these services for academic-related activities and/or engaging existing and prospective students.
While there may be perfect reasons for using external web services, it is important that, when making the decision to use such services, the individual and the department concerned also recognize the risks involved. The document “Guidelines for Using External Web 2.0 Services” provides guidance on the issues that need to be considered before adopting external web services for university purposes. Annexed to the document is a template for risk assessment.
The Guidelines document was put together jointly by the e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit of CETL and IT Services based on a similar document made available by the University of Edinburgh under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. The document has incorporated inputs from our University’s Data Protection Officer, and feedback received from academic and administrative staff at two separate workshops on 15 January 2014. Based on the feedback, two scenarios of using Web 2.0 services – one on Facebook and the other on Dropbox – have also been developed to illustrate the use of the risk assessment template. At its meeting on 27 May 2014, the IT Committee endorsed the Guidelines for release.
Any staff member who considers using an external Web 2.0 service should study the Guidelines document carefully and conduct a risk assessment using the template. In case there is any change to the usage Terms and Conditions of a Web 2.0 service in use, the staff concerned should reassess the risk involved. Each department should also maintain a Register of all external web services adopted.
Please be informed that the central Moodle Learning Management System will undergo system upgrade from version 2.4.4 to 2.6.3. All Access to it will be suspended during the upgrade period of time:
Date: July 27, 2014, Sunday
Time: 6:00 am to 2:00 pm
After the successful upgrade, Moodle will resume service with the new version 2.6.3. Please access it after 2:00pm on that day. (In the unlikely event that the upgrade was unsuccessful, it will fall back to the current version 2.4.4.)
I want to let you know how very pleased I am to be joining all of you in shaping the shared enterprise of the Common Core as a means of educating our students for a very complex 21st century world. Although I have been here just a few weeks, I can readily see the vitality, imagination, and thoughtfulness that all of you have brought to the task of creating active, reflective, and transformative learning experiences for our students.
In addition to the usual logistical and administrative tasks, I also want to engage with you on longer term planning for the opportunities for intellectual partnerships, cross-sectoral projects, and the inter- and trans-disciplinary possibilities that the Common Core offers us. One of the major themes for the year will be making connections across and within courses, questions, methodologies, and geographies, so please start thinking about what the most exciting opportunities might be for connecting with your own work and for helping students connect the dots of their curriculum.
I will be in touch with the campus on a regular basis as we develop new course offerings and modalities of active teaching; find ways to link CC teaching to scholarly activity; begin to make use of the new CC Lounge in the Main Building for exhibits, lectures, and events; create CC Student Ambassadors and a CC Community and Business Advisory Board; and concoct other initiatives that connect both the staff and the students to the campus, the city, the region, and the world.
In the meantime, I invite you to give me a call, send an email, or drop by so that I can begin to learn how we might best build the most intellectually intriguing, enticing, and valuable pathways for, and with, our students. You can reach me at gklindgren@hku.hk, 2219 4956, or in Room 140 of the Main Building.
Once again I am looking forward, in this period of the reinvention of higher education, to developing the Common Core’s next phase with you.
All best,
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD
Professor and Director
The Common Core
Message from Academic Development and Quality Assurance Section of the Registry
Nominations are now invited for the University Distinguished Teaching Award (UDTA) and the Outstanding Teaching Awards (OTAs) under the Teaching Excellence Award Scheme (TEAS) in 2014.
TEAS aims to recognise, reward and promote excellence in teaching at the University. All Faculties are encouraged to nominate colleagues who have made an outstanding contribution to the leadership and scholarship of Teaching and Learning at both Faculty and University levels for the University Distinguished Teaching Award, and colleagues who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and curriculum development for the Outstanding Teaching Awards. The Outstanding Teaching Award comprises individual and team awards, the latter is to recognise and promote collaborative effort and achievement in enhancing Teaching and Learning.
Nominees are encouraged to contact the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) for advice on the preparation of teaching portfolios. Seminars/workshops will be organised by CETL in September and November 2014 to support interested staff members to prepare for their submissions.
All nominations and the supporting documents should reach Ms. Synthia Chau, Academic Development and Quality Assurance Section, by December 12, 2014. Enquiries may be directed to Ms. Chau at 2859 2440 or email to schau@hku.hk.
We are pleased to let you know that a new function “Email-to-Class” in the My e-learning tab of HKU Portal will be launched on 23 June. If you are the teacher, TA or course administrator of Moodle courses, this feature enables you to conveniently send class email to any of your Moodle courses. More information can be found here.
Besides, the following hands-on training courses on Panopto and Moodle are now open for registration. You are welcome to attend. Please register the courses 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.
Note:
(1) KB-110 = Room 110, Knowles Building
CPD-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.
Message from Professor Roland T. Chin, Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
Dear Colleagues, Students and Alumni,
I am pleased to announce that upon an international recruitment search, Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren has been appointed Director of Common Core Curriculum. He will officially take up the appointment on June 5, 2014.
Professor Kochhar-Lindgren has significant years of experience in both interdisciplinary studies and academic administration. He was Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning and the inaugural Director of the First Year and Pre-Major Program at the University of Washington Bothell. Professor Kochhar-Lindgren is familiar with Hong Kong and this University. He spent a year (2009-10) as a Fulbright Scholar in General Education, based at HKU, and assisted in the development of the HKU Common Core Curriculum.
I hope you would give your full support to Professor Kochhar-Lindgren in further enhancing the Common Core Curriculum and making a difference to undergraduate education at this University. Please join me in welcoming Professor Kochhar-Lindgren to the University family.
I would also like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to Professor Gina Marchetti, Professor of Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Convenor for Global Issues Area of Inquiry, for serving as Acting Director since December 2013 and enabling a smooth transition in the change of Directorship.
Professor Roland T. Chin
Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
We are pleased to let you know that we have produced a series of short video tutorials on GradeMark of Turnitin. Turnitin is an online anti-plagiarism tool. GradeMark is a new feature of Turnitin that enables teachers to give feedback, leave comments and grade the assignments of students online. It also keeps submitted assignments, papers, comments and grades in one neatly organized place. You can watch the videos here.
Besides, the following hands-on training courses on Panopto and Moodle are now open for registration. You are welcome to attend. Please register the courses 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.
Note:
(1) KB-110 = Room 110, Knowles Building
CPD-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.
Message from Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education
Welcome to IMHSE NEWS, the newsletter of the Institute for Medical and Health Sciences Education, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, to inform and update colleagues about faculty news related to education. We will share highlights of recent events, spotlights on recent achievements. Each newsletter has a regular section on âTips for Teachersâ which focuses on articles or reviews related to better teaching practices.
Highlights of this issue:
Recaps from the 2013 Frontiers in Medical & Health Sciences Conference “From Classroom to Clinic: Opportunities and Challenges in e-Learning” held at the Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre on December 6-7, 2013 and list of best poster and best oral presentation award winners
Spotlight on Dr Weng-Yee Chin and Dr David Lam Chi Leung, winners of the 2013 Faculty Teaching Medals and Prof LC Chan, Dr Janice Tsang and Dr Julie Chen, recipients of the 2013 University Outstanding Team Teaching Award presented on March 26, 2014 at Loke Yew Hall.
Recent IMHSE events including medical student inter-professional education lunch clubs and IMHSE seminars with guest speakers Dr Chris Deneen (Faculty of Education, HKU), Prof Helen Cameron (Center for Medical Education, University of Edinburgh) and Prof Paul Engel (School of Bimolecular and Biomedical Sciences, University College Dublin).
Tips for Teachers examines some of the pros and cons of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
October 27-28, 2014 2014 East-West Alliance Global Symposia, HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Frontiers Series:
‘MOOCs in Postmodern Asia’ (Oct 27, 2014)
‘Big Data and Precision Medicine’ (Oct 28, 2014)
Supported by Li Ka Shing Foundation; Organized by HKU on behalf of the East-West Alliance (EWA); Co-organized by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and China Medical Board (CMB).
Institute for Medical and Health Sciences Education, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
Telephone: 2819 9841
Website: http://www.imhse.hku.hk
Date: Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Venue: Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, 2/F, Room A2-08, William MW Mong Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, HK
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers
Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine
Director of Centre of Genomics and Policy
McGill University, Canada
Guest Speakers:
Professor Tohru Masui, Professor, Center of Clinical Genetics, Keio University, Japan
Professor Chang Ly-yun, Former member of the steering committee on ELSI for National Research Programme for Genomic Medicine, Taiwan
Dr. Chih-hsing Ho, Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Dr. Calvin WL Ho, Assistant Professor, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Dr. Qian Wan, Director of Consortium Network and Director of E-BioBank in China National GeneBnak, China
Mr. Chan Tuck Wai, Senior Associate Director and Secretariat of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), National University of Singapore
About the Workshop:
How to govern biobanks has been the subject of much attention and debate in recent years. Since the completion of the draft of the human genome sequence in 2000, new discoveries in genomics have posed new challenges to existing regulatory and legal frameworks at both national and global levels. Genomics has laid the foundations for new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the treatment of human diseases. It has also introduced new possibilities for regenerative medicine and a new form of ethics in the development of bio-technoscience. This rapid scientific advancement is accompanied by important issues related to ethical, legal and social implications, such as harmonization and the sharing of data across national borders, ownership and proprietary rights surrounding the secondary use of data and samples, genetic discrimination and stigmatisation, informed consent, privacy and data protection. As a result, traditional legal and regulatory instruments may no longer be adequate for governing biobanks as genomic science moves forward. This workshop aims to provide a forum for experts from different disciplines (medicine, law, bioethics, and philosophy) and jurisdictions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan) to exchange views and experience on biobank governance in order to further explore possible solutions for challenges of the governance of this newly emerging biotechnology. There will be a keynote address delivered by Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers, Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP), McGill University, as part of the programme.
