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Moodle GradeMark Video Tutorials, Moodle & Panopto Training Courses for Teachers

Message from Information Technology Services

Dear Teachers,

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.

Moodle Hands-on Training Courses

Course Code	Moodle Course Title	Date	Time	Venue	Registration
MOD-001	Setting up Moodle Course Website	6 Jun, 2014 (Fri)	10:00am – 11:00am	KB-110	Register
MOD-002	Assignments, Choices and Quizzes	6 Jun, 2014 (Fri)	11:30am – 12:30pm	KB-110	Register
MOD-001	Setting up Moodle Course Website	26 Jun, 2014 (Thu)	10:00am – 11:00am	KB-110	Register
MOD-005	Turnitin and GradeMark	26 Jun, 2014 (Thu)	11:30am – 12:30pm	KB-110	Register

Panopto Training Courses

Course Code	Panopto Course Title	Date	Time	Venue	Registration
PAN-001	Introduction of Panopto Lecture Video Capturing Solution	19 Jun, 2014 (Thu)	10:00am – 11:00am	CPD-LG20	Register
PAN-002	Edit, Share and Output Panopto Video Recording	19 Jun, 2014 (Thu)	11:30am – 12:30pm	CPD-LG20	Register

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.

The course details can be found at http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=training/cc and http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=training/panopto

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.

e-learning workshops by EPSU/CETL
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/professional-learning/

e-learning seminars by the Faculty of Education/CITE
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?category=upcoming

For more information and inquiry on Moodle and Panopto training and support, feel free to email: e-learningTeam@hku.hk

Best Regards,

Kenneth Siu
e-learning Team
Information Technology Services

IMHSE NEWS Issue 5

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).

Education Matters in Medical Faculty News

CIMHSE

Now taking enrolments for Semester 2 starting in August 2014

Save the Date

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

Link to the full issue of IMSHE News here

Big Data IMHSE MOOC

Workshop on Biobank Governance: An Asian Perspective

Message from Centre for Medical Ethics and Law

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.

For registration and programme details, please visit http://www.cmel.hku.hk/events-details/workshop-biobank-governance-asian-perspective

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact Ms. Polly Yiu by email at cmel@hku.hk or by phone at 3917 1845

Biobanking Medical Ethics MEL

MEL Seminar “Computing Genomic and Health Data in the “Clouds”?: ELSI Challenges”

Message from Centre for Medical Ethics and Law

Prof. Bartha M. Knoppers,
Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine,
Director, Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University

Date: 21 May 2014
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Venue: Room A824, 8/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong

Abstract

Big Data computation will increasingly use commercial cloud providers such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon as the locus of analysis due to the sheer size of datasets. Modern biomedical research is international and collaborative and combines many sources of data (e.g. medical; demographic; genetic; environmental etc). Recent scandals (e.g. Snowden) surrounding governmental surveillance have raised concern among national governments, to say nothing of research participants-patients, regarding the security and privacy of their data in the “clouds”. What precisely are the issues specific to global biomedical research and is there cause for concern? Are there solutions?

Biography of speaker

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD (Comparative Medical Law), holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine (Tier 1: 2001 – ). She is Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University. In 2007, she founded the international Population Project in Genomics and Society (P3G) and CARTaGENE Quebec’s population biobank (20,000 indiv.). Former holder of the Chair d’excellence Pierre Fermat (France: 2006 – 2008), she was named Distinguished Visiting Scientist (Netherlands Genomics Initiative) (2009 – 2012) and received the ACFAS prize for multidisciplinarity (2011). She is Chair of the Ethics Working Party of the International Stem Cell Forum (2005 – ); Co-Chair of the Sampling/ELSI Committee of the 1000 Genomes Project (2007 – 2013); Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) (2009- ); Chair, Regulatory and Ethics Working Group – Co-Founder and Member, Transitional Steering Committee (TSC) of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. She holds four Doctorates Honoris Causa, is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of The Hastings Center (Bioethics) and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) and Officer of the Order of Canada and of Quebec. She also received an award “Prix Montreal In Vivo: Secteur des sciences de la vie et des technologies de la santé” in 2012 and in 2013 was named “Champion of Genetics” by the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation.

Please register online at

http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?ueid=30561 .

ELSI Medical Ethics MEL

Main Library & Yu Chun Keung Medical Library Extended Opening Hours

Message from University Libraries

Main Library & Yu Chun Keung Medical Library Extended Opening Hours,

1-26 May 2014

The Main Library and Medical Library will extend the opening hours for the coming Revision Week & Assessment Period from 1-26 May 2014:

Main Library:
Daily: 8:30am – 6am of the following day
(except Special Collections, AV & Reserve Collection, and Level 3 Collaboration Zone)

Medical Library:
Monday – Friday: 8:15am – 6am of the following day
Saturday: 8:30am – 6am of the following day
Sundays & Public Holidays: 10am – 6am of the following day

All service counters will be closed outside the normal operating hours. In order to thoroughly clean the library, all users and their possessions must be cleared by 6 am each morning. Items not removed from each desk will be removed by staff on duty and can be collected at

Main Library:
After 9 am (10 am on Sundays & Public Holidays) at the Lending Services Division on the G/F;

Yu Chun Keung Medical Library:
After 10 am at the Circulation Counter.

During the extended opening hours, contract security guards will be stationed in these two libraries to provide basic security services. When the circulation counters are closed, users can check out/in books using the self-check stations (G/F and 4/F in Main Library, and one in Medical Library). While there is no counter service, all public computers, printers and copiers will be available but no refill of printing paper will be provided.

For enquiry, please call 2859-2203 or 2241-5945.

Best wishes
Peter Sidorko
University Librarian

Main Library Medical Library University Libraries

Student Learning Experience Surveys Now Open

The HKUSLEQ and TPgLEQ 2013-14 administration window has been closed already.

HKU conducts institutional surveys on students’ learning experiences regularly to yield information for analysis and renewal of curriculum and pedagogy. The findings help ensure and enhance the quality of learning experiences.

We now invite all first, second (under the new 4-year curriculum) and final year undergraduate students to complete the University of Hong Kong Student Learning Experience Questionnaire (HKUSLEQ); and all final year taught-postgraduate students are invited to fill out the Taught Postgraduate Experience Questionnaire (TPgLEQ). Both surveys are conducted on-line. All target students should have received an e-mail invitation with the link to the survey. They can also access the link through the “My e-learning” tab in HKU Portal, as well as this direct link.

It takes about 10 minutes to complete the questionnaire. All answers will remain anonymous. Personal information will be kept strictly confidential. Please contact the Survey Team at surveytl@hku.hk or 3917- 4787 for technical assistance.

We appreciate and value our students’ response.

HKUSLEQ TPgLEQ

Super Pass Event at HKU Visitor Centre

Message from Academic Liaison Section of the Registry

Cheer for your exam! Join Super Pass event!

The University of Hong Kong Visitor Centre has arranged a series of activities to help cheering for your exam. From Apr 14 to May 3, join us at the Visitor Centre for:

– Traditional Chinese Calligraphy Writing Workshops for preparing “Super Pass Fai Chun” (一揮勁過工作坊)

– Make wishes under the “Super Pass Wish Making Tree” (平安勁過許願樹)

– Super Pass Lucky Bag (開運勁過福袋)

You are also invited to join the traditional wish-making event, roasted pig cutting, (無敵勁過開運禮) at 12:30 p.m. on Apr 14 at the Visitor Center, G/F, Centennial Campus, HKU.

Come for fun and make a wish! See you all there!
Enquiries: 3917 7853 / visitorcentre@hku.hk

Visitor Centre

Moodle & Panopto Training Courses for Teachers

Message from Information Technology Services

Dear Teachers,

We are pleased to announce that four new Moodle user guides of the recently installed plugins (Scheduler, Attendance, OU wiki & OU blog) have been prepared for you to familiar with these new Moodle features. They are available at: http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=teachers/userguides

Moodle Training Courses

Course Code	Moodle Course Title	Date	Time	Venue	Registration
MOD-003	Grades	10 Apr, 2014 (Thu)	10:00am – 11:00am	KB-110	Register
MOD-005	Turnitin and GradeMark	10 Apr, 2014 (Thu)	11:30am – 12:30pm	KB-110	Register

Panopto Training Courses

Course Code	Panopto Course Title	Date	Time	Venue	Registration
PAN-001	Introduction of Panopto Lecture Video Capturing Solution	23 Apr, 2014 (Wed)	10:00am – 11:00am	CPD-LG20	Register
PAN-002	Edit, Share and Output Panopto Video Recording	23 Apr, 2014 (Wed)	11:30am – 12:30pm	CPD-LG20	Register

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.

The course details can be found at http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=training/cc and http://moodle-support.hku.hk/cms/?q=training/panopto

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.

e-learning workshops by EPSU/CETL
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/professional-learning/

e-learning seminars by the Faculty of Education/CITE
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?category=upcoming

For more information and inquiry on Moodle and Panopto training and support, feel free to email: e-learningTeam@hku.hk

Best Regards,

Kenneth Siu
e-learning Team
Information Technology Services

Information Technology Services Moodle Panopto

2014 Summer Service and Learning Program in Rural China

Message from CEDARS – Learning Plus

This program is initiated and organized by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 2006. A total of 1,741 students and 250 faculty members from Tsinghua University and 545 students and faculty members from other regions and countries’ universities, have been dispatched in teams, to rural counties in the past eight years.

Every summer, 180 Tsinghua volunteers and 120 volunteers from other regions and countries, who show a sincere commitment to charity work were recruited to join the Program. Successful applicants will be dispatched in 30 teams and perform their service in 30 counties throughout various locations in rural China. Each team will consist of one Tsinghua teacher, five Tsinghua students, four non-Tsinghua volunteers. Volunteers can provide diversified services to the local students in those rural counties, including English teaching, social survey conducting, lectures and intercultural communication exercises.

For 2014 SSLP, the Program will run from July 9th to July 29th, 2014. Students who are interested in joining the program should read through the information (in Chinese) at: http://wp.cedars.hku.hk/fileupload/files/sd/Tsinghua14.pdf and submit your application with all necessary materials to Ms. JIAO Yiju (Daisy) by email jiaoyiju@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn on or before 10 April, 2014.

Volunteers need to arrive in Beijing on July 9th and leave from Beijing on July 29th. Volunteers are responsible for payment of a non-refundable US $490 program registration fee, the round-trip air travel to and from Beijing. Tsinghua University will provide the accommodation, the subsidy for food, the transportation to the rural locations, the accidental insurance for all the volunteers during the program in China.

Videos about this program:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTgzNzg2OTEy.html
http://www.wangfoundation.net/video.htm
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjMyNDM4NTcy.html
Thank you.

Best Regards,
Center of Development and Resources for Students

CEDARS China

University Information Security Awareness Seminars 25,26 March & Exhibition 24-28 March

Message from Information Technology Services

University Information Security Awareness Week 2013/14

Dear Students and Colleagues,

Information Technology Services (ITS) will organize the “University Information Security Awareness Week” during the week of March 24 – 28, 2014 to raise the awareness among students and staff members of the University in respect of information security awareness and protection. Please visit our Information Security Awareness Exhibition Counter and attend the lunch-time seminars on Information Security during the week.

Information Security Awareness Exhibition Counter

Date: March 24 – 28, 2014
Time: 12:00 noon – 3:00 pm
Venue: Chi Wah Learning Commons G/F foyer

Students and staff members are welcome to take the quiz and win the gifts.

Information Security Lunch Time Seminars (in English & Cantonese)

Seminar I
Date: March 25, 2014
Time: 12:50 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Main Building Room 217
Topic: How to Enhance Information Security in University Environment
Speaker: Consultants from Ernst & Young Advisory Services Ltd
Target Audience: HKU Staff

Seminar II
Date: March 26, 2014
Time: 12:50 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Main Building Room G07
Topic: Basic Information Security You Should Know
Speaker: Consultants from Ernst & Young Advisory Services Ltd
Target Audience: HKU Students

The Information Security Awareness seminars offer information for HKU staff members to raise their awareness on protection of their data and computer resources from the cyber-attacks. Security consultants will introduce the security best practices as well as sharing of their experience on how to protect the information systems from cyber-attacks.

To enroll on the seminars, please register through the HKU Event Management System:

Seminar I (For Staff) – https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?&UEID=29022

Seminar II (For Students) – https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?&UEID=29025

For enquiries, please contact Mr. Ken Ng (Tel : 3917 5186; email: chikaing@hku.hk ).

We look forward to your participation.

Best Regards,
John Lam
Information Security Team
Information Technology Services

Information Technology Services Security