Category: Workshops and seminars

CETL Seminars: Teaching Excellence Award Winners Seminar Series

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

Seminar 1

Date: Wed, 23 April 2014
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Topic: School-University Partnership (SUP) – nurturing professional competence of student teachers, enhancing professional development of mentor teachers

Speaker: Dr Tammy Y.L. Kwan, Faculty of Education

Student teachers enrolling in the initial teacher education programmes have to successfully complete the professional practicum before they become qualified teachers. However, not all schools are willing to offer practicum places. School University Partnerships work towards the creation of a win win environment to allow our STs getting quality mentoring support from mentor teachers, while at the same time, create avenue for MTs further strengthening their continuous professional development.

Topic: Engage Students in Authentic Task with Constructivist Approach

Speaker: Dr Shui Fong Lam, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences

To engage students in learning, a teacher does not need to be a stand-up comedian who provides entertainment in a lecture hall. Students will be naturally engaged if the learning has real-life significance to them. Students are particularly engaged when they are involved in the process of finding answers to authentic problems.

Seminar 2

Date: Wed, 30 April 2014
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Topic: Maximizing Online Resources

Speaker: Dr Cole Roskam, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture

Online resources present tremendous opportunities as well as significant challenges for enhancing student learning, both inside as well as outside the classroom. I will share my own struggles to incorporate online resources into my teaching methods in ways that appeal to students while satisfying my own pedagogical objectives.

Topic: Lessons from Our Own Bodies

Speaker: Dr Lap Ki Chan, Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education &
Department of Anatomy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

In traditional dissection, students learn anatomy by passively follows a set of specific instructions to reveal the structures in the human body. In this short talk, I will describe several structured activities that have been designed to help students actively learn anatomy and other important lessons in life.

Sandwiches will be served with coffee and tea.

Seminar 3

Date: Thu, 8 May 2014
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Topic: Teaching Common Core Course on Politics and History

Speaker: Dr Xiaojun Yan
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Faculty of Social Sciences

Politics and History are considered to be the two notoriously “dry” subjects for colleges students of our time; yet, both are crucial elements in a liberal education curriculum. In this seminar, Dr. Yan Xiaojun will share his experiences in teaching political and historical subjects in a lively way in HKU’s common core curriculum.

Topic: Environmental Sustainability Education for Engineering and Non-Engineering Students

Speaker: Dr Kaimin Shih, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Environmental sustainability is a new element in both engineering and non-engineering curriculums. Today’s engineering teachers need to acquire new knowledge from cutting-edge research findings and bring them to their students. At the same time, it is also extremely crucial to work with students of non-engineering majors to facilitate the interdisciplinary innovations in this field. This presentation will demonstrate how we enjoy the communications with HKU students on this timely important environmental topic.

Sandwiches will be served with coffee and tea.

Seminar 4

Date: Wed, 14 May 2014
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Topic: The Enabling Power of Assessment in Higher Education

Speaker: Prof. Rick Glofcheski, Department of Law

The role and power of assessment in higher education is such that it poses significant risks as much as it does opportunities for learning. Teachers in higher education must bear in mind that there are often unintended consequences of assessment – so much so that, if improperly designed, assessment can direct students away from meaningful learning. This presentation, drawing on research and collaborations conducted at two leading Australian teaching and learning centres, under the auspices of a University of Hong Kong Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme (TEFS) award, will identify some of the risks and opportunities that assessment poses, and some examples of how, if properly understood and utilized, assessment has the potential to ensure more meaningful and sustainable learning that can serve student purposes well beyond graduation. The presentation will have relevance across the disciplines.

Seminar 5

Date: Wed, 21 May 2014
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Topic: Teaching Excellence Award Scheme Workshop

Speakers: Dr Cecilia Chan and Dr Susan Bridges, Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

This workshop is open to all teaching staff who are interested in finding out more about the Teaching Excellence Awards. Staff will be provided an overview of the award scheme, the key selection criteria and advice in preparing an evidence-based teaching portfolio. Staff who are thinking about applying in the next round are strongly encouraged to attend. Staff who are not sure, or would simply like to know more about the scheme, are most welcome.

For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai , CETL
Phone: 3917 8996; Email: laichun2@hku.hk.

Knowledge Exchange Lunch Meeting: Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Context

Message from Knowledge Exchange Office

Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Context

by Dr Matthew Boswell, Arts Engaged Fellow
Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds

Date: April 9, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Venue: Room P6-03, Graduate House

Sandwiches will be provided. All are welcome.

Abstract
In this presentation Dr Matthew Boswell, a Research Fellow in the School of English from the University of Leeds, will give an overview of an ongoing research and knowledge exchange project with the National Holocaust Centre (United Kingdom) and the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. The partnership began in 2013, when a small delegation of academics from the University of Leeds visited the Cape Town Holocaust Centre to undertake a range of research, teaching and knowledge exchange activities, including a workshop for heritage professionals. In March 2014 Dr Boswell and his colleagues returned to South Africa to work on the development of a public exhibition provisionally entitled Germany’s Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context, which will go on display in various venues in the UK and South Africa in 2015. The team will also hold workshops with teachers, curriculum advisors and heritage professionals, in a continuation of the activities begun in 2013.

Dr Boswell will describe the underpinning research that led to these knowledge exchange activities and the impacts that the project aims to deliver. He will also reflect on general lessons learned to date, including how best to negotiate political and historical sensitivities when entering into collaborations on emotional topics such as the Holocaust.

About the Speaker
Dr Boswell is a member of the Arts Engaged at the University of Leeds, a project designed to realise impact and innovation in the arts. He was a key respondent on an AHRC-funded project entitled “Testimony” (2009-2011), with research interest in “hybrid testimony” (which involves collaboration between victims and professional writers), perpetrator representation, heritage cinema and transnational memories of the Holocaust. He also discussed provocative responses to the Holocaust across a variety of media, including literature, film, documentary, comedy, the graphic novel, and punk and post-punk music.

For further details, please visit the KE website:
http://www.ke.hku.hk/events/seminars

Knowledge Exchange

Promoting Humanism & Professionalism in Medical Education: An Asian Perspective

Message from Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit

Professor CW Lai
Chair of the Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council
Former Dean, Tzu Chi College of Medicine, Hualien
Former Chair, Medical Education Committee, Ministry of Education, Taiwan

As a practising neurologist trained in Taiwan and in the United States and from his leadership roles in medicine and government, Professor Lai brings clinical, cross-cultural and professional experience to the medical humanities. He has been instrumental in the initiation and development of Medical Humanities education in medical schools across Taiwan, particularly in the efforts to promote vertical curricular integration and collaboration between clinical and humanities faculty.

Date: April, 11 (Fri) 2014 (Rescheduled from March 27)
Time: 1:00 – 2:00PM (Sandwiches will be provided)
Venue: Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, 2/F, William MW Mong Block Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road

Abstract of the seminar

In Taiwan, most medical schools accept students after high school, where the focus had been on the preparation for the highly competitive college entrance examination, and humanism and liberal arts are not emphasized. Furthermore, most medical schools are actually “medical universities” rather than being a branch of a general university, and therefore, have substantial difficulties in recruiting the best qualified faculty in the area of liberal arts, humanities and social sciences, and consequently, the curricula in these areas are suboptimal.

In the past, we have tried to keep the first two years of medical education (“premed”) exclusively for liberal arts and medical humanities, but such a curriculum design has not resulted in significant improvement in the humanistic and professional qualities in our medical graduates, and we are now working on the “vertical integration” of medical humanities courses to emphasize its learning throughout the entire medical school years, especially during the clinical years, to make humanism and professionalism more relevant to the students.

In the last few years, there is a trend in medical education in Taiwan where schools are encouraging students to have exposure to patients in their early years of medical school via service-learning courses in order to raise the students’ sensitivity to human suffering. Some schools also place emphasis on language skills (e.g. in English and the local Taiwanese dialect), bioethics and history of medicine. In addition, we are increasingly aware of the differences between Western and non-Western sociocultural and historical background, and a group of medical educators have challenged the universal applicability of the Western framework of medical professionalism and have proposed a process to build a professionalism framework that reflects the cultural heritage and the values of local stakeholders. Furthermore, there is a concerted effort by medical and non-medical faculty from all medical schools via a core group called “Medical Educators for Humanities (MEH)” to improve the quality of teaching and curriculum design in these areas, as well as the collaboration between clinical and humanities faculty.

We hope our efforts in promoting humanism and professionalism in medical education in Taiwan will produce competent physicians equipped with not only knowledge and skills, but also caring attitude.

All are welcome

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=29363

Medical Education Taiwan

China Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar

Message from Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Inc. the Centre of Asian Studies) is pleased to announce its 5th China Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar for the second semester 2013-14.

On Tuesday, 1 April 2014, we welcome Dr. Loretta Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Title: The Pen is as Mighty as the Sword: Documentary and Literary Views of Hailanča

Abstract:
The life of Hailanča (?-1793) can be seen as both prosaic and as extraordinary. Starting his military career as a private, Hailanča earned a solid reputation as a warrior and eventually led several major campaigns, including the suppression of the Jinchuan uprisings. His distinguished service to the Qing empire yielded hereditary honors for his son and customary posthumous accolades. In those ways, he resembled many of his peers in the imperial hall of martial fame. However, he was also unusual as a member of the Solon tribal confederation to attain such high rank and is therefore celebrated not only as one of the Qing dynasty’s greatest soldiers but as a folk hero of the Ewenki ethnic group.
This presentation explores Hailanča’s legacy drawing upon evidence from his own correspondence with other Qing bureaucrats and to the imperial court, official biographies, and contemporary literature. Although his achievements as a military official may speak for themselves in the outcomes of battlefield casualties and the overall stability of the regime that he fought to maintain, his lived experience and the impressions that remain of his personal character are the foci of this study.

The seminar will be held in May Hall, Room 201, from 12-1PM. As usual, sandwiches and light refreshments will be served. We hope you will join us.

The aim of this informal series is to introduce scholars throughout the university to the wide range of current research on China, its society, people, institutions, and interconnections with the rest of the world being carried out in Hong Kong in various disciplines. We look forward to having you join us and welcome your participation and input.

If you have any questions about this seminar, would be interested in giving a talk, or would like to be removed from this mailing list, please contact Dr. Li Ji (liji66@hku.hk) or Dr. Lawrence Zhang (lczhang@hku.hk).

We look forward to seeing you.

Drs. Li Ji and Lawrence Zhang
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Incorporating the Centre of Asian Studies)

China Interdisciplinary Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Lunchtime Lecture–Recital: Mostly Debussy

Message from Cultural Management Team

Lunchtime Lecture–Recital

Mostly Debussy

From Five to Eight Fingers: Pour le ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’

‘Mostly Debussy’ is a series of piano lecture-recitals that leads up to year 2018, which will mark the 100th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s death. This first presentation is inspired by the first volume of Debussy’s Douze Etudes, which is bookended with the opening Pour les cinq doigts (For Five Fingers after Mr. Czerny), and the concluding Pour les huit doigts (For Eight Fingers).

PROGRAMME

Couperin
Clementi
Debussy
Debussy
Debussy
Rameau
Debussy
Rameau
Debussy
Debussy
Rameau

L’art de toucher le claveçin: Premier Prélude
Gradus ad Parnassum, Op. 44, No. 16: Veloce
Children’s Corner: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
from La boîte à joujoux
Pour les cinq doigts
Les Tourbillons
Pour les huit doigts
Gavotte from Gavotte et doubles
Suite Bergamasque: Prélude
Pour les agréments
La Poule

LUCAS WONG
As Assistant Professor of Piano at Soochow University School of Music in China, pianist Lucas Wong is earning a diversified career as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and repetiteur. He has performed in Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall in New York, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, the Banff Centre, and the Chan Centre in Vancouver, to name a few. As a vocal pianist and assistant conductor, he has been on the roster of the New York City Opera, Opera America, the Opera Theater of Connecticut, and the Hugo Kauder Society. Wong has been a guest lecturer on Debussy at the Juilliard School, and has given masterclasses and performances at the 2009 Shanghai International Piano Festival, and as well as other institutions, such as the Xinghai Conservatory and Pre-College Division.

FREE ADMISSION, ALL WELCOME
No registration required

ENQUIRIES 
3917 7754 | museinfo@hku.hk  | Event Details

For ages 6+ 
The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and artists

Cultural Management Team

The Experiential Learning of Sustainability – Division of Landscape Architecture Lunchtime Lecture

Message from Division of Landscape Architecture

Friday, 28 March 2014
Lunchtime Public Lecture
HKU Division of Landscape Architecture

THE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING OF SUSTAINABILITY
Ms Vincci Mak
Assistant Professor
HKU Division of Landscape Architecture

Abstract:

Sustainability has taken a crucial role in Hong Kong’s education. The HKU Division of Landscape Architecture is currently at the frontier of research and teaching of sustainable development in the region.

This talk will present a research project, “Hong Kong Platforms: Towards a Sustainable City” (HKPL), as a case study to discuss the experiential learning of sustainability.

While global sustainable issues are usually covered in taught courses, HKPL has developed a set of interactive tools for students to bridge the global scale of sustainability issues to their everyday life and the community that they live in. With this set of learning tools, students are able to engage in the study of sustainability in their everyday living environment, relating their own experience to the theoretical understanding of sustainability. The project also has an interactive discussion platform that we hope to nurture an on-going dialogue to discuss issues of sustainability in the future.

www.hongkongplatforms.org

DATE: Friday, 28 March 2014
TIME: 1–2pm
VENUE: KB622, 6/F Knowles Building, Pokfulam Road, the University of Hong Kong

Free pizza and soft drink will be provided.

This lecture is part of ‘The Lay of the Land’, a lecture series hosted by the HKU Division of Landscape Architecture focused on research in progress.

Division of Landscape Architecture Experiential Learning

CHER Seminar by Professor William G. Tierney

Message from Faculty of Education

Community of Higher Education Research (CHER) in Hong Kong

Are There Critical Issues that Urge Advanced Studies in Higher Education?

William G. Tierney
University of Southern California
HKU Visiting Research Professor

“A Conversation about the role of higher education in fixing failed states”
(with Anatoly Oleksiyenko, reporting on cases from Ukraine and Russia)

Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: 12.45-2.00pm
Venue: Room 401-402, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
Chair: Gerard A. Postiglione

Abstract:

Failed higher education is most likely to lead to failed state. The opposite can be also true. Looking into the previous studies on the subject and bringing into the conversation the cases of Ukraine and Russia, the discussants will push the boundaries on theoretical perspectives in the field, examine potential problems, and contemplate on opening opportunities in fixing failed states with the help of academic excellence, accountability, and public-private partneships.

About the speaker:

William G. Tierney is Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education. Former President of the USC Academic Senate, he chaired the Ph.D. program for the USC Rossier School of Education and chaired the University Committee on Academic Review. He also served as President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He has recently been elected as President of the American Education Research Association. His research interests pertain to organizational performance, equity, and faculty roles and rewards. Professor Tierney teaches courses on the administration and governance of higher education and on qualitative methods. He is currently HKU Visiting Research Professor.

~ All are Welcome! ~

The Community for Higher Education Research is designed to bring together researchers in any area of higher education research for exchange and critical dialogue. The seminar is co-organized and supported by the Higher Education Partnerships FRT, SIG “Higher Education” of the Comparative Education Research Center.

CHER Faculty of Education Higher Education

Assessing Assessment by Professor Paul Engel

Message from Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education

You are cordially invited to attend the following joint seminar organized by the Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education (IMHSE) and Department of Biochemistry:

Title: Assessing Assessment
Date: Monday, April 7, 2014
Time: 4:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block,
Faculty of Medicine Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Engel

About the speaker

Professor Engel has played an instrumental role in the university effort to build a good teaching quality assurance system in UCD for about 10 years. As a teacher, he is well recognized for his excellent teaching delivery in various universities including Sheffield, Oxford, Hong Kong and UCD to students of Biochemistry, Medicine, Engineering, Nursing and other Science subjects through lectures, tutorial sessions, and practical classes. He has served as External Examiner for numerous top universities in the world and in the UK, besides publishing two textbooks in Biochemistry.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

IMHSE

MEL Seminar “Data Sharing in Health and Science: Something to Fear or Embrace?”

Message from Centre for Medical Ethics and Law

Professor Eric M. Meslin
Director of Center for Bioethics
Associate Dean for Bioethics and Professor of Medicine
Indiana University

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

Abstract

In 1969 Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan said: “The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.” McLuhan’s words may have been prescient coming decades before the sequenced human genome and the surge in use of ‘big data’ analytics raised profound ethical issues for science and society. But it would be a mistake to conclude that collecting and sharing data is always dangerous and dehumanizing. This talk will first review some of the current data on data sharing from why researchers resist sharing data, to what patients say they want shared ¬ and then discuss some promising approaches for getting the balance right between protecting personal privacy and promoting public health.

Biography of speaker

Professor Eric M. Meslin is founding Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. He is also Associate Dean for Bioethics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and is Professor of Medicine; of Medical & Molecular Genetics; of Public Health; and of Philosophy. In 2012 he was appointed as Indiana University’s first Professor of Bioethics, and co-directs the Indiana University Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR).

Dr. Meslin has more than 150 published articles and book chapters on various topics in bioethics and science, is a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Bioethics and Law Series, and the Indiana University Press Bioethics and Humanities Series. He has been a member of several boards and committees in the U.S. and Canada including the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs; the Ethics Subcommittee, Advisory Committee to the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta; and the Board of Directors of Canada’s Stem Cell Network Centre of Excellence. Canada. He is a current member of Science and Industry Advisory Committee of Genome Canada. In 2007 he was appointed a Chevalier de L’Order Nationale du Mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit) by the French Ambassador to the United States for contributions to French bioethics policy.

Please register online at

http://www.cmel.hku.hk/events/upcoming-events or email Ms. Polly Yiu at cmel@hku.hk to reserve a place.

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

Indiana University Medical Ethics MEL