CITE & Faculty of Education Moodle Workshop – Nov 22

Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education

The workshop is jointly organized by CITE and Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong


Moodle Users Group (MUG) Workshop
Date: 22 November 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Mr. Brant Knutzen, Learning Designer, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

About the Workshop
The Moodle Users Group workshops are designed to give instructors and TAs support for the development and implementation of Moodle courses to support teaching and learning.  Users of all levels are welcome: if you need help uploading files, setting up collaborative activities, or aligning your course curriculum with your intended learning outcomes.   Bring your laptop — these are hands-on workshops! Facilitators may demonstrate their own Moodle courses and activities, but there are no slideshow presentations planned.

About the Speaker
Brant Knutzen is the Learning Designer for the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong.  He has been involved in e-learning for 28 years as software developer, website developer, and corporate trainer.  He currently teaches on an MSc Education program relating to e-learning and educational leadership, and provides e-learning support and professional development for teaching staff.  His research areas include the design, implementation and evaluation of highly engaging blended learning environments for schools and higher education.  Current Moodle plugin development projects include the Participation Map: a new way to visually display online discussion activity, and the Participation Forum: which generates a grade based on student posting activity.  See Brant.Knutzen.se for more information.

Please register at
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=467&category=seminar

Seminar: The Learning Management System: Adapt or Disappear – Nov 22

Speaker : Dr Iain Doherty, Director of EPSU, CETL
Date : November 22, 2012 (Thursday)
Time : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue : Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Abstract

The Learning Management System is coming under increasing criticism as a teaching and learning tool. In particular, critical voices talk about: content and interactions that are restricted to registered users, the lack of user control, the lack of user authoring tools and the prevalence of alternative applications and services that align much more readily with the ethos of a Web 2.0 era. In this seminar I will critically discuss the Learning Management System as a teaching and learning tool and ask what the Learning Management System has to offer in an age that defines our students as networked life–long learners.

About the speaker

Dr Iain Doherty is the Director of e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU), CETL.  He has over fifteen years of experience in the areas of education and technologies and was Director of the Learning Technology Unit, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland from 2004 -2011. He has a practice oriented research focus, has published extensively and remains “hands on” with technologies to ensure that his work is informed by a thorough working knowledge of technologies that might be used to enhance teaching and learning.

For details and online registration, please go to:

http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar121122/

For enquiries, please contact Ms Ivy Lai by email at laichun2@hku.hk.

Seminar: Enhancing teaching and learning through technology: from devices to people and processes – Nov 19

Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

Date : November 19, 2012 (Monday)
Time : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue : Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Speaker: Professor Grahame Bilbow

In October 2010, the National Union of Students in the UK published a report entitled Student Perspectives on Technology: demand, perceptions and training needs. This report described the potential for harnessing ICT to enhance university teaching and learning, and highlighted the changing demands and interests of students in relation to e-learning. Among other things, students were by no means convinced about the universal value of e-learning; nor were they convinced that their teachers had the skills to exploit the potential that did exist.

This seminar will explore the developing notions of digital visitors and digital residents and consider how these notions can improve our understanding of students and their learning styles, and teachers and their teaching styles. It will also suggest ways in which new technology is challenging some of our views about the nature of learning and teaching in universities.

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar121119.

For enquiries, please contact Mr William Yieu by email wyieu@hkucc.hku.hk .

Please click on the following link for a short biography of Professor Bilbow:
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/Prof_Grahame_Bilbow.pdf

Seminar: What is meant by Quality Teaching in Higher Education? – Nov 16

Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

Speaker: Professor Michael Prosser, Visiting Professor, CETL, HKU
Date: 16th November, 2012 (Friday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2 pm
Venue: Room 322, Run Run Shaw Building

Abstract
We often talk about quality teaching in higher education. We talk about quality assurance of teaching. We talk about how to evaluate quality teaching. We talk about how to support and develop quality teaching. We talk about how we can recognise and reward quality teaching. However, we rarely talk about what we mean by quality teaching. In this presentation, I wish to argue that quality teaching in higher education is teaching which affords high quality student learning. But what is high quality student learning in higher education and how can it be afforded? I will outline a model of teaching and learning, outline some of the research into the variation in the ways teachers approach their teaching in higher education, and show how this variation is related to the ways in which students approach their learning. I will conclude with a view on what constitute high quality teaching in higher education.

For details and online registration, please go to: http://www.cetl.hku.hk/seminar121116/

For enquiries, please contact Ms Ivy Lai by email at laichun2@hku.hk

Seminar: The Leshan Buddha Takes a LEAP: Contemporary Crosscurrents in American Higher Education – Nov 15

Speaker:
Professor Douglas Roscoe
Director of General Education and Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Date: November 15, 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2 pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Abstract
In the latter years of the 20th Century, several major crosscurrents in American higher education created a sense of discontent and a corresponding desire to reform undergraduate curricula.  Out of this period, a new model of general education emerged that has become broadly embraced throughout the US.  What is this new model and how does it differ from those of the past?  Has it, like the Leshan Buddha, managed to calm the waters?  What lessons can institutions promoting liberal education take away from the American reform experience?

About the Speaker
Douglas Roscoe is the Director of General Education and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.  Professor Roscoe’s academic interests center upon Congress, the president, interest groups, and political parties. He is especially interested in the dynamics of the electoral process, and how interest groups and parties shape lawmaking and public policy through electoral politics. His research has been published in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, the American Review of Politics, and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.  His most recent work, “Comparing Outcomes in Blended and Face-to-Face Courses,” appears in the Journal of Political Science Education.  In 2011 Professor Roscoe was a Fulbright Scholar at Lingnan University.

All are welcome.
For registration, please visit
http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=20447.
Enquiries can be made with Ms Emily Chan at 2219 4790 or chiting@hku.hk.

Workshop: Criteria, Standards and Judgement Practice: Making Assessment a Shared Enterprise – Nov 21

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

Speaker: Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith, Griffith University, Australia
Date: 21 Nov, 2012 (Wed)
Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Abstract
This presentation will focus on the nature of quality assessment as it involves the use of criteria and standards. Of special interest is the pedagogic use of stated features of quality and how they can be incorporated into a dialogic approach to learning and teaching. Also considered will be the source of criteria and standards and how judgement can be understood as drawing on three categories of criteria namely stated criteria, latent criteria and meta-criteria. The ideas explored in the session have direct relevance to quality assurance methods and moderation practices involving the use of standards.

Biography
Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith is Dean (Academic) for Arts, Education and Law at Griffith University. Previously the Dean of the Faculty of Education, she has also been a sole or chief investigator on a significant number of ARC and government funded projects over the last decade. These have been primarily in the fields of literacy and assessment, with particular focus on teacher judgment, evaluative frameworks and the literacy-curriculum-assessment interface.

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

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Workshop: Assessment and feedback: encouraging expert-like behaviour among students – Nov 20

Date         : November 20, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time         : 12:45pm – 2pm
Venue       : Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Facilitator : Professor Grahame Bilbow

Students’ reports on the assessment and feedback they experience at university suggest that practices vary considerably both within and across institutions. Despite the move in recent years towards the outcome-oriented curriculum and a greater level of integration of assessment within courses, it is still common for students to misunderstand the forms and purposes of the assessment and feedback they experience while at university.  It is also not uncommon for university teachers to use assessment and feedback in ways that confuse students, and in ways that do not align with curriculum outcomes.

Using research conducted in the teaching and learning of Physics, this workshop explores the trajectory from novice to expert, and considers ways in which assessment and feedback can be designed to elicit expert-like performance on the part of students.  In so doing, assessment and feedback can be better understood by students and assessment and feedback can demonstrate stronger alignment to curriculum outcomes.

For details and online registration, please go to http://www.cetl.hku.hk/workshop121120.

For enquiries, please contact Mr William Yieu by email wyieu@hkucc.hku.hk .

Please click on the following link for a short biography of Professor Bilbow:
http://www.cetl.hku.hk/Prof_Grahame_Bilbow.pdf

Staff Seminar: Flipping the Classroom

Message from Common Core Curriculum Committee

Date: 30 October 2012 (Tue)
Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Venue: LG-06, Hui Oi Chow Science Building

Speaker
Professor Harry Lewis
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Abstract
Professor Harry Lewis will report on an experiment teaching in a “flipped classroom”, in which students watched lectures over the Internet in their dormitory rooms, and spent class time solving problems. The subject matter was discrete mathematics, which is well suited to this pedagogical style, but the class was so successful that he expects it will be widely adapted at Harvard—if a variety of serious practical problems can be managed.

About the Speaker
Professor Harry Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He served as Dean of Harvard College from 1995-2003. He holds A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, all in Applied Mathematics.

Throughout his career, Professor Lewis has been actively involved in pedagogical innovation. He is the author of numerous books and articles in three areas of scholarship: theoretical computer science; the social implications of the development of the Internet; and the history and future of higher education. His recent books include Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?; Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion; and What Is College For? The Public Purpose of Higher Education.

All are welcome.

For enquiries, please mail to commoncore@hku.hk or call 2219 4957.

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Common Core Distinguished Lecture Series – Lecture 3: Excellence with a Soul: The Mission of Undergraduate Education

Lecture 3 – Excellence with a Soul: The Mission of Undergraduate Education (Common Core Curriculum)
Speaker: Professor Harry Lewis, Harvard University

Date: Tuesday October 30, 2012
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre (Main venue)
(Webcasting in other venues will be available)

Abstract
What should students get from their undergraduate education? Not just knowledge and skills, but habits, values, and ideals. A great education leaves students empowered by their knowledge and humble about its limits, curious to learn more and skeptical about what they have been taught. Well-educated people can place the problems of their society in the course of human history, and can face their personal challenges in the context of what others before them have wondered about themselves. True educational excellence does not just transmit information; it inspires students and awakens their souls.

About the Speaker
Professor Harry Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He served as Dean of Harvard College from 1995-2003. He holds A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, all in Applied Mathematics.
Professor Lewis is the author of numerous books and articles in three areas of scholarship: theoretical computer science; the social implications of the development of the Internet; and the history and future of higher education. His books have had a significant influence on the teaching of computer science to undergraduates.
During his almost forty years of teaching, Professor Lewis has helped launch thousands of Harvard undergraduates into careers in computer science. His former students include dozens of today’s computer science professors and many successful entrepreneurs, including both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

The lecture series is sponsored by Mr Alex CH Lai 賴振鴻 (BSc(Eng)1985).

For enquiries, please mail to commoncore@hku.hk or call 2219 4957.

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Common Core Distinguished Lecture Series – Lecture 2: Science for Future World Leaders

Date: Wednesday October 24, 2012
Time: 6:45 – 8:00 pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre (Main venue)
(Webcasting in other venues will be available)

Abstract
We live in a world in which many issues, possibly most, have a technological component. It is no longer sufficient for world leaders to master the traditional areas of politics, economics, business and diplomacy; they must understand science. The lecture will describe a new way to teach science to future world leaders based on emphasis of issues that are evidently important. These will include the physics of terrorism and counter-terrorism; nuclear weapons, nuclear accidents, and cancer; space and satellites, energy and alternative energy, and global warming. This is not diluted science, but tough top-level science, science that can and must be mastered by not only our leaders but by the people who elect them.

About the Speaker
Professor Richard Muller is professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley. His proudest achievements: discovery of the non-uniformity of the radiation from the Big Bang; invention of AMS, now adopted around the world as the most sensitive method of radioisotope dating; Nemesis theory of a companion star to the sun; creation of a supernova discovery program that led to the discovery of dark energy; lunar soil analysis; author of a technical book on glacial cycles and climate change. His course “Physics for Future Presidents” was twice voted “Best Class at Berkeley” and has been watched on YouTube in ninety countries. He is currently leading the “Berkeley Earth” study making a new evaluation of global warming.

Professor Muller has been awarded the MacArthur Prize, the NSF Waterman Award, the Texas Instruments Founders Prize, and numerous teaching awards. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book is Energy for Future Presidents.

For enquiries, please mail to commoncore@hku.hk or call 2219 4957.

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Science for Future World Leaders
Conversation with Students

The distinguished lecture will be followed by Professor Muller’s conversation with students on Thursday, October 25 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in Room 112, Knowles Building. Students who have attended the lecture on October 24 are most welcome to participate.

Registration