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Conducting synchronous online teaching on Zoom and keeping students engaged in online classes are major challenges shared by many HKU teachers in the past few months. In this online workshop, we will give an overview of the challenges experienced by HKU teachers in the 2019/20 Second Semester during the current switch to online teaching and learning. We will also share good practices on how some teachers leverage the online environment to keep students engaged and even create more exciting learning opportunities. Examples of tools that can help to facilitate online discussions will also be shared in this workshop.

We will introduce:

• good practices of restructuring your lesson to a virtual flipped classroom
• tips on breaking the ice with your students virtually and keeping them engage online; and
• examples of tools that promote online discussions.

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the strategies and techniques in conducting synchronous online teaching on Zoom
• Select and integrate appropriate tools in online lessons for keeping students engaged and facilitating their discussions online;
• Reflect on practices and considerations in conducting online classes.

For enquiries, please contact us at enquiry@teli.hku.hk.

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In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, teaching and learning have shifted online and students often learn through lecture videos now. One of the challenges for educators is understanding and exploring how best we may produce instructional videos. Video production may seem a daunting task to some teachers. However, producing instructional videos at home can be a reality with the right tools and training.

This workshop will give a brief introduction to the potential and affordances of videos in teaching and assessments. We will introduce:

• examples of how videos have been used in HKU courses for teaching and assessments;
• multimedia production support resources in HKU; and
• tips on DIY video production.

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the challenges and opportunities of using instructional videos
• Familiarize the required equipment, techniques, and workflows of producing instructional videos at home;
• Identify the support of producing instructional videos at the campus; and
• Reflect on practices and considerations in incorporating videos in their learning design.

For enquiries, please contact us at enquiry@teli.hku.hk.

You are cordially invited to the Responsive4U e-Symposium, an interactive online event featuring a UGC funded project, entitled “The Responsive University: Appreciating Content Sharing in General Education,” (also code-named as Responsive4U).

Visit the e-symposium: https://bit.ly/R4U_esymp

Under the Responsive4U project, 11 General Education courses offered in blended format were shared among four local institutions (HKU, CUHK, PolyU, and HKUST), reaching over 2000 students. This content sharing initiative allows institutions to amplify the impact of their quality teaching. Most importantly, the multilateral exchanges among students, teachers and university administrators have opened up practicable genuinely student-oriented ways of teaching and learning.

The Responsive4U e-Symposium featuring:
From June 9 to June 30, interact with online content at your own pace:

• Presentations on project insights and feedback;
• Panel discussions with project participants;
• Course design sharing posters; and
• Online discussions with project team and event participants.

On June 22 (Monday), 10:00am-12:00noon HKT, join our live session with university leaders to explore how institutions can become more responsive in the digital era.

Come on in to the e-symposium: https://bit.ly/R4U_esymp !

No registration required, all are welcome. We look forward to your presence online!

Responsive4U Project Team
Technology-Enriched Learning Initiative

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About this course

Do you wonder what the European Union is all about? What challenges does it face and can it survive them? How will the eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, Brexit and the COVID-19 outbreak reshape Europe? This is the course for you!

In this course, we will introduce you to key concepts and historical turning points, which have shaped contemporary Europe. What is national sovereignty and can it be shared? What impact has the 1989 collapse of communism had on Europe and is the East-West divide still relevant today? Can the North-South division triggered by the eurozone crisis be overcome, or will it be reinforced through the COVID-19 outbreak? And finally, what is the best size for a political unit?

The course’s ultimate focus is on the function and status of national and European borders and the question of what it means to belong to a political community: who is in, who is out? How and why are people included or excluded? And, what, finally, is the future of a borderless Europe?

Taught by a skeptical European who lived, studied and worked in Germany, Slovakia, Ireland, Australia and Hong Kong, this course includes a number of interviews with leading scholars, practitioners and best-selling authors, including Timothy Garton Ash, David Goodhart, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, George Papandreou and Helen Thompson.

The European Union pervades all aspects of people’s lives. But the course will be of particular interest to many professionals dealing with the EU whether they are EU citizens, or not.

Week 1: Europe at a crossroads: COVID-19 & Brexit

• What is the ideal of a “Europe without Borders”? Are we witnessing its unravelling?
• How is Europe confronting the challenges of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic?
• Why does the concept of sovereignty matter for understanding the current state of the world?

Week 2: The European Union and the nation-state

• Who are “We, the People”? What holds political communities together? Who is included/excluded?
• What type of political unit is the European Union? What does it mean to be an EU citizen? Has the EU transcended the idea of sovereignty?

Week 3: A union under strain: The Eurozone and refugee crises

• Has European integration proceeded too fast?
• Eurozone crisis: what are the limits of solidarity inside the EU?
• Refugee crisis: Towards a divided Europe of reinstated borders?

Week 4: Post-1989 Europe and the “end of history”

• The meaning of 1989 and the return of Central Europe
• Is the old East-West divide still relevant today?
• Can European values survive the resurgence of illiberalism? What are the prospects of the European project in the near future?

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About this course

This course, developed by the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong in collaboration with committee members of international and national cardiac imaging societies, is for radiologists, cardiologists, radiographers/ technologists and other health professionals who want to learn more about this imaging modality. The course follows the level 1 recommendations of cardiac imaging societies by covering the required topics and providing 50 hands-on cardiac CT cases. Previous experience in cardiac CT is not required.

Learning outcomes:

• Understanding of the common cardiac CT examinations in order to better understand how to acquire cardiac images and to interpret them.
• Ability to analyse cardiac CT images at level 1 competency such as calcium score, CT coronary angiography, TAVI.
• Attain hands-on experience to analyse real cases from a database of 50 clinical cases, using dedicated software, as well as further supplementation through our web forum.
• Basic understanding of future developments in the cardiac CT field.
• Provide career advice and thoughts from well-known experts through exclusive interviews.

A MOOC on cardiovascular magnetic resonance will be available on this platform in the near future. Watch this space!

WEEK 1: Anatomy and common types of Cardiac CT
This MOOC will begin with a course on cardiac anatomy and common cardiac CT examinations (e.g calcium score, CT coronary angiogram, pulmonary vein CT and TAVI). You will also learn basics on contrasts agents.

WEEK 2: Role, Analysis & Reporting of Cardiac CT
In this section, we will teach you the role of calcium score, CT coronary angiogram, CT pulmonary veins and TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation) and how to interpret those examinations. We will also explain the role and analysis of CT for planning atrial fibrillation therapy.

WEEK 3: Technology, Image Production and Post Processing
This section will cover the principles of image production at the scanner (e.g physics, adapted protocols, radiation exposure). You will also learn image post-processing for analysis.

WEEK 4: Specialized Utilization of CT
In the last section, we will introduce you to more advanced utilizations of cardiac CT (e.g Ventricular function, CT FFR, myocardial perfusion, spectral CT) and future developments in cardiac CT.

You will also have the opportunity to practice on clinical cases and discuss this through our web forum every week.