Deepen your appreciation of the values and meanings of vernacular architecture in your local environments
Establish your personal perspectives on the more complex issues in vernacular architecture, such as self-conscious or un-self-conscious way of building, informal settlements, and cultural sustainability
Help you to generate your own ideas of how to protect and conserve your local vernacular built environment
On May 12-13, 2016, representatives from nine institutions gathered at the second Asian e-Table to explore collaboration opportunities and challenges in developing online learning in Asia.
Participants included:
Dr. Huang Hoon CHNG, Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education), National University of Singapore
Professor Toru IIYOSHI, Deputy Vice President for Education, Kyoto University
Professor Joon HEO, Director of Open & Smart Education Center, Yonsei University
Ms. Helie KIM, Yonsei University
Professor Xiaoming LI, Assistant President, Peking University
Professor Benson Yeh Ping-Cheng, Director of MOOC Program at National Taiwan University
Professor Chetwyn CHAN, Associate Vice-President (Learning and Teaching), PolyU
Professor Roger CHENG, Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning, HKUST
Professor Nick Noakes, Director of Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching, HKUST
Professor T.C. PONG, Senior Advisor to Executive Vice-President and Provost, HKUST
Professor Isabella POON, Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice-President, CUHK
Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching & Learning)
At the event, we also skyped in Anant Agarwal, the CEO of edX, during our roundtable discussions.
This year we welcomed a new member from Yonsei University, Professor Joon HEO, Director of Open & Smart Education Center.
Together, participants discussed the possibilities and issues in:
developing an Asian consortium with gatherings of colleagues at different working levels;
developing a central repository for content sharing, including full courses, micro-modules, and pedagogical showcases;
enhancing professional development and teacher training;
launching a regional (E-)Teaching Excellence Award so as to encourage teaching staff to invest more efforts in e-learning and establish a common standard of teaching;
co-creating MOOCs (possible topics include computational thinking and MOOC production);
and
creating better E-portfolios.
The HKU team also had the pleasure to share our recent experience in developing an online course from a grassroot level in the BOLT project.
Looking forward
Asian e-Table is an annual conference on e-learning initiated by HKU in 2015. We endeavour to gather experts in the region “to build a platform, a foundation, to something that can be sustainable and vibrant in the years ahead,” as pointed out by Professor Ian Holliday. The ultimate goal is to facilitate knowledge exchange and build a community of practice. Click here for a more detailed report on the event.
Technology has no borders, so is education. Contact us if you are interested in developing online education in Asia with us.
We kicked off the event by playing two videos that showcase not only our productions but also the behind-the-scenes of our daily work. With a good laugh, we started our intellectual exchange session with discussions to identify the key obstacles faced by the two e-learning teams. As e-learning materials makers, we often work with teachers who are exceptional in teaching a class but not as comfortable talking to a camera. It was agreed that creating a similar setting to classroom and providing adequate training and rehearsals are effective ways to ease up the tension. The KEEP team also shared with us the equipment and facilities they use for e-learning production and their home-grown systems such as uReply and VeriGuide.
The discussion continued over a delightful lunch, which was followed by a visit to our “arsenal” where all our productions are crafted. The KEEP team was amazed by our lively offices and the close bonding of the team, which echo with Professor Ricky Kwok’s quotation of Mencius: 天時不如地利 地利不如人和 (Time isn’t as important as the terrain, but the terrain isn’t as important as unity with the people).
The KEEP team parted with the promise of a BBQ event in CUHK in the near future. So, to be continued……
Afternote: KEEP is an initiative developed by CUHK in collaboration with all UGC-funded institutions in Hong Kong. It provides a single gateway to online learning content around the globe. Learn more here: https://keep.edu.hk/
Date : June 6, 2016 (Monday) Time : 12:45pm – 2:00pm Venue : Room 321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building (Main Campus), HKU Speakers : Dr. Lap Ki Chan
Assistant Dean (Pedagogy), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences
Panelists :
Dr. Charlene C. Ho, School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Fraide A. Ganotice, Jr., Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education
Dr. Veronica Lam, School of Nursing
Dr. Law Ming Fai, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Dr. Gordon Wong, Department of Anaesthesiology
About the seminar:
Interprofessional team-based learning (IPTBL) is an innovative teaching initiative which aims at promoting active learning and collaborations across disciplines. The students work in teams and learn how the various medical specialities resolve clinical cases together. IPTBL gives students from various disciplines an opportunity to develop friendship and work with pre-professionals of other expertise before they practice in the “real world”.
In this seminar, Dr. Lap Ki Chan, the Principal Investigator of a UGC-funded project on IPTBL, will share with you the key features of this new pedagogy, as well as his pioneering experience in implementing IPTBL with 500+ students from HKU and PolyU across 7 different programmes related to medical health care.
Dr. Lap Ki Chan, M.B.B.S. (HK), F.H.K.A.M., F.H.K.C.O.S. (Orthopedics), F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), Ph.D. (Duke), is an associate professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences, the Deputy Director of Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, and an Assistant Dean (Pedagogy) at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. He has a background in orthopedics and physical anthropology and teaches gross anatomy to medical and other health professional students and is the coordinator of the Education Division of Anatomy in the School of Biomedical Sciences. His teaching excellence has been recognized by such awards as the Outstanding Teaching Award from The University of Hong Kong. He is the educator in the Asia Pacific region for the AO Foundation (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen). He serves as an associate editor for Anatomical Sciences Education and has co-edited the book “Teaching Anatomy – A Practical Guide” (Springer). His research interests include innovative pedagogies in anatomy education, teacher training, and interprofessional education.
