Vice-President (Teaching and Learning)

Message from Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President (Teaching & Learning)

Dear colleagues,

Just a couple of teaching matters to bring to your attention ahead of the new academic session.

Plagiarism

The University is committed to upholding the highest standards of academic integrity, and has in place a Policy on Student Plagiarism in Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate Curricula. Please do inform your students about proper academic practice. Relevant resources can be found on the plagiarism website.

Assessment

Assessment is an important vehicle for supporting and guiding student learning. The University has an overarching assessment policy which sets out the philosophy and principles that guide and regulate assessment practice. The key principle is that students should be assessed in an appropriate, fair, rigorous and transparent manner. Solid and timely feedback, not restricted to scores or grades, should be provided. The QAC Audit Panel advised us to enhance students’ understanding of the grade descriptors used in undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses, and to provide better feedback.

I’m therefore writing to ask you at the start of each semester to talk students through the grade descriptors used in your courses, so that they understand the level of performance expected of them. Please also give timely feedback on assignments and written examinations, to enable students to learn from what they have done well and what they have done badly.

The Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC) will continue to work on enhancing assessment practice and providing good feedback to students. If you have any thoughts or need any help, please contact the TALIC staff liaison for your Faculty/Office:

Happy teaching!

Best wishes, Ian

Professor Ian Holliday
Vice-President (Teaching and Learning)

Message from Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President (Teaching & Learning) <coopedu@hku.hk>

Dear colleagues

During our Faculty Board visits earlier this semester, we floated the idea of a new undergraduate Co-op programme. We’ve since worked up the idea into a draft Senate paper, which can be viewed at https://intraweb.hku.hk/reserved_2/cdqa/doc/draft_Co-op_Education.pdf (HKU Portal login required). We’re writing to seek your comments on the draft.

We’ll also be hosting an open forum next week. Please join us if you’d like to be part of the debate. These are the details:

Date: May 14, 2024 (Tuesday)

Time: 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Venue: Room 223, 2/F, Knowles Building (Main Campus)

Many thanks in advance for your feedback!

Best wishes
Ian and Pauline

Professor Ian Holliday
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor
(Teaching and Learning)

Professor Pauline Chiu
Associate Vice-President
(Teaching and Learning)

Message from Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President (Teaching & Learning)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to let you know HKU is a now a member of EDUCAUSE. 

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to lead the way to advance the strategic use of technology and data to advance higher education.

As a member organization, we now have access to a vast collection of best practices, research and publications, as well as analytics and benchmarking services, peer connections, professional development opportunities and online conferences that we can join and make use of, to facilitate the use of AI, technology and data for teaching and learning as well as administration in many domains of university work.  This resource will also help our teams advance their professional growth.

Membership with EDUCAUSE is at an organizational level, which means colleagues from across the University have access to its membership benefits, and we hope that as many of us would take advantage of it as possible!

Please take a moment and have a look of Educause’s Member Benefits page and create an EDUCAUSE Profile so you can tailor your member experience to your interests.  In particular, we would encourage you to subscribe to their EDUCAUSE Reviews.

If you have any questions about the membership, please feel free to contact us at ithelp@hku.hk.

Best regards,

Ian, Pauline, Flora and Wilson

Professor Ian Holliday
Vice-President (Teaching and Learning)

Professor Pauline Chiu
Associate Vice President (Teaching and Learning)

Ms Flora Ng
Chief Information Office and University Librarian

Dr Wilson Kwok
Assistant IT Director (CIO and Librarian Office), Information Technology Services

Message from Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)

Dear colleagues and students

I am very pleased to announce the recipients of the University’s 2023 Teaching Excellence Awards. The Selection Panel was deeply impressed with the awardees’ dedication to teaching, their tireless and creative efforts to make learning enjoyable and challenging, and the impact they have made on student learning.

Outstanding Teaching Award

• Dr. John T.C. Fung, School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

Early Career Teaching Award

• Dr. Enoch Chan, School of Clinical Medicine and School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
• Professor Linda Chan, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
• Professor Ying Wai Chan, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
• Professor Frank van der Wouden, Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences
• Dr. Joni H. Zhang, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

Teaching Innovation Award

Individual award

• Professor Kristof H.C.G.J. Crolla, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture for Online E-Learning Database for Flipped-Classroom Tutorials on Digital Design Tools & Techniques in Architecture
• Ms. Susanne E. Trumpf, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture for TAL-L (Taxon-Archive-Lab – Library) – A Materials Archive for Landscape Architecture

Team award

• Dr. John T.C. Fung of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (Leader), Dr. Siu Ling Chan (Medicine), Dr. Vichy W.C. Ho (Arts), Mr. Chun Kit Chan (Medicine) and Dr. Alice H.Y. Yau (Arts) for A Cross-Disciplinary Transmutable Application of Interactive, Immersive 360 Virtual Reality Videos on a Learning Management System (LMS) Combined with Facilitated Structured 3D Debriefing- an Innovative Experiential Learning Pedagogy in Enhancing Student Learning Engagement
• Dr. Mei Li Khong of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (Leader), Professor Julian A. Tanner (Medicine), Dr. Fat Man Lau (Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre) and Professor Gary K.K. Lau (Medicine) for Students as Co-Designers – Formalising Student-Educator Partnerships in Curriculum and Pedagogy Co-Creation
• Professor George L. Tipoe of Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (Leader), Professor Fraide J.A. Ganotice (Medicine), Dr. Jannie Roed (Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre), Professor Linda Chan (Medicine) and Dr. Jian Yang (Medicine) for Reinventing Near-Peer Teaching: The “START to STaR” Programme at the Li Ka Shing, Faculty of Medicine

I would like to thank our external assessor Professor Moira Fischbacher-Smith (Vice-Principal (Learning and Teaching) of the University of Glasgow) for providing us with expert advice during the final selection process. I would also like to thank the other Panel members: Professor Pauline Chiu, Professor Cecilia Chan and Mr. Derek Cho (student representative) for their assistance in this important exercise

Please join me in congratulating the awardees!

Professor Ian Holliday
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
Chair, Selection Panel for 2023 Teaching Excellence Awards

Message from Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)

I’m sending you our Policy on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Teaching and Learning

Pls do drop me a line if you have any queries.

Best wishes, Ian

Professor Ian Holliday
Vice-President (Teaching and Learning)
The University of Hong Kong