Category: Experiential Learning

GHELC Seminar: Experiential Learning in Service Leadership: Nurturing Leaders for the 21st Century

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Abstract
In June 2012, the Faculty of Social Sciences launched the pilot project of Service Leadership Internship (SLI) under the funding of the HKI-SLAM, Victor and William Fung Foundation, which is supporting service leadership training in all eight of Hong Kong’s tertiary institution. The SLI took place in the summer where student interns worked as a team (groups of 3 – 5) to initiate, develop and implement (a) service task(s). By making use of interns’ multi-disciplinary knowledge, the student interns contribute as shared leaders and help community partners generate innovative solutions to authentic problems under different projects. The project contains real-life significance for interns to perform social responsibilities as a member of our society.

The Faculty also initiated a series of support to prepare the interns for the SLI projects. For example, an academic tutor will be assigned to take care of each SLI project. Also, a series of workshops using the social cognitive approach were organized so as to enhance interns’ social and personal competence as shared leaders and at the same time understand the construct of leaderships and social responsibilities through experiential learning and discussions. By completing the pre-workshop readings and actively participating in the workshops, interns internalize the core values like enhancing self-awareness, becoming more competent as shared leaders and developing social responsibilities as an active member of the society. Booster sessions were also provided as a platform for small group sharing and problem-solving.

In this presentation, the overall structure of the SLI and some of the experiential learning process and learning outcome of the interns will be shared.

Date: 29 Oct 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Run Run Shaw Building Room 321, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Eric Chui and Ms. Jessie Chow (Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU)

About the Speakers
Eric Chui is Associate Dean (Undergraduate Education) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he taught at the University of Exeter (UK), University of Queensland (Australia), City University of Hong Kong, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. Eric was educated at the University of Hong Kong (BSW) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil, PhD). His current research interests focus on the effectiveness of probation supervision for young offenders, and young defendants’ views of the legal personnel in Hong Kong. Eric was the managing editor and book review editor of the journal Asian Journal of Criminology, and serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals including the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Social and Public Policy Review, The Open Social Science Journal, and Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work.

Jessie Chow is a Teaching Consultant (Internships) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, she worked as an educational psychologist at mainstream schools, schools for maladaptive children, NGO and private edutainment centre. Ms Chow has also conducted numerous workshops and trainings for both pre-service and in-service teachers, gifted adolescents and parents with gifted children at different organizations and tertiary institutions. Her specialization focuses on giftedness and twice exceptionality.

GHELC Seminar Series – Life Review Project: Integrating Experiential Learning in to the Curriculum

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Date: 4 Oct 2013 (Friday)
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Run Run Shaw Building Room 321, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Angela Leung (Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, HKU)

Abstract
Life Review, a thought-provoking project in Gerontological Nursing Course, challenges students with the occasions meeting and chatting with senior citizens and identifying the important life events. These life events can be influential to their ego, their health behavior and perception about their relationships with friends and relatives. With the agreement from older adults, nursing students captured all the valuable memories and wrote up commemorative booklets. These booklets serve as gifts to the beloved relatives or comprehensive records of all achievements in lives. In this seminar, the speaker will focus on how to guide a project-based learning and integrate it into a curriculum. Discussion will emphasize the role of teachers, collaborators and students in experiential learning.

About the Speakers
Dr. Angela Leung is Assistant Professor of the School of Nursing at The University of Hong Kong. She is also a CADENZA fellow, Investigator of the Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone and Healthy Ageing of the University of Hong Kong, Honorary Research Fellow of the Sau Po Centre on Ageing of the University of Hong Kong, Council member of Hong Kong Association of Gerontology, Council member of Community Rehabilitation Network, and Fellow of College of Gerontology Nursing, Hong Kong Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Leung is an experienced health and nursing educator, active researcher in educational gerontology with a wide range of publications in diabetes and dementia. She advocates out-of-classroom learning experience for medical and nursing students. Her recently funded projects include e-health literacy programme for university students, Life Review projects in gerontological nursing, Generations as Partners in Education: A service learning programme in Gerontology (GAPIE), and Inter-professional online learning in dementia (IPOLD).

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GHELC Seminar: Academic-Community Partnership in Supervising Student Learning

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The Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre (GHELC) seminar series offers faculty members valuable information on experiential learning, providing fundamentals of various key components of experiential learning, its practice and implementation. Through these seminars, the benefits for faculty members will be: intellectual stimulation; developing working relationships, especially interdisciplinary relationships; building a greater sense of intellectual community; learning new teaching and research methods; and learning about new opportunities.

Title: Academic-Community Partnership in Supervising Student Learning
Date: 14 May 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Run Run Shaw Building Room321, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Mr. John Lin (Faculty of Architecture, HKU)

Abstract
Experiential learning involves collaborative, reflective investigation of real-world issues from a variety of personal, social and disciplinary perspectives. Discussion will focus on the problem-solving strategies, and determine how to deal with challenges that arise when using experiential learning as a teaching and learning pedagogy. The seminar will introduce the Design Studio for Year 1 Architecture undergraduate students, which involves the design of a public space culminating in a one-week construction project in Conghua Village in Guangdong, China.

About the Speaker
John Lin is an architect based in Hong Kong and currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong. He was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the US. After studying in both the Art and Engineering programs at The Cooper Union in New York City, he received a professional degree in Architecture in 2002. His current research concerns the process of urbanization in rural China with a focus on the sustainable development of Chinese villages. His current projects include the design of several school buildings, a village community center, a hospital and a sustainable house prototype in China. Located in rural areas of Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan and Guangdong provinces they integrate local and traditional construction practices with contemporary sustainable technologies. The projects coordinate between Chinese and Hong Kong universities, education bureaus, ministries of construction, and local governments along with NGO’s and charity organizations. His research and work has been published widely and exhibited in various places including the Architecture Park (Kolonihaven) at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen 2004, the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2007 and 2009, the Beijing Architecture Biennale 2008 and at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008 and 2010. He has received two AR Awards for Emerging Architecture in 2009 and 2010 for his Qinmo Village School and Taiping Bridge Renovation projects. He has taught previously at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the 2010 recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award at The University of Hong Kong.

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http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=22539

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GHELC Seminar Series : Evaluation of Experiential Learning Course – Business Consulting Practicum

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Date: 9 April 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Run Run Shaw Building Room321, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Winnie Leung and Professor Patrick Y.K. Chau (Faculty of Business and Economics)

Abstract
Building from the core principles of experiential learning, the speakers will be discussing the challenges and opportunities present in evaluating experiential learning course. The speakers will describe the assessment methods of student reflections, building relationships with community and obtaining feedback, and how faculty scholarship can emerge from implementing service learning.

About the Speakers
Dr. Winnie Leung joined HKU as Teaching Consultant in 2010. She is a CPA in Hong Kong with practical experience in banking and accounting. Dr. Leung is passionate towards teaching and learning. Her enthusiasm and devotion in teaching has earned her high recognition for teaching excellence. She was given the Outstanding Teacher Award (Undergraduate Teaching) by the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2012. Beyond the classroom, Dr. Leung has been the programme coordinator of “Business Consulting Practicum” which is an experiential learning course for students to gain practical experience of working with business clients (local SMEs and social enterprises) in solving “real-life” problems related to their studies. Dr. Leung’s research interests include Financial Accounting and Corporate Governance.

Professor Patrick Chau is Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include issues related to IS/IT adoption and implementation, information presentation and model visualization, electronic commerce and knowledge management. He has been Associate Dean (Undergraduate) in the Faculty and a Visiting Professor in different universities including Dalian University of Technology, Tsinghua University (Beijing), Australian National University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Zhejiang University. He has received many international awards and recognitions including Top 1% Scholar based on ISIs Essential Science Indicators (ESI) in 2009 and 2010, and Chang Jiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Republic of China in 2010.

URL: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=21886

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Call for Application – Experiential Learning Fund

Deadline for Projects in 2013-14: May 31, 2013

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GHELC Seminar Series – Building Overseas Partnerships – Flooding Bangkok: Experiential Learning in the Planning Disciplines – Mar 21

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Message from Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

The GHELC seminar series offers faculty members valuable information on experiential learning, providing fundamentals of various key components of experiential learning, its practice and implementation. Through these seminars, the benefits for faculty members will be: intellectual stimulation; developing working relationships, especially interdisciplinary relationships; building a greater sense of intellectual community; learning new teaching and research methods; and learning about new opportunities.

Date: 21 March 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Run Run Shaw Building Room 321, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Ms. Dorothy Tang (Assistant Professor, Division of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, HKU)

Abstract
This seminar will address two challenges: establishing an experiential learning course overseas, and pedagogical strategies to incorporate experiential learning into large scale planning and design. Speaker from the Faculty of Architecture will share experiences working with an overseas partner in Thailand to engage both academic and industry communities to allow students to participate in a “real-life” project. Discussions will focus on (1) resources for initiating such courses at HKU and maintaining course sustainability, (2) the importance of developing and fostering community partnerships, and (3) challenges that are unique to working in a non-local setting.

About the Speaker
Dorothy Tang is an Assistant Professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She directs the undergraduate program and teaches design studios and seminars that explore the role of landscape strategies at the intersection of everyday social operations and large-scale infrastructural systems. Dorothy’s current research investigates landscape change due to production, infrastructure development, resource extraction, and urbanization at multiple scales. She is particularly interested in the rehabilitation of environmentally degraded landscapes due to mining, infrastructural systems in informal settlements or slums, and the relationship between urbanization and water resources. This research forms the basis for landscape design proposals that address these various issues.

Learn more about the GHELC seminar series at Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

Registration: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=21840

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GHELC Seminar Series – Designing and Implementing Experiential Learning Course – Mingde Project

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The first seminar will be held with the following details:

Title: Designing and Implementing Experiential Learning Course – Mingde Project
Date: 27 February 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Run Run Shaw Room321, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Professor L. G. Tham (Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering, HKU)

Abstract
Basic principles of experiential learning will be reviewed and perspectives on experiential learning experiences from faculty, students, and community partners will be provided. Speaker will also share his experience in setting up experiential learning courses and the specific challenges and rewards of experiential learning

About the Speaker
Professor George Tham is the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Senate, Academic Board, Curriculum Development Committee, Steering Committee on 4-Year Undergraduate Curriculum. His interests cover foundation engineering, rock engineering, slope engineering and engineering education. His outstanding achievement in teaching has been recognized in the field and he has been awarded the University Distinguished Teaching Award (Team Award) for the Mingde Projects.

Learn more about the GHELC seminar series at Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

Registration: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=21564

For enquiries, please email to Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre at ghelc@hku.hk

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Experiential Learning Fund available for Faculty application

The Management Committee of the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre invites Faculties to submit proposals for financial support for the purpose of introducing, expanding or enhancing experiential learning in their undergraduate curricula.

As this is the first year the Experiential Learning Fund is made available, a special round of application is introduced this summer to support projects / activities which have already been planned for the September term. The three deadlines of application are:

(a) August 15, 2012 and September 28, 2012 – for projects in 2012-13
(b) May 15, 2013 – for projects in 2013-14.

Please visit this page for more information.

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Experiential Learning Project Gained Visibility Internationally

Assistant Professor of Architecture Mr John Lin won the prestigious international Architectural Review’s Housing Competition 2012 with his project “The Shijia House” (House for All Seasons) in Shaanxi Province, which began as an Experiential Learning workshop that focuses on Chinese lifestyles in transition.

To know more about the project, please visit the following webpages:

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Mr John Lin has been very active in projects in rural areas of China integrating local and traditional construction practices with contemporary sustainable technologies. He has a lot of experience in engaging students through Experiential Learning workshops, such as the ‘Luk Zuk Village Project’ and ‘Qinmo Village School Project’. He was the winner of the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2010.

8631732 — Architect John Lin has adapted the traditional style of a rural Chinese courtyard residence to create a village house that is entirely self-sufficient.
Photo courtesy: John Lin

dezeen_House-For-All-Seasons-by-John-Lin_2 — Lin designed the house in Shijia Village, north-eastern China, as a model that would encourage village residents to be less dependent on outside goods and services.
Photo courtesy: John Lin

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Wenger commends HKU’s stride in Experiential Learning

Dr. Etienne Wenger-Trayner, a globally recognized thought leader in the field of social learning theory and communities of practice, commended HKU’s recent efforts to strengthen support for experiential learning in his recent blog post.

Dr. Wenger-Trayner, who visited HKU in late April for a series of events, responded very positively to the different practices in experiential learning at HKU (as showcased in this video). “The initiative organizes learning, not merely as the transmission of a formal curriculum, but as the transformative growth of full human beings as they enter a field,” he wrote.

He also called on institutions around the world to join the effort. “We hope that other institutions around the world will join this ongoing exploration of higher education and the place of the university in the 21st century.”

To maximize the potential and facilitate the implementation of experiential learning at HKU, the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre was established in March 2012 with the generous donation from
Dr Gallant Ho Yiu Tai. To learn more about the goals and duties of the centre, please visit their website.

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