The Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, is pleased to present a guest lecture series – Conversations and Connections.
Professor Gabriel Leung
Dean of Medicine
Tending to the patient through realpolitik
Well known as the Former Under Secretary for Food and Health, Professor Gabriel Leung, who was responsible for the most critical healthcare policies during Swine Flu pandemic and is now the Dean of LKS Faculty of Medicine, is going to have an interactive dialogue with the students on how politics and public health play roles in the healthcare system and the benefits they bring to the greater community.
Date: January 17, 2014 (Friday)
Time: 10:30 AM- 12:00 Noon
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre, William MW Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road
Up-coming Speakers
18-Feb-2014 Tue 11:30-12:30 Prof CL Lai
28-Feb-2014 Fri 10:30-12:00 Prof KY Yuen
21-Mar-2014 Fri 10:30-12:00 Dr Joyce Lai
17-Apr-2014 Thu 11:30-12:30 Dr David Siu
How collaborative technology can facilitate and enrich blended or flipped classroom activities
Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education
Date: 6 January 2014 (Monday)
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Michele Notari, PHBern University of Teacher Education, Switzerland
About the Seminar
The seminar will give an overview of the recently published book, titled ‘The Wiki-Way of learning’, which has been translated into Chinese.
The Wiki-Way of Learning’ was written by over 10 authors from different countries. It describes a theoretical approach of learning using collaborative technologies, scaffolding models and contains many hands-on examples of using collaborative Web pages with learners ranging from primary school up to university level. Target audience includes lecturers, teachers and pre-service teachers.
Following an introduction by Prof. Mark Guzdial, a pioneer in using Wikis in education, the book gives a theoretical overview of collaboration and the social implications of the participative. Two different scaffolding models for learning are presented. The book also includes a description of Wiki-engines as a flexible tool for collaboratively creating, linking, revising and regrouping hypertext content. Such description enables readers to look into Wikis with the focus on its content and content creation process. Last but not least, different examples of tested and reflected learning scenarios using the two models and the Wiki described above are presented. Three of the presented learning scenarios have been set up and tested in Hong Kong and Mainland China. A more ‘hands-on chapter’ delivers information around strategies for setting up a learning unit using the ‘Wiki-Way of learning’ and about how to choose the appropriate Wiki-engine for a particular education setting.
The original book in German has been produced under OER (open educational resources) license and is accessible online for free. Readers can contact the authors and submit comments on each paragraph (the online Chinese version will follow soon). This new type of cross-media publication format will be discussed at the end of the talk.
About the Speakers
Dr. Michele Notari is a lecturer at the University of Teacher Education in Bern, Switzerland and was an honorary assistant professor in the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. He has published articles in key journals in the area of technology-enhanced learning, a book and several book chapters related to collaborative learning using participative technologies. He is Editor of a special edition of the Journal of Educational Research and Evaluation, board member of Wikisym, the international symposium on open Collaboration, the international Conference on Mobile Learning, and International Mobile Learning Festival. He holds a master degree in biology and computer sciences from the University of Berne, and a master degree in educational technologies from the University of Geneva. His research focus is on using participative technologies for formative assessment and effective collaboration.
HKU hosted an edX training day for HKU MOOC teachers as well as members from other edX Asian partner institutions on November 15, 2013 at the Learning Commons of our Centennial Campus.
After a brief introduction to the training day by Johannes Heinlein, edX’s senior director of strategic partnerships, programme manager David Porter gave a presentation on the basic operation of a typical edX course, good MOOC teaching practices, and what enhancement work the edX team had been working on. Participants were also given useful advice on how to engage a global audience and author assessment tasks appropriate for massive enrollments.
To learn more about the course offerings of edX, please visit their website. For HKU members who would like to have further information on how to design, develop, and deliver a MOOC course, please get in touch with our e-learning Pedagogical Support Unit.
Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education
CITE Seminar Series 2013/2014
Joint seminar of CITE and the Sciences of Learning Strategic Research Theme – The assessment and teaching of 21st century skills
Date: 10 December 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Professor Patrick Griffin , Director, Assessment Research Centre, University of Melbourne
About the Seminar
The Assessment & Teaching of 21st-Century Skills Project (ATC21S) began with the definition of the concepts of 21st-century skills. These were considered, analysed and organised within a knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and ethics (KSAVE; Binkley et al. 2010) framework. This paper explores the next phase of the project with regards to a combination of two of the key skills – collaborative problem solving. It outlines the research and development program that is expected to yield innovative, technology-based, interactive, complex group and individual analyses of performance within a collaborative problem solving context. The project is still a work in progress. The current phase of the project constitutes development of tasks that can be completed in classrooms. The tasks can be used to explore the thought processes and strategies that students use as an individual within a group to solve both well defined and poorly defined problems. We illustrate ways in which tasks can lend themselves to coding to yield information that is usable by teachers formatively to improve student performance.
In developed economies changing employment practices demand changes in how students are assessed and taught with a focus on 21st-century skills. Employment opportunities increasingly demand collaboration as well as problem-solving skills. This project works with a definition of collaborative problem including both cognitive and social perspectives to examine the process. It examines the circumstances under which collaborative problem solving might best take place, and outlines a structure through which the contributing processes can be monitored in an electronic environment.
About the Speakers
Patrick Griffin is a former faculty member of the School of Education at HKU. He currently holds the Chair of Education (Assessment) at the University of Melbourne and is Director of the Assessment Research Centre. He is the Associate Dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Professor Griffin was awarded the John Smythe medal for research in profiling literacy development. He is a project team leader for UNESCO in southern Africa, and was awarded, in 2005, a UNESCO Research Medal by the Assembly of Ministers of Education from Southern African nations. Professor Griffin is a World Bank consultant in Vietnam and China, leading national and international teams in studies of literacy and numeracy assessment. He developed a system of teacher assessment recently signed into law by the Vietnam Government and applied to more than 380,000 teachers. He has led the development of leadership frameworks for school principal and instructional development models for classroom teachers in Victoria. His work focuses on item response modelling applications in interpretive frameworks for criterion referenced assessment and its application of item response modelling to performance assessment. He is currently he executive director of the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills Project and has co edited the volume published by Springer. Patrick Griffin, Barry McGaw and Esther Care (editors) (2011). Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills. Springer.
Applications are invited for the Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme, which was introduced by the Teaching and Learning Quality Committee in 2010-11.
Objectives
The Scheme aims to enhance the scholarship of teaching at the University through enabling academic staff members to share experience and to collaborate on teaching and curriculum development initiatives at reputable universities where excellent pedagogical practices or curriculum innovation are being implemented, and to facilitate reciprocal visits to the University by academic staff of these institutions. The Scheme is a measure also to ensure that our curriculum and pedagogy are benchmarked against international best practice.
Eligibility
All full-time teaching staff with a minimum of two years of service at the University are eligible to apply.
Deadline for Application
Interested colleagues are encouraged to attend the CETL Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme Seminar at January 22, 2014, which will provide an overview of the Scheme and advice on the preparation of the application. All applications and supporting documents should reach Ms. Synthia Chau, Secretary of the Teaching and Learning Quality Committee (c/o Academic Development and Quality Assurance Section of Registry) on or before March 14, 2014. Enquires may be directed to Ms. Synthia Chau at 2859 2440 or via email to schau@hku.hk.
Applicants will be notified of the results in April/May 2013.
Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme Seminar
Organized by Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
Facilitator: Dr Suki Ekaratne, CETL, The University of Hong Kong
Date: 22 Jan, 2014 (Wed)
Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building
Abstract
This seminar provides an overview of “Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme.” This seminar is open to all teaching staff interested in finding out more about the Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme. Staff will be provided an overview of the scheme, the key objectives, eligibility and advice in preparing an application. Staff who are thinking about applying in the next round (having a 14th March closing date) are strongly encouraged to attend. Staff who are not sure, or would simply like to know more about the scheme, are most welcome.
Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education
Date: 2 December 2013 (Monday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Dr. Sally Jo Cunningham, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
About the Seminar
Surprisingly few naturalistic studies exist of how people select books and music ‘in the wild’–that is, in a physical library, bookstore, or music shop. This seminar reports on a series of observational studies of people interacting with large public collections of books and music, spanning 10 years. The insights gained into how people prefer to interact with the collections suggest directions for research and development in providing access to digital collections.
This seminar will be instructive for those who work with and/or are interested in digital collections, including researchers and students in the library and information, education, humanities, computer and communication technologies, as well as librarians in higher education and teacher-librarians in schools.
About the Speakers
Sally Jo Cunningham is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Waikato University (New Zealand). She is a founding member of the New Zealand Digital Libraries Research Group, who are the developers of the Greenstone software to support the development and management of digital document collections. Her research primarily focuses on digital library users and their information behaviour, over text, image, video, and music documents; she is particularly interested in how information behaviour changes as people move to digital documents, and in how we can support the ‘non-native’ behaviour seen with physical collections, in the digital library. Her work is primarily qualitative and ethnographic, though she does indulge in more technically oriented research projects on occasion. She is also an active researcher in the Computer-Human Interaction and Music Information Retrieval communities.
This one-day ‘Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU’ programme is a foundation programme in teaching and learning at the University of Hong Kong and is designed for teaching staff, regardless of previous teaching experience, who are new to teaching at HKU. The overall aim is to provide new staff with a better understanding of specific issues relating to teaching and learning context in Hong Kong and at HKU. Staff will hear from leading Senior Academics in areas of strategic importance to the University.
During this programme, participants will engage in discussion and hands on activities relating to issues relevant to teaching and learning at HKU. These will include the overview of the 4-year undergraduate curriculum reform delivered by Professor Amy B.M. Tsui, the PVC of HKU, the demography and culture of HKU students, English as a medium of instruction, the common core curriculum and e-learning at HKU. Participants will also learn about the many forms of and uses for the evaluation of teaching and learning at HKU and about the opportunities for teaching development grants and teaching awards at HKU.
Date: 16 January 2014 (Thu)
Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm
Venue: Multi-purpose Zone, 3/F, HKU Main Library
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the programme, participants will be expected to have:
Discussed the implications for teaching and learning in relation to current changes in the HK education system and at HKU
Engaged in active discussions on demographic, cultural and language issues relevant to teaching and learning from the perspectives of the students and the teachers
Participated in activities demonstrating the use of student evaluation of teaching and learning at HKU
Identified different teaching-related opportunities and activities to motivate and enhance student learning available at HKU
Identified opportunities to pursue the scholarship of teaching and learning
The ‘Introduction to Teaching and Learning @ HKU’ is a required programme for all new academic and academic-related staff with full-time teaching responsibilities commencing on or after September 1, 2011, and should be taken within the first year of service and there are no exemptions. If you are unclear as to whether this applies to you, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Gayle Morris, the Director of Academic Programmes.
Early registration is encouraged as enrollment is limited.
In the event of full registration, priority will be given to new academic and academic-related staff with full-time teaching responsibilities commencing on or after September 1, 2011.
Due to the large number of participants anticipated, the venue will be changed to T5, Meng Wah Complex.
Speaker
Professor Dai Hounsell, Vice-Principal for Assessment and Feedback, University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Against a background of curriculum transformation in higher education and calls for greater accountability for quality, there is a growing interest, nationally and internationally, in evidence of excellence in students’ learning. Two closely interwoven questions are raised. How can university teachers best use assessment and evaluation to capture the breadth and depth of learning outcomes being demonstrated by students? And how can the students’ distinctive achievements be communicated more widely, within and beyond the campus? The seminar will explore these twin questions, with particular reference to recent curriculum change at HKU.
Overview
The second seminar focuses more closely on the enhanced opportunities for experiential learning which is one of the hallmarks of the quality of undergraduate education at HKU. It considers how excellence in experiential learning can be captured and communicated, focusing particularly on strategies that are complementary to traditional forms of assessment and feedback, including those that capitalise on advances in communication technologies.
For details and online registration of seminar 2, please go to:
About the Speaker
Professor Dai Hounsell is currently Vice-Principal for Assessment and Feedback (part-time) at the University of Edinburgh. From 2009 to 2012 he was the University’s Vice-Principal for Academic Enhancement, and Professor of Higher Education from 2000-2012.
He has published widely on assessment and feedback and many other aspects of university learning and teaching, served in various editorial and refereeing roles, and led several multi-institutional higher education research and development projects with external funding. In 2007 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Society for Research into Higher Education.
Throughout his career, a key concern has been with evidence-informed approaches to the advancement of excellence in university teaching and learning, within and beyond his own institution. He has coordinated initiatives for the Quality Assurance Agency and Universities Scotland (Integrative Assessment 2005-07), the Higher Education Academy (Innovative Assessment Across the Disciplines 2006-07) and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (Leading Change in Assessment and Feedback, 2012-13). Internationally, he has advised the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, the South African Academic Development Association, and the Netherlands & Flemish Universities Quality Assurance Agency. Since he and his wife Jenny created the Enhancing Feedback website three years ago, it has attracted 27,000 visitors from across the world.
Message from Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education
You are cordially invited to attend the following seminar organized by the Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education (IMHSE): Staff and Professional Development Seminar on ” Eportfolios: Opportunities and challenges as program – level assessments”
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2013
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm (Sandwiched will be provided)
Venue: Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, 2/F, William M.W. Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building
About the speakers
Dr Deneen, Christopher Charles
Research Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor (Honorary)
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Dr Deneen is a research assistant professor with the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on relationships of assessment and curricula in higher and teacher education. He is especially interested in learner-oriented assessment, technology-enhanced assessment, and managing curriculum change.
After earning his doctorate from Columbia University’s Teachers College, Chris served as a university teacher and administrator in New York City. Inspired by the often-unanswered questions raised by his experiences as a teacher and administrator, Chris chose to develop research into higher and teacher education as a core element of his professional identity and practice. After working two years with the Hong Kong Institute of Education, he joined the HKU Faculty of Education in 2011. As principal investigator on a General Research Fund (GRF) grant, Chris is currently exploring digital portfolios as assessment in higher and teacher education.
Description
Eportfolios are a popular means of both promoting and evaluating student learning. They are widely recognized as enhancing self-regulation, promoting reflection, and determining achievement of professional outcomes. Eportfolios have significant potential for medical education programs as they may integrate assessment and learning innovations currently favored in medical education, such as problem-based learning scenarios and simulations.
There are, however challenges in implementing eportfolios as assessments. These challenges range from maintaining student engagement to establishing rater reliability. In this talk, Chris Deneen will address both the challenges and opportunities presented by using eportfolios. Drawing on his own research and the field of literature, Dr. Deneen will discuss key issues such as feasibility, implementation guidelines, and how existing assessments in courses, modules or blocks could be capitalized on to support program-level eportfolios.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
For inquiries, please contact us at imhse@hku.hk. To register, please visit
