Professional Dev for Faculty

In Spring 2014, CELT has offered a series of workshops to introduce a range of institutional eTools that support teaching at HKUST.

The Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching has organized a Faculty Orientation program that covers various topics and teaching and learning support services at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.

Registration closed.

Enquiry: celt@ust.hk or
               Dr Beatrice Chu (23588940 or ctbea@ust.hk).

Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline CHENG, Research Member, Office of the Chief Education Advisor, Pearson

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, the speaker has demonstrated the validity of using the NSS in ranking universities from a multilevel perspective.

Workshop Materials:

Speaker:   Professor Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, a presentation followed by a short workshop with renowned Harvard professor, peer instruction advocate and practitioner, Eric Mazur.

In this presentation, the presenter has showed how he has adjusted his approach to teaching and how it has improved his students' performance significantly.

Speakers:  Dr Tak HA (Associate Director, CELT)
                  Dr Pakey CHIK  (Educational Research Officer, CELT)

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, the speakers has reported on the findings of a pilot study on assessing our UG students' selected generic skills, namely teamwork skills, intercultural sensitivity and creativity.  They also explored the relationships of these three generic skills with students' academic performance, as well as their in- and out-of-class experiences.

Speakers:  Prof. Allen Huang (Assistant Professor, Accounting)
                  Prof. Siu Kam Wing (Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics)
                  Prof. Wooyoung Lim (Assistant Professor, Economics)

Format: Seminar

Speaker: Dr Suki Ekaratne, Associate Professor, CETL, HKU

Format: Seminar

In this workshop, participants have identified different types of feedback that can enhance subject learning & student skills, analysed when feedback is able to enhance learning and when it is not.  Also they have discussed ways to give feedback to improve student performance and their learning and also developed a rationale for feedback-supported teaching.

Speaker: Prof Harry Hubball
               Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Format: Seminar

Speaker: Associate Prof Romy Lawson (PhD)
               OLT National Teaching Fellow
               Director, Learning, Teaching & Curriculum
               University of Wollongong, Australia

Format: Seminar

Speaker:  Dr. Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, The New Media Consortium

Format: Seminar