Professional Dev for Faculty

In Spring 2013, CELT will offer the following workshops to introduce you to a range of institutional eTools that support your teaching at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.

About the workshop

Presenter: Michael Coghlan, eLearning Consultant

Format: e-Seminar

In this two workshops, the presenter has discussed different aspects of the following topics:

Speaker: Prof David Carless, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, the presenter has outlined a framework for Learning-Oriented Assessment task design and illustrated some of its principles through reporting ongoing RGC-funded research into award-winning teachers at the University of Hong Kong.

The presentation also concluded by suggesting that assessment tasks might encourage effective learning practices when they:

Speaker:  Mr. Alan Levine
                 CogDog It

Format: Seminar

In this workshop, the participants has experienced the web-based tools, an open online course in digital storytelling. The presenter also introduced some free tools and activities suitable for student media projects and ways for infusing more storytelling into their own communications.

Workshop Materials:

Facilitator: Rambo Lai and May Tse, CELT

Format: Workshop

In this workshop, CELT has introduced a new web-based tool, iPeer, to facilitate student peer and self evaluation on group projects.

Facilitators: May Tse and Rambo Lai, CELT

Format: e-Seminar

In this semester, CELT introduced a new initiative of real time professional development at your desktop.

In this first session of the three workshop series, participants has given an experiential tour on how the key functions and features work in a Virtual Classroom from an audience’s perspective.

Speaker: Mr. Sean MCMINN

Format: Seminar

Presenters: Prof Thomas Hu and Prof Jui-Pin Wang, CIVL

Format: Seminar

The Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching will organize the Spring New Faculty Orientation on 17 January, 2013 (Thursday).  Below is the list of sessions which will be offered.  All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join any sessions that are of interest.

For enquiries, please contact Miss Irene Pang at 23586803 or ctirene@ust.hk.

Presenters: Dr. Melody Chao and Prof Larry Farh, MGMT

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, Dr Melody Chao and Dr Larry Farh shared their findings from a large scale longitudinal study of SBM students about the effectiveness of the various intercultural activities in enhancing their intercultural competence and related learning outcomes.

The seminar also featured interactive discussion on how to improve the current curriculums to help students develop stronger intercultural skills.