Professional Dev for Faculty

Presenter:  Prof Kam Tim WOO, Visiting Assistant Professor, ECE

Format: Seminar

In this session, Prof Woo shared the project team’s experience in designing grading rubrics for their capstone project courses and how the pedagogy was integrated into the courses.  In addition, he shared the experience in applying the Teaching Development Grant and the supports from Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching (CELT) in the development process, such as consultation advice and student feedback collection and analysis.

In Spring 2012, CELT will offer the following workshops to introduce you to a range of institutional eTools that support your teaching at HKUST. These include the Learning Management System (LMES), Turnitin (an anti-plagiarism tool) and HKUST Survey Tool.

About the workshops

Presenters:  Prof. Chi-Kwong Li, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
                     Prof. Maosheng Xiong, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
                     Prof. Shingyu Leung, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Format: Seminar

In this workshop, the three speakers shared their experiences in supervising undergraduate research projects, and how to co-ordinate and balance teaching and research activities with undergraduate research supervising work.

Workshop Materials:

Presenter: Prof Chi-Kwong Li, Visiting Professor of Mathematics

Format: Seminar

Presenter: Sean McMinn, Senior Instructor, Language Center
Format: Seminar

Presenter: Nick Noakes, Director, CELT

Format: Workshop

In this session, the speaker has introduced the strategies for bringing content relevant to your interests onto the device without having to waste time searching various sources for it. It also showed how it is possible to create and edit different document types (Word, PPT, Excel) for your research and teaching. The speaker has also demonstrated one or two tools that can be used directly in your courses to free you from the lectern and to engage students more.

Presenter:  Prof Ben Young, Professor of Structural Engineering

Format: Seminar

In Fall 2011, CELT will offer the following workshops to introduce you to a range of institutional eTools that support your teaching at HKUST. These include the Learning Management System (LMES), Turnitin (a plagiarism prevention tool) and HKUST Survey Tool.

The Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching has organized 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.

Presenter: Prof Mick Healey

Format: Seminar

This workshop helped contextualise the HKUST conference on 'Engaging Undergraduates in Research and Inquiry' on May 20th and gave participants numerous mini-case studies from different disciplines and institutions in Europe, Australasia and North America.

Workshop Materials:

• PowerPoint Presentation