Professional Dev for Faculty

Presenter: Mr Jim Chim

Format: General Education Lecture

Mr Jim Chim, renowned stage producer, actor and comedian, led the HKUST community to explore creativity through games, mini speech and sharing. Using his professional knowledge in miming and movement training, Mr Chim tactfully helps participants break through personal boundaries in attempt to realize their true creative potential.

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• Video

Presenter: Dr Kai-Yin Lo

Format: Public Seminar

Dr Kai-Yin Lo, internationally acclaimed designer of jewelry and accessories, shared her story of how history inspired her to become a designer, business woman and successful practitioner of the creative industries. She is also a recognized author, collector and expert on Chinese culture. Dr Lo's life is a demonstration of how success is made possible through the fusion of creativity and entrepreneurship.

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Presenter: Prof Jim Boyle

Format: Interview

Prof Jim Boyle, Head of Mechanical Engineering at Strathclyde University, is a leader in innovative teaching and learning approaches involving peer-learning and technology-supported learning. He came to HKUST as keynote speaker at our 2nd Teaching and Learning Symposium. In this interview, he shares with us the use of HKUST's peer-response system at Strathclyde and its integration with a range of active learning strategies.

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Presenter: Dr Mike Keppell

Format: Interactive Session

Dr Mike Keppell, Head of Centre for Integrating Technology in Education of Hong Kong Institute of Education, came to share with faculty and teaching staff here on working effectively with CELT's instructional development team to develop their online projects. Here is a Project Performa that he developed for online project planning.

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Presenter: Dr Susan Wolcott

Format: Interactive Session

Presenter: Mei Fang

Format: Workshop

Mrs Mei Fang, an experienced facilitator and instructional designer, facilitated a DIY (Do-it-yourself) workshop that gave an account on the learning issues in lectures and demonstrated how the ASSURE framework could help to enhance the effectiveness of different stages in lecture preparation and delivery.

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• Powerpoint

Presenter: Albert Wong

Format: General Education Lecture

Mr Albert Wong, Personnel Manager of Strategies and Relations Development of Cathay Pacific Airways, came in October and shared with us his personal experience as well as the CX stories in the General Education Lecture: "21st Century Enterprises and their Employees".

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• Video

Presenter: Christine Loh

Format: General Education Lecture

Christine Loh, CEO of Civic Exchange and Council Member of HKUST came and gave a general education lecture "To Learn is to Play - If This was Only True" on 23 Sept. It was well received by approximately 250 participants.

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• Video
• Video

Presenter: Dr Susan Wolcott

Format: Interactive Session

With her wide experiences in working with faculty on supporting critical thinking development, Dr Susan Wolcott describes a model to help students develop and document critical thinking skills in an interactive session

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• Video
• Powerpoint

Presenter: Prof Jimmy Fung (MATH), Prof Rudolf Fleischer (COMP) and Mr Nick Noakes (CELT/LC).

Format: Information Session

An Information Session on "Teaching and Learning at HKUST" was held on 27 Aug. It served to give faculty members and teaching staff, particularly new ones, first hand information to get by in HKUST.

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• Video