Professional Dev for Faculty

Presenter: Mr David Warlick

Format: Pubic Seminar

Mr David Warlick, author of "Raw materials of the Mind"; Founder and President of US "The Landmark Project", delivered a public seminar. In this entertaining and thought-provoking address, he helped the audience to understand the challenge that faces education today and the classrooms that will be necessary to meet that challenge.

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• Video

Presenter: UST Faculty members and instructors

Format: Round-table Sharing Session

With the purpose to assist the UST teaching community in teaching large class effectively, a round-table sharing session was held for faculty members and instructors to share their experience. Students' comments of learning in large class as well as resources related to large class teaching are compiled.

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• Reference

Presenter: Prof Richard Larson

Format: Seminar

Prof Richard Larson , Director of the Center for Advanced Educational Services, MIT, Principle Investigator of several MIT's major technology-enabled learning programs came to UST and gave a talk on the development of the Global Learning Network.

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• Video

Presenter: Prof Tai Kai Ng (PHYS)

Format: Seminar

Prof Tai Kai Ng from the Department of Physics at UST gave a seminar presentation and discussed the challenges to universities brought about by the Hong Kong Education Reform.

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• Video
• Powerpoint

Presenter: Prof Eric Mazur

Format: Interview

World renowned scientist and educator, Prof Eric Mazur from Harvard University, shares his views on University education in the 21st Century in an interview with CELT.

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University Education in the 21st Century

Presenter: Mr Stephen Selby

Format: Seminar

The Director of Intellectual Property of the Hong Kong Government, Mr Stephen Selby, JP, came and gave a talk on the copyright issues. The discussion points had ranged from on-line course development to other areas such as classroom teaching, material reproduction, individual awareness etc.

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Presenter: Dr Peter Knight

Format: Seminar

Dr Knight talks about how we can use assessment to improve student learning. He focuses on the functions and types of assessment and introduces some alternative assessment methods. He ends by providing practical ways to assess student achievement using these alternative methods, taking into account large class sizes and the time constraints busy faculty work under.

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Presenter: Prof Janet Donald

Format: Seminar

Prof Janet Donald, a field expert in Educational psychology, came to share her ideas on Learning to think: Disciplinary perspectives. Focuses will be on firstly how knowledge is structured. Secondly, how learning occurs in different disciplines and lastly, how higher order learning and thinking can be promoted in different domains.

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• Video

Presenter:

• Prof Olugbemiro J Jegede
• Dr Mike Theall

Format: Regional Workshop

Presenter: Dr Roger Yin

Format: Seminar

Dr Yin,an expert in education technology especially Web-based Teaching & Learning, and Interactive Multimedia came to present his ideas on the consequences of IT in Education. He assessed the consequences from the view points of learners, teachers and web administrators

Workshop Materials:

• Video