Professional Dev for Non-faculty teaching staff

Speaker: Prof Amine BERMAK, Professor, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering

Format: Seminar

In this series of seminars, award-winning Professors shared their experience of teaching large classes at HKUST with participants.

Motivating student and getting them involved in acquiring knowledge is very critical for achieving course outcomes and this is particularly challenging in large classes with diverse and polarized students populations.

Speakers: Prof CHAN Che Ting, Chair Professor, Department of Physics

Format: Seminar

In Fall 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 workshops

Speaker: Mr. Nick Noakes, Director, Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching (CELT)

Format: Workshop

In this workshop, participants has been invited to share their experience with using iPad or other tablet device for teaching and research. Participants should have gained some new techniques or apps for using these devices more productively at work and at home.

Workshop Materials:

• Useful Links

Presenter: Prof Naubahar SHARIF, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST

Format: Seminar

Presenter: Dr Tak HA

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, the presenter reported on the preliminary findings of a longitudinal study about assessment and student learning conducted at HKUST, including how students were being assessed at HKUST, the learning approaches students used, their learning motivation, inter-correlation between these variables, and brief summaries of individual cases illustrating what affected students’ attitudes towards the courses they studied.

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:  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.