Professional Development Week for Faculty
Academic Promotion & Substantiation
Date: 12 Jan 2009
Presenter: Prof Roland Chin, VPAA (DP) & Ms Christina Li, PROVOST
This session was delivered by VPAA (DP) and PROVOST staff. It covered the academic review and promotion regulations and policies.
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Academic Promotion & Substantiation - HR Issues
Date: 12 Jan 2009
Presenter: Ms Yvonne Ho, Director of HRO
This session was delivered by the Director (HRO). It covered the health care schemes, leave, housing, retirement and general HR policies.
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Grants & Grantsmanship in Hong Kong
Date: 13 Jan 2009
Presenter: Dr Virginia Unkefer, OCGA
This session included an introduction to the types of grants available in Hong Kong and was followed by a session on grant writing delivered by Dr Virginia Unkefer (OCGA). Based on extensive HKUST experience, Virginia has used examples to describe the process of writing a grant proposal as a problem of persuasion and she also explained how OCGA can help faculty members secure funding for their research projects.
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PhD Supervision
Date: 13 Jan 2009
Presenter: Prof T C Pong, AVPAA (PG Studies and Academic Research)
This was a panel session with a group of our experienced faculty discussing some of the key elements for effective PhD Supervision at HKUST.
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Detecting and Deterring Plagiarism – a workshop on detecting copying and devising assessment tasks that discourage it
Date: 12 Dec 2008
Presenter: Ms Jude Carroll, Oxford Brookes University
Assessment should encourage the student to learn or test the learning that has already happened (or both). But suppose the student tries to bypass learning by using someone else's work or their words and not their own? That is what happens with plagiarism. Students bypass work and so they bypass learning. Jude Carroll's talk covered why the topic has grown so large, why it needs attention, and suggested tried and tested ways to address it.
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- PowerPoint Presentation
- Handout – Collusion Continuum
- Handout – Differentiating Behaviours
- Handout – Handout redesign
- Handout – Mark, Manage, Report
- Handout – Quiz 1 and Quiz 2
- Handout – Swedish Holistic Approach
- Handout – Three Stages of Detection
- Video
Knowing your HKUST Students
Date: 14 Jan 2009
Presenter: Dr Tak Ha, Associate Director of CELT
This session was delivered by Dr Tak Ha from CELT and covered the background, learning approaches and expectations of HKUST students based on research at HKUST and from Hong Kong higher education institutions in general.
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Outcome-Based Education at HKUST
Date: 14 Jan 2009
Presenter: Mr Nick Noakes, Director of CELT
This session was delivered by Mr Nick Noakes from CELT and covered outcome-based education approach at HKUST; from HKUST graduate attributes to School and Program learning outcomes to course design and delivery that embeds OBE.
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Teaching at the Chalkface & Teaching Development
Date: 15 Jan 2009
Presenter: Experienced Faculty & CELT Staff
This session was delivered by experienced HKUST faculty who had shared their experiences of teaching at HKUST with a short presentation followed by a question and answer session.
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Technology-supported Teaching and Learning
Date: 15 Jan 2009
Presenter: Ms Christine Chow and Mr Rambo Lai, CELT
This session was delivered by CELT staff and covered the university course management system (LMES), Peer Response System, Online Student Peer Evaluation System, the Secure Online Assessment System and other tools. All of these tools have been developed in-house and most either by or for teaching staff.
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Teaching & Learning Support
Date: 16 Jan 2009
Presenter: Mr Thomas Ng, Director of PTC
This session was delivered by Mr Thomas Ng from PTC and introduced the campus-wide videotaping services for lectures, seminars, student presentations and the online video channel. Issues related to licence clearance, printing for course materials and the Center’s design supports for conference publicity were also covered.
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Teaching Facilities in LT & Classroom
Date: 16 Jan 2009
Presenter: Mr Doug Wong, ITSC
This session was delivered by Mr Doug Wong from ITSC and covered the new teaching facilities in lecture theaters and classrooms.
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