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CEI Workshops and Seminars

Encouraging students to do lots of high quality work without over-stressing them: Findings from a research project about student workload in Hong Kong

Date: 
Thu, 2009-03-05 (All day)

Presenter: Prof David Kember

Format: Seminar

Have students complained to you about the study workload of your class? Are we really given them too much work to do? In this seminar, Prof Kember of the University of Hong Kong shared findings of one of his recent research projects, A Week in the Life of a University Student, which looked at the workload of students in a local university, and how it was possible to engage students in high quality work without over-stressing them.

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Are you a quick starter?

Date: 
Fri, 2009-02-27 (All day)

Presenter: Prof Edmond Ko and Nick Noakes

Format: Workshop

This is part of the New Faculty Professional Development Session, which was for junior faculty who have been at UST for 2 years or less. In the casual lunch and discussion session, common adjustment issues faced by new faculty were discussed and new faculty was expected to build a peer support network.

Content, Assessment and Pedagogy: An Integrated Design Approach for OBE at the Course Level

Date: 
Fri, 2009-02-06 09:30 to 17:00

Speaker: Prof Karl Smith

Date and Time: 6 Feb 2009 (Fri)

  • 9:30am – 12:30pm (for SBM and SHSS),
  • 2:00pm – 5:00pm (for SSCI and SENG)

Location: Room 3027 (Lift 1)

Facilitating Innovation and Creativity in a Team Environment

Date: 
Fri, 2009-02-06 (All day)

Presenter: Prof Karl Smith

Format: Workshop

Formal teamwork is widely practiced in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines through projects, capstones, hand-on exercises, field experiences, and other contexts. Currently there is increased interest in fostering innovation and creativity.

2009 TA Induction Training Program

Date: 
Wed, 2009-02-04 (All day)

CELT provided a series of training workshops to all TAs every academic year. For Spring 2009, all Induction workshops, including Conducting Tutorials and Marking & Grading (INA/C), Conducting Laboratories (INB), Introduction to LMES (IND) and Effective Presentation Skills (EPS) have been successfully completed. Also, three Competency Enhancement workshops were offered to all TAs to enhance their skills in teaching.  

13 JAN 2009 FALL

Date: 
Tue, 2009-01-13 (All day)

Professional Development Week for RPGs

CELT launched the first in a regular series of professional development workshops for research postgraduates related to career and research. From 13-15 January 2009, there were sessions on career management, PhD supervision policies and processes, avoiding plagiarism in thesis writing, presentation skills for research seminars and conferences, effective email for results and career management for lifelong employability.

OBE Workshop for SENG – Focusing on Outcomes

Date: 
Wed, 2009-01-07 09:30 to 14:45

Speaker: Prof David A. Lange

School of Engineering organised an OBE workshop on 7 Jan 2009, which was delivered by Prof David A. Lange, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois. In the workshop, Prof Lange mentioned about the principles, implementation and assessment issues of OBE for engineering curriculum.

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Professional Development Week for Faculty

Date: 
Fri, 2008-12-12 (All day) to Fri, 2009-01-16 (All day)

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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Professional Development Week for Research Postgraduate Students

Date: 
Fri, 2008-12-12 (All day) to Wed, 2009-01-14 (All day)

Why not copy-cut-paste? How writing at university really works and how to avoid plagiarism

Date: 12 Dec 2008

Presenter: Ms Jude Carroll, Oxford Brookes University

Teaching Workshop with Prof Harvey Brightman

Date: 
Mon, 2008-12-08 (All day) to Tue, 2008-12-09 (All day)

Speaker: Prof Harvey Brightman

Location: Executive Classroom 5 (Lift 31/32)

School of Business and Management organised a teaching workshop on 8-9 December 2008, which was taught by Prof Harvey Brightman, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Managerial Sciences at Georgia State University. In the workshop, Prof Brightman talked about the principles for effective teaching, developing and achieving learning outcomes, and various assessment methods.

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