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.
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.
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.
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
Prof John Hedberg, professor of Education and Director of the Interactive Multimedia Learning Laboratory at the University of Wollongong, conducted a seminar at UST on " What will work? Using the web to promote high order learning outcome".