ESCE500 Introductory Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology

Project Title

ESCE500 Introductory Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology

Project Leader

Prof Pei-Yuan Qian & Dr Ice Ko

School / Dept

SSCI / AMCE

Project Duration

Jul 2002 - May 2005

Project Description

This project aimed to provide students with a highly flexible learning environment delivering course materials of various topics using an interactive and interesting medium. The web setting allowed students to learn at anytime, anywhere. Also, multimedia items, hyperlinks, animations, pop-up Q&A, self-assessments, and the discussion forum resulted in a highly interactive and interesting learning experience.The course was furnished with multimedia items to demonstrate some chemical experiments and difficult concepts. Photos of local ecosystems were taken for this course. Video clippings about state-of-the-art laboratory studies and local habitats or ecological problems were produced.

Project Outcome

• The students of the MSc Environmental Science and Engineering Program were able to be equipped with sufficient background in chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology for their core course “ESCE 520 Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology”.

• Students, especially the part-time ones, enjoyed the flexibility (temporal and physical) and interactivity of this online course.

• The course served as the pioneer of totally web-based teaching in HKUST. Through this project, both the instructors and the CELT collaborated closely on how to develop a user friendly, interactive and effective web course.

• The student evaluation and the data generated from this course provide useful information about web-based teaching in Hong Kong. This information was shared with other teaching staff in HKUST through various symposia.

Status

Completed

Project Documents
(Only accessible by HKUST users)

• Project Plan
• Progress Report: First | Second | Third | Forth | Fifth |
• Final Report

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