MATH

Adaptive Learning in Stochastic Modeling (MATH3425)

Project Overview
Project Title	Adaptive Learning in Stochastic Modeling (MATH3425)
Project Leader	Prof Kani Chen
School / Dept	SSCI / MATH
Project Duration	Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Project Description	The project aims to implement an adaptive learning algorithm in the course “stochastic modeling” (MATH3425), which I have been teaching in the past ten years. MATH3425 has been a very popular undergraduate course. It is also a required course for statistics major in the Department of Mathematics. Based on my teaching experience, I propose to establish an adaptive learning system that aims to increase the students’ learning efficiency. Such a system can be expanded to other courses.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

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Teaching Mathematical Reasoning and Problem Solving Skills for Calculus

Project Overview
Project Title	Teaching Mathematical Reasoning and Problem Solving Skills for Calculus
Project Leader	Prof Jishan Hu
School / Dept	SSCI / MATH
Project Duration	Sep 2014 - May 2017
Project Description	The project aims to foster students' mathematical reasoning and problem solving skills with an online self-tutoring sytem that consists of 3 key components: Show students how to break a difficult mathematical problem into a set of easier manageable sub-problems; Make mathematical reasoning step-by-step and transparent; and Provide the reference of key concepts through html links.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Innovation in Mathematics Support through a Blended-Learning Approach

Project Overview
Project Title	Innovation in Mathematics Support through a Blended-Learning Approach
Project Leader	Prof Allen Moy & Prof Jimmy Fung
School / Dept	SSCI / MATH
Project Duration	Sep 2012 - Aug 2015
Project Description	This project is built on the pilot project in 2011-12 in implementing an open source online homework system WeBWorK and establishing a pilot Math Support Center. The aim of the current project is to scale up the pilot project to implement WeBWorK in more service courses and to expand the Math Support Center in order to respond to the demand of the large influx of students under the 3-3-4 curriculum. In a blended-learning approach, WeBWorK and the Math Support Center are combined to support mathematics learning through: 1) an online system to provide instant feedback to the students to access their learning process and 2) a physically established Math Support Center which may facilitate more contacts and interactions among students and teachers (including instructors, teaching assistants and peer students) in a supportive learning environment.
Project Outcome	Deliverables of the project include: establishment of a dedicated physical location for a continuing math support center, migration of basic courses to use the support center, with the majority of basic courses also integrating the open source WeBWorK as an essential blended learning component of the course, a 2 day workshop held June 10-11, 2014 devoted to WeBWork and Support Centers assemblage of a long-term staff with operational experience in running the support center, establishment in partnership with CELT of a program to train staff and helpers in the support center.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

All-Round Development of Science Students through Mini-Lecture Series

Project Overview
Project Title	All-Round Development of Science Students through Mini-Lecture Series
Project Leader	Prof Jimmy Fung
School / Dept	SSCI / PHYS
Project Duration	Oct 2004 - Apr 2006
Project Description	The Hong Kong higher education reform emphasized on all-round development of students according to his/her own attributes. With the aim of drawing the best out of students and entailing intense participation and extensive teamwork, this project included more intensive training and extended the scope to include topics of Mathematics and Physics. In addition to organizing secondary school mini-lecture series for the participants, the project planned to arrange a few outstanding talks to be presented in UG seminar classes in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics. This benefited a larger pool of students with the aim to stimulate further participation and to enrich the academic culture.
Project Outcome	During the reporting period, a number of presentation rehearsals were arranged where Jack, Brian, CELT staff (both ID and ER team) and Prof Fung, Wong, Sou, and Ng, gave comments and suggestions to students. All school talks were video-taped and the website of the project (http://www.phys.ust.hk/genphys/) was updated regularly. 8 PHYS students took part in 8 school talks covering 4 different topics (The Science of UV, Special Relativity, Microwave Oven and Nanotechnology). The talks were delivered to 6 secondary schools (Bishop Hall Jubilee School, Shung Tak Catholic English College, SMKMCF Ma Ko Pan Mem College, Belilios Public School, HKSYC&IA Chan Nam Chong Memorial College and Buddhist Wong Fung Ling College) during the period of Nov 19, 2004 to Jan 25, 2005. Students attended CELT’s DIY workshop series (school talk training) on “How to Prepare Multimedia Instructional Materials for Physical Science Subjects” in the period of Jan 10-21, 2005.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report Final Report
Adaptation	Adaptation from All-round development of science students through project courses

Pilot Implementation of an Interactive Homework System for Common Core Level Mathematics Courses at HKUST

Project Overview
Project Title	Pilot Implementation of an Interactive Homework System for Common Core Level Mathematics Courses at HKUST
Project Leader	Prof Allen Moy
School / Dept	SSCI / MATH
Project Duration	Jul 2011 - Jun 2012
Project Description	The project aimed at initiating the implementation of an interactive homework system (known as WeBWorK) for common core mathematics courses, in anticipation of the change in higher education system under 3-3-4 curriculum. The features of the WeBWorK system were tailor-made for the mathematics courses, such as interactive individualized homework with immediate feedback, formative assessment by interactive homework sets on mathematical skills, and a large library of thousands of homework problems for common core mathematics courses.
Project Outcome	WeBWorK has been implemented in MATH1003 for over 500 students in Fall 2011, and there was follow-up use of WeBWorK for the courses MATH2111 and MATH2011 for over 750 students during Spring 2012. An additional implementation of Mathematics Support Center in providing walk-in tutorial help for students taking WeBWorK courses has been piloted. The department will further expand WeBWorK and the Mathematics Support Center in the future, with the goal to establish WeBWorK and the Mathematics Support Center as a key infrastructure in delivering quality service courses in a cost-efficient manner.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project