Technology in Teaching

Flipping the Classroom with iPad

Project Overview
Project Title	Flipping the Classroom with iPad
Project Leader	Dr Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung
School / Dept	SENG / CSE
Project Duration	Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Project Description	The purpose of this project is to apply flipped classroom approach to COMP1001 Exploring Multimedia and Internet Computing, by: Redesigning and revamping the in-class activitiesand standardize them on iPad. Updating the lecture slides with reference to the features of the iPad learning tools. Preparing interactive online video lectures with in-lecture quizzes to help students pick up the required knowledge and assess their study. Revising the assessment methods of COMP1001. The revamped course will be offered to students in Fall 2015. Flipped classroom approach will be adopted. We will collect feedbacks from the students to evaluate the learning impact of the project.
Project Outcome	The project outcomes are yet been updated.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Read more about Flipping the Classroom with iPad
1702 reads

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

Enhancing Students’ Learning with Interactive Demonstrations

Project Overview
Project Title	Enhancing Students’ Learning with Interactive Demonstrations
Project Leader	Prof Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
School / Dept	SENG / CSE
Project Duration	Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Project Description	This project aims to develop a web-based demonstration system in Learning Management and Evaluation System (LMES) with an in-class demonstration that carries pre-defined input datasets and after class interactive demonstration that allows students to modify input datasets to obtain different output for their assignments. Each demonstration is classified into two types, problem-driven demonstrations (illustrating problems studied in the course) and concept-driven demonstrations (illustrating concepts used in the course). The demonstrations are related to real-life applications and by implementing them in the common core course (COMP 1942), it is believed that the demonstrations can enhance students’ interest and learning.
Project Outcome	To have in-class demonstrations of concepts introduced in class. To have interactive demonstrations of concepts after class. To incoporate user tracking features in the interactive demonstrations to record users' behavior.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Buildup of the Missing Link between Teaching and Learning in "General Chemistry – I"

Project Overview
Project Title	Buildup of the Missing Link between Teaching and Learning in "General Chemistry – I"
Project Leader	Prof Xiao-Yuan Li
School / Dept	SSCI / CHEM
Project Duration	Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Project Description	This project intends to build up the key missing link in the teaching and learning of the course "General Chemistry-I". Using LMES as the delivery planform to provide a carefully selected set of key problems/questions with a step-by-step solutions guided (with links) for topics covered in General Chemistry-I, therefore providing a quality-controlled and consistent self-tutoring tool for the training of concept-based reasoning and problem-solving skills in the study of "General Chemistry-I". The ultimate goal of this project is to convert the learning style (or habit) of students from mostly facts-memorization to mostly concept-based reasoning, analyzing and problem-solving in their study of "General Chemistry-I".
Project Outcome	The project outcomes are yet been updated.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Blended learning – a summer course of “the science of gastronomy” for HKUST students

Project Overview
Project Title	Blended learning – a summer course of “the science of gastronomy” for HKUST students
Project Leader	Prof King L CHOW and Prof Lam Lung YEUNG
School / Dept	SSCI / LIFS & CHEM
Project Duration	Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
Project Description	This project aims to develop and offer a six week "Gastronomy" course in the summer 2014 using a blended learning mode. This new course very different from the original gastronomy course will enable students to apply knowledge learned from video and in class lectures, project exercise, discussion in tutorial sessions, and skills learnt to real life situations (practices at home or in class experiments) so that they would fully integrate the learned knowledge and apply in their cuisine preparation eveyday. This credit base course offered on campus would be developed to combine the merits of the flexibility, active engagement and interaction of online course, the face-to-face oral communication and instant feedback of instructor-to-student and student-student discussion in class.
Project Outcome	A fully blended course with extensive flipping of the classroom was delivered as a package of our own HKUST students, which served well as a pilot operation ot cover over 23,000 students online and a small cohort of students for the HKUST student on campus. A full set of in-class materials, inlcuding numerous experiemental demonstrations, in-class and off-class group project manual and detailed organization plan was developed. The course was taken as a refernce for blended learning in other courses. The experience we gathered were disseminated to colleagues at HKUST, local institutions and in international conferences.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

Delivering Quality Outcome-based Final Year Projects in the New Four-Year Civil Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum

Project Overview
Project Title	Delivering Quality Outcome-based Final Year Projects in the New Four-Year Civil Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum
Project Leader	Prof Xueqing Zhang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Jul 2013 – Feb 2015
Project Description	Based on an original project "Developing a Web-enabled Innovative Learning Outcome Assessment System for Final Year Projects in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering" , the current project aims to develop a web-based system for the final year projects (FYPs) in CIVL with two new additional elements that have arisen as there have been significant changes made to the FYP courses in CIVL's new four-year UG program. In the system, online evaluation, feedback and grading will be accessible by CIVL and CLE teaching staff, as well as students. It will also track students’ progress and provide reminders for keeping the project on track as well as making suggestions for training needed at specific stages in the FYP process. The project also includes the development of training materials related to project management that are a need for students in this capstone experience and for which they will receive automated suggestions/reminders when reaching specific stages in the capstone process.
Project Outcome	The following major web-based FYP management functions were developed and tested: My Profile My FYP General FYP Information FYP Assessment Sample FYPs The above functions were tested using 6 actual FYP projects in the academic year of 2014/15. The usability and the friendliness of the interface were significantly improved taking into consideration of the comments from the FYP students, CELT staff and FYP supervisors.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Business Ethics by Building up an Online Collection of High Quality Student-generated Projects

Project Overview
Project Title	Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Business Ethics by Building up an Online Collection of High Quality Student-generated Projects
Project Leader	Prof Mark Mihorean
School / Dept	SBM / MGMT
Project Duration	Jul 2013 – Dec 2014
Project Description	This project primarily aims at creating an online collection of previous students’ Applied Ethics Service Projects (AESP) as a database for the students of subsequent cohorts to reference.
Project Outcome	A user-friendly online collection of Applied Ethics Service Projects (AESP): All sections of the Business Ethics course are represented in this collection. Interested visitors to the site ( http://businessethics.wix.com/aesp ) can get some information about the AESP, see some sample projects, and access a link to the larger database listing all completed student projects. Each new class of students will now have the opportunity to see these past projects which can be a source of inspiration for their own projects. Student-inspired Projects / Content: The online collection can be used by instructors as an effective resource in highlighting relevant examples to reinforce particular themes. As each project has an ethical focus, the theoretical concepts being discussed in class could be linked to actual real-life cases that have been identified by the previous students.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

Heuristics for Work Plan Preparation, Particularly Strengthening the Link between Experimental Procedures and Risk Assessment/HAZOP and Interpretation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

Project Overview
Project Title	Heuristics for Work Plan Preparation, Particularly Strengthening the Link between Experimental Procedures and Risk Assessment/HAZOP and Interpretation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Project Leader	Prof John Barford
School / Dept	SENG / CBME
Project Duration	Aug 2013 – Dec 2014
Project Description	In this project, a safety training module is provided to CBME undergraduate students to enhance their learning by the use of heuristics. By using this module, the students are asked to prepare work plans, which will be reviewed by faculty members to the extent the work plans have identified and mitigated risks and that the proposed actions would have prevented the occurrence of the safety incident.
Project Outcome	A heuristics approach to safety education and training was developed, resulting in a novel teaching tool (Hazard identification Software H.I.S.) A software base training safety module HIS (Hazards identification system) developed, it specifically addressing the link between experimental procedures and risk assessment / HAZOP and the interpretation of MSDS safety data sheets. An work plan evaluation rubrics was developed. This provided a clear guideline for self and peer evaluation of the completeness of the work plan.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Online C Programming Learning Suite

Project Overview
Project Title	Online C Programming Learning Suite
Project Leader	Prof Gibson Lam
School / Dept	SENG/ CSE
Project Duration	Jul 2013 – Jun 2015
Project Description	This project aims to embed a set of interactive Web-based tools within the C Programming Bridging Course (COMP1029C) to enhance students’ learning. All the course materials (including lecture and practicing materials) can be put in the online course in that the students can access and practice on the course materials seamlessly anywhere via any device with Web browsing capability.
Project Outcome	The deliverable of the project is an Online C Programming Learning Suite that includes a set of interactive Web-based tools for learning and practicing C programming skills. These tools include: a complete Web-based programming environment for writing and running C programs a line-by-line interactive Web-based illustration of the execution of those C programs an authoring tool for embedding the above tools within the online course.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Read more about Online C Programming Learning Suite
2558 reads

Online Virtual Soil Lab II

Project Overview
Project Title	Online Virtual Soil Lab II
Project Leader	Prof Yu-Hsing Wang
School / Dept	SENG/ CIVL
Project Duration	Aug 2013 – Jul 2014
Project Description	Build on the previous project “Online Virtual Soil Lab”, one new component is introduced in this project. Students will have a chance to learn printing techniques of the new 3D printing technology as well as its applications in geotechnical engineering. In addition, this online Virtual Soil Lab II may resolve a problematic issue which arises from the onset of the new 4-year undergraduate curriculum. Those important but yet to be removed course materials (esp. lab sessions) after the same course is transferred from the 3-year to 4-year curriculum, can be incorporated in the online VSL II for students to learn through a self-learning mode.
Project Outcome	The Online Virtual Soil Lab was enriched with the following contents: Laboratory Tests to Quantify Shear Strength: students are able to learn and understand how to do these soil tests. Particulate-scale Soil Behavior: students are able to see and then understand the stress distribution in soils and the particle motion in response to shearing based on the experiments. Also, students are able to understand the new technology, 3D printing techniques. Classroom of Clayey Soils: students are able to understand different types of clay minerals and their engineering behavior. To Know Landslides: students are able to understand the underlying mechanisms of landslide initiations.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

Read more about Online Virtual Soil Lab II
2278 reads

Pages