CHEM

Bringing Chemistry to Life in Common Core Chemistry Course

Project Overview
Project Title	Bringing Chemistry to Life in Common Core Chemistry Course
Project Leader	Dr Jason Chan
School / Dept	SSCI / CHEM
Project Duration	Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Project Description	This project aims to enable students to develop a strong connection between theories and real-lifephenomena, and learn to perceive the processes and materials of this world with the chemical understanding they have learnt by re-developing the textbook-driven course, CHEM1004, preparing a course website as well as introducing demonstration materials into lecture 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

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

Development and Implementation of an Integrated and Multi-media-enhanced On-line Study-station for "Physical Chemistry" and Its Interfacing Programs

Project Overview
Project Title	Development and Implementation of an Integrated and Multi-media-enhanced On-line Study-station for "Physical Chemistry" and Its Interfacing Programs
Project Leader	Prof Xiao-Yuan Li
School / Dept	SSCI / CHEM
Project Duration	Nov 2005 - May 2009
Project Description	Physical chemistry has been arguably the most difficult and challenging subject for both teaching and learning in chemistry departments worldwide. The project therefore aimed to improve the curriculum and make it more program-specific for students from different departments or programmes by developing and implementing an integrated and multimedia-enhanced online study-station for physical chemistry for UG students majoring in chemistry and for other UG programmes that required physical chemistry in their curricula.
Project Outcome	This project identified the learning difficulties in physical chemistry, proposed viable approaches for both teaching and learning to deal with the difficulties, and integrated these approaches into a multi-media enhanced on-line study platform. An integrated and multi-media-enhanced online study platform for Physical Chemistry courses for UG students was developed.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report: First \| Second \| Third \| Forth \| Fifth \| Sixth \| Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

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