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MOOC

Academic Skills for Independent Learners (ASIL)

The self-paced online course is for students to self-study, practise and improve the academic English that they need for their university studies. Topics include appropriate academic style, correct referencing conventions, writing university levels essays and reports, delivering academic presentations and participating in discussions. Created by the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Keywords:: Academic writing English language -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

Upgrading Your Grammar

A self-paced online course designed to help students improve the grammar that they need to successfully complete their university studies. Combines short, informative videos with fun, interactive activities. Topics include parts of speech, using tenses, sentence structure, and grammar for presentations.
Created by the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Grammar -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: MOOC

Courseware

Literacy in the Disciplines: Social Sciences

This website has been developed as part of the UGC funded project, "Supporting and developing students’ English literacy practices in the disciplines” which is funded by the University Grants Committee’s Competitive Funding Scheme on Teaching and Learning for the 2012-2015 triennium. This inter-institutional literacy project aims to examine the provision of English literacy across three broad disciplines in Hong Kong tertiary institutes, namely Social Science, Science and Engineering in the participating institutions that include the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University. The website consists of a comprehensive support system to help provide a stimulating learning environment for students, content and language teachers. It also aims to help teachers become conversant with disciplinary genres and the linguistic and pedagogical resources suitable in a second language learning environment. The resources on this website will be open to and shared by all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and beyond.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: Academic writing English language -- Study teaching Social sciences -- Authorship
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Literacy in the Disciplines: Science

This website has been developed as part of the UGC funded projectt, "Supporting and developing students’ English literacy practices in the disciplines” which is funded by the University Grants Committee’s Competitive Funding Scheme on Teaching and Learning for the 2012-2015 triennium. This inter-institutional literacy project aims to examine the provision of English literacy across three broad disciplines in Hong Kong tertiary institutes, namely Social Science, Science and Engineering in the participating institutions that include the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University. The website consists of a comprehensive support system to help provide a stimulating learning environment for students, content and language teachers. It also aims to help teachers become conversant with disciplinary genres and the linguistic and pedagogical resources suitable in a second language learning environment. The resources on this website will be open to and shared by all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and beyond.

Subjects:: English language
Keywords:: Academic writing Technical writing English language -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Literacy in the Disciplines

This website has been developed as part of the UGC funded project, "Supporting and developing students’ English literacy practices in the disciplines” which is funded by the University Grants Committee’s Competitive Funding Scheme on Teaching and Learning for the 2012-2015 triennium. This inter-institutional literacy project aims to examine the provision of English literacy across three broad disciplines in Hong Kong tertiary institutes, namely Social Science, Science and Engineering in the participating institutions that include the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University. The website consists of a comprehensive support system to help provide a stimulating learning environment for students, content and language teachers. It also aims to help teachers become conversant with disciplinary genres and the linguistic and pedagogical resources suitable in a second language learning environment. The resources on this website will be open to and shared by all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and beyond.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: Academic writing Technical writing English language -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Welcome to ANA101x: What is this course about?

An overview of the MOOC course: Human Anatomy ANA 101x, which featured on a real-life stroke case scenario.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human anatomy
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Customer Relationship Management: A Multifaceted Concept

This eBook is designed for learning customer relationship management. Each chapter includes some exercises, concept-check questions and challenge questions for learning the theories.