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English presentational speaking is important for students during their studies and for their post-tertiary careers. The goal of the Online Project for the Improvement of University Speaking Project (OPTIMUS) is to provide Hong Kong tertiary students with an online, self-access resource for the improvement of their English speaking skills. OPTIMUS is the product of a large UGC-funded project conducted collaboratively by HKU, CityU and PolyU. OPTIMUS is centred on a database of more than 60 video exemplars of authentic best-practice speaking from expert and peer presenters. The user interface allows learners a large degree of independence to tailor usage to their preferred learning styles and needs.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Spoken English
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The notion of expertise is integral to all forms of institutional and professional practice in many domains – in education, healthcare, social welfare, law, journalism, banking, information technology, marketing, translating and interpreting services etc. It is a concept addressed by scholars across many disciplines – cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, language/communication studies, among others. There are, however, enduring problems of definition, description and measurement of expertise. Some scholars draw attention to the ongoing ‘crisis in expertise’ and others pronounce the ‘death of expertise’ in contemporary society.
More humbly, I begin with a characterisation of professional expertise very broadly to include scientific, experiential, technological, organisational, legal, ethical and communicative knowledge. This then leads me to the notion of ‘distributed expertise’, which extends beyond the individual remit and the conventional lay-expert divide. For instance, in the healthcare domain, a significant development afforded by internet-based technology is the increased level of patients’ e-health literacy and, consequently, democratisation of expertise. This amounts not only to accessing health information digitally, but also the phenomenon of patients ‘doctoring’ themselves in ‘the now of its presence’, i.e., ‘expert patients’ becoming instrumental in self-diagnosis and even self-treatment.
Additionally, ‘distributed expertise’ is also constitutive of ‘expert systems’, e.g., diagnostic and interventionist technologies as well as decision aids mediated by algorithms and templates. This is what I refer to as the technologization of expertise. I suggest that there is overreliance on ‘expert systems’ by both experts and lay persons in everyday decision making. Access to and use of ‘expert systems’ in optimal ways inevitably necessitates a reconfiguration of the very conditions and consequences of professional expertise.
Event Date: 25/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Srikant Sarangi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
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- Information technology -- Social aspects Democratization Expertise
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Welcome to the official YouTube channel of the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. English Language Centre Objectives: 1. To enhance students' communication skills so that they can pursue academic and professional excellence 2. To foster students' independent, life-long English language learning and whole-person development 3. To support the pursuit of English language excellence within the PolyU and in the wider Hong Kong community Find more about us here: https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/
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- ELC6001 Presentation Skills for Research Students
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Education Higher -- Computer-assisted instruction English language -- Study teaching Web-based instruction
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- Video
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MOOC
This self-paced online course encourages extensive reading and helps students improve their reading and overall English skills. It has activities on different English books ranging from 59 Seconds to Animal Farm. There are also materials on the READ@PolyU 2017 book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the READ@PolyU 2018 book, Fifteen Dogs, and the READ@PolyU 2019 book, Persepolis. Created by the English Language Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Reading
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- MOOC
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MOOC
In this course, we have incorporated up-to-date theory, multimedia, and peer-to-peer interaction to bring our own expertise together with the benefits of collaborative learning to create an engaging instructional environment. We have brought our own institutions' expertise in service-learning together with experienced teachers from around the world, and academic experts in the field to give you a range of perspectives and make the material as useful as possible.
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- APSS2S09 Service leadership through serving children and families with special needs
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Student affairs services Learning Psychology of College teaching Service learning
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- MOOC
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In this video, a team of students arrive the university library and meet the Reference Librarian at a discussion room. The Reference Librarian firstly recaps the concepts of the AAOCC. Then, she mentions the additional criteria for evaluating the primary and secondary sources!
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- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Information resources -- Evaluation Information literacy
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- Video
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In this video, a team of students are suggested to digitize the works of the exhibition.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Intellectual property Humanities -- Research Copyright
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- Video
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MOOC
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
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- MOOC
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Others
In this exercise, learners are require to order the tasks in a way that reflect the research usual practice.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Humanities -- Research -- Methodology Humanities -- Research
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- Others
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Others
In the exercise, learner need to determine where is the best place to find these primary information.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Humanities -- Research Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others