Search Constraints
Search Results
-
Video
In this CIHK webinar, we will discuss the material conditions of and historical background to the use of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic in writing-mediated brush conversation between literati of Sinitic engaged in cross-border communication within Sinographic East Asia or the Sinographic cosmopolis, which corresponds with today’s China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan (including Okinawa, formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom) and Vietnam. Compared with speech as a modality of communication, real-time writing-mediated interaction between talking humans, synchronously face-to-face, seems uncommon. In any society, speaking is premised on one condition: the interlocutors must have at least one shared spoken language at their disposal, but even then, there are circumstances under which speaking is either physically not feasible or socially inappropriate. Could writing function as an alternative modality of communication when speaking is not an option due to the absence of a shared spoken language, as in cross-border communication settings? Whereas real-time writing-mediated face-to-face interaction is rare where a regional lingua franca was known to exist (e.g., Latin and Arabic), there is ample historical evidence of literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic from different parts of Sinographic East Asia conducting ‘silent conversation’, synchronously and interactively in writing mode using brush, ink, and paper. Such a pattern of writing-assisted interaction is still practiced and observable in pen-assisted conversation – pen-talk – between Chinese and Japanese speakers today, thanks to the pragma-linguistic affordance of morphographic, non-phonographic sinograms (i.e., Chinese characters and Japanese kanji). We will outline the historical spread of Classical Chinese or Sinitic texts from the ‘center’ to the ‘peripheries’, and the historical background to the acquisition of literacy in Sinitic by the people there. Their shared knowledge of Sinitic helps explain why, for well over a thousand years until the 1900s, literati from these places were able to speak their mind by engaging in ‘Sinitic brush-talk’ 漢文筆談 in cross-border communication.
Even date: 13/5/2022
Speaker: Prof. David C. S. Li
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Chinese characters History Chinese language -- Written Chinese Written communication China East Asia
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Geospatial information science is a discipline that focuses on using geospatial information technology to understand people, places, nature and processes of the earth. IoT refers to Internet of things, the combination of sensors, software and other technologies to connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet. The era of IoT brings us opportunities and challenges for geospatial information science. In the keynote, five characteristics and three scientific issues of geo-spatial information science in the era of IoT are summarised.
Even date: 6/9/2022
Speaker: Prof. Daren Li
Moderator: Prof. Christopher Chao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Panel members: Prof. Qingyan Chen, Prof. Qinhao Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
- Subjects:
- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
- Keywords:
- Internet of things Geospatial data Spatial data mining
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
EDC is organising a series of Sharing Sessions that present departmental project deliverables and innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning, promoting sustainable and impactful practices that resonate across PolyU and beyond, and funded by PolyU’s Quality Incentive Scheme on Online Teaching, Stage I.
This session proudly presents three departments:
ME: Virtual robotic platforms by Dr David Navarro-Alarcon
SD: Student Centered Learning using Web 3 technologies by Dr Gino Yu
SFT: Learner-content & Learner-learner/teacher online resources by Dr Tracy Mok
Event Date: 8/2/2023
Presenter(s): Dr David Navarro-Alarcon (ME), Dr Gino Yu (SD); Dr Tracy Mok (SFT)
Facilitator(s): Dr Kai Pan Mark (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- College teaching Web-based instruction Internet in education Lesson planning Educational technology
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
EDC is organising a series of Sharing Sessions that present departmental project deliverables and innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning, promoting sustainable and impactful practices that resonate across PolyU and beyond, and funded by PolyU’s Quality Incentive Scheme on Online Teaching, Stage I.
This session proudly presents four departments:
EE: VR, AR & machine learning by Dr Fung Yu-fai
LIB: Using DataCamp to Support Online Learning and Teaching of Data Literacy by Mr Ernest Lam
LMS: Gamification and simulation-based teaching by Dr Anthony Pang
SLLO & COMP: Metaverse and virtual learning platforms by Dr Grace Ngai
Event Date: 15/2/2023
Presenter(s): Dr Yu-fai Fung (EE), Mr Ernest Lam (LIB), Dr Anthony Pang (LMS), Dr Grace Ngai (SLLO)
Facilitator(s): Mr Roy Kam (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- College teaching Web-based instruction Internet in education Lesson planning Educational technology
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
EDC is organising a series of Sharing Sessions that present departmental project deliverables and innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning, promoting sustainable and impactful practices that resonate across PolyU and beyond, and funded by PolyU’s Quality Incentive Scheme on Online Teaching, Stage I.
This session proudly presents four departments:
EDC: Impact of changes in the modes of delivery on academic performance by Mr Kenneth Tam
EDC: Global Classroom for enhancing inter-cultural knowledge by Dr Eric Tsui
ENGL: ENGL online initiatives by Prof. Eric Friginal & Dr Renia Lopez
ISE: Educational research by Dr Y.M.Tang
OUS: Evaluation Study of the Three Offshore Online SL Subjects by Prof. Daniel Shek
Event Date: 22/2/2023
Presenter(s): Mr Kenneth Tam (EDC), Dr Eric Tsui (EDC), Prof. Eric Friginal (ENGL), Dr Renia Lopez (ENGL), Dr Y.M. Tang (ISE), Prof. Daniel Shek (OUS)
Facilitator(s): Mr Roy Kam (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- College teaching Web-based instruction Internet in education Lesson planning Educational technology
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
In this ‘Student Voices’ session, students share their views on, and experiences with, emerging Generative AI tools, including ChatGPT. The session will provide a conversation opportunity between teachers and students in this rapidly changing area, and a valuable chance to hear the learner's perspective.
Event Date: 23/3/2023
Facilitator(s): Dr Julia Chen (EDC), Mr Anthony Ho (EDC)
Honourable moderator for Q&A session: Prof David Shum, Dean of FHSS
EDC Coordinator: Darren Harbutt
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Artificial intelligence College teaching Artificial intelligence -- Educational applications
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
ChatGPT is the latest generative AI tool to hit the news and universities worldwide are racing to respond to the challenges to academic integrity and opportunities to higher education it offers. In this online session, a range of participants discuss the big issues surrounding ChatGPT and other AI technology, and outline possible responses universities can make.
Event Date: 16/2/2023
Facilitator(s): Dr Julia Chen (EDC), Mr Darren Harbutt (EDC), Mr Dick Chan (EDC), Mr Adam Forrester (ELC), Prof Song Guo (COMP),Dr Melody Lu (CPCE),Prof Eric Friginal (ENGL)
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Artificial intelligence College teaching Artificial intelligence -- Educational applications
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
In this webinar, we present a selection of AI tools that are currently available, explain how to access them, and consider some potential uses of the tools in an educational setting.
Event Date: 31/3/2023
Facilitator(s): Darren Harbutt (EDC), Dick Chan (EDC), Jacky Chau (EDC), Anthony Ho (EDC)
-
Video
Supported by the Virtual Teaching and Learning (VTL) project “Promoting the use of video-based formative assessment to develop the skills of reflection and peer feedforward and as an alternative to proctored examination”, teachers have been adopting video-base assessment techniques across different subjects and levels. In this session, three teachers are going to share their experience and provide suggestions to colleagues who are interested in adopting this approach: Dr Joe Ching [ELC]: Benefits and outcomes of using video-based formative assessment to improve presentation skills Dr Vincent Leung [MM]: Leveraging video assessment in global business learning at the graduate level Dr Betty Chung [SN]: Using video-based formative assessment to build a foundation of reflective learning in junior nursing students (in alphabetical order of Departments)
Event Date: 19/4/2023
Presenter(s): Dr Joe Ching (ELC), Dr Vincent Leung (MM), Dr Betty Chung (SN)
Facilitator(s): Dr Kai Pan Mark (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Educational tests measurements
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Others
A portfolio for ITC3089E showing how to present the theme and fabric
- Course related:
- ITC3089E Woven Fabric Design Project
- Subjects:
- Textiles
- Keywords:
- Weaving Textile fabrics
- Resource Type:
- Others
-
Video
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
- Keywords:
- Information technology -- Social aspects Democratization Expertise
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Your teaching scholarship and accolades can now be recorded on the PolyU Scholar’s Hub. Join this workshop tailored for teaching/clinical staff to find out how you can use this platform for systematic documentation and showcase purposes, and how your use of this platform may help increase your eligibility for an upcoming rewards system.
Event Date: 25/5/2023
Facilitator(s): Eric Tsui (EDC), Charles Cheng (IPAO), Vanessa Ramesh Mahboobani (IPAO), Ada Tse (EDC)
- Keywords:
- Academic achievement Scholarly publishing Universities colleges -- Administration
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Join colleagues from the Department of Computing (COMP) and the English Language Centre (ELC) as they share their insights, experiences, challenges and plans on redesigning assessments in response to the emergence of generative AI. In this webinar, participants will learn how PolyU staff are adapting their assessment strategies to incorporate AI-generated content, while still maintaining academic integrity and ensuring student learning outcomes are met. This session will provide valuable perspectives for educators who are interested in leveraging AI in their own teaching and assessment practices.
Event Date: 30/5/2023
Facilitator(s): Richard Lui (COMP), Adam Forrester (ELC), Mitesh Patel (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement, Assessment & Feedback, Lesson Design, and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Artificial intelligence Computer-assisted instruction Education -- Effect of technological innovations on Educational technology
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
A world class AI expert will explain to us in layman terms the power and limitations of generative AI tools, key factors that affect their performances and what users should know before deciding to use these tools and when reviewing the responses from these tools. Be inspired to discover more applications of these tools!
Event Date: 13/6/2023
Presenter: Prof. Usama Fayyad, Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, USA
Facilitator(s): Eric Tsui (EDC), Ioanna Pavlidou (ITS)
- Keywords:
- Machine learning Artificial intelligence Education -- Effect of technological innovations on
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Generative AI challenges Higher Education institutions, educators and their practices to critically re-appraise the nature of what should and could be assessed. Gen AI can support equity and enhance new assessment designs. However, it also challenges us to reconsider what is valued, who is involved and what assessment can reliably reveal. This workshop will discuss the Australian Higher Education response to generative AI and explore the opportunities and challenges in relation to assessment.
Event Date: 19/6/2023
Facilitator(s): Michael Henderson (Monash University), Dick Chan (EDC)
-
Video
The QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards, backed by the Wharton School, describes itself as “ The global awards for innovative higher education pedagogies enhancing learning and employability”. Over the past few years PolyU has enjoyed much success at these awards with multiple shortlisted and winning entries. In this briefing, Reimagine Education Regional Award 2022: Asia Gold Award winner Dr. Kitty Chan (SN) will share her insights on converting great educational innovations into award-winning applications, as well as the hints on preparing the application materials. EDC and IPAO representatives will provide additional information to support colleagues who are interested in submitting their applications.
Event Date: 27/6/2023
Facilitator(s): Chan Kitty (SN), Anna Seto (IPAO), Kevinia Cheung (EDC), Kai Pan Mark (EDC)
- Keywords:
- Educational innovations Proposal writing for grants Education Higher--Awards
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
MOOC
The real-life stroke scenario presented in ANA101x Human Anatomy has invited vigorous discussions on whether fully recovery from a severe stroke is possible and how it could happen. The knowledge of anatomy has arisen a series of queries on body functioning that are commonly implicated in stroke. An extension of human anatomy fundamentals towards functional anatomy has formed the basis of intervention approaches for functional recovery undertaken by different healthcare professionals, which is guiding the ultimate goals of post-stroke rehabilitation program for regaining independence and quality-of-life of the individuals. Therefore, this course is particularly designed to delineate the stroke recovery process and its underlying scientific rationales.
Continuing using the same clinical case of Mr Law, this course walks you through the recovery journey, known as stroke care pathway involving multiple healthcare professionals to compose module ONE. In module TWO, intervention approaches practiced in key healthcare disciplines underpinned by the functional anatomy will be explored. Finally, the course knowledge will be assessed using an experiential approach using a set of mini case studies derived from the mainstream scenario of Mr Law.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
-
Video
Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D!
Learn BETTER. Learn FASTER. Learn MORE than you are used to.
To learn more about the idea of the “ecosystem” that we built around the FOCUSED philosophy and its accompanying 7 colourful dice framework, please visit the FOCUSED homepage.
Most problems, issues, and challenges remain unsolved because we end up resorting to our past habitual attempts without being mindful of new ways of thinking and new ways of doing. This video will showcase an innovative new strategic thinking framework that is designed to make you think more deeply and peripherally about your organization's unsolved problems, and in the process, open up alternatives not contemplated before.
This video illustrates the F.O.C.U.S.E.D. Dice framework, to help open your thinking about complex issues. Each letter represents different key behaviors:
"F" - Bring Fresh Perspective
"O" - Think, feel and act like an Owner/ Manager
"C" - Show Connected-thinking
"U" - Have a Sense of Urgency
"S" - Show Team SPIRIT
"E" - Always Engage
"D" - Exercise Deliberate Practice
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Problem solving Dice games
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
MOOC
Whether you are a university student trying to make sense of a difficult major course project or struggling to add value during your internship placement; or you are practicing manager struggling to find a resolution to a complex problem, issue or challenge, this course will guide you through a framework designed to help you open up the alternatives. Through this structured framework designed to help you better deal with your unstructured problems, you will learn BETTER, learn FASTER and learn MORE than you are used to. In essence, this short course will help you “HOW” to learn to (un)learn during knowledge transfer.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Problem solving Dice games
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
-
Video
Interested in harnessing the power of Generative AI (GenAI) for your studies? Join us in exploring the GenAI platform, its functionality and usage policies in our upcoming workshop. Learn about how GenAI can enhance your learning experience and how to employ it in your studies while maintaining data privacy and security. We'll introduce you to 'prompts engineering' and emphasise the importance of academic integrity in the context of AI technology usage. Come and join this workshop co-organised by EDC and ITS.
Event Date: 27/9/2023
Facilitator(s): Chan, Dick (EDC), Mark, Kai Pan (EDC), Tam, Barbara (EDC), Leung, Rian (ITS)