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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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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)
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- Academic achievement Scholarly publishing Universities colleges -- Administration
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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)
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- Student Engagement, Assessment & Feedback, Lesson Design, and Good Practices
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- Artificial intelligence Computer-assisted instruction Education -- Effect of technological innovations on Educational technology
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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)
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- Machine learning Artificial intelligence Education -- Effect of technological innovations on
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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)
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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)
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- Educational innovations Proposal writing for grants Education Higher--Awards
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An online lecture on the topic of "Introduction to Hong Kong Radio Astronomy".This lecture of “Science World: Exploring Space to Benefit Mankind” Education Programme in the 2021/22 school year for secondary students, which aims to cultivate the interest of local youth in space science and elevate their enthusiasm for participating in the development of space technology.
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- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering
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- Radio astronomy
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An online lecture on the topic of "China Manned Space".This lecture of “Science World: Exploring Space to Benefit Mankind” Education Programme in the 2021/22 school year for secondary students, which aims to cultivate the interest of local youth in space science and elevate their enthusiasm for participating in the development of space technology.
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- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
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- Manned space flight Exploration of outer space
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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
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- Management
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- Problem solving Dice games
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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)