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FOCUSED Project

The "Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D." philosophy is a strategic thinking framework designed to help prepare the next generation of thought-leaders for a complicated world. By using this framework, you will learn BETTER, learn FASTER and learn MORE than you are used to.

We operationalized this framework through the aid of seven (7) dice to give a “touch-and-feel” of the philosophy. The statements / prompts / questions appearing on each of the seven dice have been statistically determined. The “Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D.” framework has proven so useful that real organizations are using it to help their senior management and board of directors open up the ALTERNATIVES to better deal with their UNSOLVED problems, issues and challenges."

The F.O.C.U.S.E.D dice are designed based on an extensive survey carried out with 400+ business students at our Faculty of Business and feedback from practitioners on what our students need to do to help take their learning to the next level. The key findings culminated in the importance of the “Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D.” philosophy where each letter represents a critical competency much sought-after in the real world today:

"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

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 or click "View Resource".

Keywords:: Problem solving Dice games
Resource Type:: Others

MOOC

Learning4Life

This self-paced online course will help students to improve their language skills, find out how they can be an independent learner and become a life-long learner, increase their knowledge of effective study skills, and balance their study and life by highlighting efficient uses of time and healthy study practices. Created by the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Keywords:: Study skills English language -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: MOOC

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

Video

GeRDI – A Generic Research Data Infrastructure

The advent of data intensive science has fueled the generation of digital scientific data. Undoubtedly, digital research data plays a pivotal role in transparency and re-producibility of scientific results as well as in steering the innovation in a research process. However, the main challenges for science policy and infrastructure projects are to develop practices and solutions for research data management which in compliance with good scientific standards make the research data discoverable, citable and accessible for society potential reuse. The talk will present GeRDI - the Generic Research Data Infrastructure - which is such a research data management initiative targeting long tail content that stems from research communities belonging to different domains. It provides a generic and open software which connects research data infrastructures of communities to enable the investigation of multidisciplinary research questions.

Keywords:: Science -- Data processing Research -- Data processing Information storage retrieval systems
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Open Science and the role of Open Educational Resources

The seminar defines as Open Science practices and processes in all scientific disciplines that foster participation and collaboration, accessibility and reuse, transparency and verifiability in science. This is linked to the use and promotion of an open web and the provision of infrastructures for scholarly research, teaching and learning. Open Science also promotes sustainable impact, both transdisciplinary in the science system as well as in politics, business, culture, and public life. Open Science is rooted in the tradition of established principles of good scientific practice. The goal is to critically reflect traditional scientific culture and to transfer it into the present era of linked-up research. Based upon experiences made in the EduArc project, the talk will place the emphasis on open educational resources and challenges to fully integrate them into teaching practices at universities.

Keywords:: Communication in science Communication of technical information Reproducible research Open educational resources Open access publishing
Resource Type:: Video

Video

All Gone Well Done - Episode 5

Here comes to the last episode! Let's check out whether they can realize the unfinished plan of Ah On.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
Resource Type:: Video

Video

All Gone Well Done - Episode 4

In order to realize the unfinished plan of Ah On, some of his friends conduct the interview, some of them responsible for the on-site investigation while some of them do the background research. Do you want to know what are they going to do? Let’s check it out!

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
Resource Type:: Video

Video

All Gone Well Done - Episode 3

There are many strange things happened in the old building, is it a trick played by the developers? Let’s continue the story to see what happened on the 5 young people.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
Resource Type:: Video

Video

All Gone Well Done - Episode 2

In facing the developer hegemony, Ah Bao’s convenient store is being forced to relocate. His best friend, Ah On gave up the opportunity to study aboard and insisted to stay in Hong Kong and film a documentary about the reconstruction of the old district. Why did he give up the study? Let’s find out the story of Ah On.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
Resource Type:: Video

Video

All Gone Well Done - Episode 1

In the age of information, everyone is easy to be satisfied with the so-called "facts". However, a young man, Ah On believes that the truth-seeking spirit just like playing a trick, you can only one-side of the "truth". Let's check out whether the buddies of Ah On have this truth-seeking spirit or not.