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According to recent statistics, approximately 72% of adults are passive job-seekers. That means that hundreds of candidates are aiming for your potential job. And they might be more experienced and skilled than you.
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- Applications for positions Job hunting Résumés (Employment)
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Having the freedom to pick a topic to speak about can be challenging. Are you feeling a little stumped about what to talk to your audience about?
In this video, the 2018 World Champion of Public Speaking, Ramona Smith, shares advice on how to pick a topic that connects with your audience and keeps them engaged start to finish.
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- Public speaking
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Have you ever been called on to talk in a meeting or in class, and you felt like you forgot everything you’ve ever known? It can be intimidating to be put on the spot to speak, but follow the advice of Ramona Smith, the 2018 World Champion of Public Speaking, and you’ll be able to handle impromptu speaking like a professional.
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- Public speaking
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Have you ever seen someone give a speech or presentation, and the whole time they stood stiffly at the lectern or podium? It can be boring to watch someone give a speech or presentation when they don’t use movement to keep you engaged. The 2018 World Champion of Public Speaking, Ramona Smith, will help you plan how to effectively use appropriate body language to captivate your audience!
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- Expression Public speaking Body language Nonverbal communication
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Have you ever felt nervous or anxious when you had to speak in front of other people? Or are you preparing for a class or work presentation and want to feel confident so you can do your absolute best?
In this video, the 2018 World Champion of Public Speaking, Ramona Smith, breaks down 5 tips that will help you prepare for and give your best presentation or speech yet!
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- Public speaking
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Are you a first time project manager and need to learn the project manager basics so that your project can be successful? In this video, I’m sharing the most important tips for new project managers so that you’ll never experience a failed project.
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- Project management
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In this video, we’ll take you through 5 of the best project management software, their key features, what each tool is best for as well as pricing information.Project management software mentioned in this video:
- ClickUp
- monday.com
- Hive
- Smartsheet
- Asana
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- Project management -- Computer programs Project management
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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
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- Chinese Language and Language and Languages
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- Chinese characters History Chinese language -- Written Chinese Written communication China East Asia
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Focusing on tensions and links between national formation and international outlooks, this talk shows how classical world visions persist as China’s modernizers and revolutionaries adopted and revised the Western nation-state and cosmopolitanism. The concepts of tianxia (all under heaven) and datong (great harmony) have been updated into outlooks of global harmony that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as strategies of overcoming interstate conflict, national divides, and social fragmentation. The talk will delve into two debates: the embrace of the West vs. aspirations for a common world, and the difference between liberal cosmopolitanism and socialist internationalism.
Even date: 16/9/2022
Speaker: Prof. Ban Wang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese Culture
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- Chinese Studies
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- Civilization Diplomatic relations World politics China
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During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the relaxation of the Ming sea ban, along with the arrival of the Europeans, generated a multipolar environment in East Asia. It revolved around the intra-Asian exchange centered upon Chinese silk and Japanese silver, and a nascent global flow of New World bullion to China and spices for Western Europe. The situation changed during the mid-seventeenth century amid mounting restrictions on overseas contacts from the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan and the consolidation and militarization of Chinese merchants under the Zheng family. By 1683, when the Qing forced the Zheng to surrender and occupied their bastion of Taiwan, China had achieved naval preeminence in the East Asian sea lanes. Other than a few outposts, the Europeans had largely withdrawn from the area north of island Southeast Asia, which remained under the hegemony of the Dutch East India Company. In 1684, the Qing court legalized private trade and travel abroad, prompting another wave of overseas migration. Authorities in China and across eastern maritime Asia enacted policies that kept the Qing merchants and immigrants separate from the earlier Ming loyalists. Additionally, both groups of Chinese were accorded significant political, economic, and legal privileges. This infrastructure, backed by Qing naval power, paved the way for the “Chinese century” in maritime Asia.
Even date: 9/11/2022
Speaker: Dr. Xing Hang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong
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- Area Studies and Chinese Studies
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- Qing Dynasty (China) Chinese diaspora Southeast Asia Chinese
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As a recent New York Times editorial proclaimed, "The Global Order Isn't Working. It's Time for Something Different." To teach environmental history and environmental ethics is to reacquaint ourselves with the facts that we need to try to build, while there is still time, a new cooperative order that understands this: simple fact: that other people and other countries are quite literally "the air we breathe." Moreover, all who claim to be ethical persons must take seriously the notion of inter-generational equity and try to act upon it. This notion should, in theory, come more easily to countries whose traditions have built upon classical/ Confucian learning, for those traditions say that the most important marker of human behavior is working toward common ends (qun 群) while "learning what is enough" (zhi zu 知足). Put another way, many resources within the Chinese tradition may strengthen our resolve to act more constructively in less short-sighted ways.
Event Date: 14/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
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- Environmental ethics Intergenerational relations Philosophy Confucian Confucian ethics
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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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Working across international borders is one of the innumerable challenges facing teachers today. This workshop shows how one teacher works together with a colleague at Nagoya University of College and Business in Japan to use case studies to integrate students from different locations. Join us to find out more.
Event Date: 16/12/2022
Presenter(s): Leung, Vincent
Facilitator(s): Sager, John
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- Lesson Design and Good Practices
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- International education Education Higher -- International cooperation Intellectual cooperation
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The internationalisation of higher education can be an exciting and rewarding process, opening up new opportunities for the entire academic community. As professionals and citizens of an increasingly connected world, all graduates of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) will require international perspectives and intercultural skills. For many faced with the task, it is difficult to know where to start and how to maintain the momentum that is needed. In this workshop, we will explore different approaches to the internationalisation of the teaching and learning process and the student experience bringing examples from other universities/HEIs in different regions of the world.
Event Date: 15/12/2022
Presenter(s): Carla Camargo Cassol da Silva
Facilitator(s): Sager, John
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- Lesson Design
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- International education Education Higher -- International cooperation
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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:
AP: Artificial Intelligence by Dr Dennis Leung
CBS: Large-class e-learning applications: Japanese teaching and L2L activities by Dr Jack Chun
ELC: Effective class teaching with apps by Mr Adam Forrester
Event Date: 14/12/2022
Facilitator(s): Mark, Kai Pan
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- Good Practices
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- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology College teaching Web-based instruction
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In past few years, hybrid/online teaching has been used during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this workshop, a 4C model: Content, Collaboration, Community and Communication is presented for hybrid/online teaching. To support the 4C model, various teaching/learning tools and resources can be used such as: presentation slides with annotations, chatbox communication, open educational resources, multiple choice exercises, group exercises, class surveys etc. Good practice and useful experience (e.g., how to handle the aforementioned tools smoothly in a class) will be shared through the workshop.
Event Date: 7/12/2022
Facilitator(s): Chan, Henry; Zhou, Laura
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- Good Practices
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- Internet in education Educational technology College teaching Blended learning Web-based instruction
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- Video
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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:
AMA: Use of in-class apps and videos to support communication and peer learning by Dr Raymond Sze
MM: Use of in-class apps and videos to support communication and peer learning by Dr Pamsy Hui
APSS: Assessing the wellbeing and needs of SEN students at PolyU during COVID-19 by Dr Ann Li and Dr Lu Yu SN: Virtual hospital by Dr Justina Liu
Event Date: 7/12/2022
Facilitator(s): Kam, Roy
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- Assessment & Feedback, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
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- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology College teaching Web-based instruction
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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:
CEE: Digital assessment by Dr Barbara Siu
RS: Blended clinical education of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy programmes by Ms Josephine Wong and Mr Alexander Woo
SHTM: Virtual tours by Dr Mimi Li and Dr Daniel Leung
Event Date: 21/11/2022
Facilitator: Mark, Kai Pan
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- Assessment & Feedback and Good Practices
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- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology Educational tests measurements College teaching Web-based instruction
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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.
ABCT: Effective large class teaching and learning with handy applications by Dr Joe Kim-Hung Lam
CLC: Learning with simple but effective tools by Dr Lam Yan Yan, Dr David Yuen and Dr Cheung Chi Kan (with his teammates)
Event Date: 15/11/2022
Facilitator: Mark, Kai Pan
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- Good Practices
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- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology College teaching Web-based instruction
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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.
LSGI: VR for practical and e-Assessment by Dr Lawrence Lau
Event Date: 15/11/2022
Facilitator(s): Mark, Kai Pan; Lau, Lawrence
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- Assessment & Feedback
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- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology Educational tests measurements College teaching Web-based instruction
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This session will revisit the purposes and roles of a Programme Learning Outcomes Assessment Plan (P-LOAP) in quality assurance and enhancement. It will also discuss observations and good practices of how P-LOAP is used for monitoring and enhancing programme effectiveness in achieving its intended learning outcomes. Programme leaders and administrators are encouraged to attend to refresh and update their understanding and share their experience.
Event Date: 9/11/2022
Facilitator(s): Tam, Kenneth; Lo, Dawn
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Education Higher -- Aims objectives Education Higher -- Evaluation
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- Video
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This orientation gives an overview of the process of course approval and quality management. It walks through the course design and approval process and explains the key concepts in course quality management. The orientation is designed primarily for course leaders and administrators are also encouraged to attend to refresh and update their understanding and share their experience.
Event Date: 28/10/2022
Facilitator(s): Chen, Julia; Ho, Polly; Tam, Kenneth; Huen, Carol
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
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- Effective teaching -- Evaluation Web-based instruction -- Design Distance education
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This orientation gives an overview of the role of a programme leader and the process of programme quality management. It elucidates the context for and rationale behind programme design and introduces the key concepts and mechanisms in programme quality management. The orientation is designed primarily for programme leaders who are new to the role. Experienced programme leaders are also encouraged to attend to refresh and update their understanding and share their experience.
Event Date: 24/10/2022
Facilitator(s): Chen, Julia; Ho, Polly; Tam, Kenneth
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Effective teaching -- Evaluation Education Higher -- Evaluation
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- Video
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In this workshop, we will introduce a novel active-learning rewards-based (ALRB) approach supported by a prototype system to motivate students to be more active learners. We will describe how rubrics are assigned to different active learning pedagogies to reward students for their active engagement. The ALRB approach will be demonstrated with a supporting system and rewards will be given to the audience to show how instructors can use the ALRB approach in any face-to-face, hybrid or purely virtual environment.
Event Date: 20/10/2022
Presenter: Harbutt, Darren
Facilitator(s): Ting, Fridolin; Sze, Raymond
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- Lesson Design, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
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- Effective teaching Active learning Web-based instruction
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- Video
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EDC presents a series of showcases that share project deliverables and innovations in TEL, promoting sustainable and impactful practices that resonate across PolyU and beyond. Showcase One proudly presents two departmental interventions funded by PolyU’s Quality Incentive Scheme Stage 1, which promotes eLearning, Teaching and Assessment (eLTA) by grooming and rewarding outstanding performance:
APSS on the Move: Incubation of L&T Strategies before, during and beyond the Pandemic Era.
AAE: Using an online platform, Github, to shape and build the students' problem-solving and learning-to-learn abilities through a flip-class project teaching approach.
Event Date: 13/10/2022
Presenter(s): Chui, Eric; Chu, Rodney; Hsu, Li Ta
Facilitator: Harbutt, Darren
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Educational technology Web-based instruction
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- Video
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Learning online is playing an increasingly large part of student life, whether as part of a blended approach, for group work, or even for fully online study. Join us in this webinar where we look at how to learn online, successfully, making the most of the opportunities and tools on offer.
Event Date: 23/8/2022
Facilitator(s): Harbutt, Darren; Ho, Anthony
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design and Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Motivation in education Blended learning Engagement (Philosophy)
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- Video
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Professor Yigong Shi will reflect on the challenges in global higher education, based on his 37 years of learning, scientific research, and teaching experience in academia. He will present Westlake University's educational reforms in university operations, governance, talent recruitment, student development, research and academic evaluation, and interdisciplinary studies, which altogether provide new opportunities for future-oriented higher education.
Even date: 6/12/2022
Speaker: Prof. Yigong Shi
Moderator: Prof. Qingyan Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
- Keywords:
- Educational change China Education Higher
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Before the advent of computers around 1950, optimization centered either on small-dimensional problems solved by looking at zeroes of first derivatives and signs of second derivatives, or on infinite-dimensional problems about curves and surfaces. In both cases, "variations" were employed to understand how a local solution might be characterized. Computers changed the picture by opening the possibility of solving large-scale problems involving inequalities, instead of only equations. Inequalities had to be recognized as important because the decisions to be optimized were constrained by the need to respect many upper or lower bounds on their feasibility. A new kind of mathematical analysis, beyond traditional calculus, had to be developed to address these needs. It built first on appealing to the convexity of sets and functions, but went on to amazingly broad and successful concepts of variational geometry, subgradients, subderivatives, and variational convergence beyond just that. This talk will explain these revolutionary developments and why there were essential.
Event date: 1/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Terry Rockafellar (University of Washington)
Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Convex functions Convex sets Mathematical optimization Computer science -- Mathematics
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- Video
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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
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- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
- Keywords:
- Internet of things Geospatial data Spatial data mining
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- Video
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Adaptive computation is of great importance in numerical simulations. The ideas for adaptive computations can be dated back to adaptive finite element methods in 1970s. In this talk, we shall first review some recent development for adaptive methods with some application. Then, we will propose a deep adaptive sampling method for solving PDEs where deep neural networks are utilized to approximate the solutions. In particular, we propose the failure informed PINNs (FI-PINNs), which can adaptively refine the training set with the goal of reducing the failure probability. Compared with the neural network approximation obtained with uniformly distributed collocation points, the proposed algorithms can significantly improve the accuracy, especially for low regularity and high-dimensional problems.
Event date: 18/10/2022
Speaker: Prof. Tao Tang (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College)
Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
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- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Sampling (Statistics) Differential equations Partial -- Numerical solutions Mathematical models Adaptive computing systems
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- Video
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The course describes the theoretical underpinnings of USR. It showcases some effective practices and activities carried out in institutions around the world. The course also promotes understanding of the USR concept, its implications, impacts, evaluation, possible implementation methods, and replicability. In doing so, it contributes to the expansion and consolidation of the USR movement. It provides a knowledge base for designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating programs from the fundamentals of USR and some existing good practices.
No prior knowledge is required to join the course. This course is for you especially if you are an administrator, a professor, or a professional staff member interested in learning new creative ways from the experts' at the universities to address the needs of society including SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). If you are a government official or a foundation representative seeking ways to strengthen higher education, this course will help you explore future opportunities and directions.
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Did you know that frailty can affect the quality of life of older people? Did you know that frailty can impose a burden on the significant others of older people? If you are a member of the general public and would like to know about the prevention of frailty and the promotion of healthy ageing, or if you are a healthcare professional who would like to provide the best care for older people and family members in order to combat frailty, this course is for you. The aim of this course is not only to provide theoretical knowledge about frailty, but also to give practical input to help our learners become familiar with frailty and how to manage it. Frailty is a common condition among older people. It is associated with ageing, which is a trend that is becoming a major concern around the globe. Frailty is not only costly in terms of medical expenses, but also imposes a mental and financial burden on the family members of older people with the condition. A person with frailty is also at an increased risk of disease, disability, and death. However, frailty is reversible. Preventing frailty is an important target in the promotion of healthy ageing.
Apart from introducing concepts related to frailty, this course also provides some practical approaches to help individuals, including the older people themselves, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, to monitor and manage frailty in daily life. Short movies and videos are used for illustration. The techniques introduced in this course for managing frailty can be incorporated into daily life, making frailty easier to manage.
This course is designed for anyone interested in the management of frailty. Taking this course will help you to manage the frailty and promote the health of older people around you.
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- Nursing and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Health behavior Aging Lifestyles -- Health aspects Older people -- Health hygiene
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- MOOC
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MOOC
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing the full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of Chinese culture in transformation.
Key questions of the course:
(1) What are the Four Great Classical Chinese Novels? What are the stories about? Why are they so famous and influential in Chinese literature?
(2) What is special about the art of Chinese operas? What are the symbolic meanings behind the face make-up, gestures and costumes? How do the operas serve as a medium for transmitting knowledge in Chinese culture?
(3) Why did the private Confucian academies thrive in the Song dynasty? Why was the famous Donglin Academy suppressed by the state in the Ming dynasty? How were the private academies engaged in the state educational reforms in the late Qing dynasty?
(4) How did New Confucianism emerge as a movement in the 20th century? What were the aspirations of the New Confucians? How did they address modern challenges to the development of Chinese science, democracy and cosmology? Did they succeed in modernizing Confucianism?
(5) What were the traditional expectations of gender roles in China? How was gender politics heightened in the labour force in early New China? What light does the film Li Shuangshuang shed on the gender awareness of Chinese socialism?
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China Manners customs Civilization Philosophy Chinese Chinese drama Politics culture Chinese fiction Confucianism
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- MOOC
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Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing a full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of Chinese cultural exchange and interaction with other countries in history.
Key questions of the course:
(1) How did the Silk Road emerge in history? Who was Matteo Ricci? What happened in history regarding the Chinese cultural exchange of religions, arts and sports with the West?
(2) Where is Central Asia? What was Pax Mongolica? What role did silver play in the Saga of the Silk Road?
(3) What cultural exchanges occurred between Vietnam and China? How did Vietnam contribute to the introduction of Buddhism to China through the maritime Silk Road? Which of the Vietnamese princes served as a high-ranking official in the Chinese court of the Ming dynasty?
(4) How did China confront Western colonialism as a global trend in the early 20th century? Who was Sun Yat-sen? How did he connect China with the rest of the world? How did Pan-Asianism arise and go bankrupt?
(5) What is the relationship between rituals, ghosts and alcohol in China? What are the stories behind Chinese medicinal food, correlative cosmology and tea? How many major types of Chinese cuisine are there? What sorts of food were exchanged between China and other countries in history?
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies and Area Studies
- Keywords:
- China Manners customs Politics culture Diplomatic relations
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- MOOC
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With rapid globalization and proliferation of social media, businesses and organizations are in face of enormous communication challenges. How to communicate effectively on social media, how to manage social media data analysis as well as handling fake news are definitely at the top of the list.
By seeing challenge as opportunity, this course aims to unfold the communication challenges induced by the rise of social media in business corporations and most importantly, offer solutions to overcome these challenges. In addition, the course serves presents a vantage point to forge an interface of synergy between academics and practitioners to discuss and address global communication challenges. Participants can benefit from meaningful synergy between academics and practitioners as well as learning materials and meaningful multilateral discussions surrounding authentic communication cases and industrial practices engaging both instructors and participants. In sum, this course provides insights for business leaders, senior managerial members, and communication professionals by discussing the major communication challenges encountered by businesses around the world which in turn, helps the participants to advance their career in the ever-changing communication environment.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Social media Information technology -- Management
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Design thinking has become very popular recently. It is because many people believe that design thinking can help generate innovative solutions. Many business and non-business organizations are adopting it to resolving their problems. Even business schools and other disciplines include design thinking in their curriculum. Then, what is design thinking, really? And how can it benefit us?
Design thinking is commonly recognized as a problem-solving process that includes five stages - Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. However, when we compare the design thinking process with the conventional problem-solving process, there are no major differences, except the implementation part. Design thinking looks at problems with a holistic and human-centric perspective. It also tackles complex problems by using a non-linear approach. However, some people claim that considering design thinking as a problem-solving process is too simplistic.
Actually, design thinking should be considered as behaviors and attitudes when dealing with problems. Design thinkers use different thinking styles and attitudes when approaching problems. Design thinkers possess certain personal traits like human-centeredness, having a flexible and creative thinking style, being comfortable with subjective and intuitive judgement, and high self-efficacy. These thinking styles and attitudes help not only in problem-solving but also in finding opportunities. In order to be proficient in design thinking, we should not only understand the design Thinking process, but also have to make ourselves become a design thinker.
This MOOC provides you with core knowledge about design thinking and demystifies design thinking as a process for solving complex and wicked problems.
- Keywords:
- Creative ability Product design Critical thinking
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- MOOC
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MOOC
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has moved into the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing a full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of traditional Chinese culture.
Key questions of the course
What was the origin of ancient Confucianism? How does ancient Confucian wisdom help us address the modern human predicament?
How does Daoism enlighten us with a butterfly and fish? What is the connection between Daoism and the equality of all living organisms?
Why does Buddhism see our present lifetime to be nothing but suffering? How do the Four Noble Truths help liberate us from suffering?
What is special about Chinese ancient warfare? Who is Sunzi? What is his book The Art of War about? What can we learn from this famous book?
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China Religion Painting Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties Philosophy Chinese
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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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
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MOOC
Operations management deals with operational planning and control issues, and is needed in all sectors of the society. One of the challenges to operations manager is how to make use of the available resources in the best way for meeting a certain objective. Quantitative approaches are inevitably needed in tackling many of such problems. Operations Research (OR) deals with problem formulation and application of analytical methods to assist in decision-making of operational problems in planning and control. The techniques of OR are useful quantitative tools to assist operations managers, and has a wide applicability in engineering, manufacturing, construction, financial and various service sectors. Operations Research is an applied mathematics subject and is also a course in many engineering and management programmes. This course is designed for both students learning OR and learners who are practitioners in their respective professionals. The mathematical procedures for the OR techniques are introduced in details in the examples provided in the course. This helps learners to master the methodology and the techniques and apply them to achieve their goals through active learning. This course introduces two prominent OR techniques and their extended topics. The Simplex Method for Linear Programming (LP) has been considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century. LP is an optimization technique for solving problems such as finding the optimal product mix, production plan, and shipment allocation, in order to maximize the profir or minimize the cost. The Critical Path Method (CPM) is a popular technique employed by project managers in scheduling project activities. Some extended topics of CPM are also introduced to deal with certain special situations in project management. In reality, many systems operate under stochastic environment and the operational problems cannot be solved by the known analytical methods. To this end, the simulation approach is introduced in the last chapter of this course. Simulation is a powerful technique for tackling OR problems under such situations.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Operations research
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
This award-winning course aims to sharpen your competitive edge in work and life. It empowers you with positive values and practical problem-solving skills, including creative strategies for addressing challenges from COVID-19. Enriched with interesting animations, a new success story and breakthrough pedagogies, this updated version (2.5) effectively helps you master knowledge and skills requisite for a successful life.
- Keywords:
- Creative thinking Learning ability Critical thinking
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
Everyone wishes to know the future!
Although we do not have the magic crystal ball to show us the future, we have interviewed more than forty (40+) international industrialists, academics, and business leaders. They are experts in their area and the drivers behind the industry. Our guests will share their views of the future and potential of the fashion industry with you.
During the interviews, we focused on the following questions:
What are the current challenges?
What are the new main directions in the coming five to ten (5 – 10) years?
What kind of new technologies will become popular?
Will there be any new business models (new ways of doing business)?
What role can a government play?
Will there be any ideology that may bring a big impact?
We fully understand that learners may face the obstacle of terminology and background. We will introduce the background of the fashion supply chain first. Then, we take the learners to attend the interviews week by week, sector by sector. Most importantly, the course content is bilingual in Chinese and English. Learners will enjoy our learning supports.
Suitable for students, consumers, anyone who is interested or working in the fashion business.
- Subjects:
- Fashion retailing and merchandising
- Keywords:
- Retail trade -- Management Clothing trade -- Management Business logistics
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
This course will equip you with the knowledge relevant to pulmonary diseases and broaden your understanding on the patient’s journey in healthcare from a holistic perspective – starting from symptoms emerge to the disease diagnosis and assessment, and finally, disease management in an interdisciplinary approach. In addition, as psychological intervention is also an important part in the all-round care of patients, this course also covers topics about the psychosocial needs of patients and caregivers.
What you'll learn:
The causes, signs and symptoms of common pulmonary diseases
Understand the psychosocial needs of patients and caregivers
Interpret the results of medical examinations for pulmonary diseases
Differentiate the roles of different healthcare professionals
Integrate the knowledge learnt from different disciplines in the management for patients with pulmonary diseases
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Lungs -- Diseases Lungs -- Diseases -- Patients Lungs -- Diseases -- Treatment
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
This data analytics course takes an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate the data analytics process in the context of accounting and finance. The growing volume of both structured and unstructured data has pushed forward a more data-driven form of decision-making in accounting and finance. In order to keep up with the Big Data era advancements, accountants and finance professionals need to have a data analyst mindset to excel in their jobs. This course will illustrate different concepts of accounting and finance with the application of data analytics. It will not only help the learners to develop their skills to ask the right questions but also teach them how to master the data and use different tools like Excel and Tableau to analyze the data. In the end, the learners will be able to interpret the results and make their decisions effectively.
This course will use a simple framework that helps the learners to develop an analytical mindset. This framework (QDAR) has four major components:
1. Ask the right Q uestions to address an issue in accounting or finance contexts.
2. Understand the different data types and how to retrieve and clean D ata.
3. Conduct different data A nalyses to answer the questions
4. Communicate the R esults to the decision-makers using graphs, visualizations and reports.
The whole course will cover different aspects of the framework in conjunction with different types of analyses. There will be additional datasets for the verified learners through which they can practice what they have learned during the course.
- Subjects:
- Accounting and Finance
- Keywords:
- Accounting -- Data processing Finance -- Data processing
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
Aviation is essential for global business as it supports worldwide travelling and cargo transportation. Before COVID-19, the economic benefits generated by the industry across countries showed a growing trend. This course is aimed to provide learners with a broad understanding of airport services in different phases in terms of design and engineering. Learners will receive basic knowledge of how an airport operates. Key topics include the future perspective of air traffic control, air traffic flow management, airport management, facility planning, airport terminal design for the post-pandemic world and ground services.
- Subjects:
- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Logistics
- Keywords:
- Airports -- Management Aeronautics Commercial -- Management Airlines -- Management
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
“Easy Vlogging – making Interactive Self-introduction Videos” is an online course for people to learn, in self-paced format, how to create effective job interview videos for either academic pursuit or career needs. With the contents learned from this course, it helps learners apply for dream jobs easier and more successfully, producing self-introduction videos with good visual quality, superior self-expression and professional presence.
The purpose of this course is to offer students with:
• An overview of digital video production, including script writing and other preparation works;
• An introduction on various video production techniques, including the use of camera, lighting and video editing techniques; and
• An understanding on the role of digital self-introduction video for interview purposes.
- Keywords:
- Video recordings -- Production direction
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Others
Learn more about finding a journal for publication, open access, predatory journals, your copyright as an author, social media in academics, enhancing your visbility, networking, tools for sharing and co-writing or research data management.
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Video
Convex Matrix Optimization (MOP) arises in a wide variety of applications. The last three decades have seen dramatic advances in the theory and practice of matrix optimization because of its extremely powerful modeling capability. In particular, semidefinite programming (SP) and its generalizations have been widely used to model problems in applications such as combinatorial and polynomial optimization, covariance matrix estimation, matrix completion and sensor network localization. The first part of the talk will describe the primal-dual interior-point methods (IPMs) implemented in SDPT3 for solving medium scale SP, followed by inexact IPMs (with linear systems solved by iterative solvers) for large scale SDP and discussions on their inherent limitations. The second part will present algorithmic advances for solving large scale SDP based on the proximal-point or augmented Lagrangian framework In particular, we describe the design and implementation of an augmented Lagrangian based method (called SDPNAL+) for solving SDP problems with large number of linear constraints. The last part of the talk will focus on recent advances on using a combination of local search methods and convex lifting to solve low-rank factorization models of SP problems.
Event date: 11/10/2022
Speaker: Prof. Kim-Chuan Toh (National University of Singapore)
Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Convex programming Semidefinite programming
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
We introduce a Dimension-Reduced Second-Order Method (DRSOM) for convex and nonconvex (unconstrained) optimization. Under a trust-region-like framework, our method preserves the convergence of the second-order method while using only Hessian-vector products in two directions. Moreover; the computational overhead remains comparable to the first-order such as the gradient descent method. We show that the method has a local super-linear convergence and a global convergence rate of 0(∈-3/2) to satisfy the first-order and second-order conditions under a commonly used approximated Hessian assumption. We further show that this assumption can be removed if we perform one step of the Krylov subspace method at the end of the algorithm, which makes DRSOM the first first-order-type algorithm to achieve this complexity bound. The applicability and performance of DRSOM are exhibited by various computational experiments in logistic regression, L2-Lp minimization, sensor network localization, neural network training, and policy optimization in reinforcement learning. For neural networks, our preliminary implementation seems to gain computational advantages in terms of training accuracy and iteration complexity over state-of-the-art first-order methods including SGD and ADAM. For policy optimization, our experiments show that DRSOM compares favorably with popular policy gradient methods in terms of the effectiveness and robustness.
Event date: 19/09/2022
Speaker: Prof. Yinyu Ye (Stanford University)
Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Convex programming Nonconvex programming Mathematical optimization
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Academic advising has great potential in helping students learn to learn. In this activity, we will walk through the basic concepts of L2L, and provide tips on how to support students' L2L development through academic advising. This activity is designed particularly for academic advisors but everyone is welcome to join. It will be recorded and the recording will be uploaded to the Learning to Learn Website for sharing.
Event Date: 19/8/2022
Facilitator(s): Kevinia Cheung, Kenneth Tam
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design and Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Learning
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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 workshop, recent PolyU winners will share their insights on converting great educational innovations into award-winning applications.
Event Date: 5/8/2022
Facilitator(s): Daniel Shek, Fridolin Ting, Johnny Yuen, Kai Pan Mark
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Educational innovations
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
This EDC and ITS collaborative workshop series consists of two hybrid workshops about how to develop rubrics both theoretically and technically. Demonstration, discussion activities and hands-on exercises are designed for the participants to enrich their learning experience. Topics include: Introduction to rubrics Rubric policy Types of rubrics Developing rubrics and evaluating their quality How to set up rubrics in Learn@Polyu and Turnitin How to grade your students' work using rubrics in Learn@Polyu and Turnitin
Event Date: 27/7/2022
Facilitator(s): Eric Ng, Jamie Lee, Roy Kam
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback
- Keywords:
- Educational tests measurements College students -- Evaluation
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Join us in this online showcase that looks at assessment solutions that leverage technology to help you assess student learning outcomes. We will consider examples from PolyU and HKBU that move beyond large-hall exams and their online invigilated equivalents to offer a more holistic solution.
Event Date: 7/7/2022
Facilitator(s): Darren Harbutt, Wallace Lai, Bruce Li, Theresa Kwong
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback
- Keywords:
- Educational tests measurements Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Earlier this year, EDC launched the Blended Learning Ambassadors initiative to promote best practices in Blended Learning across PolyU. Join us for our annual showcase event, in which three experienced practitioners share their success stories in designing and implementing Blended Learning, and put your questions to them in a panel discussion.
Event Date: 20/6/2022
Facilitator(s): Pauli Lai, Vincent Leung, Jack Chun, Darren Harbutt, Dave Gatrell
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Teaching -- Computer network resources Computer-assisted instruction Blended learning
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Machine learning can deliver unprecedented performance. Its application domain has expanded into safety-critical cyber-physical systems such as UAVs and self-driver cars. However, the safety assurance of vehicular control has two conditions: 1) an analytical model of system behaviors such as provable stability, and 2) the software safety certification process (e.g., DO 178C) requires that the software be simple enough so that software safety can be validated by a combination of model checking and near exhaustive testing. Although ML software, as is, does not meet these two safety requirements, the real-time physics model supervised ML architecture holds the promise to 1) meet the two safety requirements and 2) enable ML software to safely improve control performance and safely learn from its experience in real-time. This talk will review the structure of the proposed architecture and some methods to embed physics into ML-enabled CPS control.
Event Date: 12/05/2022
Speaker: Prof. Lui Sha (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Hosted by: Graduate School
- Subjects:
- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Computing
- Keywords:
- Machine learning Vehicles Remotely piloted Computer software -- Reliability Drone aircraft
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
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Video
PolyU AAE students guide you through the flight procedures of an A320 Flight Stimulator.
- Subjects:
- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
- Keywords:
- Flight training -- Simulation methods Flight simulators
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
An online lecture on the topic of "Bone and Joint Health on Earth and in 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.
- Subjects:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Joints -- Physiology Space flight -- Physiological effect Bones -- Physiology
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
An online lecture on the topic of "What is Microgravity? Discovering Interesting Phenomena in Microgravity".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.
- Subjects:
- Physics and Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
- Keywords:
- Gravity Reduced gravity environments
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
An online lecture on the topic of "Beidou Navigation Satellite System and Our Daily Lives".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.
- Subjects:
- Industrial and Systems Engineering and Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
- Keywords:
- Global Positioning System
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Expanding research elements in the undergraduate curriculum is a strategic priority in the University’s Strategic Plan 2019/20-2024/25. In this session, Dr. Y.M. Tang (ISE) and Dr. Yi-Teng Shih (SD) will share their experiences in cultivating students’ research skills and guiding students to disseminate research outputs within and outside the subjects.
Event Date: 8/6/2022
Facilitator(s): Barbara Tam (EDC), Dawn Lo (EDC), Oscar Yau (EDC)
Presenter(s): Y.M. Tang (ISE), Yi-Teng Shih (SD)
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Research Research -- Methodology -- Study teaching (Higher) Research -- Methodology
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Expanding research elements in the undergraduate curriculum is a strategic priority in the University’s Strategic Plan 2019/20-2024/25. In this session, Dr. Patrick Fong (BRE) and Dr. Dennis Liu (COMP) will share their experiences in integrating research elements in the teaching, learning and assessment of existing subjects.
Event Date: 7/6/2022
Facilitator(s): Barbara Tam (EDC), Dawn Lo (EDC), Oscar Yau (EDC)
Presenter(s): Patrick S.W. Fong (BRE), Yan Wang Dennis Liu (COMP)
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Research Research -- Methodology -- Study teaching (Higher) Research -- Methodology
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Join us in this hybrid session to experience different eAssessment practice through 'Simulating' and 'Exploring' to come up with practical solution for asynchronous and/or synchronous eAssessment that may suit your hybrid classroom.
Event Date: 25/5/2022
Facilitator(s): Roy Kam (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Learning Analytics, Lesson Design, Assessment & Feedback, and Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Educational tests measurements Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
PolyU's strategic plan aims to (1) instill in students the desire to learn and strengthen their ability to learn to learn, (2) enhance the student learning experience through the use of interactive pedagogies, (3) transform physical and virtual learning spaces to facilitate new teaching and learning pedagogies. In this webinar, organized by School of Nursing (SN) and in collaboration with the Educational Development Centre (EDC), Dr. Bryan Ho will share his 4-stage model of Virtual Tutorials that he used to cater to the above-mentioned PolyU aims. His data also indicated that this model is able to enhance the self-directed learning abilities. He loves the opportunity to disseminate his experience to other colleagues in PolyU.
Event Date: 26/5/2022
Facilitator(s): Dr Bryan Ho (SN), Darren Harbutt (EDC), Dr Kai Pan Mark (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Learning Psychology of Web-based instruction Engagement (Philosophy) Motivation in education
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Moving beyond a basic ‘how to’ session, this hybrid workshop is an opportunity to explore and experience tools, techniques and activities that you can use to maximise interaction and engagement in your hybrid classroom. Hope to see you there in person!
Event Date: 24/5/2022
Facilitator(s): Dave Gatrell (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback, Good Practices, and Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Educational technology Computer-assisted instruction Blended learning
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Interested in Educational Research? Two experienced educational researchers will share how to prepare a good paper and enhance its chances of being published in a journal.
Event Date: 19/5/2022
Facilitator(s): Dr Robert Wright (MM), Dr Tang Yuk Ming (ISE), Dr Eric Tsui (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Proposal writing in educational research
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Expanding research elements in the undergraduate curriculum is a strategic priority in the University’s Strategic Plan 2019/20-2024/25. In this session, Dr. Wei Ma (CEE) and Dr. Catherine Cheung (SHTM) will share their experiences in developing a new subject with research elements and enhancing research elements in undergraduate curriculum respectively.
Event Date: 10/5/2022
Facilitator(s): Barbara Tam (EDC), Dawn Lo (EDC), Oscar Yau (EDC)
Presenter(s): Wei Ma (CEE), Catherine Cheung (SHTM)
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Research Research -- Methodology -- Study teaching (Higher) Research -- Methodology
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A good way to start engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is to apply for project funding to conduct rigorous educational research on learning and teaching. Each triennium, the Teaching Development Grant (TDG) and Strategic Plan Fund call for proposals. Join this session to find out what these funds usually require from applicants, and hear some tips on the do's and don'ts of preparing proposals to fit those requirements.
Event Date: 20/4/2022
Facilitator(s): Dr Julia Chen (EDC), Darren Harbutt (EDC), Kenneth Tam (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Education -- Research grants Proposal writing for grants Proposal writing in research Research grants
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
This session, the second in a two-part series, explores how students can use the note-taking and discussion tools in uRewind to engage more deeply with the content of your lecture recording. It also looks at how you can create quizzes that require students to summarise what they have watched. By the end of this session, you will be able to: (1) design more complex quiz questions that develop the skill of summarising; (2) help students write contextualised, personal reflections on parts of your lecture recording; (3)engage students in discussions based around key moments in your video.
Event Date: 1/4/2022
Facilitator(s): Mitesh Patel (EDC), Dick Chan (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement, Learning Analytics, Lesson Design, and Assessment & Feedback
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Lecture method in teaching Motivation in education Computer-assisted instruction Engagement (Philosophy)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
This session, the first in a two-part series, looks at how you can use tools in uRewind to organise your lecture recording and create in-video quizzes to encourage active learning. It also examines the use of learning analytics to help you see how students are engaging and interacting with your video. By the end of this session, you will be able to: (1) upload your recorded lecture to uRewind and create a table of contents so your students can easily navigate your videos; (2) create in-video quizzes to promote active engagement (3)analyse student viewing data.
Event Date: 29/3/2022
Facilitator(s): Mitesh Patel (EDC), Dick Chan (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement, Learning Analytics, Assessment & Feedback, and Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Lecture method in teaching Motivation in education Computer-assisted instruction Engagement (Philosophy)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
This session offered by EDC and ITS introduces you how to adopt different assessment functions of Blackboard for formative, summative and other-related assessment purposes. You will have opportunities to seek pedagogical and technical advice from the Presenter(s)s for planning different aspects of your assessment including creating, deploying, and delivering assessment activities for this semester.
Event Date: 15/3/2022
Facilitator(s): Roy Kam (EDC), Pony Ma (ITS)
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design and Assessment & Feedback
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Educational tests measurements
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
In both face-to-face and online lectures, research shows positive results when active learning techniques are applied, and technology has long been used as a tool to facilitate the process. In this workshop we consider how to engage your learners with interactive approaches, leveraging technologies and tools such as Zoom, Mentimeter, uReply, PearDeck and MURAL.
Event Date: 14/3/2022
Facilitator(s): Kevin Chan (APSS), Mary Cheng (ELC), Darren Harbutt (EDC), Eric Ho (ELC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement and Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Motivation in education Computer-assisted instruction Engagement (Philosophy)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
This session offers initial planned responses to the feared upcoming COVID spike. We will hear how three departments are planning for such an event, the ongoing development of the institutional contingency plan, and some innovative ways of approaching assessment.
Event Date: 1/3/2022
Facilitator(s): John Sager (EDC), Dawn Lo (EDC)
Presenter(s): Sean McMinn (ELC), Polly Leung, HTI, Barbara Siu (CEE)
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback, Good Practices, and Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- COVID-19 Pemic (2020-) Web-based instruction Educational tests measurements
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Come to this webinar to learn how to schedule and set up your MS Teams session for online teaching; find out how to use a variety of tools in MS Teams to facilitate an engaging online lesson - e.g., content and whiteboard sharing, and see how you can manage and share your class recording via MS Teams.
Event Date: 17/2/2022
Facilitator(s): Kai Pan Mark (EDC), Robbie Cheung (ITS)
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Microsoft software Groupware (Computer software) Computer-assisted instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Using UC Berkeley as an exemplar, Prof. Koshland gave us a distinguished lecture on ‘Lighting the Way with Interdisciplinary Research since 1868’. One of the hallmarks of UC Berkeley has always been engagement of its faculty and students in research and education that expand in cross disciplines, joining on multiple approaches to address major challenges facing the world today, which is also what we are seeking to do at PAIR of PolyU. Moreover, Prof. Koshland shared with us the ways in which individuals and institutions can engage in interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research and education and how they can be creatively intertwined.
Event Date: 22/4/2022
Speaker: Prof. Catherine P. Koshland (University of California, Berkeley)
Moderator: Prof. Christopher Chao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Panel members: Prof. Xiang-dong Li, Prof. Yuguo Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
- Keywords:
- Interdisciplinary research Interdisciplinary approach in education
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
This presentation will discuss the future of global universities within the evolving context of current international education systems. It will begin with an overview of the challenges posed to modern day universities by the breadth and diversity of international further education curricular between the ages of 16 and 18 and the accessibility of world leading universities to international students, in general. Having established potential global trends in further education, the implications for global universities and higher education will be discussed within the context of both teaching and research
Event Date: 17/05/2022
Speaker: Prof. David Cardwell (University of Cambridge)
Moderator: Prof. Christoper Chao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Panel members: Prof. Wong Kwok-yin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Prof. Andrew Cohen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
- Keywords:
- International education Universities colleges -- Administration Education Higher
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Learn how to set up your Zoom session in your Blackboard course, use a variety of tools in Zoom to facilitate an engaging online lesson, and share your lesson recording via Blackboard.
Event Date: 11/2/2022
Facilitator(s): Dave Gatrell, Alan Cheng, Elvie Kwan
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Video
Come to this workshop to learn how to record your classes and then make them available to your students using uRewind (Panopto)
Event Date: 6/2/2022
Facilitator(s): KP Mark, Jason Chow
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Video recordings -- Production direction -- Study teaching Educational technology
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Come to this workshop to learn how to record your classes and then make them available to your students using MS Teams
Event Date: 5/1/2022
Facilitator(s): Dick Chan, Robbie Cheung
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Video
Come to this workshop to learn how to record your classes and then make them available to your students using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Event Date: 4/1/2022
Facilitator(s): Mitesh Patel, Eric Ng
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Video
Come to this workshop to learn how to record your classes and then make them available to your students using Zoom
Event Date: 3/1/2022
Facilitator(s): Dave Gatrell, Alan Cheng
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MOOC
Population ageing is a global phenomenon profoundly affecting the well-being of communities. Disciplines such as Social Sciences, Design, and Engineering offer unique, insightful innovations for ageing societies. Along with providing solutions catering to their professional niche, these disciplines achieve creative and practical innovations through interdisciplinary collaboration. This course intends to explore and examine the process of incubating innovations in these three disciplines and help the learners to appreciate the synergy created when working toward innovations by adopting an interdisciplinary approach.
- Subjects:
- Social Sciences
- Keywords:
- Older people -- Government policy Older people -- Services for Technology older people Ageing
- Resource Type:
- MOOC