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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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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
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- Video
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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
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- Video
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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
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Chinese characters History Chinese language -- Written Chinese Written communication China East Asia
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
- Resource Type:
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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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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
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- International education Education Higher -- International cooperation Intellectual cooperation
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- Video
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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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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)
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- Video
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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)
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- Video
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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.
- Keywords:
- Project management
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Civilization Diplomatic relations World politics China
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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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Educational technology College teaching Blended learning Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
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- MOOC
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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
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- Video
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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
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- MOOC
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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 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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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
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology Educational tests measurements College teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- 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 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
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology Educational tests measurements College teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- 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 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
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology College teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Subjects:
- Assessment & Feedback, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology College teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- 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.
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
- Subjects:
- Good Practices
- Keywords:
- Internet in education Motivation in education Educational technology College teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Sampling (Statistics) Differential equations Partial -- Numerical solutions Mathematical models Adaptive computing systems
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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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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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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
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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
- Keywords:
- Environmental ethics Intergenerational relations Philosophy Confucian Confucian ethics
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Subjects:
- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
- Keywords:
- Internet of things Geospatial data Spatial data mining
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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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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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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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Keywords:
- Effective teaching -- Evaluation Web-based instruction -- Design Distance education
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
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- MOOC
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MOOC
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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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
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- MOOC
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MOOC
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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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
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Lungs -- Diseases Lungs -- Diseases -- Patients Lungs -- Diseases -- Treatment
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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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
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Video
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.
- Keywords:
- Public speaking
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
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!
- Keywords:
- Expression Public speaking Body language Nonverbal communication
- 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
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- Lesson Design and Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Learning
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
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.
- Keywords:
- Public speaking
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
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.
- Keywords:
- Applications for positions Job hunting Résumés (Employment)
- Resource Type:
- Others