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. Event Date: 10/8/2021 Facilitator(s): Dave Gatrell
In this mixed-mode synchronous session offered by EDC and ITS, we demonstrate the basics on how to deliver a Hybrid session from a PolyU classroom to both a face-to-face audience and an online Zoom audience. We present questions and suggested answers from previous Hybrid sessions and offer you the chance to seek pedagogical and technical advice from the presenters to help you plan your fist steps in Hybrid teaching. Event Date: 7/7/2021 Facilitator(s): Darren Harbutt, K.P. Mark (EDC), Pony Ma (ITS)
In this mixed-mode synchronous session, the first of a two-part series offered jointly by EDC and ITS, discover some of the essential tools, techniques and activities that can help ensure the success of your hybrid or mixed-mode teaching. Whether you attend in person or online, this session is an opportunity to experience hybrid learning, engage in discussions, and seek pedagogical and technical advice from specialists in educational development and IT. Event Date: 9/6/2021 Facilitator(s): Dave Gatrell (EDC), Kai Pan Mark (EDC), Pony Ma (ITS)
Online continuous assessments can range from totally online, which includes everything from conducting to completing the online assessment tasks in real-time, to partially online, which may only require the online submission of the assessment tasks. Come to this session to learn about how different continuous assessment tasks can be supported by the online tools PolyU officially provides and how they are used in (non)professionally-accredited programmes at PolyU and beyond. Event Date: 19/1/2021 Facilitator(s): Roy Kam (EDC)
Just like ‘contactless’ payments which now are seen as one of the recommended ways of tackling the spread of COVID-19, the UGC-funded Augmented Teaching and Learning Advancement System (ATLAS) can make ‘contactless’ education with on-campus experience a reality in our hybrid teaching, learning and assessment mode. Join us in this online sharing session to learn from the innovative principal investigator and HKU colleagues this time about ATLAS and how ‘contactless’ teaching and learning with ATLAS can enable educators to minimize in-person contact and safeguard student activities during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. Event Date: 20/1/2021 Facilitator(s): Dr Chun Ho Liu (HKU), Dr Charles Wong (LSGI), Roy Kam (EDC)
Turnitin Feedback Studio is an online paperless grading tool that saves instructors’ time while offering easy-to-read meaningful feedback on students’ writing. In this online webinar, we will introduce what Turnitin Feedback Studio is, what essential features and functions it has, who can use it and how to make use of it for your online grading and providing feedback to your students. We will also demonstrate how to create a Turnitin assignment and share useful resources for your further study. Event Date: 26/1/2021 Facilitator(s): Laura Zhou (EDC), Mitesh Patel (EDC)
Explore how Chickering and Gamson's (1987) Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education can be applied to blended learning. Discuss examples of good blended learning practices from other institutions and share examples from your own teaching. By the end of this session you will be able to: Explain how the Seven Principles can be applied to blended learning by 'using technology as a lever' Analyse examples of good blended learning practices in higher education with reference to the Seven Principles. Event Date: 29/4/2021 Facilitator(s): Dave Gatrell(EDC), Laura Zhou (EDC)
Come to this online sharing session to learn how PolyU staff and students have been using Gongyeh to facilitate peer feedback and review for oral presentations. Gongyeh can be used to: • Connect presenters and audiences with interactive tools • Visualise students’ performance by reviewing presentation reports Suitable for: • Oral presentation assessment • Video assignment Features: • Systematic organisation for classes and presentations • Peer feedback management • Real-time interactive tools • Presentation report • Supports web and mobile apps Benefits: • Improve students’ presentation skills • Increase audiences’ engagement • Reduce teachers’ administrative work Event Date: 4/5/2021 Facilitator(s): Mitesh Patel (EDC), Joe Ching (ELC), Anson Kwan (Gongyeh)
After a year of hybrid teaching, it is now time to review the experience, share good practices and the lessons learned, and plan for the coming year. This workshop will look at key features of teaching in a hybrid classroom, review classroom facilities and provide tips on how to fully utilize the classroom facilities for effective teaching and learning in the hybrid classroom. Event Date: 6/5/2021 Facilitator(s): Kai Pan Mark, John Sager, Dawn Lo (EDC)
Explore how to integrate online synchronous and asynchronous activities and build community and interaction. The CoI framework (Garrison et al., 2000) represents a process of creating a deep and meaningful learning online experience through the development of three elements: social, cognitive and teaching presence. In this session, you will apply the framework to your blended teaching. By the end of this session you will be able to: Explain the importance of social, cognitive and teaching presence in designing and facilitating effective blended learning Use the CoI framework to select appropriate tools for effective blended learning Use the CoI framework to design activities that support interaction at different stages of a blended online lecture or tutorial. Event Date: 13/5/2021 Facilitator(s): Dave Gatrell (EDC), Dr Laura Zhou (EDC)
