Teaching and Learning Experience Sharing (TALES) Seminar Series (2020/21 Semester 1)

Facilitator(s):

Colleagues from Cisco Webex, CHTL & ITO

Abstract:

In view of the heavy demand for real-time online teaching/meeting in the upcoming semester, the University has recently subscribed to a second video conferencing software, Cisco Webex, primarily as a backup. Similar to Zoom, Webex provides colleagues with many useful functions for facilitating online teaching and meeting.

In this session, experienced trainer from the Cisco Webex together with colleagues from CHTL and ITO will give an overview on Webex Meetings. Topics include: how to plan and schedule a class, invite participants into classes and conduct an online class with activities to interact with students. Best practices and ways of using Webex to perform ongoing collaboration after classes will also be covered.

By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:

• Use basic functions of Webex for your online teaching/meeting;
• Relate some practical tips on teaching your course with Webex.

Facilitator(s):

CHTL Colleagues 

Abstract:

Further to the announcement made on 15 September 2020 by the e-Learning Support Team regarding the tips of mixed-mode teaching with students attending on-campus and online, the purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate the digital setup available inside the classroom and the use of extra electronic devices for facilitating the mixed-mode teaching. Colleagues can get themselves familiar with the digital setup inside the classroom and the support team can address some of the technical issues that colleagues may have encountered for the mixed-mode teaching.

Facilitator(s):

Ms Bonnie CHIU (JOUR)
Dr Benjamin Luke MOORHOUSE (EDUC) 

Abstract:

The University has adopted mixed-mode teaching since 28 September 2020 to facilitate a flexible resumption of face-to-face instructions. While students are encouraged to attend their classes on-campus, those who are constrained by travel restrictions or quarantine requirements may join the classes online.

To support teaching colleagues in this endeavor, we have invited two experienced facilitators who had adopted mixed-mode teaching with positive student feedback to share their good practices. Specifically, Ms Chiu will talk about how she engages students on-site and online in effective synchronous learning through leveraging electronic resources in different classroom settings (e.g. lecture hall, classroom computer lab/studio); Dr Moorhouse will walk you through how he incorporates the approach of ‘virtual flipped classroom’ into mixed-mode delivery to enhance students’ participation in synchronous learning.

By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:

• Explore a number of asynchronous and synchronous e-tools to facilitate mixed-mode teaching;
• Identify some tips of using the ‘virtual flipped classroom’ approach in mixed-mode teaching.

Facilitator(s):

Dr Mathew HILLIER (Macquarie University, Australia)

Abstract:

Digital technology can help with the design and delivery of assessment by providing a means to gather evidence of student learning performance in the online and blended contexts.

This session will focus on three examples of using technology already available at HKBU to enhance assessment delivery and monitoring. This includes 1) using lesser known Moodle quiz features for automated formative feedback, 2) using Moodle reports to investigate the efficacy of quiz questions (analysis reports) and to monitor student activity (logs) and 3) exploring how to conduct peer assessment using Moodle tools such as the workshop activity.

The session will be presented by Dr Mathew Hillier, e-Assessment Academic from Macquarie University, Australia. Dr Hillier is currently an e-Assessment consultant to HKBU.

By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:

• Identify ways to use Moodle quiz for automated formative feedback;
• Identify sources of evidence related to student engagement and activity in Moodle;
• Implement online peer assessment using Moodle.

Facilitator(s):

Ruchira Sharma (Heads Skills Transformation for APAC)
Deepak Gupta (Heads Implementation team for APAC)
Bibin Shivas (Heads Customer Success for APAC)
Tarun Nallu (Enterprise Account Director)
Shubhangi Sood (University partnership for APAC)

Abstract:

Coursera is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider based in the USA. A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. Coursera works with universities and other organisations to offer online courses, specializations, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects, such as engineering, data science, machine learning, mathematics, business, financing, computer science, digital marketing, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, 4300 plus variety of courses giving students a very broad range of information & experience in different fields including guided projects for improved hands-on learning.

The session would be an interactive one, representatives from Coursera will share their approach to blended learning and how faculty and universities across the world are making the transition during the last few months and beyond. Some key skills needed in the new normal, tools and technology in that space and how Coursera helps in the overall journey.

Facilitator(s):

Professor Dragan Gašević (Monash University)
Dragan Gašević is Professor of Learning Analytics in the Faculty of Information Technology and Director of the Centre for Learning Analytics at Monash University. Before his current post, he was Professor and Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics in the Moray House School of Education and the School of Informatics and Co-Director of Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. A computer scientist by training and skills, Professor Gašević considers himself a learning analyst developing computational methods that can shape next-generation learning and software technologies and advance our understanding of information seeking, sense-making, and self-regulated and social learning.

Abstract:

Learning analytics involves the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners for the purpose of understanding and improving learning. Professor Gašević will draw on his extensive research and development expertise in learning analytics as we harness this emerging discipline to develop novel pedagogies for the 21st century. In this workshop, you will learn how to develop models to predict learner outcomes and student performance, how to identify students who are struggling and understanding what can be done to assist them in course level to provide evidence-based decision making for teaching and learning improvement.

Facilitator(s):

Dr CHOW Yiu Fai (HMW)
CHAN Tsz Kwan & Jacky WONG (Presenting students)

Abstract:

Translation used to give people a static image that it is all about transferring meanings of words and sentences from one language to another. Teaching translation, however, can be very dynamic. Incorporating service-learning and adopting a student-as-partner approach, Dr. Janice Pan runs her course Translation Workshop as a translation company in which her students enact roles like manager, designer and PR and take up translation jobs from various parties like NGOs and social enterprises. This is essentially an empowering process, enabling students to gain both a sense of ownership and responsibility. Their confidence and satisfaction are further elevated towards the end of the semester when TransFeed, a bilingual magazine that documents the company’s translated works throughout the semester, is published. Three issues of TransFeed have already been published so far, as this is already the third year Dr. Pan runs this exceptionally successful model. This model also led to the establishment of Inter-Link, a sister company of the Translation Workshop run by students of Community Interpreting, Dr. Pan’s second service-learning course. In this workshop, Dr. Pan, together with her current and graduated students, will share with us how translation and interpreting can serve as a strong bonding force in fostering partnerships between a teacher and her students.

Facilitator(s):

Dr Simon HAN (SCM)
Dr Kristen LI (COMP)
Dr Lei SU (MKT)

Abstract:

The University provides different funding opportunities to encourage adoption of innovative pedagogical approach(es) and staff/overseas partners collaboration(s) to enhance the quality of teaching and learning. Spearheading the three aspects of support are respectively the Teaching Development Grants (TDGs), the Communities of Practice (CoPs) and the funding for developing Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) with FutureLearn (FL).

In this workshop, three successful applicants of the aforementioned grants are invited to share their projects of diverse foci and scales – Dr Su’s TDG/CoP projects about big data analytics education; Dr Han’s TDG project about the establishment of pedagogical video database for quality analysis of Chinese Medicine; Dr Li’s SPOC-FL project on developing an online course for data visualisation. Specifically, the facilitators will share things-to-note throughout the proposal writing and project implementation process. More importantly, the impact of student learning quality after the implementation of the projects. It is hoped that by the end of the workshop, colleagues will be able to propose their teaching and learning initiatives and learn the practical tips to succeed in the application process.

Facilitator(s):

Mr Kingsley NG (AVA)
Professor Fu Rong ZHU (PHYS)

Abstract:

Innovative collaborations among colleagues from diverse disciplines can provide students with the opportunity of interdisciplinary learning experience. The new General Education (GE) curriculum is a timely response to the growing call for interdisciplinary studies to meet the dynamic needs of todays’ students as global citizens in a highly interconnected world. The Level 2 Interdisciplinary Thematic Course GTSC2045 Seeing the World from Artistic and Scientific Perspectives under the category of “Science, Technology and Society” is one of the notable GE courses designed and delivered through cross-faculty partnership. The course instructors, Mr Kingsley NG (AVA) and Professor Fu Rong ZHU (PHYS), will share their insights and experience in (i) designing an interdisciplinary course which crosses the traditional faculty boundary to bring together art and science; (ii) overcoming the challenges encountered in course delivery; and (iii) assessing student learning performance in this kind of interdisciplinary course. The facilitators will also share with colleagues the useful tips on how to foster and enhance cross-faculty collaboration in interdisciplinary teaching and learning. This talk should not be missed by colleagues who are interested in the fast-growing interdisciplinary field in both teaching and research on teaching and learning.

Facilitator(s):

Mr Dean COX (JOUR)
Professor Mark SHUTTLEWORTH (TIIS)

Abstract:

Innovative way of using educational technology and e-tools provide alternative means for teachers to assess student learning effectiveness in both formative and summative approaches. Good use of e-tools can also help teachers to re-design assignments to facilitate students’ individual and team work when they cannot attend classes physically.

In this workshop, two passionate and experienced teachers will share how the adoption of different e-tools can facilitate their teaching and student learning in this semester – Professor Shuttleworth will talk us through his implementation process of using Moodle Quiz to provide a “Certainty-Based Marking” setting. With this approach, students will gain more credit for correct answers for which they claim a high degree of certainty, but at the same time will be penalised for any confidently stated wrong answers. Mr Cox will present how the use of e-tools like Padlets (padlet.com), EdPuzzle (edpuzzle.com), Moodle Quiz etc together with appropriate hardware enable him to re-design/re-structure all his assignments, lectures when his students are not able to work in teams or attend classes physically in a multimedia journalism course.

It is hoped that by the end of this workshop, colleagues will be inspired to re-think the advantages of using alternative assessments and tips of re-designing assignments with e-tools to enhance student learning quality.

Facilitator(s):

ITO Colleagues

Abstract:

With the advancements in technology today, conducting teaching in a Smart Classroom that fully equipped with high-end digital technology, learning devices, special software products with high quality of visual and audio systems is particularly useful, especially for conducting online and mixed-mode teaching and learning these days.

With the concerted effort of colleagues from the Office of Information Technology (ITO) and Estates Office (EO), a traditional classroom has been converted into a Smart Classroom. As a sample model for our future classroom at the University, this Smart Classroom has been in operation as a pilot for facilitating effective teaching and learning in this fast moving digital world.

In this workshop, colleagues from ITO will showcase how the different features available in this Smart Classroom can enhance teaching to make learning more interesting and enjoyable. Participants will have the opportunity to experience this well-equipped Smart Classroom with fun.