Scaling Out Your Teaching: Lessons Learned in the QS Reimagine Education Awards (28-04-2020)
Message from Technology-Enriched Learning Initiative Scaling Out Your Teaching: Lessons Learned in the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2019 The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Reimagine Education Awards are designed to reward institutions of higher education that have created and implemented outstanding new approaches to teaching and learning, particularly those that can demonstrate the uniqueness, innovation, and efficacy of their…
Invitation to Webinars on E-Assessments – 29th & 30th April 2020 (22-04-2020)
Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Dear Colleagues We would like to inform and invite you to the two below webinars on e-assessments that may be of interested. 29th April 2020 “Detecting and addressing contract cheating in online assessment” 30th April 2020 “Authentic online oral assessment – an examination replacement” These…
[Call for Registration] Join-the-Conversation Seminar on 29 April 2020 (Wed) (17-04-2020)
Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Join-the-Conversation – Promoting Online Interprofessional Teamwork Skills: Challenges and Opportunities Date: 29 April 2020 (Wed) Time: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Venue: To be held virtually via Zoom Speakers: Dr. George Tipoe (BIMHSE), Dr. Fraide Ganotice (BIMHSE), Dr. Linda Chan (MBBS and BIMHSE), Ms. Janet Wong (Pharmacology and Pharmacy),…
Overview of Recent Updates to Zoom (09-04-2020)
Dear colleagues and students We have received from Zoom an email on “Overview of Recent Updates to Zoom”. The highlights are: A new Security option is added to meeting host’s toolbar for in-meeting control which can lock meeting, enable waiting room and control participants to share screen, chat and rename themselves. The file transfer option…
Teachers Forum – Faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Law and Social Sciences (Recording) (19-03-2020)
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONGFACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES To: All Teachers of the Faculty Teachers Forum Recording Thank you for joining today’s Teachers Forum. The Forum was recorded, and it can now be accessible via the following link (HKU Portal login required) before next Tuesday: https://hku.zoom.us/rec/share/_81LAY7O6UVLZJHK70vdYvYvNID8aaa8gCMZ8_tbxU2R6Ddpg8uvZP1o7G14FlA (Ms) Maggie CheukFaculty Secretary
Mid-Semester Survey of Online Teaching and Learning (12-03-2020)
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONGFACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES To: Heads of Departmentsc.c.: Deanery Team, Faculty and Departmental administrators You may wish to note that the University is about to send out a brief survey to all UG and TPG students on online teaching and learning (https://survey.tlem.hku.hk/fs.aspx?surveyid=34e1122c7de41bda619a0a58783cf47). Reports with the findings will be sent to the…
IMPORTANT: Important Message from Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) (05-03-2020)
Dear colleagues Just a quick supplement to my earlier email sent to both colleagues and students. ZoomWe’ve upgraded our Zoom licence for the next 12 months. Previously, HKU Zoom accounts each had 500MB storage for cloud recordings. Now there’s no storage limit, though any recording uploaded by a teacher to the Zoom cloud will be…
IMPORTANT: Important Message from Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) (05-03-2020)
Dear colleagues and students We’re continuing to monitor and analyse the COVID-19 situation and its implications for the University. Within this still uncertain framework, we’re trying to figure out the best way forward for teaching and learning. As before, our absolute priority remains the health and safety of both HKU members and the general public….
Message from Learning Environment Services, ITS (27-02-2020)
For your reference, all 159 central classrooms are Panopto and Zoom ready. Although a few of them do not come with a ceiling-mounted camera (due to the physical room limitation), all the classroom PCs are equipped with a built-in microphone and camera. Also, Panopto recorder and Zoom meeting software packages have been pre-installed. For looking…
Online teaching practices (21-02-2020)
Dear colleagues — As you know, we’ll be going back to online teaching for at least four weeks from 2 March. I know you are working hard to create an online teaching environment for your students. This is not easy, particularly in the limited time, and with the uncertainties of the last few weeks. Many…