Despite the promise of web-based instruction, universities in Hong Kong have been slow to utilize available technology to produce quality courses (Lee & Chan, 2008), meet the changing learning needs of students, successfully engage a large number of teachers in innovative new web learning technologies, tap emerging and nontraditional local and regional student markets, andContinue reading “Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT with Open-source Delivery”

This proposed project aims to support academic and teaching staff at the HKIEd to develop digital teaching portfolios to build a professional learning community, which will provide them with opportunities to carry out ongoing inquiries into their own and their peers’ teaching and learning practices. The project team will draw upon the elements of professionalContinue reading “Development of Digital Teaching Portfolios to Build a Professional Learning Community at the HKIEd”

The project incorporates e-Leadership training into curriculum and extra-curriculum design in higher education context through the collaboration of two academic units (MIT & HPE) and a research centre (ARC). Around 90 undergraduate students will participate in the study. About 60 of them from the courses INT2023 and PES3167/01E&02E will participate in Intervention A, which isContinue reading “E-Leadership Building in an Era of e-Learning through Cross-departmental Collaboration”

Using technology to enhance teaching and learning has been a major strive in education of all levels. In collaboration with the Centre of Learning, Teaching and Technology, the project made use of the Podcast and iTunes technologies to produce customized educational materials in the form of multimedia files. These files included interviews, presentations, tutorials, demonstrations,Continue reading “Transcending Learning Space and Time – The Using of Podcast and iTunes Technologies in Module Delivery”

This project aims to cultivate staff pedagogical thoughtfulness as a learning community through establishing a technology-enhanced environment in the Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL). The idea is consistent with the Institute’s commitment to provide a ‘total learning experience’ for students. Apart from the use of Learning Management System (e.g., Blackboard, Moodle), other e-learning initiativesContinue reading “Development of Digital Lectures in the Department of Chinese Language Studies 中國語言學系數碼課堂發展計畫”

The advocacy of learners’ reflective learning and the trend of digital classrooms place new demands on academic/teaching staff in the higher education sector for transforming pedagogical practices along with the growth of e-learning in recent years. The project aims to enhance the competency of HKIEd academic/teaching staff in promoting learner’s reflective engagement in accordance withContinue reading “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for Reflective Engagement of Learners in Digital Classroom”

This is a project for the transition of Professional and Vocational Education (PVE) programmes to an online format and to develop some course re-engineering to enhance pathways and linkages across PVE programmes as well as build participation. In addition the project enabled closer linkages with the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development. The projectContinue reading “Renewal Proposal for Professional and Vocational Education Programmes”