This project aims to adopt information and communication technology as a convenient and efficient environment to foster learner-centered learning. Colleagues from six disciplines across three faculties will be involved in this project. The online activities will be anchored with different subject disciplines and context to complement face-to-face learning. There will be no prescribed activities butContinue reading “Fostering Student Teachers’ Learner-centered Learning Capacities by Adopting Information and Communication Technologies as the Change Agents”

Field experience at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) is viewed as a central aspect to our programmes (see http://www.ied.edu.hk/spfeo/view.php?secid=1589) . One of the major reasons is that it encourages student teachers to innovate and reflect on their practice within a supportive environment as part of their professional development process. Reflection provides an avenueContinue reading “Building a Community of Practice (CoP) to Enhance Student Teachers’ Professional Development in Field Experience via Web Technologies”

Web technologies (especially social media technologies) are known to be appropriate for collaborative content sharing and editing. Thus, they have been increasingly used in education for supporting students’ group work. Despite their usefulness, they seem not to be welcomed by students. Possible reasons include lack of time, information overload, unfamiliarity of technology, misuse of technology,Continue reading “Improving Students’ Ability in Using Web-based Technology for Group Projects”

香港教育學院於2012年公布校內的語文政策，對學生離校時要掌握的英語及普通話水平有一定的要求。為使教院的語文教育中心能為學生提供更合適的語文支援(增潤課程及自學課程或網上學習)，以配合新高中(334)的發展，語文教育中心(CLE)普通話組於2010-2012年度獲大學資助委員會撥款贊助，發展有關語言的測試及教材。普通話方面, 中心發展了一套「專上普通話測試（Tertiary Putonghua Test, TPT）」工具、三套相關的普通話教材（初階、進階、高階），以及三套普通話自學教材（進階、高階、教師基準）。2012-2013年度CLE所有修讀普通話增潤課程的學生開始全面使用新教材。 TPT跟國家語委的普通話水平測試(PSC)高度相關(highly correlated), 但測試時間只為6-7分鐘, 為PSC的一半。2012年開始, 教育學院新生入學要接受TPT 測試, 以決定是否可以豁免修讀CLE的普通話增潤課程。 本計劃旨在發展新普通話課程（初階）網上輔助課堂互動教材及自學教材網上版: 聆聽與拼音。並初步建立TPT口語試題庫（3份TPT口語試卷）。

In the Strategic Areas of Transforming People – Our Students and Our Graduates in the Strategic Plan 2009-2012 and Beyond, the promotion of innovative curriculum design, the application of Information and Communication Technology, new pedagogies and assessment that facilitate learning is emphasized to assure quality education. With the implementation of the New Language Policy (NLP)Continue reading “Interactive Online Self-access Learning Package for ‘Chinese Writing Skills’”

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”