During school closures, teachers in less resourceful schools have struggled to cater to the diverse learning needs of academically at-risk students in their classes while maintaining the lesson quality in an online teaching setting. Without the physical presence of the teacher, these students, lacking the digital resources and digital literacy with educational technology, may notContinue reading “University Students Supporting School Teachers of Academically At-Risk Students through Educational Technology”

It is always challenging for teachers to well organize the teaching/learning content so that all students are more likely to actively participate in the learning process, and meanwhile to adequately assess students’ learning involvement and outcomes in each learning unit/session. This TDG project developed several online assessment tools that can be integrated to each sessionContinue reading “Harnessing the power of Assessment to support pre-service teachers’ learning and professional development through an innovative Blended Learning approach (A+BLe)”

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 assessment of learning outcomes was a key issue for OBL learning initiative. There were two dimensions to the assessment issue: reporting publicly on student learning at the end of their programmes and providing feedback to students on the progress they made in their learning. Thus assessment must serve both formative and summative purposes. InContinue reading “Outcome Based Assessment for New Learning”