Starting from 2014-15, students of HKIEd have been and will be required to complete a 3-credit Co-curricular and Service Learning (CSL) Course, in which students will be involved in service-based activities. Service learning (SL), as a form of experiential learning, is a challenging pedagogy for faculty members because faculties have to restructure the traditional credit-bearingContinue reading “Enhancing Core Competences of Undergraduates through Service-learning: Effects of Different Service-learning Models”

Academic service-learning, different from internships, volunteer activities, or social practice, intends to bridge the gap among abstract theoretical knowledge, life and the social world. Both academic learning and service actions enhance each other in the end. Academic service-learning has begun to take shape in some countries and regions, such as the U.S., Great Britain andContinue reading “Developing Resources for Effective Teaching and Learning in Academic Service-Learning Courses”

The present study aims to investigate and develop reflective teaching and learning strategies in promoting General Education (GE) in the university context. It helped establish a database of useful literature on effective teaching and learning strategies in general, but for the teaching of GE courses in specific. In the first stage of development, team membersContinue reading “Developing Reflective Teaching and Learning Strategies in General Education Courses”