CEI Workshops and Seminars

Presenters: Dr. Melody Chao and Prof Larry Farh, MGMT

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, Dr Melody Chao and Dr Larry Farh shared their findings from a large scale longitudinal study of SBM students about the effectiveness of the various intercultural activities in enhancing their intercultural competence and related learning outcomes.

The seminar also featured interactive discussion on how to improve the current curriculums to help students develop stronger intercultural skills.

Facilitators: May Tse and Rambo Lai, CELT

Format: e-Seminar

In this workshop, the presenter has introduced a new initiative of real time professional development at your desktop by given an experiential tour on how the key functions and features work in a Virtual Classroom from an audience’s perspective.

Speaker:  Mr. Leo Cheung, Open Access Publishing Manager, BioMed Central

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, the presenter introduced the concepts, benefits, and development of Open Access. It will also show how it can benefit individual scholars, scholarly institutions, and the global world of scholarship as a whole. The talk covered

• What is Open Access
• Benefits of Open Access
• Open Access Today
• Q&A

Presenter: Prof Oliver Lo, Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Humanities

Format: Workshop

In this workshop, Prof Oliver Lo shared with participants how to protect and project their voices as a teacher or presenter. Participants learnt about ways of maintaining vocal hygiene, summarized the physiological aspects of vocal production mechanism and able to applied the learnt materials to develop breath support and optimum vocal placement.

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