Christine Loh, CEO of Civic Exchange and Council Member of HKUST came and gave a general education lecture "To Learn is to Play - If This was Only True" on 23 Sept. It was well received by approximately 250 participants.
With her wide experiences in working with faculty on supporting critical thinking development, Dr Susan Wolcott describes a model to help students develop and document critical thinking skills in an interactive session
Presenter: Prof Jimmy Fung (MATH), Prof Rudolf Fleischer (COMP) and Mr Nick Noakes (CELT/LC).
Format: Information Session
An Information Session on "Teaching and Learning at HKUST" was held on 27 Aug. It served to give faculty members and teaching staff, particularly new ones, first hand information to get by in HKUST.
Mr David Warlick, author of "Raw materials of the Mind"; Founder and President of US "The Landmark Project", delivered a public seminar. In this entertaining and thought-provoking address, he helped the audience to understand the challenge that faces education today and the classrooms that will be necessary to meet that challenge.
With the purpose to assist the UST teaching community in teaching large class effectively, a round-table sharing session was held for faculty members and instructors to share their experience. Students' comments of learning in large class as well as resources related to large class teaching are compiled.
Prof Richard Larson , Director of the Center for Advanced Educational Services, MIT, Principle Investigator of several MIT's major technology-enabled learning programs came to UST and gave a talk on the development of the Global Learning Network.
Prof Tai Kai Ng from the Department of Physics at UST gave a seminar presentation and discussed the challenges to universities brought about by the Hong Kong Education Reform.
Sat, 2001-12-01 (All day) to Sun, 2001-12-30 (All day)
Presenter: Prof Eric Mazur
Format: Interview
World renowned scientist and educator, Prof Eric Mazur from Harvard University, shares his views on University education in the 21st Century in an interview with CELT.
The Director of Intellectual Property of the Hong Kong Government, Mr Stephen Selby, JP, came and gave a talk on the copyright issues. The discussion points had ranged from on-line course development to other areas such as classroom teaching, material reproduction, individual awareness etc.
Prof Janet Donald, a field expert in Educational psychology, came to share her ideas on Learning to think: Disciplinary perspectives. Focuses will be on firstly how knowledge is structured. Secondly, how learning occurs in different disciplines and lastly, how higher order learning and thinking can be promoted in different domains.