Professor Groves will initiate a conversation about how to create a more interactive and participatory learning environment for undergraduates at HKUST. Critically reflecting on the uses of online technology in teaching, he will share some of his practices for engaging students, particularly with respect to what to do on the first day of class, developing assignments, and involving students in reading.

The seminar focuses on two themes; how successful collaboration with business practitioners has helped connect theories and applications, which acts as a source of inspiration to students. This builds on a major characteristic of MGMT 1120 Developing the Leader in You, which collaborates with leaders from the local industries to develop real-world course materials encompassing business scenarios and ethical issues. This partially involves the effective integration of experiential learning business cases to help motivate students on this course. The seminar also focuses on how a combination of knowledge-sharing and self-discovery processes further developed interest in this common core course.

Common Core Program Series: “True Learning for the Millennial Generation”

In this seminar, teaching award winning speakers will share their experience and strategies to design and deliver their Common Core Teaching Excellence Award winning courses.

Presentations:

It’s a Numbers Game

In this workshop, Prof. Kenneth LEUNG, the recipient of the 2021 Common Core Teaching Excellence Award, will introduce the teaching philosophy and the innovative pedagogical approaches that he has used in his award-winning course COMP2711 Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science.

Futureproofing our students and our teaching - Engaging students in sustainability through interactive teaching styles

SUST 1000 – Introduction to Sustainability is a course introducing students to the full scope of sustainability issues, including perspectives from science, engineering, social science, and humanities. It adopts a flipped classroom design, in which students engage in classroom activities and learn by practicing.

Overview:

In this seminar, I will first give an overview of the Common Core at the University of Hong Kong and then move through a series of policies, processes, and programmes that we have created to engage undergraduates with questions of transdisciplinary learning. We are always experimenting with different forms of “transdisciplinarity-in-action” in order to offer students a more integrated and powerful form of learning, both for their university trajectories and to better prepare them for what is to come.

Abstract:

How can we get students prepared and equipped with the appropriate content knowledge for face-to-face lessons in a blended-learning course? And how do we encourage more engagement among students so they can learn how to apply that knowledge? In this seminar I will discuss various design patterns for blended learning that enable both online and classroom interaction and encourage students to be prepared for lessons and the consequences if they are not.

Overview:

To teach is to engage students in learning. Approaches that promote active learning often allow students to confront misconceptions, and/or explicitly ask them to make connections between new information and existing knowledge. In this seminar, teaching award winning speakers will share their experience in uncovering (rather than covering!) the material for the students. They will share simple techniques to help students engage with the material and participate in class.

Overview:

Large common core courses are often a challenge to teach effectively while keeping students motivated, partly due to the diverse nature of student backgrounds. To make such courses useful and fun, much careful planning is needed regarding the choice of topics, depth and breadth of knowledge, nature of projects and assessments issues, etc.

Overview:

Catering to the diverse interests and needs of students is a major challenge in teaching common core courses. In this seminar, Professor Jing WANG, the recipient of the 2017 Common Core Teaching Excellence Award, has shared with the audience her experience in teaching the common core course and various approaches she takes to arouse student interest, facilitate peer interaction in- and out-class, and meet individuals’ unique needs. She also talked about her practices in managing student group project.