Successful Recipes to Improve Student Learning: Sharing by Librarians & Faculty

Abstract:

UGs often struggle to learn how to conduct academic research and convey results, which is an important outcome of university education. In this session, HKUST librarians and faculty members shared on how they collaborated in several courses to develop students’ information competency over the past few years, under UGC’s Additional Funding for Teaching and Learning. Also shared on what they did, what the students accomplished, and what all of us learned. After this session, participants should be informed and inspired by the people at HKUST and beyond to consider and use faculty-librarian partnerships to enhance student learning and research.

Speakers:

Victoria Caplan, Celia Cheung, Jacky Leung, Lewis Li, and Eunice Wong are subject librarians at HKUST Library. They provide research coaching, faculty orientation, offer course and subject specific library classes, and liaise with faculty members for archiving research in the Institutional repository.

Professor Melody Chao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at HKUST. Her research intersts include negotiations and conflict management, workforce diversity, globalization, goal orientation and multicultural psychology.

Dr. Emily Tsang is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at HKUST. Her research interests include energy conversion, materials chemistry, polymer science, polymer chemistry and renewable energy.

Professor Fei Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at HKUST. His research interests include bioengineering, biopolymers, biomaterials and advanced materials.