Using technology to enhance the quality of teaching and learning has always been one of our key goals. We have established an institutional Learning Management platform and a number of innovative eLearning tools to enhance teaching and learning experience at HKUST. To ensure the eLearning platform and tools are implemented effectively, we provide regular eLearning workshops to help teaching staff become familiar with them, understand the pedagogical value behind them and be able to use them effectively in your teaching activities. We also constantly monitor the development of teaching technologies in the market and recommends other innovative tools which we see a pedagogical value in it.

The New Faculty Orientation (NFO) is designed to support new faculty and teaching staff as they begin their teaching journey at HKUST. Through two compulsory sessions, participants will gain an understanding of HKUST's educational vision, teaching expectations, and the support available through the Center for Education Innovation (CEI).

Do not…keep [students] to their studies by compulsion but by play.

In alignment with our strategy to extend educational opportunities worldwide and our commitment to delivering high-quality free education to the general public, our collaborations with two leading MOOC providers, Coursera and edX, have been instrumental in advancing this mission.

The Center of Education and Innovation is committed to supporting the use of experiential learning at The University of Hong Kong Science and Technology. Experiential learning is a natural and powerful learning tool that helps foster problem-solving, critical thinking, and growth. Watch the video below to understand how this is a natural learning process that each of us has utilized from a young age.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a fully computer-generated environment that gives you an immersive, sensational and interactive experience of being there, usually enabled by head-mounted headsets, such as the Facebook-owned Oculus headsets. One of the uses of VR in higher education is to create a safe virtual environment for students to practice and receive feedback on their presentation, communication and interview skills. Augmented reality (AR) is used to enhance the natural environments and offer perceptually enriched experiences through the use of a camera-equipped device like our phones. In some medical schools, for example, this technology is used to virtually guide surgical students to perform rare operational procedures, and study the blood flow through the heart, arteries and veins in a digital body.