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Objectives
The objectives of this CoP are to:
- Identify and collect the freshmen’s preference, needs, and expectation about academic advising;
- Through a series of activities, share good practices with Academic Advisors in Departments/Schools on their way of engaging students and how to advise students;
- Develop E-learning packages of training sessions on Blackboard for academic advisors (especially new academic advisors) to learn and share experience;
- Organise seminar(s)/talk(s)/workshop(s)/conference to promote favourable environment for the building of person-person AA community; and
- Disseminate major findings across the university and across other institutions in Hong Kong.
Expected Outcomes
The major deliverables of the project include:
- a research report on the freshmen’s preference, needs, and expectation about Academic Advising;
- examples of good practices on AA;
- Sustainable E-learning packages of training sessions on Blackboard for sharing and learning of academic advising practices; and
- printed materials/publication to disseminate the development of the CoP to the PolyU and other UGC-funded institutions.
Planned Activities
- Surveys on academic advising to students to know their experience as well as their expectations of academic advising services at PolyU;
- Activities of face-to-face gathering and sharing experience;
- Workshops, seminars, talks and activites for academic advisors;
- E-learning packages of training sessions for academic advisors; and
- AA Funding to support departmental academic advising activities.
OGUR will further support the work of CoP facilitator/co-facilitator in the entire CoP from development to dissemination.
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