Presentation?
In this talk we look at ways of developing as a professional in the digital age. From small?online courses through to MOOCs and other large-scale development opportunities, from blogs to social media and beyond. How do we know what's out there, what's good and what isn't and - most importantly - what will benefit us most at any given point in our careers?

Date: 7 June 2016 (Tue)
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Venue: TU411

Workshop?
In this workshop we examine principles of blended and online course design and delivery. Taking as our starting point Salmon's Five Stage Model for e-learning design, we examine an actual course to extrapolate key structure, content and delivery principles which may be applied to any content in any discipline.

Date: 7 June 2016 (Tue)
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Venue: TU411

Speaker
Gavin Dudeney is the Director of Technology for The Consultants-E, working in online training and consultancy in EdTech in the UK.? Former Honorary Secretary and Chair of ElCom at IATEFL, he now serves on the International House Trust Board and on the Educational Writers Group Committee of the Society of Authors. Gavin is author of The Internet & The Language Classroom (CUP 2000, 2007) and co-author of the award-winning publications How To Teach English with Technology (Pearson 2007) and Digital Literacies (Routledge 2013).? His latest book, Going Mobile, was published by DELTA Publishing in 2014.

This event is co-organized by Community of Practice (CoP) on Developing, Recognising and Rewarding Excellent Teaching and Educational Development Centre.

Light lunch will be provided.

Behind every great learning experience is a clearly thought-through Lesson Plan!?Many have?used them at some stage of?their careers and rely on them when?they have a complex topic to deliver. Come and join us and?learn how?three passionate educators use Lesson Plans to?improve their Teaching.

This activity is co-organized by Community of Practice (CoP) on Developing, Recognising and Rewarding Excellent Teaching, EDC and Centre STARS.

In 2015 our Educational Development Center (EDC) offered a series of workshops on “Becoming a Scholarly Teacher”. The series included a wealth of guidance in what constitutes high impact educational research and the value of designing studies that better prepare students for life-long learning. Come and join us and hear three insightful teachers reflect on their workshop experiences and their plans to take their careers to a new level.

This activity is co-organized by Community of Practice (CoP) on Developing, Recognising and Rewarding Excellent Teaching, EDC and Centre STARS.

This activity is co-organized by Community of Practice (CoP) on Developing, Recognising and Rewarding Excellent Teaching, EDC and Centre STARS.

In the age of connectivist learning, knowledge resides in a network. This talk outlines the use of a cloud-based Personal Learning Environment & Network (PLE&N) to support peer-based and lifelong learning. The PLE&N functions as a semi-automatic online forum with updates from a pre-selected set of targeted sources.

Through the use of the PLE&N, teachers, students, graduates and industry practitioners can collaborate, share and engage in a co-learning environment and not be bound by the passing of an academic semester. Together, learners also help to combat information overload.

After 4 years of usage, the PLE&N has been used by over 1,500 PolyU students. Many continue to use it even after they have graduated from the university making it a truly lifelong learning tool.

In 2015, the PLE&N earned PolyU Golden Winner, Region Asia of the Wharton-QS STARS Reimagine Education Award for its innovative pedagogy.

This activity is co-organized by the CoP on Developing, Recognizing and Rewarding Excellent Teaching, the CoP on Using Blackboard LMS to Enhance Learning and Teaching, and EDC.

This new four-part workshop series is designed to provide an overview of the growing field of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The following four topic areas will be addressed across all four workshops accompanied by hands-on activities:

- Scholarship in Higher Education
- Planning an SoTL study
- Library resources and research skills for SoTL
- Negotiating publication of the outcomes of your SoTL study

You are cordially invited to attend this series to develop new skills and meet colleagues interested in SoTL. The information presented and skills practiced will be useful for teachers interested in:

- Reflecting on their own teaching (drawing on theory and evaluation data)
and/or
- Developing a plan for a small SoTL project

A “Certificate of Attendance” will be awarded to participants attending all four workshops in the series. Each workshop will be provided twice and you are welcome to sign up for either the am or the pm sessions of the series. Please note that attending individual sessions is not advised.

Follow-up support for interested colleagues who have completed the workshops will be available upon request.

This activity is supported by EDC, Pao Yue-kong Library and Developing, Recognising and Rewarding Excellent Teaching CoP.

One of the hallmarks of a world-class university is the presence of international students from all around the world. To capitalize on this opportunity, how are we tapping into this geography of thought to help take our teaching and learning to the next level? Come and join us and engage with three distinguished educators in how they take advantage of our increasingly multicultural classrooms, and in the process, open our students to a world of learning unlike their own.

Please join us in a Roundtable discussion and hear how three engaged PolyU colleagues are using these pedagogical innovations.

This activity is co-organized by Community of Practice (CoP) on Developing, Recognising and Rewarding Excellent Teaching, EDC and Centre STARS.

Dr Robert Wright developed the "Stay F.O.C.U.S.E.D" mobile app, which is based on an innovative teaching framework designed to help prepare the next generation of thought-leaders for the complicated world. Through this framework, students can learn better and faster than they used to. It provides them with a new way of thinking on complex, unstructured and non-routine problems.

You can download the free “Focused Dice” Mobile app from any app store (i.e. Apple App Store for iOS devices or Google Play for Android devices) and install it on your own mobile device.

You can also refer to the PC version of this app.

The development of "Stay F.O.C.U.S.E.D." mobile app is funded and supported by the Developing, Recognising and Rewarding Excellent Teaching CoP.

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In a student-centered classroom, it is important for students to take ownership of their learning and make it meaningful in a way that fits their needs and learning styles. This is much easier said than done. As a teacher, it can be difficult to get out of the way and let students take the reins. Ideally, we must take?on the role of partner, guiding and facilitating learning. One crucial piece of the learning process is reflection, which can take many forms, but most agree that time to reflect is critical for learners of all ages.

The Swivl Robot, Swivl Capture App and?Swivl Cloud?support and make student ownership of learning possible?in the classroom. When students are able to create peer-to-peer instruction videos, review performances and presentations, and see progress over time, video becomes?a powerful tool to support the learning process.

The CoP is now offering two sets of Swivl self-video camera for all PolyU teaching staff on a loan basis. Please write to ask.cop@polyu.edu.hk for more information.

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The type of problems, issues and challenges organizations face are more complex, unstructured and non-routine, requiring new ways of thinking about them if we are to better deal with them. The "Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D." App is an innovative teaching framework designed to help prepare the next generation of thought-leaders for a complicated world. By using this framework, your students will learn BETTER, learn FASTER and learn MORE than they are used to. Come and join us to learn how to use this App and in the process, help take your teaching & learning to the next level!

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It is often believed that “play” is for children and that adult learning needs to be serious!

Yet, we learn best when we are at play. When we engage in play, our senses open up and we feel more at ease whilst simultaneously are still in a state of excitement.
If this is true, we need to incorporate more “serious play” into our classrooms. Join us and engage with three passionate colleagues who have experimented with games and in the process made learning fun and educational for their students.

Research Lounge, Pao Yue-kong Library

21/4/2015

Roundtable Teaching and Learning: Using our Classroom for Research

Kevin Chan (APSS), Jiang Yuwei (MM), Hennie Yip (EDC)

One of the most counter-intuitive insights in our roles as educators is the hugely untapped opportunity to look at our students as fertile ground for doing research about our own research! The usual thing to do in our classrooms is to teach our students about theories / concepts and how these frameworks help us better understand, explain and anticipate a complex world. But what if we also do the “opposite” and ask our own students about what they think about these theories and research in a way that will provide us with deeper insights about how they are thinking (and not thinking) about them?

Research Lounge, Pao Yue-kong Library

31/3/2015

Roundtable Teaching and Learning: Teaching Smart People to Learn

David Chan (Avnet Technology Solutions), Georgina Chan (IAEE), Frankie Ng (ITC), Eric Tsui (ISE)

Learning is the key to enlightenment! It is the bedrock of improvement and how to better understand the world.

As we gain more experience and become more knowledgeable, we paradoxically close off to other forms of reasoning and logic becoming even more determined in our own ways.

In such situations, how do we get smart people to learn? This Roundtable Teaching & Learning session brings together a distinguished line of three educators whose everyday job is to deal with exceptionally smart people.

Come join us to hear their lessons learned and success stories in helping smart people learn to unlearn.

Research Lounge, Pao Yue-kong Library

Pilot Study of an Integral Psychological Profile (IPsP) Psychometric Instrument for Recognising Excellent Teachers' Core Competencies

Roy Horan, CEO Innovea Ltd and Adjunct Assistant Professor of SD

With the leadership of our CoP member Mr. Remi Leclerc, a total of 31 excellent teachers participated in the pilot study of an Integral Psychological Profile (IPsP) Psychometric Instrument for Recognising Excellent Teachers' Core Competencies conducted by Roy Horan, CEO Innovea Ltd and Adjunct Assistant Professor of SD. The objective of the pilot study was to profile excellent teachers’ core competencies, psychological traits and motivation styles arising from these competencies to help PolyU teachers improve their teaching performance by providing a meaningful baseline founded on the core competencies. Data show the IPsP profile highlights the importance of creativity, leadership and communication for PolyU’s excellent teachers. A workshop for explaining the results to the participants was conducted on 3 March.

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Roundtable Teaching and Learning: Why are assumptions important in our teaching, learning & research?

Dr Allan Chan (ITC), Mr Remi Leclerc (SD), Dr Yi Tang (MM), Dr Robert Wright (MM)

It is a word we don’t often think about, although we use it a lot.?
Yet, “assumptions” are powerful drivers of how we think, feel and act!?
Most often we take our assumptions for granted.?
Yet all great scholars (researchers and teachers alike) know the value and importance of (re)examining our current taken for granted assumptions as a way to open up deeper understandings and explanations of why things work and why things don’t work.

Research Lounge, Pao Yue-kong Library

Roundtable Teaching and Learning: MOOCs and the Flipped Classroom?

Dr. Helen Law (HTI), Dr. Felix Mezzanotte (AF), Prof. Eric Tsui (ISE), Dr. Robert Wright (MM)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the power of the “flipped” classroom are helping redefine the way we teach and learn. What lessons are learned from these pedagogical approaches that prepare our students to learn better? What experience do you have with these approaches in order to improve your own research and teaching??

Please join us in a Roundtable discussion and hear how three engaged PolyU colleagues are using these pedagogical innovations.

Research Lounge, Pao Yue-kong Library

"What will it take to educate the next generation of thought-leaders for a complicated world?"?This 6 weeks exhibition (1 Dec 2014 -16 Jan 2015), generously hosted in our library, centres around this burning question. It is an important question in the midst of an ever changing fast paced world filled with contradictions, ambiguity, uncertainty, increasing competing demands and immense opportunities. As you enter the library, you will see 11 columns at various locations showcasing answers to this burning question from key stakeholders of PolyU (teachers, researchers, administrators and industry leaders) and from international scholars from leading universities around the world.

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