The Excellent Teachers on Teaching Excellence (ETTE) Symposium is one of the most significant universitywide teaching and learning events organised by PolyU. Themed "GenAI in Higher Education", the ETTE Symposium 2024 attracted over 400 local and nonlocal registrants, and featured presentations and panel discussions by educators, teachers, and students on the opportunities and challenges of adopting generative AI (genAI) in higher education.

Professor Jin-Guang Teng, President of PolyU, and Professor Kwok-yin Wong, Vice President (Education) of PolyU, gave opening remarks to kick off the event. This was followed by a sharing session by the Internationalisation at Home team from PolyU’s School of Nursing, who won the University Grants Committee (UGC) Teaching Award 2023 in the Collaborative Teams category for 2023.

The event featured two keynote presentations by distinguished professors and two panel discussions by vice presidents of universities, students and IT industrial experts. Teacher representatives from PolyU’s faculties and schools also shared their views on this timely and crucial topic.

The Symposium provided an excellent opportunity for insightful exchange, contributing to the overall progress of the higher education sector.

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Featured sessions

Keynote presentation

Exploring genAI for personal and collaborative learning

Professor John Mitchell
Mary And Gordon Crary Family Professor in the School of Engineering, and Professor, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering and of Education, Stanford University, USA

Professor Mitchell introduced promising directions and current questions about using genAI based on recent research projects and explored how genAI could support collaborative learning.

Keynote presentation

Steering human-centred use of generative AI in education

Professor Fengchun Miao
Chief, Unit for Technology and AI in Education, UNESCO, Paris

Professor Miao examined the functions and limits of genAI, discussed related controversies, proposed key steps for regulating genAI tools, and shared the progress of the AI competency frame works UNESCO has been developing.

Vice Presidents’ panel discussion

Paradigm shift in higher education

Attendees gained insights on the policies and management of genAI in higher education through the discussion by vice presidents of universities in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.

Students’ panel discussion

University learning in the age of genAI

Students from six local universities shared their views in a discussion facilitated by Professor James Tang Tuck-hong, Secretary-General of UGC.