Community of Practice for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education (CoP-SLHE)

The Community of Practice for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education (CoP-SLHE) is set up to support collective learning and to build up a team of enthusiastic colleagues in service-learning (SL) who are willing to share their experience and insights across all the participating institutions.

1Mission and Aims

• Encourage and support SL practitioners in HK higher education to further develop their understanding of and competence in SL;
• Foster inter-institutional collaboration on SL projects and sharing of expertise among the institutions;
• Provide a platform for members to discuss relevant issues, to develop insights and good practices, and to put enhanced ways of SL into practice;
• Provide a platform (in the format of symposia) to disseminate resources produced in CoP-SLHE ; and
• Manage and store knowledge generated by CoP-SLHE in a regular and sustainable way.

2Below is the list of CoP-SLHE activities

Date	Title	Presenter(s)/ Speakers(s)	Resources
11 Aug 2021	*How students work-from-home in a summer internship "service leadership practicum" and what we have laernt from it	Prof. May Wong, Mr. Calvin Lau, Mr. Chad Chan
10 Jul 2021	*What a teenager could do?	Dr. Dion Chen
10 Jul 2021	*Service-learning as a high impact practice to enhance academic learning in K-12 classrooms	Dr. Luke Terra
9 July 2021	*Opening and Keynote Speech: "Learning as Service"	Dr. Harry Lewis
9 Jul 2021	*The Transformational Power of Service-Learning: A Global Perspective	Dr. Andrew Furco
15 Dec 2020	*Promising New Directions in Service-Learning and Community Engagement	Dr. Luke Terra
11 Dec 2020	*Virtual Engagement: Community Engaged Learning in a time of COVID-19	Dr. Luke Terra
8 Dec 2020	*How the difficult past prepares students to engage with a difficult present	Dr. Luke Terra
15 Sep 2020	*Reflections of a Science Professor on the Role of “Reflection” in Service-Learning	Prof. Mark A. McGinley
31 Aug 2020	*Assessment in Service-Learning: A Case of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK)	Prof. Christina Yu
22 Jun 2020	*eService-Learning as an Effective Approach to Nurturing Global Problem Solvers	Dr. Zoe Xiao
15 May 2020	*Ethics and Service-Learning	Dr. Kwok Wai Luen
9 Apr 2020	*Assessing and Grading Student Learning in Academic Service-Learning	Dr. Xu Huixuan
9 Mar 2020	*From Hong Kong to Taiwan: Non-Local Service-Learning Project in "News Writing" via Zoom Video Conferencing	Dr. Siu Yan Ho
20 Jan 2020	Service-Learning in Arts: Cross-institutional Case Sharing	Prof. Sophia Law and Prof. Leung Mee Ping
5 Nov 2019	How to foster service leadership attributes through Service-Learning	Prof. Robin Snell
28 Oct 2019	How Service-Learning Promotes Intergenerational Harmony and Sustainable Partnership - A Case Study in a Science Course	Prof. Jonathan Fong and Mr. Alan Wong
12 Sep 2019	Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Service-Learning	Mr. Calvin Lau
28 Aug 2019	Getting to know the needs of community and community partners	Ms. Constance Chan, Chief Supervisor (Service Development), Yan Oi Tong
30 May 2019	Action Research Retreat: Enhancing Service-Learning Practice via Action Research	Dr. Tu Feng, Mr. Cheung Chun Hoi (School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU), Mr. Bong Ngan Wing Adam (SSC, EduHK), Dr. Chan Yin Lee, Maureen (SAO, EdUHK), Dr. Xu Hui Xuan (C&I, EdUHK)
30 Apr 2019	Towards a Common Goal: Developing SUstainable Community Partnership in Service-Learning	Mr. Cheung Chun Hoi (Lecturer, School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU) & Ms. Law Kit Ying (Service Director, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council Ltd.)
22 Mar 2019	Conducting Quality Service-Learning Research	Prof. Andrew Furco, Associate Vice President, Public Engagement, University of Minnesota, USA
21 Mar 2019	Research on Service-Learning: The State of the Field	Prof. Andrew Furco, Associate Vice President, Public Engagement, University of Minnesota, USA
19 Mar 2019	Assessing the Quality of Service-Learning Subjects	Prof. Andrew Furco, Associate Vice President, Public Engagement, University of Minnesota, USA
15 Feb 2019	In/complete: Celebrating Service-Learning@HKBU	Centre for Innovative Service-Learning, Hong Kong Baptist University
28 Jan 2019	Improving Student’s Intercultural Effectiveness and Global Citizenship Development through Action Research	Stephen Chan (OSL), Anna Ho (ELC), Grace Ngai (COMP/OSL) and Lu Yu (APSS), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
10 Jan 2019	Developing Sustainable Service-Learning Projects: Insights from Engineering Discipline	Dr. Jordan Ermilio, Director,Engineering Service Learning, Villanova University, USA
20 Mar 2018	Action Research and the Good Practice "in collaboration with Community of Practice for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education"	Dr. Timothy Stanton, Stanford University, U.S.
3 May 2018	Making an Impact on Student Learning and Communities: My passion in Service-Learning	Dr. Judy Yeh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
4 May 2018	Enhancing Service-Learning Outcomes through Application of Effective Group Dynamics	Dr. Judy Yeh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
23 May 2018	Overview of action research, planning of research design, developing a research plan based on participant’s SL course	Dr Ko Yue On James, The Education University of Hong Kong
23 Oct 2018	Hands-on workshop: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Service-Learning through Action Research	Prof. Atara Sivan, Head & Professor, Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
20 Nov 2018	Introduction to Reflection for Academic Service-Learning	Ms. Elsa Lam, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
10 Jan 2018	Developing Sustainable Service-Learning Projects: Insights from Engineering Discipline	Dr. Jordan Ermilio, Director,Engineering Service Learning, Villanova University, USA
28 Jan 2018	Improving Student’s Intercultural Effectiveness and Global Citizenship Development through Action Research	Stephen Chan (OSL), Anna Ho (ELC), Grace Ngai (COMP/OSL) and Lu Yu (APSS), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University