Issue 7, February 2015

Welcome to the e-bulletin of Communities of Practice (CoPs), where you will be able to catch up with our most updated events and information of the five CoPs in PolyU.


Academic Advising Funding (Second Round)

Following last year's success, the second round of funding on Academic Advising invited application from all academic departments. This funding aims to support academic departments to run pioneer academic advising projects, and to promote quality academic advising services and activities within the departments. Successful applicants will receive a maximum of HK$10,000 in support of their academic advising projects. At the end of January 2015, 8 applications were received.

For more details, please visit http://www.polyu.edu.hk/CoP/academic_advising/new_events.php.

Roundtable Teaching and Learning: MOOCs and the Flipped Classroom


Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the “flipped” classroom have redefined the way we teach and learn. In this Roundtable Teaching and Learning session, Dr Helen Law (HTI), Dr Felix Mezzanotte (AF), Prof. Eric Tsui (ISE) shared with the others about the lessons they have learned from using these pedagogical approaches to help our students learn better.
 






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


Date: 24 February (Tue)
Time: 12:45-2:00pm
Venue: Research Lounge, Pao Yue-Kong Library
Facilitators:

Allan Chan (ITC), Remi Leclerc (SD), Yi Tang (MM), 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.

Please join us in this engaging and interactive Teaching & Learning Roundtable and hear how three of our accomplished scholars leverage off and challenge the assumptions of their fields to advance what we already know, don’t know and need to know.

Click here for further information and registration.

 
Tense and Voice in Describing and Discussing Research Findings


Date: 25 February (Wed)
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Venue: TU411
Facilitator:

Julia Chen (ELC)

This workshop is for academic staff members who would like to further advance their research writing skills or are keen to help students become better communicators in their disciplines.  The workshop will examine how tense is often used differently in describing vs discussing findings, and explore ways to write objective sentences in active voice without employing first-person pronouns “I” or “we”.  Priority will be given to academic faculty with teaching responsibility.  

This workshop is jointly organized by the Community of Practice on Enhancing Students’ English Abilities, the UGC project Professional Development in Enhancing English Across the Curriculum, and the EDC. Please click here to register.



 
 


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