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.

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You are invited to a sharing session by Prof Kam-Tim Woo, a recipient of the 2015 University Grants Committee (UGC) Teaching Award. Prof Woo is the associate professor of Engineering Education of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and is the founding Director of the Centre for Global & Community Engagement. He established a major programme for experiential learning through robotics team competitions.

Since 2007, students have gained 131 prizes and awards for their work under his supervision. He also leads students and colleagues developing advanced applications to the needy in the community which equipped the students with a wide range of critical and career-relevant skills.

Please register in advance as seating is limited.

(light lunch will be ready at 12:15pm outside the Senate Room)

Abstract of the seminar:

Challenging engineering projects such as underwater robotics and mobile apps can be a great way to learn. It can also be a great way to serve the community with real impact. But when one objective is focused on learning and another objective is focused on serving, can the two objectives truly be integrated into the same project? How do you design such a project? How do you teach the students to do it? How do you know it is making an impact? Dr. Tim Woo, UGC Teaching Award recipient in 2015, will be sharing with us his experience in making it happen.

*This talk is organized by Office of Service Learning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; co-organized by Faculty of Engineering and Educational Development Centre; sponsored by IEEE-HK SIGHT and Community of Practice on Service-Learning

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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.

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This seminar will present the major findings from an evaluation of the impact of PolyU’s mandatory service-learning requirement on students’ learning and development, particularly for those who were initially less inclined and felt “compelled” to engage in it.

This session is jointly organized by OSL, CoP-SL and EDC.

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The International Conference on English Across the Curriculum 2015 is a two-day conference that aims to bring together academics from different disciplines and language teaching units to explore ways to enhance students’ English in discipline content subjects. For further information of the Conference, please click here.