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Innovative Education Approaches to Enhance Graduate Employability

The rapidly evolving landscape of higher education calls for innovative educational practices. Students would be more prepared for the fast-changing future when educators adopt pedagogies that enable them to gain skills and knowledge not normally obtainable within normal classroom settings.

Integrating Language Education with Advanced Technology

In the world where Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies are becoming increasingly prominent, educators have been striving to adopt the latest technologies into their pedagogy in the hope of improving their students’ levels of proficiency in not just the subject area but also the advanced technologies.

Knowledge and Expertise Sharing around the World

Over the past few months, Prof HU Xiangen, DoIHERD, engaged with various stakeholders of higher education to discuss the applications of advanced educational technology.

Publications on the Impact of LLMs in Higher Education

Prof HU Xiangen, DoIHERD, was invited to share his thoughts on the impact of large language models (LLMs) in higher education in public-facing articles.

Seminar on China’s Approach in Cultivating Innovative Talents

With the vast diversity of human talents, it is impracticable for educators to focus on all of them given the limitation of time and resources. Certain kinds of talents are therefore more likely to be neglected when their explicit traits appear to deviate from the desirable ones.

The 3rd Assembly of IHERD Fellows

The 3rd Assembly of IHERD Fellows was successfully held on 6 December 2024. The event brought nearly 20 IHERD Fellows together who listened attentively to the sharing by three Fellows.

THE Global AI Forum

The global forum themed “Higher education in the AI era” co-hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Times Higher Education (THE) was successfully held in Hotel ICON on 29 November 2024. The THE Global AI Forum brought together academics and industry leaders in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and education to share their insights on the latest advancements in AI and the opportunities and challenges that AI may present to their institutions.

Virtual Reality Applications in Engineering Education

It has always been a challenge for educators to teach in a class with diverse backgrounds in education. This situation would be more serious in a general education course where students are expected to learn subject knowledge that has little relevance to their own disciplines.

Overcoming Quant Anxiety Using Technologies

Anxiety for numbers and calculations is not uncommon in the student population, and such emotional response is by no means non-existent in the student population of programmes that require graduates to be familiar with numbers to excel when they become members of the workforce. Educators from around the world have therefore been seeking ways to make students more comfortable with quantitative subjects.

A Journey on Global Harwell

On 7 August 2024, Prof HU Xiangen, DoIHERD, spoke at 2024 International Digital Learning Forum in Taiwan with the title “Human Wisdom Meets AI: A New Era in Education”, and engaged with fellow panellists on the application of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Towards the end of the trip, Prof HU also shared on how “Generative AI Enhances Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System”.