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Workshops to Familiarize Staff with Classroom Facilities for Hybrid/Blended Teaching and Learning

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In hybrid teaching, some of our students will be attending the lessons in the classroom, and some will be joining us via Zoom online. This workshop aims at covering some pedagogical and technological topics on handling this mode of teaching, such as examples of how to plan for a 3-hour lesson, a demonstration of how to make use of equipment in classrooms to conduct hybrid teaching with Zoom, steps to video-record and upload recordings of your classes.

Environment Design in the Metaverse using Spatial

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The Metaverse is an exciting digital universe where social interactions, entertainment, and business occur. It also provides great potential for enhancing educational experiences, improving student engagement and creativity, and making learning more interactive and fun.
In this workshop, you can have an exciting experience in the Metaverse via the Spatial platform. You can learn the latest features on Spatial to interact with your students. You can also learn how to develop Metaverse spaces for students’ exhibition projects using multiple forms of virtual items in a 3D environment to present their creative designs and ideas. You can try using Meta Quest headsets to explore VR immersive experiences in Spatial after the workshop.
All EdUHK staff and staff who participated in the workshop “Teaching in the Metaverse Classroom Using Spatial” organised by LTTC are also welcome.

Workshop: Introduction to the use of Open edX

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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has been a trend of e-Learning Development and edX is one of the popular MOOC platform providers. With an objective to explore more possibilities of online learning, an open edX platform is hosted by LTTC and a few examples of online courses were uploaded on the platform. For a developed MOOC course, students are able to participate in a course via the web and teachers are able to interact with students. The workshop is intended to introduce using edX as a MOOC platform. Colleagues interested in MOOC course development are welcome to enroll the workshop.

Using Panopto for Editing Video and Quiz

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Panopto allows users to edit their videos. This workshop aims at demonstrating how we can do so on Panopto via making changes, adding extra streams to our videos, or creating quizzes embedded in videos.

Topics to be covered include:

understanding the video editing environment of Panopto
preparing the different sources of video streams or slides
adding and editing streams
modifying the publish settings (for controlling captions, downloads, etc.)
how viewers can access the video and the learning materials

Event Series Induction (Sem 2, 2023/24)

Induction (Sem 2, 2023/24)

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The Induction – Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education Settings is organised by the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology (LTTC). It is categorised as part of the Certificate Course – “Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education”. It is offered to all new full-time academic/teaching staff and Research Postgraduate (RPg) students of EdUHK. The Induction aims to provide essential learning, teaching, and assessment information at EdUHK, for which two 3-hour sessions will be arranged. The Induction is delivered by LTTC staff and academic staff from different departments and other academic support units of the University.

Advancing Authentic Assessment: Multimodal Intervention Systems and Podcasting in Higher Education

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This seminar covers the integration of technology in facilitating authentic assessment in higher education.

The first segment explores the application of a multimodal intelligent learning environment, an innovation designed to aid students grappling with writing difficulties. The Intelligent Intervention System with authentic assessment practices aims to provide comprehensive support for students’ writing development.

The second segment delves into the utilization of podcasting as a transformative tool in a theory-based course on communication and technology. This segment underscores the potential of podcasting in enhancing constructivist learning and its role in enabling authentic, real-world assessments of students’ comprehension and proficiency.

Seminars on AI and Blended Learning

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore has undertaken a sweeping implementation of blended learning and one-device-per-student settings across schools. This seminar, providing a researcher’s viewpoint, explores the opportunities and challenges within this educational shift. Leveraging a decade of seamless learning research, our outcomes serve as crucial resources, shaping the nationwide initiative. We delve into the intricate interplay between seamless and blended learning, highlighting conceptual overlaps and distinctive features