Dr LAI Hon-weng John
Awardee of the 2018 University Education Award
Co-director, MSc in Management Programme (MiM)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Management
Faculty of Business Administration
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Keynote Addresses
Title
Transformative Learning: Globalization and Diversity
Abstract
Dr John LAI is a passionate educator with a distinguished and persistent track record of the highest quality teaching in business education. Over the years, Dr LAI adopts global experiential and interactive activities into his courses such as business development workshops, global learning trips, and business case competitions. His teaching approach inspires students and arouses their interest in business, developing entrepreneurial mind-set and sense of social responsibility, not only in local but also in global context. Meanwhile, Dr LAI enthusiastically promotes students’ diversity and cultivates integration in the process of knowledge acquisition, skills development, and critical thinking as in the global world of work it is important for students to learn how to how along and together with each other. His years of teaching and learning contributions and positive energy result in an enormous impact on his local and non-local current students and alumni. Dr LAI will share his transformative learning and teaching approach in promoting diversity and globalization.
Biography
Dr John LAI received his PhD from School of Management, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Dr LAI is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Management, CUHK Business School and concurrently the Co-Director of Master of Science in Management. He has previously served as the Director of Global Business Programs - Global Business Studies (GBS) and International Business & Chinese Enterprise (IBCE) and also Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Studies, CUHK Business School). His research interests are innovation in services, networks, and knowledge transfer. He is the recipient of the 2018 University Education Award, twice recipient of the Vice Chancellor Exemplary Teaching Award in 2014 and 2010, Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (FOTA), CUHK Business School (2014, 2011, and 2009), Faculty Teaching Merit Award (2015-2017), The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) (2004/2005), City University of Hong Kong.
Dr YUEN Kwan Yuk Jacqueline
Awardee of the 2018 University Education Award
Clinical Lecturer, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title
Effective Strategies for Teaching 21st Century Skills
Abstract
In the era of the Information Age, education in the 21st century needs to move beyond mastery of content knowledge to learning skills that are important to succeed in today’s rapidly changing world. Medical education is no exception as the practice of medicine is quickly transitioning to the age of artificial intelligence. To be effective in this environment, physicians need to have skills in areas such as critical thinking, information literacy, communication and teamwork. These skills are essential to achieve mastery of machines to support patient care while maintaining mastery of compassionate care, the latter being something that cannot be replaced by machines. The question for educators today is: How to teach these skills effectively to ensure learners are achieving mastery?
This is the question that I will try to answer in this presentation through my experience in teaching and research as a medical educator. Using the example of teaching communication skills in clinical practice, I will illustrate how deliberate practice and experiential learning can be combined as learner-centered pedagogical strategies to enable learners to excel in performing complex skills. I will also share on how technology enhanced learning can be judiciously incorporated to facilitate skills learning while overcoming the challenges of a large and diverse student body and maximizing efficient use of instructors’ time.
Biography
Dr Jacqueline YUEN is Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at CUHK. She received her BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, followed by MD at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is a physician specialist in geriatric medicine and palliative care. Prior to joining CUHK in 2017, she was Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Her academic interests are focused on improving the quality of health care communication, end of life care, and fostering empathy in medical training. She is a recognized leader in medical education in developing communication training programmes for healthcare professionals in the United States and Hong Kong. She is a recipient of the 2018 University Education Award.
Professor FAN Tingting
Awardee of the 2018 University Education Award (Early Career)
Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing
Faculty of Business Administration
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title
5 Tricks to Keep Students Awake
Abstract
Are your students sleeping in class?
Are you getting tired after lecturing for 1 hour?
How to keep you and your students excited in class?
I would like to share 5 tricks (“STOPS”— Simplicity, Timely, Open Discussions, Practice, and Stop). In my classes, I use those 5 tricks to engage my students as well as myself. In this talk, I will share my teaching experience about how to use each trick inside and outside classroom. I will use my new course “New Product Management” I designed for undergraduate students for illustration. I believe those 5 tricks are easy to generalize, straightforward to implement, and fun to share.
Biography
Professor Tingting FAN is an Assistant Professor in Department of Marketing at CUHK Business School. She got her PhD from Stern School of Business, New York University in 2014. Her research interest includes innovations and new products, big data, and digital marketing. Professor FAN is enthusiastic about coaching her students to convert their ideas to real innovations. She develops a new pedagogy “InvolveàInvestigateàInnovate” and creates an innovative “textbook-free, free-discussion” teaching method in the new course “New Product Management” she designs all by herself. With her pedagogy, new teaching method, and new course, she has successfully nurtured students growing up from “excellent exam takers” to “innovative young entrepreneurs”. And because of her dedication in nurturing innovators, Professor FAN has been rated as “the most inspiring professor” with “greatest enthusiasm in teaching”. Professor FAN is also the only young faculty who has received University Education Award (Early Career) and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2018.
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