Professor Anthony Man-cho SO
Recipient of the University Grants Committee Teaching Award (General Faculty Members)
Recipient of the University Education Award 2022 (General Faculty Members)
Dean, Graduate School Office
Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Biography
Anthony Man-cho SO received his BSE degree in Computer Science from Princeton University with minors in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Engineering and Management Systems, and German Language and Culture. He then received his MSc degree in Computer Science and his PhD degree in Computer Science with a PhD minor in Mathematics from Stanford University. Prof. So joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2007. He is currently Dean of the Graduate School, Deputy Master of Morningside College, and Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. His research focuses on optimization theory and its applications in various areas of science and engineering, including computational geometry, machine learning, signal processing, and statistics.
Prof. So is appointed as an Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK in 2019. He has received a number of research and teaching awards, including the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the 2016-17 CUHK Research Excellence Award, the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2010 INFORMS Optimization Society Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, and the 2010 CUHK Young Researcher Award, as well as the 2022 University Education Award and the 2013 CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award.
Date of Presentation
14 December 2022, from 10:20 to 10:55 (HKT)
Presentation Abstract
Designing and Implementing Writing Components in STEM Courses
Teaching in STEM disciplines typically focuses on training students' technical and problem-solving skills. What is often neglected is the training of students' technical writing skills. A well-designed writing component in a STEM course can provide students with an opportunity to reflect on and take control of their own learning, to
actively construct knowledge, and to practice some features of discourse in the discipline. In this presentation, I will share my experience of designing and implementing a writing component in an undergraduate-level engineering mathematics course and reflect on the lessons learned so far. I will also discuss how my design approach can be generalized to other STEM courses.
Professor Lisa Chun Ying WAN
Recipient of the University Education Award 2021 (General Faculty Members)
Associate Professor, School of Hotel and Tourism Management
Co-Director, Centre for Hospitality and Real Estate Research
Faculty of Business Administration
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Biography
Prof. Lisa C. Wan is an Associate Professor of School of Hotel and Tourism Management and Department of Marketing at CUHK Business School. She is also the Co-Director for the Centre for Hospitality and Real Estate Research. Prof. Wan’s outstanding teaching performance has been well-acknowledged, as evidenced by her being recipients of various teaching awards such as the University Education Award 2021, Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2017 presented by CUHK, the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2017 and the Faculty Teaching Merit Award (2012 – 2021; 9 consecutive years) presented by CUHK Business School.
Prof. Wan emphasizes the importance of innovative education. For example, Space tourism hits an important milestone in 2021 summer when Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX all sent their first batch of tourists to space. However, space travel are innovative concepts to the general public with very limited pre-existing knowledge. To align with the University’s theme of “Innovation and Design,” Prof. Wan used the Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) to develop a game-based “Space Tourism Virtual Reality Learning Tool.” This learning tool aims to facilitate teachers and students to become co-learners in exploring new knowledge of space tourism.
Date of Presentation
14 December 2022, from 10:55 to 11:30 (HKT)
Presentation Abstract
Enhancing Student Engagement in the Post Pandemic World
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted traditional face to face learning and promoted a rapid shift to remote learning (online or hybrid). However, students would have a low sense of social belonging and feel disengaged from their learning in remote learning. I will share how “CARES” — Co-Creation of Knowledge, Attention, Relationship, Empathy, Sustainable Learning —can spark student engagement during and after the pandemic. “CARES” ensures a real-life teaching and learning process that places students at the heart of the learning experience. It also emphasizes on innovative research and adopt technological innovations to prepare students for their future learning.
Dr Dongkun HAN
Recipient of the University Education Award 2022 (Early Career Faculty Members)
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Biography
Dr Dongkun Han is currently a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. He was a research associate at the Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Germany, and was a research fellow at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He held visiting academic positions at the Department of Electrical Engineering, German Institute of Science and Technology, Singapore, and at Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, USA.
Dr Han’s educational research interests include Artificial Intelligence technologies in general education; E-learning and hands-on pedagogies in robotics education; and professional development for teaching staffs in engineering. To promote Sustainable Development Goals, Dr. Han co-founded the CUHK Smart Garden, which is a teaching and learning platform to develop renewable energy technologies.
Dr Han’s learner-centered teaching approach has earned him the University Education Award 2022 (Early Career Faculty Members), Dean’s Exemplary Teaching Award at the Faculty of Engineering 2021 and 2019, and Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education 2018.
Date of Presentation
14 December 2022, from 14:45 to 15:20 (HKT)
Presentation Abstract
A Technology-enabled Hybrid Teaching Approach for Hands-on Learning
Technology in education is playing a growingly essential role in teaching and learning, and it is expected to bring fundamental changes to the relationship between students and teachers. This talk will introduce a technology-enabled hybrid teaching approach, and how it has been applying in engineering hands-on training. Three eLearning pedagogical methods will be presented to address the issue of hands-on skills training at different levels. Firstly, flipped online laboratory is proposed and implemented in UGEB1307 “Energy and Green Society”. The basic underlying idea is that an online (synchronous) laboratory could be conducted with the help of flipped (asynchronous) laboratory instructions for students to make solar powered cars. Secondly, an upgraded version flipped online laboratory plus is developed and implemented in UGEB2303 “Robots in Action”. The main modification is that the online lab is constructed based on a real robotic laboratory with real robots under remote control technique. Finally, a further polished version, flipped online laboratory pro, is generated. The key distinct features are: 1. It makes unmanned robotic lab possible; 2. It incorporates automatic assessment technique on students’ performance in the lab; 3. AI-based learning assistance and personalized education are provided for studying computer programming based on big-data analysis. It will also demonstrate the effectiveness of the three versions of flipped online laboratory in the existing engineering courses.
Recipients of the University Education Award 2022 (Collaborative Teams), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The English Across the Curriculum Team led by Dr Jose LAI with Dr Olive CHEUNG, Dr Allen HO, Ms Ella LEUNG and Mr Steven YEUNG as team members
Dr Jose LAI
Director, English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr Olive CHEUNG
Senior Lecturer
English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr Allen HO
Senior Lecturer,
English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ms Ella LEUNG
Senior Lecturer,
English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mr Steven YEUNG
Senior Lecturer,
English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Individual Biographies
Dr Jose LAI is the Director of the English Language Teaching Unit of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This involves the general management of the Unit, overseeing the development, implementation and review of curricula and funded projects. Her professional interests include 1) English Across the Curriculum; 2) Learner Autonomy and Self-directed Language Learning; 3) Service-learning; 4) Language Awareness and Reflective Learning; and 5) Curriculum Development, Programme Evaluation and Validation.
Externally, she is active in serving the education community as Editor and Reviewer of academic journals, External Reviewer of CERF, RGC and SCOLAR research grant proposals; External Reviewer of language programmes, PhD proposals and theses; PAA Panellist/Subject Specialist for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications; Member of Subject Committee of LAPTE, and TDLE Sub-group of UGC; Invited Speaker at conferences, universities, schools and public seminars; as well as Consultant for teacher development and educational initiatives.
Dr Olive CHEUNG is a Senior Lecturer at the English Language Teaching Unit of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her professional interests include ELT curriculum development, EAP/ ESP course and materials design, public speaking, digital storytelling, and pronunciation learning strategies. Dr Cheung has contributed to the ELTU curriculum through designing and coordinating a wide range of courses. Currently, she coordinates three core courses, namely Foundation English for University Studies and English for Social Science Students I & II, and co-convenes an advanced public speaking course. She has also been involved in various funded projects, including English Across the Curriculum (EAC), Enhancing Literacy Teacher Education (ELiTE), and Integrated Listening-Oriented Language Learning System (ILOLLS).
Dr Allen HO is a Senior Lecturer at the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Having served in the tertiary education sector for 18 years, he is an experienced English language instructor, course designer and project coordinator. His professional interests include learning transfer, English Across the Curriculum (EAC), and peer response. Dr Ho has contributed to the ELTU curriculum through designing and coordinating a range of EAP, ESP and EPP courses for Arts and Education students, such as ELTU3011 Professional Communication for Arts Students and ELTU3413 Research Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Currently, he is one of the Co-supervisors of the EAC Project, overseeing more than 10 collaborations with content teachers from the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education. He is also one of the Co-supervisors of the Peer-Tutoring Scheme, fully supporting the recruitment, training and monitoring of peer tutors.
Ms Ella LEUNG is a Senior Lecturer at the English Language Teaching Unit of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her professional interests include ELT curriculum development, course and materials design, the teaching and learning of spoken English, and public speaking. Ms Leung has been a key member of the ELTU curriculum since its incubation in 2010. She not only co-coordinated and co-created the first-year foundation course, but she is also the designer and material writer of three core ESAP and EPP courses for science majors, which she coordinates and teaches as well. Besides, she also co-convenes an advanced public speaking course. Administratively, Ms Leung serves as ELTU’s Faculty Coordinator for the Science Faculty. As the Co-Supervisor of the EAC initiative, she oversees and acts as a frontline teacher for all the collaborations within the Science Sub-Team.
Mr Steven YEUNG is Senior Lecturer at the English Language Teaching Unit of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His professional interests include critical applied linguistics, teacher training, content and language integrated learning, and technology in (language) education. At the ELT Unit, in addition to teaching a range of EAP and ESP courses, he has been mainly responsible for administration, curriculum development, course coordination, and teaching and learning development projects. He is one of the founding members of the English Across the Curriculum (EAC) project and the Peer-Tutoring Scheme (PTS). With an interest in technology-enhanced teaching and learning, he has developed several online platforms for language learning and skills training. Within and beyond CUHK, he has been a member of various education-related committees and professional bodies. He has also been invited to work as a journal/conference reviewer, guest speaker, school consultant and contest adjudicator.
Date of Presentation
14 December 2022, from 16:00 to 16:40 (HKT)
Presentation Abstract
Towards a three-pronged approach to promoting academic literacies across disciplines: English Across the Curriculum (EAC) as a catalytic institutional movement
As a team of experienced English language educators, we have noted a much-needed yet easily-neglected area in higher education, namely academic/disciplinary literacies, the ability to understand and contextualize the use of language within a subject/discipline for academic purposes. While content professors are preoccupied with teaching subject knowledge, they hardly have time to address their students’ language issues in their learning process. Worse still, students are unaware of their insufficient academic literacy for successful learning in the disciplines. The EAC Team at the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong firmly believes that this gap can only be bridged by collaborating closely with content subject teachers. The Team also believes that to achieve sustainable effect, an institutional culture that upholds inter-disciplinary collaboration must be cultivated. Only then can we collectively enhance student engagement in disciplinary language learning, and hence, academic success in a long-lasting manner. With the ELTU formal curriculum as the base, our Team has worked towards an integrated framework to maximize student engagement in language learning at different levels: Faculty, programme, and individual. These are realised through three domains: ELTU curriculum, EAC movement, and Peer-Tutoring Scheme (PTS). To date, the ELTU curriculum has some 50 courses on offer; the EAC project has set up more than 30 Community of Practice (CoP) projects collaborating with more than 60 content professors and benefitting more than 10,000 students since its inception in 2016; and the concurrent PTS, supported by 50+ trained peer tutors per year, has provided more than 4,000 one-hour tutoring sessions to over 1,000 tutees. This presentation will introduce the three-pronged approach to enhancing academic literacy across disciplines, and how it has been implemented on campus. It will also evaluate the impact of the said approach and discuss the way forward.
Recipients of the University Education Award 2021 (Teams), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) Team led by Dr Wai-man SZETO with Dr Kenneth Ming LI, Dr Jun WU, Dr Amber Lo-ming YIP and Mr Jacky Tsz-kin YIU as team members
Dr Wai-man SZETO
Lecturer
General Education Foundation Programme, Office of University General Education
Dr Kenneth Ming LI
Lecturer
General Education Foundation Programme, Office of University General Education
Dr Jun WU
Lecturer
General Education Foundation Programme, Office of University General Education
Dr Amber Lo-ming YIP
Lecturer
General Education Foundation Programme, Office of University General Education
Mr Jacky Tsz-kin YIU
Executive Officer, Office of University General Education
Individual biographies
Dr Wai-man SZETO is a lecturer in the General Education Foundation Programme (GEFP). He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Szeto has a deep interest in cultivating his students with an interdisciplinary vision and to become active learners. Aspired to the first goal, he is among the first members of the teaching team to get involved in the development of the interdisciplinary GEFP. Also, he has co-designed and co-taught a University General Education course on music, psychology and artificial intelligence. Endeavouring to achieve his second goal, Dr. Szeto has played a leading role in the establishment and development of the Peer Assisted Study Session (PASS) in the university and is currently the leader of the PASS team. Outside the academia, Dr. Szeto is keen on promoting science to the general public. He has given public science talks and appeared as a presenter on a TV science programme.
Dr Kenneth Ming LI is a Lecturer in the Office of University General Education. He received his Ph.D.in Biochemistry (CUHK) in 2009. He has been teaching the GE Foundation Programme, College GE, and University GE. Dr. Li is devoted to developing student-centered pedagogy, including flipped classrooms, blended learning, peer-assisted learning, and experiential learning. Dr. Li is passionate about exploring opportunities for students to learn beyond the courses to accelerate their growth and development. He has also endeavored to promote Sustainability Education, including developing the SDG-GE Study Scheme and producing SDG animations. Dr. Li received the Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education and the Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award (General Education) in 2019, the University Education Award (Team) in 2021, and the Positive Workplace Service Awards (Individual Award) in 2021. Being a certified wine educator, Dr. Li is also passionate about wine education.
Dr Jun WU is a Lecturer in the Office of University General Education. She received her Ph.D. in Physics (University of Pittsburgh) in 2011, then joined the General Education Foundation Programme (GEF, CUHK) since 2012. In 2016, Dr. Wu became a core member of the PASS team, actively participating the development of PASS@GEF. She is also interested in promoting the idea of peer learning to a bigger learning community including mainland China. Other than PASS, Dr. Wu is also involved in other pedagogic development and educational research, including micro-module courseware development and narrative qualitative study to understand students’ thinking complexity. Other than teaching, she is also interested in the history of science and education in general. She believes in live-long learning and hopes to become a life-long learner by herself.
Dr Amber Lo-Ming YIP is a Lecturer in the Office of University General Education. She received her Ph.D. from Department of Pharmacology, CUHK. She been teaching the GE Foundation Programme and College GE. Dr. Yip believes intrinsic motivation is an essence of a self-directed learner. Therefore, the role of a teacher is to mobilise, maintain and enhance this innate motivation. Apart from being a professional and passionate teacher, her research interests include medical education and peer learning, particularly on evaluation of medical curriculum, problem-based learning, patient as partner in training doctor-patient relationship and peer learning. Currently, her research focuses on the evaluation of Peer Assisted Study Session (PASS), PASS as reading workshop, best practices of PASS, the application of Socratic Method in PASS and the implementation and evaluation of online PASS. Since 2016, she is a co-supervisor of two Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grants.
Mr Jacky Tsz-kin YIU was a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), majoring in Chinese Language and Literature. After graduation, he continued to study in CUHK and obtained a Master of Arts degree in Translation in 2013. As a first-generation PASS Leader, the experience of PASS gave him the chance to exercise open-mindedness and active listening in his university study, which are still useful today. He is now providing administrative support in OUGE, especially in the weekly maintenance of PASS.
Date of Presentation
14 December 2022, from 15:20 to 15:55 (HKT)
Presentation Abstract
Cultivating Collaborative Peer Learning: Empowering Students to be Active Learners
Active learning does not come from a vacuum. It requires a suitable environment. Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS), an internationally recognized model, empowers students to be active learners by providing a well-structured, yet purely learner-centred and learner-led environment where collaborative peer learning takes place. PASS consists of weekly one-hour, voluntary study sessions led by “PASS Leaders”, students who excelled in the same course in the past, completed a PASS Leader Training and receive continuous support from the PASS Supervisors. These student leaders serve as facilitators and model active learners to encourage participants to engage in academic conversation as learning partners. PASS is designed not only to enhance students’ subject knowledge but also to support them to develop academic efficacy and take ownership of their learning. In this presentation, we will highlight the working principles of PASS, share our experience in implementing and contextualizing PASS for the General Education Foundation Programme, and suggest how PASS can be implemented in other disciplines.
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