Abstract
The main purpose of this interactive event is through a showcase of different eLearning deliverables developed by the eScholars Group for Sharing, Collaboration and Synergy from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, to introduce a cost-effective, exemplary and sustainable eLearning strategy that is of particular relevance to the educational context of campus-based colleges and universities. An eLearning strategy, among other considerations, is the first and foremost critical factor to the uptake of technology-supported learning and teaching in campus-based colleges and universities, where technology in fact does not have an indispensable role to play in their daily educational patterns. The strategy introduced here makes eLearning relevant to academic staff in the sense that technology is pursued pedagogically to address the existing learning and teaching challenges and that the eLearning deliverables developed under this strategy are easy to reuse, repurpose and further fine-tune in a cross-disciplinary manner. This strategy is grounded in a thorough understanding of contemporary studies and practices on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Education and it is hoped that the multi-faceted issues addressed in the strategy such as educational leadership, educational design, multimedia capabilities, learning object development and blended mode of learning and teaching provide more well-informed insights into the formulation of strategic planning for the further advancement in the pedagogical integration of technology in education, particularly for campus-based colleges and universities.
Format
The format of this interactive event is a one-shot session in a lecture theatre where PowerPoint presentation, eLearning deliverables demonstration, face-to-face discussion among participants and with event proposers are involved. At the start of the session, 1 of the event proposers will give an overview of the eScholars Group for Sharing, Collaboration and Synergy being implemented in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (4 min). An inductive approach will then be adopted to show participants the eLearning deliverables developed by the group, for example, a mobile-based glossary for Textile and Clothing discipline (12 min), a series of statistics simulators for Physiotherapy discipline (12 min) and a personalized self-test program for Building and Real Estate discipline (12 min) accordingly. Prior to the demonstration of each deliverable, the educational case about how the deliverable is proposed to address the discipline-specific learning and teaching challenge will be presented to participants. During the demonstration, another related but non-discipline-specific learning and teaching scenario will be given to participants so they can base on the given context, which is very likely to be the common scenario across disciplines, to evaluate the pedagogic underlying of the deliverable personally. Upon the completion of all demonstrations, the session proceeds with a guided discussion between participants and event proposers where the features of the eLearning strategy embodied in the eScholars Group will be identified. Participants’ feedback on the eLearning strategy proposed here and the feasibility of adopting similar strategy in participants’ educational contexts will also be explored. (20 min) Further exchange with interested parties from other colleges and universities to explore the collaboration opportunity on this eLearning strategy is welcome after the session.
Interactive Event Contact
If you are interested in this event and preferably but not necessarily, you experientially recognize the critical importance of eLearning strategy in the field of ICT in Education, please email Roy Kam (etroy@inet.polyu.edu.hk) for enrollment. Early-bird registration by 15 September 2009 is available at http://www.icce2009.ied.edu.hk/regist_r.html.
Organizers
Roy Kam
eLearning Development and Support Section, Educational Development Centre,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
etroy@inet.polyu.edu.hk
Lai Kuen Chan
Institute of Textiles and Clothing,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
tcchant@inet.polyu.edu.hk
Dr. Marco YC Pang
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
rsmpang@inet.polyu.edu.hk
Stephen D Mau
Department of Building and Real Estate
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
bssdmau@inet.polyu.edu.hk
