Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement | University of Macau

Audience Response Systems, Rain Classroom (雨课堂) and Kahoots!
2018-09-06 16:00 - 17:15 (Asia/Macau)
Audience Response Systems: How to use Rain Classroom (雨课堂) and Kahoots! to engage students in learning
Audience response systems such as Kahoots, Poll Everywhere, and Rain Classroom are used to engage students with quizzes, immediate feedback, opportunities to provide personal responses, and to facilitate discussions. This workshop is designed to help current and future faculty learn how to set up and administer quiz questions for in-class activities with students’ mobile phones.
After this workshop you will be able to:

Conduct knowledge testing multiple-choice questions with Kahoots! – and gamify quizzes
Collect short responses from students with Rain Classroom

Thursday, 6 Sept. 4:00–5:15 pm
Facilitators: Prof. Zihao Li and Dr. Chris Fulton
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CTLE Teaching Assistant Training Workshop 2 大學助教工作坊
2018-09-05 17:00 - 18:15 | E4-G078, Taipa, Macau
This Fall 2018 CTLE will sponsor a series of workshops that introduce core skills for graduate students that are involved in teaching and may go on to work in academic institutions in a teaching or an instructional capacity. This workshop series will be organized by CTLE and will be delivered by UM academic staff with support from CTLE. Each workshop session will last for 75 minutes and is open to UM postgraduate students and academic staff. Typically, each workshop will have a topic to focus and will involve a learning activity, consisting of a short reading and an on-line web activity that is to be completed prior to the workshop. Participation is voluntary and involves no credit or cost other than time commitment. Individuals who have participated in at least six workshops and the linked online UMMoodle learning activities will receive a letter of participation from CTLE indicating that they had participated and completed a mini-program on university teaching.
教與學優化中心於2018/2019學年的上學期推出了一系列為大學助教(TA)而設的工作坊，這系列的工作坊將介紹不同於教學應用上的核心技能，對於現任大學助教或正在學術機構工作的研究生及準備投身教學事業的準畢業生都有很大的幫助。由教與學優化中心舉辦、澳大教學人員主講的大學教學工作坊的每一節課為75分鐘，歡迎有興趣的澳大研究生及教學人員參加。參與工作坊屬自願性質而且費用全免。出席六節或以上工作坊並完成UMMOODLE在線學習課程作業的參加者將獲得由教與學優化中心發出的參與證明。

DateDayTimeTopicSpeakersAffiliation

3.Sept.Mon.17:00–18:15Your First Day as TA:
How to Prepare for the Role
當助教的第一天: 如何做好準備Prof. Katrine Ka Ki WONGDCTLE/FAH

5.Sept.Wed.17:00–18:15Classroom Presence: Do’s and Dont’s of Teacher Student Interactions, plus Handling Academic Dishonesty
教師與學生的互動行為準則，包括針對學術不誠實行為的處理方法Prof. Matthew LIUAssoc.Dean of FBA

12.Sept.Wed.17:00–18:15Leading and Facilitating Discussion and Tutorials On-line and Face-to-Face
領導/引導在線學習及面對面教學的討論及指導Ms. Miranda Sin I MA FAH/ELC

14.Sept.Fri.15:00–16:15Tools that Support Learning (Part 1)
支援教學的工具1Prof. Melody LU
Dr. Chris FULTONFSS
CTLE

19.Sept.Wed.11:00–15:15Creating and Using Grading Rubrics
創建和使用評量指標Mr. Mark WONGFAH/ELC

21.Sept.Fri.15:00–16:15Tools that Support Learning (Part 2) [Advanced Functions of Moodle: creating quiz, managing assignments/gradebook]
支援教學的工具2 Prof. Thomas LOK
Dr. Chris FULTONFST
CTLE

CTLE

26.Sept.Wed.17:00–18:15Effective Lecturing:
Developing a Mini-Lecture
有效地授課: 如何主持迷你教學Prof. Garry WONGFHS

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CTLE Teaching Assistant Training Workshops 2018 大學助教工作坊
2018-09-03 17:00 - 18:15 | E4-G078, Taipa, Macau
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This Fall 2018 CTLE will sponsor a series of workshops that introduce core skills for graduate students that are involved in teaching and may go on to work in academic institutions in a teaching or an instructional capacity. This workshop series will be organized by CTLE and will be delivered by UM academic staff with support from CTLE. Each workshop session will last for 75 minutes and is open to UM postgraduate students and academic staff. Typically, each workshop will have a topic to focus and will involve a learning activity, consisting of a short reading and an on-line web activity that is to be completed prior to the workshop. Participation is voluntary and involves no credit or cost other than time commitment. Individuals who have participated in at least six workshops and the linked online UMMoodle learning activities will receive a letter of participation from CTLE indicating that they had participated and completed a mini-program on university teaching.
教與學優化中心於2018/2019學年的上學期推出了一系列為大學助教(TA)而設的工作坊，這系列的工作坊將介紹不同於教學應用上的核心技能，對於現任大學助教或正在學術機構工作的研究生及準備投身教學事業的準畢業生都有很大的幫助。由教與學優化中心舉辦、澳大教學人員主講的大學教學工作坊的每一節課為75分鐘，歡迎有興趣的澳大研究生及教學人員參加。參與工作坊屬自願性質而且費用全免。出席六節或以上工作坊並完成UMMOODLE在線學習課程作業的參加者將獲得由教與學優化中心發出的參與證明。

DateDayTimeTopicSpeakersAffiliation

3.Sept.Mon.17:00–18:15Your First Day as TA:
How to Prepare for the Role
當助教的第一天: 如何做好準備Prof. Katrine Ka Ki WONGDCTLE/FAH

5.Sept.Wed.17:00–18:15Classroom Presence: Do’s and Dont’s of Teacher Student Interactions, plus Handling Academic Dishonesty
教師與學生的互動行為準則，包括針對學術不誠實行為的處理方法Prof. Matthew LIUAssoc.Dean of FBA

12.Sept.Wed.17:00–18:15Leading and Facilitating Discussion and Tutorials On-line and Face-to-Face
領導/引導在線學習及面對面教學的討論及指導Ms. Miranda Sin I MA FAH/ELC

14.Sept.Fri.15:00–16:15Tools that Support Learning (Part 1)
支援教學的工具1Prof. Melody LU
Dr. Chris FULTONFSS
CTLE

19.Sept.Wed.11:00–15:15Creating and Using Grading Rubrics
創建和使用評量指標Mr. Mark WONGFAH/ELC

21.Sept.Fri.15:00–16:15Tools that Support Learning (Part 2) [Advanced Functions of Moodle: creating quiz, managing assignments/gradebook]
支援教學的工具2 Prof. Thomas LOK
Dr. Chris FULTONFST
CTLE

CTLE

26.Sept.Wed.17:00–18:15Effective Lecturing:
Developing a Mini-Lecture
有效地授課: 如何主持迷你教學Prof. Garry WONGFHS

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AUTUMN 2018 CTLE Half-Day Faculty Development Workshop
2018-08-29 09:15 - 14:00 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
DIGITAL-AGE LEARNING

TimeSessionSpeakersAffiliation

9:15Morning Refreshments

9:30Opening RemarksProf. Lionel NIVRAA

9:45Personable Learning: A Teacher-Centered Pedagogy for Empowering 21st Century StudentsDr. Vanessa Theme AMENTBall State University

11:00Coffee Break

11:15Panel: "UMx: Challenges and Opportunities" Moderated by Prof. Katrine WONG
Prof. Hong Gang JIN
Prof. Michael LI
Mr. Miguel COSTA.
DCTLE
Dean of FAH
FED
FST

12:15New Tools that Support Group Work, and Activities for Active LearningProf. Jinjuan REN
Prof. Lei Si MAN
Dr. Chris FULTON FBA
CTLE

13:15Lunch & Discussion

**Participation in this workshop will be documented as equivalent of four hour of Professional Development for Teaching and Learning (applicable to UM Academic Staff only).**

雨課堂：讓上課活起來 Rain Classroom: Enliven Your Class
2018-05-14 15:00 - 16:15 | E4-G062
澳門大學學術副校長倪明選教授將親自為師生介紹學習工具 「 雨課堂 」跟各位澳大人分享如何把讓人低頭的機器變成抬頭的利器。
Prof. Lionel Ni (VRAA) will give a workshop on Rain Classroom, a powerful learning tool that combines PowerPoint and WeChat.
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Details of the workshop

Date
14 May 2018 (Monday)

Time
15:00 – 16:15

Venue
E4-G062

Speakers
Prof. Lionel NI (VRAA)

*An equivalent of 1 hour of professional development.
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雨課堂由清華大學在線教育辦公室在2016年4月研發的智慧教学工具，在不到兩年的時間內, 已有超過200萬用戶在13萬堂課中使用。雨課堂在課外預習與課堂教學間建立溝通橋樑，讓課堂互動永不下線。
Rain Classroom establishes a bridge between teachers and students before, during, and after class. It is a powerful and user-friendly plug-in program developed by Tsinghua University in April 2016. In less than 2 years, it is used by over 2 million users in 130,000 active classes.

CTLE Teaching Innovation Salon 2018
2018-04-25 09:00 - 13:00
Time
Topic
Speakers

9:00 – 9:15
Morning Refreshment

9:15 – 9:30
Opening Remarks
Prof. Lionel NI (VRAA)

9:30 – 9:50
Why Innovations and Which Methods to Use?—-Finding the Innovated Methods for My Classes
Prof. Tianshu ZHU (FSS)

09:55 – 10:15
Varied Excellences: Reflections on Teaching in a Technological World
Prof. Man Yin CHIU (FAH)

10:20 – 10:40
Project-Based Teaching to Stimulate Students’ Passion on Learning
Prof. Hui PAN (IAPME)

10:45 – 11:05
Catching Students’ Attention in the Digital Era
Prof. Matthew LIU (FBA)

11:05 – 11:20
Coffee break

11:20 – 12:05
Panel discussion [moderated by Prof. Katrine WONG (DCTLE)]
Prof. Chunming WANG (ICMS), Prof. Bing SHUI (FLL) and Mr. Miguel COSTA (FST)

12:05 – 12:20
Q&A

12:20 – 13:00
Lunch

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Sessions Info:
Why Innovations and Which Methods to Use?—-Finding the Innovated Methods for My Classes Prof. Tianshu ZHU (FSS)
Why do we need innovations for our teachings? And among so many innovated new pedagogical methods, what methods to choose for our classes? In this presentation, I will talk about the innovations I did in my classes in answering these questions. Although I teach a very particular field which is very different from others, hopefully these questions can be relevant to general audients.
Varied Excellences: Reflections on Teaching in a Technological World Prof. Man Yin CHIU (FAH)
One of the most important elements in teaching is engagement. Teaching material that is interesting and engaging is more effective. In this talk I will share an in-class activity that has worked quite well for me. Together we will engage with a short poem in English and try to work out its meaning.
Project-Based Teaching to Stimulate Students’ Passion on Learning Prof. Hui PAN (IAPME)
In my talk, a brief introduction of project-oriented teaching/learning will be given. It is believed that the learning should be focused around four main areas: critical thinking, teamwork, practical application, and positive attitude, which can be achieved through project-oriented teaching.
Catching Students’ Attention in the Digital Era Prof. Matthew LIU (FBA)
How long can you reasonably expect your students to pay attention during your lessons? Some psychologists claim the typical student’s attention span is about 10 to 15 minutes long, yet most university classes last 50 to 90 minutes. Teaching can be tough, but there a few easy and simple tricks that will grab your students attention.

Recent Trends in Higher Education: Impact on Learning and Teaching
2018-04-18 12:15 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Abstract
The rapid change in the society has increased the expectations of higher education. Educational initiatives which are shaped by global phenomena are introduced to enhance the quality of teaching and learning experience. In this workshop, Dr. Tang will examine the outcome-based approach (OBA) in course design, technology-based learning activities, and initiatives beyond the curriculum with reference to an undergraduate teacher education programme in Hong Kong. Specifically, the development of learning outcomes, grade descriptors and rubrics for the implementation of the OBA to assessment, the design and rationale behind a professional online learning community, and the experiential learning activities to improve students’ competencies and global outlook will be exemplified.

TA Salon
2018-04-11 12:15 - 13:30

Faculty Lunchtime Mini-Talks: Social Media in the Classroom
2018-03-16 13:00 - 14:00 | E3-G034
Faculty and teaching assistants are invited to join informal faculty mini-talks on teaching with technology. These mini-talks are short 10-minute presentations for faculty and teaching assistants.
Participants will:

Find out how faculty members make use of social media for teaching

Presentations titles and speakers:

Towards student-centered learning with Rain Classroom, Prof. Kan Kan CHAN, (FED)
A practical example of using Instagram to facilitate language learning, Ms. Suki LEUNG (FAH–ELC)
Moodle, Poll Everywhere, and WeChat, Prof. Xiaobo ZHAI (FLL)

Event Information:
1:00–2:00pm
Friday, March 16, 2018
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2018 CTLE Spring Workshop Series:
2018-03-07 12:15 - 13:30
Details of the workshop

Date
7 March 2018 (Wednesday)

Time
12:15 – 13:30

Venue
E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)

Speakers
Prof. Chris Carl HALE

*Refreshments will be provided for registered participants.
*An equivalent of 1 hour of professional development.
Abstract:

As educators search exhaustively for ways to make students more active and engaged in their own learning, self-assessment has emerged as a possible solution. In addition to enhancing student autonomy, agency, and metacognitive awareness of learning, it is a way to encourage critical thinking and responsibility—two major tenets of Active Learning, and traits that will serve students well in their lives after graduation. This talk will aim to conceptualize the effectiveness of self-assessment within the greater context of the English medium liberal arts university in East Asia, and present a practical approach to student assessment by examining data from CLIL-based classrooms.

BIO:
Chris Carl Hale, Ed.D. is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Global Communication and Language at Akita International University, Japan and formerly the Academic Director of the Tokyo Center of the New York University (NYU) School of Professional Studies (SPS). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses related to language acquisition and teacher training in the United States and in Japan for over 20 years. He is also an avid DJ and techno music producer.

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Panel Presentation on Rain Classroom
2018-02-07 12:30 - 13:45 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Details of the workshop

Date
7 February 2018 (Wednesday)

Time
12:30 – 13:45

Venue
E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)

Speakers

Prof. Alice LEI
Prof. Kan Kan CHAN
Prof. Michael LI
Dr. Soi Po WONG
(All from Faculty of Education)

*Refreshments will be provided for registered participants.
*An equivalent of 1 hour of professional development.
Abstract:
Rain Classroom establishes a bridge between teachers and students before, during, and after class. It is a powerful and user-friendly plug-in program developed by Tsinghua University in April 2016. In less than 2 years, it is used by over 2 million users in 130,000 active classes.
In this panel presentation, four faculty staff from the Faculty of Education will demonstrate basic features including syncing WeChat with PPT; turning smartphone to a teaching/learning tool; generating instant feedback; creating quiz, building survey, and collecting data for learning analytics purpose.
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Lunchtime Conversation: Tools for Mid-term Feedback, Quizzes and Attendance
2018-02-02 13:00 - 14:00 | E3-G034
This conversation about Qualtrics, Poll Everywhere and UMMoodle provides faculty and teaching assistants with opportunities to exchange ideas on how to make use of these tools to collect mid-term feedback from students’ or take attendance using students’ mobile phones.
Speakers:
Prof. Sophia DENG (FSS)
Prof. Kar Wei NG (IAPME)
Prof. Yisu ZHOU (FED)
We hope you will join us in our efforts and add your voice and experience to the conversations.
Fri. 2 Feb. 2018
1:00–2:00 pm
Refreshments: 12:50
Room E3-G034
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2018 CTLE Spring Faculty Development Workshop
2018-01-24 09:00 - 13:00 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Awaken Students’ Desire to Learn

Time

Session

Speaker

9:00
Morning Refreshment

9:15
Opening Remarks
Prof. Lionel NI (VRAA)

9:30
Plenary Presentation: Technology Enriched Learning
Prof. Ricky KWOK (HKU)

10:30
Coffee Break

10:45
Panel Conversation on Active Learning
(Moderated by DCTLE) Prof. Ricky KWOK (HKU), Prof. Robert YANG (Nanjing University), Prof. Desmond LAM (FBA) & Prof. Melody LU (FSS)

11:45
Active Learning Activities that Work with Poll Everywhere and UMMoodle
Prof. Alexandr SVETLICINII (FLL), Prof. Ruiyu XIE (FHS) & Dr. Chris FULTON (CTLE)

12:30
Lunch & Discussion

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Faculty Mini-Talks: Teaching with Technology
2017-11-15 16:00 - 17:00 | E3-G034
Faculty and teaching assistants are invited to join informal faculty mini-talks on teaching with technology. These mini-talks are short 10-minute presentations for faculty and teaching assistants.
Participants will:

Find out how faculty use technology for innovative teaching and learning approaches

Presentations titles and speakers:

WeChat in and out of the classroom: realities and possibilities, Li Ying, Faculty of Social Sciences
Instant student feedback for assessing teaching effectiveness and managing class, Jung Park, Faculty of Health Sciences
Integrating Poll Everywhere to my Teaching Toolbox, Miguel Costa, Faculty of Science and Technology

Event Information:
4:00–5:00pm
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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CTLE Workshop 2017: Student feedback on teaching – The PolyU Experience
2017-11-08 12:15 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Details of the workshop

Date
8 November 2017 (Wednesday)

Time
12:15 – 13:30

Venue
E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)

Speaker
Dr. Christine Armatas

*Refreshments will be provided
Abstract:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) conducts evaluation of subjects and teaching each semester via the Student Feedback Questionnaire (SFQ). Since moving to fully online administration of the SFQ in the 2015/16 academic year, the University has made enhancements to the way in which results are reported and the information available to teaching staff from the survey. In this workshop we will look at how these changes can improve teachers’ use of the results for enhancing teaching and learning, discuss their suitability as quality assurance and quality enhancement measures and explore other ways of evaluating the quality of teaching.
About the Speaker:

Dr Christine Armatas is Associate Director Educational Development at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has over 20 years’ experience working in school, faculty and central roles as an academic, curriculum developer and evaluation expert.
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CTLE Teaching Assistant Training Workshops 2017 大學助教工作坊
2017-10-25 17:00 - 18:15 | E4-G078, Taipa, Macau
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Sep
6

Your First Day as TA: How to Prepare for the Role
當助教的第一天: 如何做好準備

Prof. Katrine Ka Ki WONG, DCTLE

Sep 13

Classroom Presence: Do’s and Don’ts of Teacher Student Interactions, plus Handling Academic Dishonesty
教師與學生的互動行為準則，包括針對學術不誠實行為的處理方法

Prof. Rose Neng LAI
(Assoc. Dean of FBA)

Sep 20

Leading/Facilitating Discussion and Tutorials On-line and Face to Face
領導/引導在線學習及面對面教學的討論及指導

Prof. Katrine Ka Ki WONG and Ms. Miranda Sin I MA (ELC)

Sep 27

Tools that Support Learning (Moodle, Poll Everywhere, Office Mix etc)
支援教學的工具，Moodle，Poll-Everywhere，Office-Mix等
Mr. Christopher FULTON (CTLE) and CTLE Advisors

Oct 11

Learning Strategies
學習攻略

Prof. Ricardo MOUTINHO (FAH)

Oct 18

Effective Lecturing: Developing a Mini-Lecture
有效地授課: 如何主持迷你教學

Prof. Garry WONG (FHS)

Oct 25

Developing Learning Activities
建立教學活動

Prof. Michael Zihao LI (FED)

This Fall 2017 CTLE will sponsor a series of workshops that introduce core skills for graduate students that are involved in teaching and may go on to work in academic institutions in a teaching or an instructional capacity. This workshop series will be organized by CTLE and will be delivered by UM academic staff with support from CTLE. Each workshop session will last for 75 minutes and is open to UM postgraduate students and academic staff. Typically, each workshop will have a topic to focus and will involve a learning activity, consisting of a short reading and an on-line web activity that is to be completed prior to the workshop. Participation is voluntary and involves no credit or cost other than time commitment. Individuals who have participated in at least six workshops and the linked online UMMoodle learning activities will receive a letter of participation from CTLE indicating that they had participated and completed a mini-program on university teaching.
教與學優化中心於2017/2018學年的上學期推出了一系列為大學助教(TA)而設的工作坊，這系列的工作坊將介紹不同於教學應用上的核心技能，對於現任大學助教或正在學術機構工作的研究生及準備投身教學事業的準畢業生都有很大的幫助。由教與學優化中心舉辦、澳大教學人員主講的大學教學工作坊的每一節課為75分鐘，歡迎有興趣的澳大研究生及教學人員參加。參與工作坊屬自願性質而且費用全免。出席六節或以上工作坊並完成UMMOODLE在線學習課程作業的參加者將獲得由教與學優化中心發出的參與證明。
Register by clicking on the link below.
Register now

Different Types of Engaging Questions Faculty Create for Students to Answer on Mobile Phones
2017-10-13 13:00 - 14:00 | E3-G034
Poll Everywhere is a web-based tool that allows students to respond to multiple-choice and open-ended questions on mobile phones in class. Benefits of in-class questions with Poll Everywhere are:

Feedback is given to all students in a class immediately
Students are actively engaged

At this workshop, faculty and teaching assistant can find out how in-class quiz questions are used to engage large classes of students. In this workshop, participants will:

Discuss advantages of different types of polls
Adjust visual settings and poll settings, e.g. change instructions to Chinese
Create a QR code for your polls

Event Information:
1:00-2:00pm
Friday, 13 October 2017
Speaker:
Dr. Chris Fulton, CTLE
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Get more information on how to get started with a UM Poll Everywhere account.

How Faculty Can Create a Mid-Term Feedback Survey in UMMoodle to Increase SET scores
2017-10-12 16:00 - 16:30 | Webinar, Macau
Faculty and students can benefit from mid-term feedback surveys in several ways: feedback from students allows faculty to respond to the particular needs of the students, and may also result in faculty receiving higher end-of-semester evaluations.
This webinar will show faculty and teaching assistants how to set up a mid-term feedback survey in UMMoodle.
Time: 4:00-4:30 (English)
Date: Thursday, 12 October 2017
Speaker: Dr. Chris Fulton, CTLE
Register by clicking on the button below, then provide your name and email address, etc.
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Video and more information
Select research on student feedback and teaching evaluations:
Benton, SL, & Cashin, WE. (2014). Student ratings of instruction in college and university courses. In M. B. Paulsen (Ed). Higher education: Handbook of Theory and Research (pp 279-326). Springer.
Harvey, L. (2003). Student feedback. Quality in higher education, 9(1), 3-20.
Hunt, N. (2012). Does mid-semester feedback make a difference? Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(2), 13-20.
Hattie, J. (2012). Know Thy Impact. Educational Leadership 70(1), 18-23.
Warner, J., & Simmons, A. (2015). Giving voice to students: a preliminary analysis of informal mid-term evaluations & procedural justice. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 19(1), 71-79.

CTLE Workshop 2017: On the Use of e-Portfolio to Document Learning
2017-09-27 12:15 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Details of the workshop

Date
27 September 2017 (Wednesday)

Time
12:15 – 13:30

Venue
E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)

Speaker
Prof. Emily OON (FED)

*Refreshments will be provided
Abstract:
As a CTLE advisor for the past two years, I consistently received feedback from instructors from across faculties and centres that UM students are passive in learning. Particularly, they are reluctant to participate in discussions and shy away from asking questions in class. Considering that UM is implementing learner-centered teaching with English as a medium of instruction, I speculate students’ competency to verbalize their thoughts as one of the reasons. On the other hand, one needs no reminder that this problem needs to be addressed in order to improve teaching and learning. How do we encourage students to participate more actively in our classrooms if language is one barrier stopping them from active participation in learning? One way to help them is to use e-portfolio, supported by UM, as a mechanics followed by which they present in the e-portfolio for discussion. I find that using e-portfolio to document learning helps. e-Portfolio is a personalized space for students to document their learning over time and for teachers to trace learning progress and learning outcomes. To me, it is a promising tool to meet the needs of emerging pedagogy to learning. In this session, an example of how e-portfolio is being used in UM classrooms will be presented.
About the Speaker:

Prof. Emily OON

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CTLE Workshop 2017: Engaging Our Students - A Macao Context
2017-09-13 12:15 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Details of the workshop

Date
13 September 2017 (Wednesday)

Time
12:15 – 13:30

Venue
E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)

Speaker
Prof. Katrine WONG (Director of CTLE)

Guest Speaker
Alice LEE (CTLE Academic Staff Advisor

*Refreshments will be provided
Abstract:
Have you caught yourself saying ‘this has always worked; why not this year?’ Or, ‘this year’s cohort is so different from last year’s’? One can run the same course year after year, at the same institution, and still one finds it necessary to adjust classroom management, methods of assessment or even course content. Clearly, students vary from country to country, from culture to culture, from year to year. This workshop aims to zoom in on a local, nonetheless intricate, teaching and learning context, and explore how we can better manage our preparation and class time through asking three crucial questions: Who are our students? How do our students learn? What can we do to engage and empower our students?
About the Speaker:
Prof. Katrine WONG joined the University of Macau in 2008 and holds an associate professorship. She is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy. She teaches in the areas of English Renaissance Drama and Autobiography.
Wong is also a classically trained pianist and operatic soprano, holding professional titles of FTCL (Solo Piano) and LTCL (Voice Performance) from Trinity College London. She is Assistant Conductor of Coro Perosi of Macao.
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Better discussions start with Poll Everywhere questions
2017-09-07 16:00 - 17:00 | E3-G034
Poll Everywhere is a web-based tool that allows students to respond to multiple-choice and open-ended questions on mobile phones in class. Benefits of in-class questions with Poll Everywhere are:

Faculty can quickly create quizzes and surveys for use with large classes
Feedback is given to all students in a class immediately
Students are actively engaged

At this workshop, faculty and teaching assistant can find out how in-class quiz questions are used to engage large classes of students. In this workshop, participants will:

Create questions for your next class using Poll Everywhere software
Practice displaying polls in a classroom
Discuss when and how to use different types of polls in class

Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to practice creating and displaying polls.
Register by clicking on the event listing below and provide your name and email address.*

*Note that for security purposes this registration form can be completed only on campus or using UM SSLVPN. Also, be aware that this booking service is hosted on Google Calendar, which is not hosted on a server in Macau. Please note that the names and email address provided will be passed to the service provider in order to create the request.

Get more information on how to get started with a UM Poll Everywhere account.

CTLE Full-Day Faculty Development Workshop Fall 2017
2017-08-30 09:30 - 16:45 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
General Education: Challenges and Opportunities

FULL DAY SCHEDULE

Time

Topic

Speaker

9:30
Opening Remark
Prof. Lionel NI (VRAA)

9:45
Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses that Improve Student Authority
Prof. Paul HANSTEDT

11:15
Refreshment

11:30
Thinking BIG: Across the Major and Into GE
Dr Julie CHIU and Dr Wing Hung WONG

12:45
Major Challenges and Opportunities of GE
Prof. Matthew LIU & GE Coordinators

13:45
Lunch

14:15
What Faculty Should Know to Transition from Moodle 2.9 to 3.2 and Activities for the First Week of Classes
Mr. Chris FULTON & CTLE Advisors

15:30
Teacher’s Questioning Strategies & Techniques
Prof. Hong Gang JIN

16:30
Concluding Remarks
Prof. Katrine WONG (DCTLE)

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Webinar: Activities on the Moodle Mobile app faculty should know
2017-08-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Webinar, Macau
Webinar: Activities on the Moodle Mobile app you should know
Join this webinar to learn how instructors and students can use the Moodle Mobile app. The webinar will focus on types of learning activities that work on smartphones. We will also look at how to set up the app with UMMoodle.
在第一次主題為“在Moodle Mobile App上你應該知道的活動”的在線會議中，我們會重點了解，可以在智能手機 App上進行的不同類型的學習活動。同時，我們也會指導如何把UMMoodle和 App 連接起來。

Announcements to keep students on track
Chat about course content, assignments, or to respond to quick discussion questions
Choice questions to answer and discuss
Forums for peer feedback
Moodle Mobile makes it easy to find course files and quizzes, wikis, assignments on a mobile

Speakers:
Chris Fulton, CTLE
ICTO colleagues
Times:
4:00-4:30 (English)
4:30-5:00 (Chinese)
Date: 17 August
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