Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement | University of Macau

CTLE Teaching Assistant Online Training 2025
2025-09-02 07:00 - 2025-09-24 16:00 (Asia/Macau) | Online
CTLE Teaching Assistant Online Training 2025
This training programme is offered once a year to train new graduate students to be more effective teaching assistants at UM. The training is held online and introduces graduate students to core skills of teaching undergraduate students. Topics covered in the training include preparation, teacher-student interactions, lecturing, facilitating in-class discussions, learning strategies in EMI context and e-learning tools. To complete the training, students will watch 6 sessions of video lectures, complete related online activities on UMMoodle and attend an online salon.
Video lectures via Moodle: two topics each week, released every Tuesday (Sep 2, 9, 16)
Online TA Salon on 24 September 2025, 10:30AM – 12:30PM (Online via Zoom)
This training is open to all UM postgraduate students, especially for those who are hired as Teaching Assistants and are required to complete the training before providing any ancillary teaching at the University of Macau.

CTLE Half-day Professional Development Event: Evidence-based Teaching and Learning
2025-09-03 09:30 - 12:30 | E3-1032
Highlight & RecapJoin us for a dynamic faculty development programme featuring Dr. Greg Siering on transparent assignment design using the TILT framework, a panel on effective strategies for assignment, and a hands-on technology session on Moodle tools. Discover practical approaches to support diverse learners and improve assessment effectiveness.
PROGRAMME RUNDOWN
9:30AM – 9:35AM Opening remarks by Prof. Michael King-man Hui (Vice Rector, Academic Affairs)
9:35AM – 11:05AM Plenary Workshop by Dr. Greg Siering (Indiana University Bloomington) *Speaker will present online via Zoom
11:05AM – 11:10AM Break
11:10AM – 11:50AM Faculty Mini-Presentations by Prof. Nick Groom (FAH), Prof. Morris Liu (FBA), Prof. Maggie Hoi (ICMS), moderated by Prof. Katrine Wong (DCTLE)
11:50AM – 12:20PM Technology Session by Dr. Chris Fulton (CTLE)
PLENARY WORKSHOP
Promoting Student Success through Transparent Assignment Design
We spend significant time creating our assignments, so how can we ensure they are designed in ways that set students up for success? One model of assignment design—the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework—is easy to implement and has a strong body of research that demonstrates its benefits for student learning, especially among less academically prepared students. This workshop will introduce the TILT framework, provide you with an opportunity to “TILT” an assignment, and explore the use of Generative AI to help you create transparent assignments. Participants will be asked to bring three copies of an assignment for workshopping.
FACULY MINI-PRESENTATIONS
Effective Strategies in Supporting Diverse Learners
Faculty members will share strategies that have helped support student success throughout an assignment, especially for students with different levels of preparation or learning styles, and found effective. They will also share an example of an assignment designed that successfully connected course content to real-world issues or student interests and its impact on student engagement or student success.
TECHNOLOGY SESSION
Getting Started with Technology-Enhanced Assessment (TEA) and Tracking Student Performance (TSP) in Moodle
The activity completion tools in Moodle can provide students with progress indicators and feedback loops to guide their learning, and offer instructors insights into student learning.
Keynote Speaker

Greg Siering is the founding director of the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Indiana University Bloomington. He has a Ph.D. in English (Composition and Rhetoric), and his teaching background is in first-year writing courses. He is currently teaching in IU’s new first year seminar program, where he emphasizes skills needed for successful transition to university. His work currently focuses on supporting the effective use of teaching assistants in large lecture courses and their associated recitation/discussion sections, and on helping instructors support first-year students in their transition to university. Outside of work, he enjoys baking and playing games with his grandchildren, and he is starting to dabble in amateur astronomy.

CTLE E-Learning Conversation: A Closer Look at Moodle LMS 4.5 and GetMarked.ai
2025-09-10 10:00 - 11:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Facilitator:

Dr. Chris Fulton, E-Learning Technology Officer, Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement

Join us in exploring key features in our upgraded UMMoodle 4.5 platform and learning about GetMarked.ai, an assessment creation tool currently being piloted on campus.
This session will highlight how Moodle’s new functionalities can support your teaching activities and demonstrate how GetMarked.ai can streamline quiz development. Faculty and teaching assistants are invited to share teaching strategies and learn from colleagues about practical applications of these tools.
Whether you’re interested in enhancing your current courses or simply curious about these technologies, this conversation offers an opportunity to discover how these resources might benefit your teaching practice.

Audience: UM Faculty, Part-time Faculty, Post-docs
UM Participants will get 1 PD hour for participating in this event.

CTLE Faculty Forum: A Closer Look at Assessment Design in Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM
2025-09-17 12:00 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
CTLE Faculty Forum: A Closer Look at Assessment Design in Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM
Speakers:

Prof. Elizabeth Tien Ping Hsiang (FED)
Prof. Francisco Leandro (FSS)
Prof. Michiel Spape (ICI)
Moderators: Dr. Chris Fulton (CTLE)

This forum provides faculty members with an informal space to exchange practical insights on assessment redesign strategies that strengthen student learning while addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by AI-enhanced educational environments. The forum focuses on assessments from courses in the humanities, social sciences and STEM. Participants will have opportunities to discuss strategies that prioritize process-oriented assessments that emphasize authentic tasks and active engagement, including innovative approaches that constructively integrate generative AI tools into assignments and evaluation methods.

CTLE Professional Development Workshop: Resilient Assessment in the Age of Generative AI: Designing for integrity, Process and Cognitive Growth
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:30 | E3-1032
Introduction:
Generative AI is reshaping how students approach learning and assessment, raising challenges for both integrity and educational value. This interactive workshop explores strategies for redesigning assessment tasks so that resilience is built structurally, and compliance draws on awareness of the cognitive costs of outsourcing, rather than relying on rules or prohibitions. We will examine opportunities and risks around simultaneously addressing assessment validity, security and accessibility, share examples of authentic and AI-inclusive approaches, and reimagine existing tasks to focus on process, cognitive growth, and meaningful student engagement. Through discussion, case examples, and hands-on redesign activities, participants will reimagine their own assessment practices and develop principles for tasks that are authentic, equitable, and future-focused.

Short bio – Raoul Mulder
Raoul Mulder holds dual appointments at the University of Melbourne as Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (Faculty of Education) and as Professor of Ecology in the School of BioSciences (Faculty of Science). Raoul’s research has a strong focus on evidence-based pedagogy and the student experience in higher education. He has published and spoken widely on educational topics ranging from collaborative learning and student peer review to learning design and learning analytics, learning misconceptions, student wellbeing, and GenerativeAI and assessment. LinkedIn Google Scholar
