Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement | University of Macau

Fostering Learning with Kahoot: an Alternative Student Response System to Poll Everywhere
2018-11-22 16:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau)
Fostering Learning with Kahoot, an Alternative Student Response System to Poll Everywhere
Kahoot is a student response system that is free to use by instructors and appears to be an easy-to-use tool for creating in-class polls, quizzes and surveys. In this training workshop, learn how to make multiple-choice quizzes and surveys that provide opportunities for students to compete with each other for points. Kahoot is an audience response system that is widely popular and a suitable replacement for Poll Everywhere.
After this workshop you will be able to:

Create quizzes or attendance questions to conduct in-class
Set up surveys for students to complete prior to class
Use a Kahoot game to test or engage learners
Import results into a gradebook in UMMoodle

Participants are advised to bring a laptop on which to create quizzes and surveys.
Thursday, 22 Nov. 4:00–5:00 PM
Room: E3-G034
Facilitators: Dr. Chris Fulton
Resources

The wear out effect of a game-based student response system (2014). A. Wang.
Classroom Response Systems (2018). D. Bruff.
Clickers in the Classroom: Using Classroom Response Systems to Increase Student Learning (2015). D. Goldstein and P. Wallis.

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Preventing Cheating and Promoting Academic Integrity to Students
2018-11-09 13:00 - 14:15 | E3-G034
Preventing Cheating and Promoting Academic Integrity to Students
Faculty and teaching assistants are invited to join an informal lunchtime conversation on preventing academic misconduct and promoting academic integrity with technology. One aim of this lunchtime conversation is for faculty to share and discuss their experiences, challenges, and solutions to teaching challenges.
Discussion topics include:

What are types of assignments that discourage intentional acts of dishonesty?
What information regarding academic honesty should students know and understand?
Which educational technologies can help promote academic integrity?

Sharing by:

Prof. Victoria Lei (FAH)
Prof. Alexandr Svetlicinii (FLL)

Discussion moderator:

Dr. Christopher Fulton (CTLE)
Suggestions for discussion questions can be sent by email to chrisfulton@umac.mo.

Date: Friday, 9 November 2018
Time: 1:00 – 2:15 pm
Room: E3-G034
Light refreshments will be provided to registered participants.
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Resources:

Assessments Techniques That Facilitate Learning and Reduce Cheating, UM Teaching and Learning Blog, https://ctle.um.edu.mo/portfolio-items/week-4/
Academic Honesty Quiz, (2018). https://ctle.um.edu.mo/portfolio-items/academic-honesty-quiz/
Bretag, T. (2016). Handbook of Academic Integrity, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-098-8
Lange, J. (2013). Cheating Lessons, https://books.google.com/books?id=demwAAAAQBAJ
Tobin, T. (2014). Academic Integrity: Defining Originality across Campus, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/academic-integrity-defining-originality-across-campus/
Preventing Plagiarism, (2108). https://ctlt.calpoly.edu/preventing-plagiarism

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

2018 CTLE Autumn Workshop Series: Project-Orientated Teaching & Learning
2018-10-24 12:15 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Project-Orientated Teaching & Learning
Date: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Time: 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)
Speaker: Dr. Hui Pan (IAPME)
*Refreshments will be provided for registered participants.
**Participation in this workshop will be documented as equivalent of 1 hour of Professional Development for Teaching and Learning (applicable to UM Academic Staff only).**
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Abstract:
In this workshop, the speaker will share with colleagues what he has learnt from his daughter and how such lessons can be applied into improving his teaching. In particular, the workshop will focus on project-oriented teaching that helps stimulate students’ motivation for critical thinking. There will be opportunities for discussion and interaction with the speaker on project-based teaching and learning.

Bio:

Dr. Hui Pan is an associate professor in the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering at the University of Macau. He got his PhD degree in Physics from the National University of Singapore in 2006. From 2008 to 2013, he had worked at National University of Singapore as Research Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) as Postdoctoral Fellow, and Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore) as Senior Scientist. He joined the University of Macau as an assistant professor in 2013. In his research, a combined computational and experimental method is used to design and fabricate novel nanomaterials for applications in energy conversion and storage (such as solar cells, water-splitting, Li batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage, and fuel cells), electromagnetic interference (EMI), electronic devices, spintronics, and quantum devices.

Faculty Lunchtime Conversation
2018-10-12 13:00 - 14:15
Faculty Lunchtime Conversation: In-class Group Activities for a Flipped Classroom
Faculty and teaching assistants are invited to join an informal lunchtime conversation on aspects of in-class group activities for a flipped classroom, with or without technology. One aim of this lunchtime conversation is for faculty to share and discuss their experiences, challenges, and solutions to teaching challenges.
Discussion topics include:

What is an in-class activity that you have tried, or would like to try, that makes use of group activities or technology?
What are some challenges and solutions to preparing in-class group activities?

Sharing by Prof. Katrine Wong (DCTLE/FAH)

Peer Feedback on Presentations with Group Chat

Date: Friday, 12 October 2018
Time: 1:00 – 2:15 pm
Room: E3-G034
Light refreshments will be provided.
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Resources:
• Five Things to Consider in Making Student Group Work More Effective and Fun
• Designing In-class Activities for Flipped Classroom: A Step-by-step Guide, HKU Teaching and Learning Blog
• Implementing Group Work in the Classroom
• Flipped Learning at HKU (LLAW 1005), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4aPQMETi08
• Effective Group Work in the College Classroom, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_zW4wUl5w
• Flipped Classroom @ HKU, https://flippedclassroom.hku.hk
• Flipped Classrooms: a Review of Key Ideas and Recommendations for Practice, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-015-9356-9

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

2018 CTLE Autumn Workshop Series
2018-10-10 12:15 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Student-Centred Teaching & Learning
Date: Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Time: 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)
Speaker: Professor Xinjie YU (Tsinghua University)
*Refreshments will be provided for registered participants.
**Participation in this workshop will be documented as equivalent of 1 hour of Professional Development for Teaching and Learning (applicable to UM Academic Staff only).**
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Abstract:
The talk will start from current teaching situation of most classrooms in universities. Two trends, i.e. mobile internet and widespread of high quality learning materials, will prompt responsible instructors to shift from teacher-centered educational notion, which has the property of trying to provide clearer expositive teaching, to student-centered one, which is characterized by intensify perception of students’ understanding. The tools to help the shift will then be discussed. The attractive Massive Open Online Course Principles of Electric Circuits has more than 200k students from 160 countries and regions; and the toolkit Rain Classroom own more than 5M users now. With these tools and appropriate instructional design, flipped classroom with large number of students can be realized with reasonable time costs of instructors and students. The key factors and feedback will be elaborated.

Bio:

Professor Xinjie Yu joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University since 2001. He holds Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees of Electrical Engineering in 1996 and 2001 respectively from Tsinghua University. His research interests include pulse power supplies, intelligent optimization, wireless energy transfer. He has been the PI of more than 10 academic projects, the author of 3 books on evolutionary algorithms, electric circuits, and pedagogy and more than 30 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and serves as the Editorial Board Member of 3 international journals.

CTLE Teaching Assistant Training Workshop 7 大學助教工作坊
2018-09-26 17:00 - 18:15
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 Workshop 6 大學助教工作坊
2018-09-21 15:00 - 16:15 | E31 Theater

Make use of UMMoodle for Mid-Term Feedback and to Support Effective Group Work
2018-09-20 16:00 - 17:15
Make use of UMMoodle for Mid-Term Feedback and to Support Group Work
Find out how colleagues use student feedback to align instructional activities with students’ expectations and how to form effective groups. Group work can be more effective when the membership of each group are carefully selected and not self-selected.
Bring a laptop as there will be time dedicated to setting up questionnaires and the new team building activity in UMMoodle.
After this workshop you will be able to:

Set up a mid-term student feedback survey
Set up group activities in UMMoodle
Use a Team Builder activity in UMMoodle to create effective groups

Thursday, 20 Sept. 4:00–5:15 pm
Facilitators:

Dr. Alice Lee (FAH/ELC)
Dr. Chris Fulton (CTLE)

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

CTLE Teaching Assistant Training Workshop 5 大學助教工作坊
2018-09-19 11:00 - 15:15

CTLE Teaching Assistant Training Workshop 4 大學助教工作坊
2018-09-14 15:00 - 16:15

CTLE Teaching Assistant Training Workshop 3 大學助教工作坊
2018-09-12 17:00 - 18:15

2018 CTLE Autumn Workshop Series
2018-09-12 12:15 - 13:30 | E3-1032, BOC Centennial Building, Taipa, Macau
Transition Pedagogy: Making a Success of First Year
Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Time: 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: E3-1032 (Interactive Learning Space 1)
Speaker: Professor Sally Kift
*Refreshments will be provided for registered participants.
**Participation in this workshop will be documented as equivalent of four hours of Professional Development for Teaching and Learning (applicable to UM Academic Staff only).**
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Abstract:
This presentation Prof. Kift will explore how institutions might better support first year learning, success and retention. It will argue that intentional first year curriculum design sits at the heart of a positive FYE and enables whole-of-student, whole-of-institution approaches. In particular, it will suggest that, through the adoption of an integrative Transition Pedagogy (Kift, 2009; Kift, Nelson & Clark, 2010; Kift, 2015), first year success for all students, whatever their entering background or prior experience of learning, can be assured.

Bio:
Professor Sally Kift is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL) and elected President, Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows (ALTF). From 2012-2017, she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University. Prior to JCU, Prof. Kift was a Professor of Law at Queensland University of Technology, where she also served as Law Faculty Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning (2001-2006) and QUT’s foundational Director, First Year Experience (2006-2007). Prof. Kift is a national Teaching Award winner (2003) and national Program Award winner (2007). She was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) in 2006 to investigate the first year experience and is a Discipline Scholar in Law. In 2017, Prof. Kift was awarded an Australian Award for University Teaching Career Achievement Award for her contribution to Australian higher education.

Audience Response Systems, Rain Classroom (雨课堂) and Kahoots!
2018-09-06 16:00 - 17:15
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

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

REGISTER ONLINE
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。
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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
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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.
