OVERVIEW

The conception of Learning Innovation and this area of TLC’s work aligns with supporting and achieving the broad statement from the Strategic Plan 2019 – 2025, “To develop smart teaching and learning and other cutting-edge pedagogies with the help of new digital education technologies to support teaching and learning endeavours to meet students’ new learning needs in a rapidly changing world where new knowledge and skills continue to appear and workplace requirements are constantly changing”.

(refer to https://www.ln.edu.hk/strategic-plan/ )

Do you know you have dedicated support staff from TLC?

You have a dedicated TLC staff member who is your primary point of contact for any support. These are;

• Faculty of Arts - jasonmak@LN.edu.hk
• Faculty of Business – alicechui@ln.edu.hk
• Faculty of Social Sciences - jasonmak@LN.edu.hk
• Others* - tlc@ln.edu.hk

*Others including for example – OSA, ITSC, Registry, Core Curriculum, and General Education Office, Science Unit, Office of Service-Learning, School of Graduate Studies, Global Liberal Arts Programme

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TLC supports staff across a wide range of activities as aligned to the areas of Strategic Priority. These are;

For Staff
Generative AI Workshop	Generative AI Tools	Real-Time Online Learning and Teaching Resources	Hybrid Teaching Resources
Zoom Training	Learning Innovation Community	Mahara Training	Moodle Training for Staff
Panopto Training	Student Early Alert System	Advancing Blended Learning@LU	Blended Learning Case Studies

For Students

Generative AI Workshop	Generative AI Tools	ITFP	Avoiding Plagiarism
Panopto Training	Moodle Training	Mahara Training	Zoom Training
Online Blended Learning Course for students	Blended Learning Case Studies

PRINCIPLES

This approach to Learning Innovation reflects the following principles;

• Learning Innovation is driven by pedagogy rather than technology
• Innovation is defined as “adding new value”. It doesn’t have to be complex or expensive. Even a small change is innovative if it adds new value to an existing process.
• Innovative pedagogy is a practice that incorporates incremental changes to the everyday teaching that incorporate technology as fit for purpose.
• Imposing no prescriptive or a one-size-fits all approach to how learning and teaching is taught in the University, but more to consider the aims of this transformative approach as multi-faceted in the ongoing and evolving context of liberal arts education.
• The goal of innovative learning is to foster real transformation of learning and teaching leading to the enhancement of the students’ learning experience incorporating technology as fit for purpose.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this Learning Innovation framework are to;

• Empower both teachers and students to make informed decisions that affect and help their continued practice and approaches to learning and teaching with technology
• Assist teachers and students to find new ways to look at what is currently happening, so they can plan and develop for the future, to align with industry and 21^st Century skills
• Develop more opportunities for cultivating the creative process that allows for learning through inquiry; experiences and more importantly, flexibility for growth and innovative pedagogy using technology