Workshop Description: Increase Learning in Context and Maximise Learner Flow with Stackle’s rich inline Learner Journals, Scaffolded Assessments, Diagnostic Quizzes and much more… the choice is yours. This session will provide an overview of one of the latest advances in Learning Management System integrations to accommodate personalized learning and learning analytics.

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Innovations in Personalized Learning by Blackboard

Time/Venue: 24 November 2021 (Wednesday) at 11:00am-12:00pm, WYL107, 1/F., Dorothy Y. L. Wong Building

Facilitator(s): Ms Cathy Zheng, Assistant Sales Director, BEENET

Registration link: https://www.ln.edu.hk/sys/regbuilder/registration/bb_241121

Workshop Description: Blackboard Ultra is a popular Learning Management System that allows instructors to create, deliver, and manage web-based components for courses. It can be used to add online elements to a traditional course, or to develop completely online courses with few or no face-to-face meeting. This seminar will provide an overview of Blackboard Ultra and how personalized learning can be achieved.

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Learning Management System Pilot – Test drive CANVAS / Blackboard

Time/Venue: 24 November 2021 (Wednesday) at 12:00pm-2:00pm, Skylight Area

Facilitator(s): Mr James Chong, Manager & Strategic Lead, Learning Innovation, Teaching and Learning Centre

Registration: No need to register, just visit the display booth, staff and students who test drive MAY win a prize.

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Sharing Session on Teaching Development Grants (TDG) Projects

Time/Venue: 24 November 2021 (Wednesday) at 2:00pm-3:30pm, LCH UG08, UG level, Lau Chung Him Building

Registration link: https://www.ln.edu.hk/sys/regbuilder/registration/tdg_241121

Workshop Description: TLC regularly organises sharing sessions for completed TDG projects to disseminate project findings and outputs to our university community. In this sharing session, a total of 4 completed projects will share their results and outcomes. Details are as follows:

1. Study of “Written Chinese Proficiency Test for the Hong Kong Region” to Enhance Students’ Chinese Learning Competence – Dr Ma Maopeng (Chinese Language Education and Assessment Centre)
2. Faculty-Student Partnerships in the Classroom – Prof. Preet HIRADHAR (Department of English)
3. The Risk and Insurance Management (RIM) Co-learning Platform (Phase 1)” – Prof. Martin YICK (Department of Finance and Insurance)
4. Perceptions of Liberal Arts Integration into the Business Programme of Lingnan University – Prof. Paul WHITLA (Department of Marketing and International Business)

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Data Warehouse/Learning Analytics Workshop

Time/Venue:  24 November 2021 (Wednesday) at 3:00pm-4:00pm, LCH104, 1/F., Lau Chung Him Building

Facilitator(s): Dr Rain Li, Senior Analyst, Learning Analytics, Teaching and Learning Centre

Registration link: https://www.ln.edu.hk/sys/regbuilder/registration/LA_241121

Workshop Description:  Nowadays, the e-learning platforms used in most universities do not cover all teaching aspects since they do not usually provide teachers with tools which allow them to thoroughly track and assess all the activities performed by students, nor to evaluate the structure of the course content and its effectiveness in the learning process, especially related to monitoring and analysis of platform use, including usage statistics, level of adoption at an institution, course activity, among others. 

To answer some of these questions, and help educators identify problems and solutions more effectively and efficiently, we are developing a Teaching & Learning Data Warehouse Analytics System (TLDWS), by identifying related indicators and storing, sorting, and synthesizing summative, diagnostic, and formative assessment results. Furthermore, TLDWS will generate statistics, analytic models and uncovered meaningful patterns from data.

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Day 5 (26 November 2021, Friday)
 

Panel Discussion on Micro-credentials “Exploring the Place for Micro-credentials in Hong Kong”

Time/Venue: 26 November 2021 (Friday) at 11:00am–12:00pm, via Zoom

Panel Members: 
(1) Prof. Michael Sankey, Director Learning Futures & Lead Education Architect, Charles Darwin University, Australia; 
(2) Prof. Mark Brown, Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University, Ireland; 
(3) Mr Ivan Wong, Public Sector Head (HK & Macau), LinkedIn, Singapore; and 
(4) Prof Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl is Ireland’s first Director of Micro-Credential Strategy and Innovation based in Dublin City University. Prof. Nic Giolla Mhichíl is co-founder of DCU’s Micro-Credential observatory which curates global micro-credential research and developments. In 2020, she co-authored a Global Insights Report on micro-credentials in in 2020 and in collaboration with DCU’s Irish Institute of Digital Business and Skillnet Networks she was lead author on a publication to guide industry in its engagement with Micro-Credentials, A Micro-Credential Roadmap: Currency, Cohesion and Collaboration, as part of this work she published Ireland’s first National Micro-Credential Survey of Irish Employers and Employees in 2021. She leads out on Micro-Credentials on behalf of DCU in the ECIU University Alliance and the Irish National MicroCreds initiative, funded by the Irish Government under the Human Capital Initiative. She is currently co-editing a special edition on micro-credentials in her role as co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. 
 

Moderator: Prof. Peter Duffy, Director of Teaching and Learning Centre, Lingnan University

Registration link: https://www.ln.edu.hk/sys/regbuilder/registration/credentials_261121

Workshop Description: The idea of Micro-Credentialing relates to offering flexible and extended learning pathways for academic staff and students and creates an ongoing learning partnership with the institution both before and during UG study, as well as across PG study and beyond. 

“In skills, education and training policy around the world, micro-credentials are increasingly being positioned as a solution to a wide range of economic, labour market, and social challenges. Broadly defined, they are stackable, industry-aligned short units of learning designed to help individuals form specific skills and signal those skills to employers”.
REFERENCE OCED - https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/micro-credentials-the-new-frontier-of-adult-education-and-training 

The growing use of micro-credentials is an outcome of the changing nature of the labour market and of growing uncertainty as to what work will look like in the future. Fewer ‘jobs for life’ now exist, and employers demand flexibility and quick reactions to changing circumstances. Micro-credentials are particularly useful as a response to the changing education and economic realities due to Covid-19. In this situation, as they allow for tailored, quick and accessible skills (re)development, this panel will explore the place for micro-credentialling in Hong Kong from various perspectives.

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Learning Managaement System Pilot – Test drive CANVAS / Blackboard

Time/Venue: 26 November 2021 (Friday) at 12:00pm-2:00pm, Skylight Area

Facilitator(s): Mr James Chong, Manager & Strategic Lead, Learning Innovation, Teaching and Learning Centre

Registration: No need to register, just visit the display booth, staff and students who test drive MAY win a prize.