IDU News, Vol. 3, No. 1

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[evdate 1998-04-15] IDU NEWS VOL.3 NO.1 April 1998 INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CENTRE THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TA Orientation and Evaluation 85 new TAs from different departments participated in the 98 Spring Orientation and Workshops held during the first two weeks of the semester. On average, each TA has attended 2.4 workshops out 'of the 6 titles. The Presentation of Certificate of Achievement to all TAs who took part in the program is scheduled to take place on April 2, 1998. Thanks to the hard work of all TA Coordinators (who are experienced TAs having designated role to support their peers in work in the department) and their supervisors-PG Coordinators, for the first time all departments are working on the evaluation of their TA , performance and some are initiating awards to their best TAs.

What's new in IDU? Staff Secondary Scheme Teaching Development Resources from IDU Visits to ETC More than 50 new members on campus visited ETC in two organized trips in early February to learn about its services and meet it staff. On-line Evaluation Implementation-Trial Thanks to the cooperation of the School of Engineering, 11 courses from 6 departments of the School are participating in the trial-run which is taking place in March. Participating instructors will use their on-line evaluation questionnaires to collect students' feedback towards the courses and their teaching. The trail-run will provide valuable information to the adoption of on-line course-end evaluation which aims to replace the existing paper and pencil practice in future. A big welcome to two new colleagues Miss Connie Leung and Miss Winnie Lee joined the On-line Evaluation Project Team in February. Connie is the Assistant Computer Officer and Winnie, the Research Assistant. Both are staying at Rm 1027 and can be reached on ext. 6813 (Email "etconnie" and "etwlee") (Please be noted that we now have two "Winnie" and two "Connie" at IDU!) For faculty members who are interested in developing their teaching portfolio for administrative purposes, here are a list of reference/samples which might be of help. Please contact Tedmond (etted, extn, 6826) at Teaching Materials Resource Centre at Room 1028 ETC for copies. General discussion with Samples Edgerton, R., Hutchings. P. and Quinlan, K. (1991) The Teaching Portfolio: Capturing the Scholarship in Teaching, American Association for Higher Education. Seldin, P, (1991) The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/ Tenure Decisions, Anker Publishing Co., Inc. l Seldin, P. and Associates (1993) Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios, Anker Publishing Co., Inc. Anderson, E. (1993) Campus Use of the Teaching Portfolio: 25 Profiles, American Association for Higher Education. Connie and Winnie, welcome on board! About the Contents of teaching portfolios l Dr. Irene Lo (CIVL) and Dr. Albert Yu (BIOL) who have been developing their course websites with resources from the staff secondment scheme, are now carefully monitoring how their students are making use of the course websites to learn. They are working jointly with Dr. Muppala (COMP) and Mr. Ha (IDU) in an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of Web-based teaching. The effort is also part of an action learning project headed by Dr. Muppala. Dr. Muppala himself is a60 using the Web in his teaching and a participant of the scheme. Seldin, P., Annis, L. (1991-92) Teaching Excellence: The Teaching Portfolio, POD Network, 3,2. Tomkinson, B. (1997) Towards a Taxonomy of Teaching Portfolios, UMIST Staff Development Occasional Paper 2/97. Wong, S. S. (1995) Use of Teaching Pod-folio to Capture Your Scholarship in Teaching, Teaching- Learning Tips, Educational Technology Centre. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, issue: 1 O/95. Kelly, M. E. and Lo, T. (1995) What To include In Your Teaching Portfolio, Professional Development Unit, City University of Hong Kong.

Forthcoming Events About the Use and Evaluation of teaching portfolios Boyle, P. Guide to the Teaching Portfolios, Profssional Development Unit, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong. Knapper. C. A Workshop on Performance Evaluation and Teaching Portfolios- Facilitator's Manual, Queen's University. Seldin, P. (1994) Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios, Seminar presentation at the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong. Prof. Wilbert McKeachie will visit UST in June Prof. McKeachie, author of Teaching Tips (9th, edition) one of the most widely read book by faculty members of all disciplines, the forerunner in teaching-learning research and development, and the past Director of the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching will be on campus from June 11-12. He will be available for meeting and consultation of any topics in relation to learning and teaching development. Should you like to organize a meeting with Prof. McKeachie, please contact Winnie Wong at ext. 6809, or email "etwinnie". Shore, B. M. and others (1986) The CAUT Guide to The Teaching Dossier- Its Preparation and Use, Canadian Association of University Teachers, Revised Edition. Smith, R. (1995) The Development of the Teaching Dossier: Documenting teaching accomplishment. Smith, R. and Associates (1994) Report of The Tusk jointly organized by HKU and HKUST

Force on The Evaluation of Teaching and The at the University of Hong Kong Teaching Dossier- Creating a Culture of Teaching, URL: http www.hku.hk/psychodp/

Concordia University. conference local conferences: International Conference on the Application of Psychology to the Quality of beaming and Teaching Jun. 13-18 Jointly organized by HKU and HKUSTAT THE University of Hong Kong URL: http: // www.hku.hk/psychodp/conference 6th Asia Pacific Student Affairs Conference Jun. 22-25 organized by APSSA at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Prof. Chris Knapper will be on campus again in early June Prof. Knapper, an external consultant to IDU who met Heads and faculty members last May-June to discuss various teaching related issues and conducted requested workshops is coming to Hong Kong again upon the invitation of the Evaluation of the Student Experience Project (ESEP), an UGC funded teaching development project. He is being invited to come on campus to speak to our faculty members again. Technology Email: saconf@usthk.ust.hk Students Affairs International Symposium Jun. 25-28 organized by HKSSA at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Email: saconf@usthk.ust,hk 3rd IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Engineering and Education Jul. 7-9 organized by M2E2 at the City University of Hong Kong URL: http www.cttyu.edu.hk/mmee98 Conferences at a glance: April - August 1998 Date Apr. 26 - May 10 May 3-5 Place UWI Chicago, IL Title Organizer Contact 9th International Intervisitation Programme 1998 Barbados (Apr. 26 - May 3) & Barbados: Prof Earle Newton 246 417 4430

Trinidad & Tobago (May 4-May 10) Trinidad & Tobago: gift@educ.uwi.tt Assessment, Management and Institutional Effectiveness National Center for Postsecondary Teaching, Email: nctla@psuvm.psu.edu

Learning, and Assessment May 10-14 Torino, Italy The Knowledge Revolution - The Impact of Technology International Association for Continuing Address: Vincenzo Pozzola, COREP, Corso duca

on Learning Engineering Education dagli Abruzzi 24, l-10129 Torino, Italy Jun. 3-5 Sheraton Grande Media Prosperity '98 - Resistance is Futile: Potentials in UEC, University of Alberta URL: http www.atl.uaIberta,ca/rif

Hotel, Edmonton, the Technological Future Alberta, Canada Jun. 20-25 Albert-Ludwigs- Ed-Media/Ed-Telecom 98 World Conference on Ed-Media, Association for the Advancement of URL: http www.aace.org/conf/edmedia

Universitat, Educational and Hypermedia Computing in Education (AACE) Freiburg, Germany Jun. 24-27 New Brunswick, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education STLHE URL: http www,mta.ca/stlhe98

Canada 1998 Conference Jun. 25-27 Northwestern Excellence in Teaching Program, "What Do the Best Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, URL: http president.scfte.nwu.edu

University, USA Teachers Do?" Northwestern University Jul. 6-9 Dublin, Ireland . 23rd Improving University Teaching Conference University of Maryland University College URL: http www.umuc.edu/iut

Jul. 11-14 Phoenix, Arizona 41h Annual TLTR summer Institute, New visions, paths and American Association for Higher Education URL: http www.aahe,org

support (AAHE) Jul. 27-29 Penang Island, 10th International Conference on Assessing Quality in Indiana University - Purdue University Email: 106316.3622@compuserve.com

Malaysia Higher Education Indianapolis and others Aug. 2-7 Stanford New Century Scholars: Teaching, Learning, and Your Center for Teaching and Learning, URL: http www-ctl.stanford.edu/nsf

University, USA Academic Career Stanford University Aug. 3-7 Charlottetown, Canada-US. Faculty Development Summer Institute: University of Prince Edward Island Email: extension@upei.ca

Prince Edward Teaching in the Active Voice - Enhancing the Teaching Island, Canada Experience Sept. 7-9 University of 6th International Improving Student Learning Symposium Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning URL: http www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/

Brighton, England Development, Oxford Brookes University This is only a partial list of conferences related to higher education. Please check the IDU News on-line version for a full list of more than 70 conference notices.

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