CTL Weekly - 2 May 2022

I.    CTL Activities

1. Contest | 2022 UIC Teaching Contest for Young Teachers 校级青年教师教学大赛 (see attachment 1)
Theme: Deliver a Quality Course
Eligibility: Teaching staff under age 40 (born after Aug. 31^st, 1981) and has at least one year of teaching experience at UIC.
Awards:
1) Award certificates and cash prizes will be provided for Grand Prize, First Prize, Second Prize, Third Prize, and Honorable Mention.
2) The top participants will be recommended to participate in the contest at the provincial level. The result will be announced around mid-May 2022.
3)Guidelines: click Here (Submission Deadline: May 9)

2. Academic Writing Workshop | Case Study: Practical Strategy for Academic Writing (see attachment 2)
Date & Time: 12:00 noon -1:00 pm, May 5 (Thu)
Speaker: Dr. Felicia Fan (Assistant Professor of Cinema and Television, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), reviewer for Journal of Marketing Communications, Young Consumers and Media Asia)
Language: English
Venue: T6-105
Eligibility: Teaching/Teaching support staff
Registration: https://mis.uic.edu.cn/survey/login.jsp
(DDL: 10:00 pm, 4 May, Light lunch will be provided.)
Abstract: This workshop aims to share some hands-on experience about how to draft journal articles in a reader-friendly way. Questions about how to start your academic writing, how to draft journal articles in a structured way, and how to find a good editor to proofread your research papers will be addressed in this case study workshop. Meanwhile, some useful applications will be recommended to facilitate your academic writing.

3. Advance HE April Newsletter: click Here

4. Event | Lunchtime Concert Series
Date & Time: 12 noon-1 pm, May 6 (Fri)
Venue: Rehearsal Studio (CC129)
Jointly organized by: DCC-MUS & CTL& SAO (No tickets are required)

II. HKBU Activities

1. Workshop | Artistic, Reflective, & Service-Learning
Date & Time: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm, May 6 (Fri)
Facilitator(s): Dr Joshua NAN (SOWK), 2 Students (TBC)
Language: English
Venue: via ZOOM
Registration: Click Here

2. Workshop | Sharing on Research Supervision for RPg Students – Good Practices
Date & Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, May 24 (Tue)
Facilitator(s): Professor Hubiao CHEN(CMTR), Dr Qilei CHEN(PhD graduate),
Dr Jason S POLLEY(ENG),Professor Ken YUNG(GS/BIOL)
Language: English
Venue: via ZOOM
Registration: Click Here

III. Other T&L Resources

1. Conference | The Fourth Annual Academic Conference on Teaching of Chinese Universities中国高校第四届教学学术年会
Scheme: Teaching Scholarship: from Learning Effectiveness to Student Achievement
Organizer: Shanghai Jiaotong University
Date: June 30 – July 2, 2022
Language: Mandarin
Venue: Live Broadcast
Paper submission：click Here (DDL: May 5, 2022)
Registration: click Here (DDL: June 25, 2022)
Website: click Here

2. Seminar | Experiential Learning Seminar Series
Topic:
Seminar 1: How to embed experiential learning as a pedagogical practice and a form of assessment
Seminar 2: Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning
Seminar 3: Reflecting on Experiential Learning: Employability Development in Virtual Spaces
Seminar 4: Future of learning and SDGs: From disciplinary to experiential learning
Organizer: HKU Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Date: May 12 – June 2, 2022
Language: English
Venue: via Zoom
Registration: Click Here
More info: click Here

3. Seminar | Using Reflections to Gauge the Effectiveness of Student Learning (see attachment 3)
Organizer: HK PolyU Education Development Centre (EDC)
Date: 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm; May 5, 2022
Facilitator(s):Dr. Cindy Ngai(CBS); Dr. Kim Hung Lam (ABCT); Dr. Eric Tsui (EDC)
Language: English
Venue: via Zoom
Registration: click Here