CTL Announcements-10 May 2021

Dear Colleagues and Students,

Please see the following announcements.

I. CTL Website

We are delighted to officially announce the launch of CTL’s brand new website! The website is available at https://ctl.uic.edu.cn/ Our goal with this new website is to provide our colleagues and students with teaching and learning events and resources. Your comments and suggestions for the website development are highly appreciated.

II. Recording of CTL T&L Activity

      We are pleased to share the meeting recording for our feature presentation.

      Topic: ‘How to communicate maths to students, and how to teach students to communicate maths ‘by Prof. Chris Budd (see attachment 1)

      Link: https://panopto.uic.edu.cn/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7b0cbd2b-5bc2-4500-82e0-ad20008a32dd

III. CTL Teaching and Learning Recourses (UIC Staff Only)

     As a resource hub, we develop an iSpace site “CTL Teaching and Learning Resources” where all UIC staff could enroll themselves and access all T&L resources. Attached is the instruction (4 steps)

     for your reference (see attachment 2). Please contact Ms. Sandy Chen at sandychen@uic.edu.cn if you have difficulties to find the resources.

IV. HKBU CHTL TALES Workshops

1. TALES 7 – CHTL x CISL workshop series – Translation Bonds: From a Course to a Company

Date & Time: 11:00 a.m – 12:15 p.m 20 May 2021(Thu）

Venue: Online via Zoom or mixed-mode

Facilitator(s): Dr. Janice Pan Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Students from the editorial teams of TransFeed

Registration: https://chtl.hkbu.edu.hk/main/workshops/tales-2020-21-2nd/#ay2020-21-sem-2-tales-7

2. TALES 8 – Communicating with Your Students via E-assessment

Date & Time: 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. 24 May 2021 (Mon)

Venue: Online via Zoom

Facilitator(s): Dr Ricky Lam, Department of Education Studies, HKBU; Dr Kevin Wai Ho Yung, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, EdUHK

Registration: https://chtl.hkbu.edu.hk/main/workshops/tales-2020-21-2nd/#ay2020-21-sem-2-tales-8

3. TALES 9 – My Successful Application of Teaching & Learning Grants at HKBU

Date & Time: 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. 10 June 2021 (Thu)

Venue: Online via Zoom

Facilitator(s): Dr Eugene BIRMAN (MUS); Professor Kara CHAN (COMS); Dr Gray HO (CHEM); Dr Anna KWAN (SCM)

Registration: https://chtl.hkbu.edu.hk/main/workshops/tales-2020-21-2nd/#ay2020-21-sem-2-tales-9

V. Other T&L Activities

1. 2021 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education(ICOIE)

Organized by the open university of Hong Kong, the conference will be held on 5–7 July 2021. due to the outbreak of covid-19, ICOIE 2021 will take place virtually as the eighth in the annual conference series. All participants will attend the conference and present their papers virtually through video conferencing system.

Further details are available in conference website at http://icoie2021.ouhk.edu.hk

2. The 56th Higher Education Expo China 第56届中国高等教育博览会

Date: May 21-23, 2021

Location: Qingdao Hongdao International Convention and Exhibition Center

Language: Mandarin

Link: https://www.cahe.edu.cn/site/content/14071.html

Registration: https://zhculture.cn/gbh2021