Changing Old Attitudes

The term ‘ageism’ was coined during the 1960s by physician Robert Butler to refer to systematic stereotyping of people based on chronological age, and little progress has been made to address age-bias in healthcare over the years. Recently, big increases in the size...

Students as Partners

The concept of Students as Partners is not a new approach, but COVID-19 accelerated the need for this to address gaps created by work-from-home and travel restrictions.When final-year dentistry students were unable to go overseas for their capstone experience,...

Serious Gaming

People are bombarded every day with news stories that may or may not be truthful, but it is not always easy to sort the real from the fake. What if a game could show players how news is manipulated and fake stories generated? Breaking News, a game developed by...

Virtual Visibility

Now supporting more than 2,000 users within and outside the University of Hong Kong, Curios is a virtual teaching and learning tool that is open for teachers and students to use in facilitating their courses.The platform grew out of a decision by Mr Mathew Pryor,...

Connecting through Campusland

“The Data Science Lab (DSL) developed HKU Campusland and used mixed reality to bring the virtual world to the real world and vice versa,” said Dr Adela Lau, Deputy Director of DSL in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (SAAS). “Users create an avatar...