Natural Life Lessons

While space at the Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum (HKBM) is limited, the collections are not, with nearly 10,000 specimens – animals, insects, marine life plants and fungi – on display to the public and around 20,000 specimens being readied for future inclusion....

Digital Transformation

HKU has undergone enormous changes to its physical campus and teaching and research programmes over the past decade – changes that are still unfolding. Less visible but just as profound have been the changes to its Libraries. Far from being simply places of books and...

Cutting-Edge Course for Future Surgeons

“Surgery is a challenging subject that requires not only skills and craftsmanship but also knowledge and timely judgment and decision,” said Course Director Dr Ian Wong Yu-Hong, who is also Clinical Assistant Professor sub-specialising in esophageal and upper...

Copy This

What is ‘teaching’? For Ms Alice Lee, recipient of the 2019 University Distinguished Teaching Award, the most satisfying teaching is a partnership in which students, as much as their teacher, contribute content to the discussion. She has taken that philosophy beyond...

Lessons from E-Learning

Asking teachers to show their faces is an unlikely takeaway from research into online learning. Yet that is what Dr Timothy KF Hew of the Faculty of Education has discovered in the case of MOOCs. Dr Hew has studied some of the world’s top-rated MOOCs and did a...