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...

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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...

Drawing Rhythm from the Algorithm

Dr Hu Xiao has a unique understanding of the power of music. For more than 15 years, she has used data to unleash new possibilities from music. Two groundbreaking models she developed automatically recognise the mood of music and have received hundreds of citations...

Mind the Gap

Professor Nancy Law, Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Technology in Education, is leading an interdisciplinary team in a five-year longitudinal study – Hong Kong Students’ Digital Citizenship Development. The first wave of results has shown up serious...