Symposia
These will be half-day events where invited speakers will present and take questions from the audience. Outcomes of the Symposia will include innovative research ideas, co-supervision of students and research development. All members of the SRT will be invited to attend and meetings will be arranged between symposia speakers and research groups in scheduled sessions after the event. Examples of symposia topics include projects on teaching and assessing literacy, analyzing big data; speech analysis methods; computational modeling and brain imaging methods.
◎Research Seminar
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Education: making a child a better learner
Speaker: Dr. Akaysha Tang, China Program Director in the Office of International Science & Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States Date: 20 July 2015 (Monday) Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm Venue: Room 101 Runme Shaw Building Register Abstract To complement research that aims to improve learning via new ways of delivering domain specific information, I…
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Spring Symposium 27-28 February: Young Researchers in the Science of Learning
Keynote Speakers: Professor Jubin Abutalebi, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy Professor Dekai Wu, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST Professor Andrew Tolmie, Professor of…
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Symposium: Peer learning, dialogic feedback and technology
by Professor David Carless & Dr Timothy Hew Khe-Foon Date: Feb 12, Thursday, 2015 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm Venue: Room 205, 2/F, Runme Shaw Building Speakers: Prof. David Carless & Dr. Timothy Hew Khe-Foon (Discussant: Prof. Dai Hounsell; Chair: Dr. Jingyan Lu) Talk 1: Promoting student engagement with feedback (by Professor David Carless) Feedback is centrally important to student…
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Peer learning, dialogic feedback and technology
NOTICE: Due to unforeseenable reasons, the following symposium is postponed. Rescheduled date and venue are to be advised in the near future! During this course, please keep an eye to our updated information on this website or through our university bulk email! Apologize for any inconvenience incurred and thanks for your understanding!__________________________________________________________________________________________ Symposium: Peer learning, dialogic feedback and technology Speakers: Professor David Carless, Dr Timothy Hew Khe-Foon Date:…
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Interdisciplinary research on motor learning
30th May (Friday), 2014
12:30 to 14:00pm
Runme Shaw Building 205, The University of Hong Kong
Dr Suzanne Perry
Dr Frank Zhu
Dr Susan Bridges
Introduction How people (e.g., elite performers, surgeons, dentists, children, elderly and patient groups) learn motor skills and how this learning can be enhanced and improved is receiving increasing attention from researchers and practitioners in areas…
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Technology enhanced learning: A dialogue between the fields of educational data mining, psychometrics and educational psychology
Date: 22nd May, 2014 Time: 12:30 to 14:30 Venue: Runme Shaw Building 204, The University of Hong Kong Speakers: Dr Vincent Tam, Dr Maggie Zhao, Ms Sanyin Cheng Program Topic 1 Educational data mining on big data for e-learning systems (By Dr Vincent Tam) Topic 2 Modern psychometrics and technology in educational assessment (by Dr Maggie Yue Zhao) Topic 3…
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Sex differences in spatial and social abilities
Date: 9th May, 2014 Time: 12:30 to 14:00 Venue: Meng Wah Complex 401 & 402, The University of Hong Kong Speakers: Dr. Wang Ivy Wong, Miss Rebecca Y. Hei Li Introduction: Gender and sex continue to be a non-negligible consideration in people’s lives in the modern world. Decades of research has pointed to the complexity of sex development, with many…
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Literacy development
Dr. Wu-Ying Hsieh
Ms Aditi Dubey-Jhaveri
18th March, 2014
12:30 to 14:00
Room204, Rumme Shaw Building, HKU
Literacy, generally defined as the ability to read and write, constitutes a set of skills that are essential for academic and life success. To support literacy learning is one of the primary objectives of school education. In recent decades of globalization, the development…
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Learning and learning environment
During this event, three young scholars from different faculties gave public lectures on the subtheme from different perspectives: Enhancement of learning via smart learning environment and learning analytics Enhancement of teaching through virtual environment Fostering epistemic and conceptual growth in the knowledge building environment Date: 20 Jan 2014 Time: 12:30 pm to 2:30 p.m. Venue: Room 204, Rumme Shaw Building,…