1. David M. Kennedy, PhD 甘明德 博士 Associate Professor, CDS Director, TLC Teaching and Learning Centre Lingnan University

2.  Lingnan Context  Issues around evidence  Opportunities  Some observations  Closing 2 Albert Einstein We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

3.  Liberal Arts @ Lingnan University Independent Critical Thinking Independent Critical Thinking Community and Service Community and Service Leadership Capabilities Leadership Capabilities Tolerance Integrity, Civility Tolerance Integrity, Civility Strong Analytic Skills Strong Analytic Skills Desire for Lifelong Learning Desire for Lifelong Learning Effective Reasoning Effective Reasoning Imaginative Problem Solving Imaginative Problem Solving Strong Sense of Personal Responsibility Strong Sense of Personal Responsibility Sound Planning Skills Sound Planning Skills Intercultural Maturity Intercultural Maturity

4.  Creation of an eLearning strategy  current activity  Research into student uses of technology  recent report just completed (later)  Trialing alternative(s) to WebCT  Moodle and Mahara  Development of a workshop programme  Developing an Assessment strategy

5.  Teaching spaces  more flexible rooms required  Increase bandwidth (particularly Hostels)  Better adoption of blended learning  Classroom polling devices  Use SMS more widely  Integrate Blogs and Wikis  collaborative work in particular  Lecture capture

6.  Google apps.  collaboration and tracking (history)  Social networking tools  communication and lasting relationships  Second life  Lingnan now has an SL island  Google Earth – campus map  see http://tlcserver.ln.edu.hk/gmap/http://tlcserver.ln.edu.hk/gmap/  reducing student stress – 1 st Yr

7.  Emerging technologies  Blogs (reading 80%, commenting – 74%, maintaining – 68%)  File-sharing (music – 82%, photos – 72%)  Social networking (86%)  VOIP telephony (56%)  Web-conferencing (62%)  IM/ MSN (91%)  The evidence is students read – just not in traditional ways!

10. TOO TIME CONSUMING LACK OF SPECIFIC KNOWLDEGE USE OTHER TOOLS

11.  Workshops and consultations for blended learning  Supporting Teaching Development Grants  e.g., courseware development, pedagogy, OBA course design, grant applications  Trialing technologies  Moodle, Mahara, Video services, Mobile learning (languages)  Supporting OBA-focus for next 2 years

12.  Course evaluations  (Online Course Evaluation of Teaching and Learning - oCTLE)  Evaluation of Core Curriculum courses  students (focus groups and surveys)  staff (interviews)  Graduate Exit survey  Committee work (Academic quality, IT resources etc)  Visiting scholars programme (OBATL)

13.  Careful design of the learning environment to achieve curriculum alignment  Integration of traditional approaches and resources with technology affordances  Use the MOST appropriate technology (discipline-specific)  Collecting evidence of impact on student learning 13

14.  Use of ICTs  Web 2.0 technologies in particular ▪ Blogs – for reflective writing ▪ Wikis – for collaborative writing ▪ Social networking – for communities of practice  ePortfolios for more flexible assessment artifacts  Evaluation of outcomes 14 http://www.ethics.org.au/resources/img/general-content/articles/0148b-hammer-cartoon.gif

15.  David M. Kennedy, PhD  Director, Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)  Associate Professor, Department of Computing and Decision Sciences  TLC Office: Rm GE 201/1 B. Y. Lam Building  Lingnan University, Hong Kong  8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun