Abstract

The Community of Inquiry in Land Law is a new frontier in e-learning at CUHK. The community will aim at fostering students’ critical analysis, research and writing skills on the one hand, and enriching students’ global experience through student initiated research projects. It encourages students’ contribution to collaborative discourse on research questions that are of true interest to them.

Through this community, students may select from a range of activities: podcast, blog post, overseas scholars interview and short videos. They may then publish their work on an e-platform, to communicate ideas with broader audience in related field.

In line with the university’s theme of ‘Innovation and Design’ and ‘Internationalization at Home’, this community of inquiry serves two purposes: (1) as an identity transition journey for students, from passive to active learning; from knowledge consumption to production; from being merely a student to emerging scholar; and (2) add intrinsic value to students’ work as a scholarly contribution to academic and professional debates.

The underlying purpose and value of this project is to address the growing discrepancy between skills required to solve real world problems and the knowledge acquired through conventional teaching, learning and assessment method. This project is thus proposed in search for ways of getting more value out of students’ course participation and assignment.