Abstract
The University Grants Committee (UGC) allocated the Teaching Development Grant (TDG) to UGC-funded institutions since 1994 to encourage the adoption of innovative approaches to teaching and improvement of the quality of the learning environment. In the 2016-2019 triennium, the TDG was merged with the Language Enhancement Grant (LEG) forming the Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG).
Since the introduction in 1994, TDG has been playing an important role in enhancing the University’s teaching and learning quality. TDG gave impetus for initiating and experimenting new ideas to achieve better quality of teaching and learning in CUHK. Even though grant recipients usually disseminate their successful cases at the CUHK annual Teaching and Learning Expo, conferences and journal articles, it is possible that the benefits of these new successful pedagogies which are indeed invaluable resources are restricted to individual courses and students of the grant recipients. It is essential that exemplary projects with their outcomes be widely disseminated to the CUHK community as model showcases. By studying these TDG projects, good practices could be identified and disseminated. Future TDLEG applicants may also benefit by learning these good practices.
This project aims at identifying good practices in pedagogies as reflected in the TDG projects of CUHK and promoting the good practices identified from those exemplary TDG projects awarded in different rounds of grants.
Brief write-up
Project objectives
This project aims at identifying and disseminating good practices in pedagogies as reflected in the Teaching Development Grant (TDG) / Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) projects of CUHK in different triennium (2009-2012, 2012-2015 and 2015-2016)
Activities, process and outcomes
Phase 1: Reviewing and reflecting on the TDLEG projects (2009-2012, 2012-2015 and 2015-2016)
- Designing instrument for evaluating good practices
- Analysis on all the TDLEG projects
Phase 2: Identifying good practices from selected projects
- Exemplary projects as showcases
- Developing materials for showcase projects
Phase 3: Disseminating good practices
- Production of micro-modules for the showcases
- Production of website
- Planning workshop to share the good practices
Deliverables and evaluation
Phase 1: Reviewing and reflecting on the TDLEG projects
- Evaluation instrument: Criteria to identify good practices in teaching and learning
Phase 2: Identifying good practices from selected projects
- Content summaries for the selected showcases
Phase 3: Disseminating good practices
- Nine micro-modules on the showcases
- A project website
Dissemination, diffusion, impact and sharing of good practices
The project website hosting nine micro-modules showcasing good practices will be disseminated to all CUHK teachers. These micro-modules will be used for professional development activities.
List of the showcases:
- Showcase 1: Bridging experiential (study abroad) and academic learning through critical reflection and web-enhanced pedagogy (2009-12-10)
- Showcase 2: The development of an OBA assessment model for science subjects (2009-12-031)
- Showcase 3: Supporting mobile teaching and learning at CUHK (2012-15-001)
- Showcase 4: The power of words: A University-wide project to encourage extensive and proactive reading and writing among students (書寫力量) (2012-15-010)
- Showcase 5: Multidisciplinary eLearning platform for medication safety (CU MELODY) AND Collaborative-Approach To improve teaching And Learning Yielding Sustainable and Translation outcomes (CU CATALYST) (2012-15-031 & 2012-15-032)
- Showcase 6: Learning by Engaging and Teaching (LET) AND Learning by Engaging and Teaching Extension (LETX) (2012-15-040 & 2015-16-019)
- Showcase 7: Synthetic biology and our society (2012-15-035)
- Showcase 8: Strategies to improve vocabulary size of university students (2012-15-023)
- Showcase 9: Enhancing IT Foundation Education with Micro-modules, Flipped Classroom, Learning by Teaching and Student-Centered Hands-on Workshops (2015-16-005)
