Teaching and Learning Challenge: What Can We See from Student's Strategic Behaviours

co-organized by the Office of University General Education and CLEAR

Teaching and Learning Challenge: What Can We See from Student's Strategic Behaviours

Date: 23 February 2016 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:30 am to 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 701, Hui Yeung Shing Building
Speaker: Dr. Ng Wai Yin Will (Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research)
Language: Cantonese

Are your students behaving? For a conscientious teacher, this can be a very difficult question. If students are not coming to class, or not working hard, they may or may not be misbehaving, as it may be their deliberate conscious choice as they choose to invest their time on more worthwhile feats. When a student procrastinates, it may be his own lack of discipline, or he himself may be victim of other students' misbehaviour. When free-riding happens in a group project, it may be due to a free-rider's shirking, a dysfunctional group, or there may be unintended perverse incentives in the way the coursework is administered.

This is the first of a seminar series on strategic learning behaviours jointly organized by the Office of University General Education and the Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research, focusing on group work issues. The speaker will present reported views and experiences collected from students from Jan to August 2015, including premiere of a video recording of a student debate on the relative merits of peer evaluation held in October 2015. Participants will be invited to discuss the influence of peer evaluation to student's strategic behaviors in group work in the second half of the seminar.

Speaker’s Bio Dr. Ng Wai Yin Will had taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for more than 20 years. He was enthusiastic about diverse experience of teaching and research. During his year of teaching, the subjects he taught included engineering science, project management, general education, as well as guiding academic research and liberal studies topics. After resigning from teaching position, he started to focus on the basic of education, contemplating on how, what and why human learnt. He is now working on research projects related to teaching and learning in the Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research at CUHK. His focus is on learning ethos and students’ strategic learning behaviours in universities.

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