Eric Tsui's presentation at the Global Mindset Conference - Future of Higher Education & Skills Training in the Australasian Region – ‘Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Digitisation event on 10th April 2013 held in Sydney, Australia. Details of the event is available at http://www.slideshare.net/eric_yh_tsui/the-future-of-higher-education-skills-training
Use of blended learning & the journey to adopt MOOC at HKPolyU
1. Use of Blended Learning & the
Journey to adopt MOOC at The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Eric Tsui
Chair, Advisory Committee on Elearning
&
Facilitator, CoP on the use of Learn@PolyU
for good Teaching & Learning
3. Background
• Largest university in Hong Kong with 27,000 EFT
students (local, mainland China & overseas)
• A considerable proportion of students routinely
travels to mainland China for business
• Transitioning from a 3 years to a 4 years UG
system (double cohort)
• Gained prior experience on delivering E-Learning
via HKCyberU (for about a decade)
• “Blended Learning” has been set a target in 2
consecutive 5 years Strategic Plans
4. Use of E-Learning in teaching
(Source: Educational Development Centre)
8. Delivery via a blended set of F2F, internet
lectures & self-paced online study
Face-to face lectures & workshops
On-line Tutorial System
On-line Learning platform
12. A student’s Learning Online classes
Environment Online learning content
In-person activities
Blackboard/WebCT/
PLE&N
Text book(s)
Books from library
Papers & Notes
13. Catalysts and stimulants
• Blended Learning Advisory Committee (BLAC) &
appointment of E-Learning Advocates (2010-2012)
• Advisory Committee on Elearning (2013-)
• Community of Practice on leveraging Learn@PolyU
for good Teaching & Learning (2013-)
• Individual, Cross department/faculty &
Institutional-wide Teaching & Learning
development grants established (2013-)
14. PolyU’s Journey into MOOC
• To MOOC or not to MOOC? (Not a binary answer)
– Embed links to incorporate one or more MOOC lectures in
existing PolyU subjects
– Use entire MOOC subject with/without own assessments, &
with/without own support
– License & adopt the entire MOOC subject
– Maintain the right degree of mix in a program portfolio
• Leverage on the MOOC journey & experience to advance blended
learning & enhance quality of on-campus subjects
• Experimenting with the “Flipped Classroom”
• Appears to be a “WIN (Teachers)-WIN (Students)-WIN (University)“
proposition that warrants further exploration
• Planning to host a MOOC forum on 3-4th July 2013 in Hong Kong
17. Many challenging issues remain …
• What subjects are more suitable hence should go first?
• Would students (staff) embrace this new paradigm of
learning (teaching)?
• How to assess the Quality of a MOOC subject/course?
• Assessment? Online? In-person? How to conduct?
• Credit transfer between universities in a MOOC
Consortium?
• How to maintain PolyU’s own branding, reputation, &
our niche?
• How to “reverse engineer” (exit plan) from a MOOC?
• …
18. Use of Blended Learning & the
Journey to adopt MOOC at The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Eric Tsui
Chair, Advisory Committee on Elearning
&
Facilitator, CoP on the use of Learn@PolyU
for good Teaching & Learning