Event Details
Date : 20 May 2025 (Tue)
Time : 9:30am – 3:30pm
Venue : Arts Tech Lab (RM4.35, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU)
Objectives
- Understand digital communication across the curriculum
- Embed digital communication in courses
Symposium Abstract
This symposium explores the imperative of intentionally embedding digital capability development within the curriculum to ensure students are equipped not only for academic success but also for the dynamic demands of the digital workplace. The keynote address will examine the misconceptions surrounding student digital literacy, the risks of assuming passive acquisition, and the strategic role of higher education institutions in cultivating discipline-specific digital employability and lifelong learning skills. The event will also feature contributions from faculty and students who will share innovative practices, challenges, and successes in integrating digital skills across diverse academic programs. Together, these perspectives will provide a roadmap for embedding purposeful digital capability development into higher education, ensuring graduates are prepared to thrive in an increasingly complex and digitally-driven world.
Rundown
Professor Elle Gregory is the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (Faculty of Health) at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia. She currently leads the Clinical Anatomy and Paediatric Imaging research laboratory with a focus on improving anatomical knowledge through contemporary imaging techniques and advancing our understanding of the anatomy of children and subadults. Her teaching experience spans over 20 years with a focus on anatomy education, and innovative approaches to teaching that maximise student success through collaborative student-centred learning design that leverages contemporary and future-focused technologies such as virtual reality and 360 degree videos to prepare students for the real world of employment. She leads the internationally awarded Digital Health Futures team, which embeds student digital capability development across the curriculum in all Health courses using whole of course design principles in partnership with the QUT Library, Student Success Group and Curriculum Design Studio.
(5 mins)
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
(45 mins)
Keynote: Driving student digital capabilities for a digital future
The recent explosion in artificial intelligence and unprecedented acceleration in the rate of digitalisation, has disrupted all industries. Whilst many academics assume current higher education students are digital natives, research suggests that students have significant gaps in their digital proficiency on entry to University. Much effort has focused on digital transformation of the curriculum post-COVID, with a common misconception that this digitally enriched learning environment will have an osmosis effect on student’s digital capabilities. As higher education providers, it is critical that we secure our student’s digital capabilities through intentional embedding of digital capability development in the curriculum. Only then can we be confident of our graduates’ attainment of the discipline-specific digital employability and lifelong learning skills needed to thrive in the rapidly changing digital workplace of the future.
Professor Elle Gregory
Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Professor Elle Gregory is the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (Faculty of Health) at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia. She currently leads the Clinical Anatomy and Paediatric Imaging research laboratory with a focus on improving anatomical knowledge through contemporary imaging techniques and advancing our understanding of the anatomy of children and subadults. Her teaching experience spans over 20 years with a focus on anatomy education, and innovative approaches to teaching that maximise student success through collaborative student-centred learning design that leverages contemporary and future-focused technologies such as virtual reality and 360 degree videos to prepare students for the real world of employment. She leads the internationally awarded Digital Health Futures team, which embeds student digital capability development across the curriculum in all Health courses using whole of course design principles in partnership with the QUT Library, Student Success Group and Curriculum Design Studio.
Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Biography
Professor Elle Gregory is the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (Faculty of Health) at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia. She currently leads the Clinical Anatomy and Paediatric Imaging research laboratory with a focus on improving anatomical knowledge through contemporary imaging techniques and advancing our understanding of the anatomy of children and subadults. Her teaching experience spans over 20 years with a focus on anatomy education, and innovative approaches to teaching that maximise student success through collaborative student-centred learning design that leverages contemporary and future-focused technologies such as virtual reality and 360 degree videos to prepare students for the real world of employment. She leads the internationally awarded Digital Health Futures team, which embeds student digital capability development across the curriculum in all Health courses using whole of course design principles in partnership with the QUT Library, Student Success Group and Curriculum Design Studio.
10:20 – 10:25
10:25 – 11:10
(45 mins)
CCGL9067 Companies and People: Friends or Foes?
Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Business & Economics
Biography
Students Sharing
Year 2, BEng(ElecE), HKU
Year 2, BASc, HKU
Mr. Ignatius de Loyola Dominique Japar
Year 2, BEng(ElecE), HKU
Year 2, BEng(ElecE), HKU
Miss Wong Lok Hei, Kennedy
Year 2, BASc, HKU
Year 2, BASc, HKU
LLAW3275/LALS3016 Legal Language in Hong Kong: Issues and Directions
Mr. Edmund Cham
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Mr. Edmund Cham obtained his LLB degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1990. After practising as a litigation solicitor for five years, he joined the legal publishing sector and started a career in legal translation. He is a freelancer Chinese editor for legal publisher Sweet & Maxwell and an authorized vetter of translations of court judgments for the Judiciary of the HKSAR, and has been providing translation services to The Law Society of Hong Kong for more than 20 years.
Mr. Cham joined the HKU Faculty of Law in 2015 as Adjunct Associate Professor, coordinating legal Chinese courses for LLB and PCLL programmes.
Mr. Cham has also been conducting talks and short-term training courses on legal Chinese and legal translation for the Judiciary, the Judicial Institute, the Department of Justice and the Hong Kong Bar Association.
Mr. Wilson Lui
part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law
part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Biography
Mr. Edmund Cham obtained his LLB degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1990. After practising as a litigation solicitor for five years, he joined the legal publishing sector and started a career in legal translation. He is a freelancer Chinese editor for legal publisher Sweet & Maxwell and an authorized vetter of translations of court judgments for the Judiciary of the HKSAR, and has been providing translation services to The Law Society of Hong Kong for more than 20 years.
Mr. Cham joined the HKU Faculty of Law in 2015 as Adjunct Associate Professor, coordinating legal Chinese courses for LLB and PCLL programmes.
Mr. Cham has also been conducting talks and short-term training courses on legal Chinese and legal translation for the Judiciary, the Judicial Institute, the Department of Justice and the Hong Kong Bar Association.
part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law
Biography
Mr. Beau Lefler
Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Business & Economics
Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Business & Economics
11:10 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:00
(45 mins)
BASC3200 Vulnerability Reframed: Unlocking Disability’s Potential
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences
Biography
Estela Ibáñez-García is a Lecturer in the BASc in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in understanding how human experience is articulated through complex and mediated cultural expressions.
She completed her PhD in The University of Hong Kong in 2016 with a dissertation that examined the role of music in the audience’s experience of dramatic performances in and through films, by focussing on issues of world-making, (inter)mediality, adaptation, recordings, meta-theatricality, performance, and ritual. She holds degrees in Art History and Musicology (University of Salamanca, Spain), a Higher Diploma in Guitar (Madrid Royal Conservatory, Spain), and Master’s Degrees in History and Aesthetics of the Cinema (University of Valladolid, Spain) and Advanced Studies in Philosophy (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain). In 2010–2011, she was a Research Fellow in the Film Studies Department of the University of Stockholm with a scholarship offered by “la Caixa” Foundation.
Before joining the BASc program, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in African Studies at The University of Hong Kong (2018–2020), and as a Lecturer in Complementary Studies at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2021-2023).
Dr. Estela Ibáñez-García
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences
Estela Ibáñez-García is a Lecturer in the BASc in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in understanding how human experience is articulated through complex and mediated cultural expressions.
She completed her PhD in The University of Hong Kong in 2016 with a dissertation that examined the role of music in the audience’s experience of dramatic performances in and through films, by focussing on issues of world-making, (inter)mediality, adaptation, recordings, meta-theatricality, performance, and ritual. She holds degrees in Art History and Musicology (University of Salamanca, Spain), a Higher Diploma in Guitar (Madrid Royal Conservatory, Spain), and Master’s Degrees in History and Aesthetics of the Cinema (University of Valladolid, Spain) and Advanced Studies in Philosophy (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain). In 2010–2011, she was a Research Fellow in the Film Studies Department of the University of Stockholm with a scholarship offered by “la Caixa” Foundation.
Before joining the BASc program, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in African Studies at The University of Hong Kong (2018–2020), and as a Lecturer in Complementary Studies at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2021-2023).
SWED1001-3003 Swedish
Mr. Lars Eskil Gustav Svensson
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
Biography
Student Sharing
Miss Kumar Aditi
Year 2, BBA, HKU
Year 2, BBA, HKU
Mr. Leung Tsz Lok Cody
Year 3, BA, HKU
Year 3, BA, HKU
Year 2, BBA, HKU
Year 3, BA, HKU
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:30
(90 mins)
Workshop: Designing authentic assessment to assure digital capability success
This interactive workshop will explore the benefits of authentic assessment approaches to support student development of industry-relevant digital capabilities by showcasing examples in practice. Create new assessment items and/or strengthen existing assessment approaches considering the principles of authenticity, manageability, integrity, connectedness, purposefulness, fairness and validity; and consider how Generative AI may benefit and/or disrupt our assessment design. Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Biography
Professor Elle Gregory is the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (Faculty of Health) at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia. She currently leads the Clinical Anatomy and Paediatric Imaging research laboratory with a focus on improving anatomical knowledge through contemporary imaging techniques and advancing our understanding of the anatomy of children and subadults. Her teaching experience spans over 20 years with a focus on anatomy education, and innovative approaches to teaching that maximise student success through collaborative student-centred learning design that leverages contemporary and future-focused technologies such as virtual reality and 360 degree videos to prepare students for the real world of employment. She leads the internationally awarded Digital Health Futures team, which embeds student digital capability development across the curriculum in all Health courses using whole of course design principles in partnership with the QUT Library, Student Success Group and Curriculum Design Studio.
14:30 – 14:35
14:35 – 15:20
(45 mins)
Assistant Lecturer, CAES, Faculty of Arts
15:20
Director, Common Core
Dr. Wilson Kwok is an Associate Director at The University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the University, he looked after the eLearning development and teacher training for five years in a public organization which had over 2,000 staff teaching in 30 member institutions. Under the co-branding strategy of the University Libraries and Information Technology Services, he currently holds key responsibilities in the development and support of hybrid learning, platforms, teaching spaces as well as e-assessment at institutional level.
Ms. Canice MOK
Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre
- 3917 6069
- tsmok@hku.hk