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Skills for the Future

HKU Teaching and Learning Exploration Week 2025

From the classroom to the workplace and beyond – Skills for the Future

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Overview

HKU’s first Teaching & Learning Exploration Week, organized by the Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC) at HKU, will take place during the reading week in October 2025.

During the exploration week, there will be different events dedicated to sharing innovative teaching practices that prepare students for the future. Under the theme, “From the classroom to the workplace and beyond – Skills for the Future”, seminars and workshops will be held on 15 Oct 2025, and the poster showcases will be held on 17 Oct 2025.

Event: From the classroom to the workplace and beyond – Skills for the Future

Dates : 15th and 17th October 2025

Venue : HKU Campus

Schedule

Event Date Time Venue
Seminars & Workshops 15 October 2025 (Wednesday) TBC Learning Lab
(RRS321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)
Poster Showcases 17 October 2025 (Friday) 12:30pm - 2:00pm TBC

All mini seminars, workshops and poster showcase will take place in the Learning Lab (RRS321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU).

Date Time Details
13 Oct 2025 (Mon) 11:00am - 12:30pm
WORKSHOP

Fostering Effective Collaboration: A Practical Workshop on Designing and Managing Group Work
Speaker
  • Dr. Christelle Not
    Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
15 Oct 2025 (Wed) 10:05am - 10:35am
MINI SEMINAR

The Unscripted Classroom: Workplace Immersion and Student Transformation in HKU’s Co-operative Education Programme
Speakers
  • Prof. Samson Tse
    Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
  • Prof. Pauline Chiu
    Professor, Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Science, HKU
  • Dr. Jack Tsao
    Senior Lecturer, Common Core Office, HKU
  • Prof. Lillian Luk
    Assistant Professor, TALIC, HKU
  • Mr. Jason Wong
    Admin Staff, Co-Operative Education Programme
  • Ms. Sindy Wong
    Admin Staff, Co-Operative Education Programme
10:40am - 11:10am
MINI SEMINAR

Sensing Architecture: When Teaching Becomes Experience
Speakers
  • Prof. Thomas Tsang
    Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, HKU
  • Mr. You Wu
    Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, HKU
  • Ms. Tianying Li
    Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, HKU
11:15am - 11:45am
MINI SEMINAR

Preparing to Serve Students with Special Educational Needs: Interprofessional Education for Educational Psychology & Speech Language Pathology Students
Speakers
  • Dr. Elizabeth Barrett
    Senior Lecturer, Human Communication, Learning, and Development, Faculty of Education, HKU
  • Dr. Kathy Wong
    Principal Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
  • Dr. Jia-Qi Melody Xu
    Senior Professional Practitioner, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
  • Dr. Po Yi Tempo Tang
    Lecturer, Human Communication, Learning, and Development, Faculty of Education, HKU
  • Prof. Fred Ganotice
    Associate Professor, Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
11:50am - 12:20pm
MINI SEMINAR

Bridging Theory and Practice: Developing Professional Competencies Across Disciplines Using the Vox platform
Speakers
  • Prof. Michael Botelho
    Professor, Restorative Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, HKU
  • Ms. Julienne Jen
    Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Law, HKU
  • Dr. Elizabeth Barrett
    Senior Lecturer, Human Communication, Learning, and Development, Faculty of Education, HKU
12:25pm - 12:55pm
MINI SEMINAR

Promoting Legal Awareness of Aspiring and Senior Educators: From Classroom, Workplace to Future
Speaker
  • Dr. Vincent Wong
    Senior Lecturer, Social Contexts and Policies of Education (SCAPE), Faculty of Education, HKU
1:00pm - 1:30pm
MINI SEMINAR

Empowering the Medical Educators of Tomorrow: Training Clinical Year Students for Clinical and Teaching Success
Speaker
  • Dr. Ginger Ko
    Lecturer, School of Clinical Medicine (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
2:30pm - 4:30pm
WORKSHOP

Playing to Understand: “Health Seekers” - A Student-Designed Simulation Game to Cultivate Empathy in Medical Humanities
Speakers
  • Dr. Po Ling Pauline Luk
    Lecturer, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
  • Dr. Mei Li Khong
    Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
16 Oct 2025 (Thu) 1:05pm - 1:35pm
MINI SEMINAR

Motisse: An LLM-based Software Product to Develop One’s Confidence and Pleasure in Writing
Speakers
  • Prof. Christophe Dominique Michel Coupe
    Associate Professor, School of Humanities (Linguistics), Faculty of Arts, HKU
  • Mr. Syed Ali Mansoor
    Research Assistant, Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Digital Technologies, Faculty of Arts, HKU
1:40pm - 2:10pm
MINI SEMINAR

Nurturing Research Imagination: Critical Zones and a Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Speakers
  • Dr. Jack Tsao
    Senior Lecturer, Common Core Office, HKU
  • Prof. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
    Professor, School of Humanities (Comparative Literature), Faculty of Arts, HKU
2:15pm - 2:45pm
MINI SEMINAR

Enhancing Undergraduate Medical Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, Perceptions and Engagement in Occupational Medicine: A Comparative Study of Case-Based Learning and Hybrid Jigsaw Pedagogical Approaches
Speakers
  • Dr. Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw
    Lecturer, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
  • Ms. Baikong Simpal Mamid
    Tutor, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
  • Dr. Dana Vackova
    Principal Lecturer, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
2:50pm - 3:20pm
MINI SEMINAR

Teaching on race/ism in Hong Kong: Negotiations and Reimaginations in the Classroom
Speaker
  • Dr. Michael Rivera
    Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
3:25pm - 3:55pm
MINI SEMINAR

Internationalising Teacher Education and Developing Student-Teachers into More Future-Ready Graduates and Globally-Prepared Citizens through COIL
Speakers
  • Ms. Nicole Judith Tavares
    Senior Lecturer, Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, HKU
  • Dr. Jim Yee Him Chan
    Lecturer, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK
17 Oct 2025 (Fri) 12:30pm - 2:00pm Poster Showcases

Call for Abstracts

We invite all HKU teachers who are eager to share their teaching practices designed to engage students in generic competencies development (e.g. collaborative skills, critical thinking, empathy, etc.) to submit an abstract, which can be for a workshop, seminar or poster presentation. Submissions are not limited to Teaching Development Grant (TDG) project initiatives. We welcome ANY teaching and learning related projects in the areas of e-learning, assessment and feedback, curriculum design and development.

Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your educational innovations, exchange ideas with colleagues, and contribute to the ongoing development of teaching and learning practices at HKU. Regardless of your chosen presentation format, you just need to submit a presentation title along with an abstract (maximum 400 words) for submission. If you would like to do a seminar or workshop, when submitting your abstract, please indicate your preferred time slot—morning (AM) or afternoon (PM)—for your presentation. While we cannot guarantee specific timings, we will do our best to accommodate your preference.

During the poster showcases, you will be given 1 minute to give a pitch, and then there will be time for the audience to interact with each individual presenter.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Open 1 July 2025 (Tuesday)
Abstract Submission Deadline (Seminars and Workshops) 5 September 2025 (Friday)
Abstract Submission Deadline (Poster Presentation) 12 September 2025 (Friday) (Updated)
Notification of Acceptance 15 September 2025 (Monday) (Updated)
Poster Submission Deadline 9 October 2025 (Thursday) (Updated)

Guidelines and Requirements

Contact

For enquires:

Ms. Miffy LEUNG

Executive Assistant 
Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre

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