9th HKU Teaching and Learning Festival 2026
Celebrating Good Teaching and Learning Practices at HKU
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Overview
The Teaching and Learning Festival has always been a signature event organized by the Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC) to celebrate innovative and effective teaching practices that support student learning at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). As we continue to highlight and advance excellence in teaching, “Celebrating Good Teaching and Learning Practices at HKU” will become the overarching theme for all Teaching and Learning Festivals.
The 9th Teaching and Learning Festival will take place in May 2026. It aims to provide a platform for educators to share and exchange teaching practices, brainstorm new ideas, connect with colleagues, and explore opportunities for collaboration.
Call for Abstracts
We invite all HKU teachers to contribute to the 9th Teaching and Learning Festival. 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.
This is a valuable opportunity to showcase your educational innovations, exchange ideas with peers, and contribute to the ongoing development of teaching and learning practices at HKU.
We invite proposals in the following formats:
- Seminar
- Workshop
- Open Classroom Observation
- Poster Presentation
Please submit a clear and concise title along with an abstract of no more than 400 words via this button:
We look forward to your participation in this exciting event.
Event: From the classroom to the workplace and beyond – Skills for the Future
Dates : 15th and 17th October 2025
Venue : HKU Campus
Guidelines and Requirements
Important Dates
| Abstract Submission Open | 26 January 2026 (Monday) |
| Abstract Submission Deadline | 30 March 2026 (Monday) |
| Notification of Acceptance | 3 April 2026 (Friday) |
| Poster Submission Deadline | 27 April 2026 (Monday) |
Timetable
| Time | Details |
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| Date: 5 May 2026 (Tue) Theme: Nature Pedagogy |
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| 11:30am - 1:00pm | WORKSHOP AI - Arboreal Intelligence Speakers
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| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | SEMINAR What AI Can't Compost: Plant Humanities in Transdisciplinary Pedagogy Speakers
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| Date: 8 May 2026 (Fri) | |
| 12:30am - 2:00pm | Poster Showcases |
| Date: 11 May 2026 (Mon) Theme: Visual & Digital Literacy |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | SEMINAR Teaching to Grow: Exploring the Development of Near-Peer Consultants in Visual and Digital Literacy Support Speakers
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | SEMINAR Health by Design: Implementation of Public Health Posters as a Multidisciplinary Visual Teaching Device in MBBS, School of Public Health and Department of History (Common Core) Curriculum Development Speaker
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| Date: 13 May 2026 (Wed) Theme: Nature Pedagogy |
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| 2:00pm - 4:00pm | WORKSHOP Healing in Motion: Interactive Walking Tour for Teaching the History of Medicine Speakers
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| Date: 15 May 2026 (Fri) Theme: Entrepreneurship Education |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | WORKSHOP AI-Enabled Venture Pitch Evaluation: A Scalable Platform for Experiential Entrepreneurship Education Speakers
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| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | SEMINAR Changing How We Teach Architectural Design: Integrating Impact into the Curriculum Speakers
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| 2:30pm - 3:00pm | SEMINAR Edu-Preneurialship: How to Equip Educational Leaders and Practitioners with Innovative, Entrepreneurial and Strategic Leadership in the New Era of New Quality Productive Force (NQPF) and AI: from Generative AI-Tool, Generative AI-Platform to Public Policy Research Grant? Speakers
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| Date: 20 May 2026 (Wed) Theme: Technology-Supported Student Engagement |
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| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | SEMINAR Building Foundational STEM Courses for Nurturing Future Innovators amidst an AI-Infused World Speakers
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| 1:30pm - 2:00pm | SEMINAR The Use of Seamless Ongoing Formative Assessment Learning Approach to Improve Students’ Engagement and Learning Outcomes Speakers
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| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | SEMINAR LETsPharm: Learning Enhancement Tools for Pharmacology, Pharmacy and More Speaker
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| Date: 22 May 2026 (Fri) Theme: Student Well-Being |
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| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | SEMINAR Curriculum as Care: Embedding Wellbeing & Mental Health Literacy in the BSc. Speech Language Pathology Education Speaker
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| 1:30pm - 2:00pm | SEMINAR Innovative Substance Use Disorder Education for Pharmacy and Social Work Students Speakers
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| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | SEMINAR Students Speak Up: Podcasting on Identity, Race/ism, and other Social Issues Speakers
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| Date: 26 May 2026 (Tue) Theme: AI in Education |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm | WORKSHOP SkillSight: A GenAI Advising Platform for Course-to-Career Mapping Speakers
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| 12:30pm - 1:00pm | SEMINAR CorpusChat: Bridging Corpus Linguistics and GenAI for Language Understanding Speaker
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| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | SEMINAR Use of AI for Grading and Feedback in an Assessment for Learning, Flipped Class Pedagogy Speakers
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Poster Showcase
The poster showcase will take place on 8th May 2026 (Friday) 12:30pm – 2:00pm, at Haking Wong Podium, HKU.
Contact
Schedule
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 |
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| 13 Oct 2025 (Mon) | 11:00am - 12:30pm | WORKSHOP Fostering Effective Collaboration: A Practical Workshop on Designing and Managing Group Work Speaker
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| 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
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| 10:40am - 11:10am | MINI SEMINAR Sensing Architecture: When Teaching Becomes Experience Speakers
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| 11:15am - 11:45am | MINI SEMINAR Preparing to Serve Students with Special Educational Needs: Interprofessional Education for Educational Psychology & Speech Language Pathology Students Speakers
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| 11:50am - 12:20pm | MINI SEMINAR Bridging Theory and Practice: Developing Professional Competencies Across Disciplines Using the Vox platform Speakers
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| 12:25pm - 12:55pm | MINI SEMINAR Promoting Legal Awareness of Aspiring and Senior Educators: From Classroom, Workplace to Future Speaker
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| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | MINI SEMINAR Empowering the Medical Educators of Tomorrow: Training Clinical Year Students for Clinical and Teaching Success Speaker
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| 2:30pm - 4:30pm | WORKSHOP Playing to Understand: “Health Seekers” - A Student-Designed Simulation Game to Cultivate Empathy in Medical Humanities Speakers
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| 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
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| 1:40pm - 2:10pm | MINI SEMINAR Nurturing Research Imagination: Critical Zones and a Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Fellowship Speakers
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| 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
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| 2:50pm - 3:20pm | MINI SEMINAR Teaching on race/ism in Hong Kong: Negotiations and Reimaginations in the Classroom Speaker
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| 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
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| 17 Oct 2025 (Fri) | 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Poster Showcases |