HKU Teaching and Learning Exploration Week 2026
A Week to Reflect, Re‑charge, Re‑imagine, and Re‑connect
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Overview
HKU Teaching & Learning Exploration Week 2026, organized by the Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC) at HKU, will take place in the first week of December.
Curated as a week to reflect, re‑charge, re‑imagine, and re‑connect, the programme will bring together colleagues across HKU to explore emerging pedagogical ideas, celebrate innovative teaching practices, and strengthen our teaching and learning community.
Across the week, participants will engage in a range of events, including interactive workshops, mini-seminars, and poster showcases, each dedicated to advancing teaching excellence and enriching student learning. The Exploration Week aims to provide a purposeful pause at the end of the semester: a space to review our teaching practices, draw inspiration from peers, and envision new possibilities for teaching and learning at HKU.
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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
Call for Abstracts
We invite all HKU teachers who are eager to share their teaching practices 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, scheduled on 4th December 2026 (12:30pm to 2pm), 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 | 12 August 2026 (Wednesday) |
| Abstract Submission Deadline | 16 October 2026 (Friday) |
| Notification of Acceptance | 20 October 2026 (Tuesday) |
| Poster Submission Deadline | 23 November 2026 (Monday) |