Vision development in engineering education during financial crisis and natural disasters

Theme: Towards a safe, reliable, sustainable intelligent power systemPaper no. I9FP0473Risks are seeds of new opportunities. The year 2008 is heart-breaking to global nations. University undergraduates are ambitious, yet within a fortnight after their summer vacation, their sweet day dreams have turned into nightmares. Many youths may indeed become desperate. The University of Hong Kong realizes this impact to their engineering students. Making use of broadening education, the University utilizes recent case studies to make their engineering students observant and alert. The present economic downturn and non-ethical practices provide good lessons in building up maturity and morality in fresh engineers. In the business world, and history recalls, an end in a road is never a dead-end when there is a turn to another road. The one who finds this turn first shall master tomorrow. Hence we enhance students’ vision in exploring new business opportunities. We encourage the whole curriculum to make entry to entrepreneurship competition, and to enroll in visits to places devastated by natural disasters. Through critical thinking and “seeing is believing”, we develop algorithm and passion in these youths to serve the new society with a good heart either through entrepreneurship or engineering or their integration. Already we see maturity substantially in the batch.postprintThe 15th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2009), Shenyang, China, 5-9 July 2009

IClass assessment: a pen-based assessment and feedback platform

In recent years, the demand of in-class interaction and assessment for learning is rising. There is more emphasis on using electronic tools for assessment for learning in order to facilitate teachers seeking to identify and diagnose student learning problems, and providing quality feedback for students on how to improve their work. This paper discusses the challenges of e-assessment and introduced a pen-based assessment and feedback platform developed in Hong Kong. The platform can provide an efficient and effective channel for providing feedback so as to monitor any learning difficulties and help teachers to diagnose students' prior skills and abilities, providing feedback for them to adjust the curriculum or provide additional assistance accordingly. © 2013 IEEE.published_or_final_versio

Real-time interactive learning through smart mobile devices

Smart phones and tablet PCs are very popular nowadays. Many schools use these new tools for teaching and learning. The e-Learning Technology Development Laboratory of the EEE Department had developed a mobile application called iClass. This tool can facilitate teachers to conduct interactive classes through different mobile devices. Students can share their ideas and express their views by drawing pictures or entering keywords. The students' works can be instantly sent to the lecture screen through the WiFi. Students can then learn from their peers through the peer review function. The iClass system also supports an editable e-book for assignment submission and 2D barcode to facilitate field trip or technical visit. Examples on how teachers can use iClass for in-class interactive teaching are carefully considered. Lastly, innovative pedagogy models are also being evolved to cope with many possible new changes.published_or_final_versio

Clean energy and environment: combating climate change by Hong Kong researchers and professionals

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A mobile quiz platform to challenge players’ knowledge on mobile devices

Many new mobile technologies including the 3G, WiFi or mobile TV have opened up unprecedented learning opportunities on mobile devices. In addition, such technologies empower the rapid growth of new fields of research like the edutainment for educational entertainment. In a project awarded by the Hong Kong Wireless Development Center, we developed a mobile quiz game system on 3G mobile phone networks in China, Hong Kong or other countries to facilitate learning anytime and anywhere. Our developed mobile quiz system is so generic that it can be readily extended to any wireless network. In this paper, we discuss about the design and possible uses of our quiz system in mobile learning, and also share the relevant experience in system development with the evaluation strategies carefully examined. In 2008, our project also received the Bronze Award of the Hong Kong ICT Awards – Best Lifestyle. After all, our work shed light on many interesting directions for future exploration.published_or_final_versionAlternate journal title: The IEEE Learning Technology Newslette

Development of WiFi technologies and applications for Intelligent Transport System and Tourism in Hong Kong

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Virtual Workshop for Modern Industrial Training

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Cloud-based interactive mobile e-learning platform for Flipped Classroom implementation in the University of Hong Kong

Flipped classroom is an emerging pedagogy in higher education. There is a huge demand for an interactive mobile solution that can facilitate lectures to conduct flipped classroom in an innovative and effective way. The e-Learning Development Laboratory in the University of Hong Kong had developed a cloud-based intelligent solution called iClass LMS to help flipped classroom and smart formative assessment through different mobile devices such as smart phone or tablet PC. Students can share their ideas and express their views by drawing pictures and writing keywords. Their works can be sent to the lecture screen through the WiFi in real-time. Teachers can conduct real-time in-class assessment with instance diagnosis and performance statistic. The solution also embeds with a Mobile Device Management (MDM) System for school IT administrator to manage the school-base iPad more efficiently. The full paper will introduce the features, system structure and architecture of of iClass LMS. The challenges and solutions of e-learning development will be discussed. The solution has been deployed in Hong Kong, the United States, Mainland and Singapore. A few practical cases of flipped classroom implementation with iClass in not only the University of Hong Kong but also some overseas universities such as Harvard University and Edinburg University will also be shared in the paper