TY - GEN
T1 - The best of both worlds
T2 - 4th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2011
AU - McNaught, Carmel
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Higher education in Hong Kong is undergoing significant changes with the advent of a normative four-year undergraduate curriculum in 2012. The change from a three-year to a four-year curriculum has been made in order to assist students develop a broad set of capabilities. There is therefore an emphasis on designing learning environments that facilitate capability development as well as traditional knowledge acquisition. In Hong Kong there are a number of barriers to the development of effective hybrid learning designs that will be discussed. However, good examples exist and this paper will comment on a number of initiatives occurring in Hong Kong universities where learning technologies have been integrated into face-to-face teaching contexts in ways that facilitate desired student learning outcomes; the examples chosen will focus on the use of English language, a key area of learning need in Hong Kong.
AB - Higher education in Hong Kong is undergoing significant changes with the advent of a normative four-year undergraduate curriculum in 2012. The change from a three-year to a four-year curriculum has been made in order to assist students develop a broad set of capabilities. There is therefore an emphasis on designing learning environments that facilitate capability development as well as traditional knowledge acquisition. In Hong Kong there are a number of barriers to the development of effective hybrid learning designs that will be discussed. However, good examples exist and this paper will comment on a number of initiatives occurring in Hong Kong universities where learning technologies have been integrated into face-to-face teaching contexts in ways that facilitate desired student learning outcomes; the examples chosen will focus on the use of English language, a key area of learning need in Hong Kong.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051592208&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22763-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22763-9_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80051592208
SN - 9783642227622
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 9
BT - Hybrid Learning - 4th International Conference, ICHL 2011, Proceedings
Y2 - 10 August 2011 through 12 August 2011
ER -
