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The transition from the OUHK to Hong Kong Metropolitan University is more than just a change in names — it comes with a renewed commitment to quality education. As President Prof. Paul Lam pledged at the launch ceremony of HKMU, enhancing learning and teaching will sit at the top of the University's agenda. Prior to that, the Office for Advancement of Learning and Teaching (ALTO) had made a fresh start on 1 August 2021, in an effort to centralize learning and teaching enhancement initiatives.
In fact, the predecessor of ALTO — the Educational Technology and Development Unit — had specialized in the development of course materials and educational technology for a long time. Dr Eva Tsang, Director of Advancement of Learning and Teaching, explains, 'ALTO has grown and transformed with the University to take on broader responsibilities. Today, we are working closely with the academic Schools and other departments to serve staff and students in four major areas.'
Showcase of recent and new initiatives
The Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration's Global Immersion Programme is offered with French, Japanese, Korean and Spanish electives, and these e-books are tailored accordingly with multimedia cultural resources, audio dialogues by native speakers and interactive language learning activities.
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This year, HKMU is launching a new e-Portfolio system to document students' participation in co-/extracurricular activities, which are deemed essential to their personal and professional growth.
The week before school started, ALTO brought teaching staff a series of seminars and sharing sessions by experienced colleagues and overseas guest speakers which included curriculum design, giving feedback, interactive teaching, assessment strategies, online teaching tools and so forth. Students were also presented with game booths for experiencing HKMU's in-house mobile learning apps and a variety of Learning for Success Workshops organized by the Student Affairs Office.
