Electronics alumnus Chan Chu-lok, first president of the Hong Kong Amateur Astronomical Society (now known as Hong Kong Astronomical Society), has been working assiduously to promote public education in astronomy for more than 50 years. His passion for exploring the vast universe and its millions of stars has never diminished even after retirement.
Upholding the belief of knowledge is power, the University has been producing educational programmes and broadcasting on public channels to share knowledge with all citizens since its establishment as Open Learning Institute in 1989. There was not much experience for the Institute to produce a TV programme back then, and therefore it collaborated with the RTHK to produce the first series of programme
World of Learning. The programme covered the arts, mathematics and science foundation courses which gathered information from The Open University of the UK. In 2015, the University launched a new series of programme
Open For Learning and included the 'Great Speakers Series' which invited scholars and experts to speak on various topics. Later, the programme appeared as
Knowledge for All and the new series has just been launched and broadcast on TVB Pearl.
