Prof. KONG Siu Cheung, Director of Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong
Organizer:
Dr. Paula Hodgson, Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research
Details:
Apart from noting how students performing in the final examination, you may also find out how students have extended their knowledge in the course through using a text-mining system with a visualization tool. In this seminar, Prof. Kong shares the experience of EdUHK in the pedagogical use of a bilingual text-mining system in course delivery for analyzing student-generated text in learning management systems such as Blackboard and Moodle. The system incorporates a bilingual taxonomy of domain-specific keywords for an automatic identification and counting of matching keywords in student-generated text, and provides hierarchical visualization for an informative and interactive display of counting results of matching keywords. This pedagogical initiative effectively serves an alternative to evidently track students’ conceptual change in course learning. It is potential to promote teachers’ pedagogical decision-making and students’ reflective learning engagement in a data-oriented manner.
Biography:
Prof. KONG Siu Cheung is currently Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, as well as Director of Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology of the Education University of Hong Kong. He has over 100 academic publications in the areas of IT in mathematics education and pedagogy in the digital classroom, information literacy education, as well as IT in science and inquiry-based learning. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning and Journal of Computers in Education. Prof. Kong was in the presidential roles for the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) for six years, as the President-Elect in 2012 and 2013, the President in 2014 and 2015, and Past-President in 2016 and 2017.
Date & Time:
14 November 2018 (Wednesday), 12:15 – 2 p.m. (Brown bag lunch provided)
