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What does a Community of Practice (CoP) mean to you? The issue has opened a wide range of possibilities of cultivating CoPs to enhance teaching and learning at HKU and beyond. When reading the [...]

For many years, the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has taken the lead in facilitating debate about quality teaching and learning [...]

As the editor, I received this question from almost all contributing authors when I invited them to write and also many others who were interested in our initiative. I started with a general [...]

New Join-the-Conversation Series on Internationalisation (first one on January 29, 2016) Internationalisation of teaching and learning is the main focus of the UGC-funded ‘Communities of [...]

It is with great pleasure that I pen this welcome to the first issue of our new e-newsletter, ‘Teaching and Learning Connections’, which aims to connect people who are interested in teaching and [...]

At the Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) where I work, we have many formal and informal Communities of Practice. We have formal research interest groups and assessment moderation groups, [...]

When undergraduate students enter teacher education, they are often flooded with multiple pedagogical concepts, theories and methodologies. This is a double-edged sword. Pre-service teachers will [...]

The word ‘community’ is derived from Old French comuneté, from Latin communitas, communis, things held in common ~ Oxford Dictionaries (2014) What does it take to make a community? A common [...]

Almost by chance, a little gem caught my eye in one of those glossy paid-for supplements that usually go straight to the bin. It was quite brief (just two or three sentences) but it had grabbed [...]

For many years, the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has taken the lead in facilitating debate about quality teaching and learning [...]