Dear colleagues Welcome to this 13th issue of Teaching and Learning Connections. At CETL, we recognise that the 2019 to 2021 academic years may well be recorded in history as the most professionally and personally challenging for teachers across all of HKU’s undergraduate [...]

“The greatest challenge was finding the motivation to get out of bed and complete assignments. It’s not the same as getting up, getting ready, driving to class, then sitting in class to learn.” – a student response to a survey on undergraduates’ experiences during the [...]

For almost a year, Hong Kong’s education sector has gone through unprecedented challenges. The social unrest in 2019 followed by waves of pandemic strikes [...]

COVID-19 has gripped the world and, as with virtually every other sector, it has rocked academic institutions. In many countries, the classroom no longer [...]

University teaching and learning is facing unprecedented challenges this year in a global pandemic. Dr. Susan Bridges, Director of the Centre for the [...]

Before considering this challenge directly, first think of a somewhat different issue: how to motivate employees. We are employees; what motivates us to [...]

Motivation cannot be taught as it contains both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Extrinsic factors, such as parents’ expectation and study grade and [...]