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Talent Carnival
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
The WorldSkills talent sharing competition that began in 1950 has proved to be an international source of inspiration and learning for vocational education. This year the WorldSkills Hong Kong 2014 event paved the way for next year's "skill olympics" in Brazil.
A Study Of Learning Styles Of Engineering Students In Vocational Education In Hong Kong, Kin Ming Wong
A Study Of Learning Styles Of Engineering Students In Vocational Education In Hong Kong, Kin Ming Wong
Staff Publications
Students have different learning preferences of receiving, processing and internalizing knowledge and skills. If the learning environment is advantageous to the learning styles of the students, there is a higher chance that the students can achieve the intended learning outcomes. Previous research on understanding the learning styles of students suggests that the use of learning style models helped teachers design effective instruction and could help students better understand their own learning preferences. Felder and Silverman (1988) proposed a learning style model, which was designed to capture the important learning style differences among engineering students. The model categorised learning preferences into …
Is A Flipped Learning Approach Suitable For Part-Time Engineering Students At Tertiary Level Education?, Kin Ho, Benson Hung
Is A Flipped Learning Approach Suitable For Part-Time Engineering Students At Tertiary Level Education?, Kin Ho, Benson Hung
Staff Publications
In a flipped learning model, teachers shift traditional educational arrangement outside the classroom and make teacher-driven instruction to student-centered learning. Meanwhile, students are the agents of their own learning and typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. Very often, flipped classrooms are designed for secondary schools and for full-time courses and programs. As there has been growing interest in incorporating flipped learning into higher education, this calls for more high quality researches to inform practitioners on the use of flipped learning in different study modes. Rarely have they been examined in tandem with part-time study mode, this …