香港浸會大學基金2019-2020年報

6 Novel ways of teaching and learning In the Fall Semester of 2019-20, classes were disrupted due to social unrest. To engage our students in constructive dialogue, we launched daily sessions from morning until evening for all students to meet with teachers and the University’s senior management, myself included. Not a single student who wanted to meet up missed out. At the peak of the unrest, in mid-November classes were switched to online until the end of the semester. But shortly afterwards, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak again brought teaching and learning back to the virtual space. The pandemic is a good teacher. It taught us well. E-learning has a long history in the global higher education sector but it was not until the pandemic came along that universities across the world realised its full potential. At HKBU, our innovative teaching colleagues have creatively devised novel solutions to facilitate online teaching and assessment, making e-learning ever more effective and stimulating. I am also pleased to see that our students have demonstrated excellent versatility and resilience in coping with the new paradigms of learning. Globally, we cemented new co-teaching pacts with overseas partner universities to enrich our programme content. 創新教與 模式 2019 年秋季，社會運動令大學運作大受影響， 期間我們特別安排教學人員和大學高層管理人 員包括我本人，從早到晚在不同時段當值，一 個不能少地與每一位希望會面的同學進行真切 對話。到了11月，社會運動升溫，所有教學 改為網上進行，直至學期完結。新學期開始不 久，新冠肺炎疫情爆發，所有教學活動又被逼 回到虛擬空間。 今次疫情猶如一位良師，切切實實給我們上了 難忘的一課。對於全球高等教育界而言，網上 學習絕非新鮮事物，但直至新冠肺炎疫情來 襲，各地大學才把網上學習的龐大潛能充分發 揮。我們的教學團隊亦盡展創意，設計了嶄新 的網上互動教學及評核模式，令網上學習的效 果更佳，並激發同學思考。同時，我也欣賞同 學們面對轉變時，仍能靈活變通，充分適應全 新學習模式。國際化方面，地理上的封關，讓 浸大與更多海外大學簽訂了網上跨時空的協作 教學協議，令課程內容更為豐富。 President’s Message 校長獻辭 As I look back at a most challenging year in our history, I am amazed at what our students and colleagues have accomplished in the face of unprecedented adversities. Through ingenuity and creativity, we at HKBU have turned crisis into opportunities, and opportunities into innovative new models of university education. 這是我臨別前最後一次工作回顧。過去一年極具挑戰，然而，浸大師生面對前所未有的逆境，仍能發揮才智及 創意，轉危為機，並把握時機推動創新的教育模式，令人欣喜。