From Neophyte to Experienced Facilitator: an Interactive Blended-Learning Course for Graduate Teaching Assistants in Hong Kong

dc.creator	Cecilia F.K. Pun
dc.creator	David Santandreu Calonge
dc.creator	Dimple R. Thadani
dc.creator	Kai-Pan Mark
dc.creator	P.H. Patrio Chiu
dc.date	2011-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:30:01Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:30:01Z
dc.identifier	2073-7904
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ae687656af2f49e88d3a1f24d58752eb
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22222
dc.description	Faculty training in tertiary institutions around the world is receiving increasing attention as it plays a significant role to ensure high quality learning and teaching practices in constantly changing multi-cultural education backgrounds. In the case of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), designing an effective training course to help them deliver content interactively, using student-centered strategies and approaches in a second language (in this case English), becomes critical. Rather than training GTAs in procedural and declarative knowledge (knowledge of facts and processes), a shift in emphasis to functioning knowledge, e.g., classroom management techniques, course design, formative and summative peer review, presentation skills, is the focus of this intensive course, which is heavily supported by two educational e-technologies, Echo360 Lecture Capturing System and an asynchronous Discussion Board, hosted under the Blackboard (Bb) Course Management System. Adopting an ethnographic approach in which all the researchers have co-taught this course for at least two years, this paper chronicles the effort of using Echo360 and Bb Discussion Board to support the delivery of course content and assessment tasks that yields reflective practices. Achievement of learning outcomes is evaluated through the use of multiple measures: reflections of course attendees, researchers’ direct observation, and statistics provided by the Learning Management System. Results are very encouraging in terms of significant improvement of graduate students’ presentation skills and self-reflective practices facilitated by Echo360 and Discussion Board.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Hong Kong Bao Long Accounting & Secretarial Limited
dc.relation	http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/article/view/108/88
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2073-7904
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Knowledge Management & E-Learning : an International Journal, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 153-169 (2011)
dc.subject	e-Learning Technologies
dc.subject	Graduate Teaching Assistants
dc.subject	Lecture Capture
dc.subject	Online Discussion Board
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	From Neophyte to Experienced Facilitator: an Interactive Blended-Learning Course for Graduate Teaching Assistants in Hong Kong
dc.type	article