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International Conference on Hybrid Learning

ICHL 2011: Hybrid Learning pp 1–9Cite as

The Best of Both Worlds: Effective Hybrid Learning Designs in Higher Education in Hong Kong

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Higher education in Hong Kong is undergoing significant changes with the advent of a normative four-year undergraduate curriculum in 2012. The change from a three-year to a four-year curriculum has been made in order to assist students develop a broad set of capabilities. There is therefore an emphasis on designing learning environments that facilitate capability development as well as traditional knowledge acquisition. In Hong Kong there are a number of barriers to the development of effective hybrid learning designs that will be discussed. However, good examples exist and this paper will comment on a number of initiatives occurring in Hong Kong universities where learning technologies have been integrated into face-to-face teaching contexts in ways that facilitate desired student learning outcomes; the examples chosen will focus on the use of English language, a key area of learning need in Hong Kong.

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    Carmel McNaught

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  1. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 18, Chui Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China

    Reggie Kwan

  2. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China

    Joseph Fong  & Lam-for Kwok  & 

  3. Centre for Cyber Learning, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Jeanne Lam

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McNaught, C. (2011). The Best of Both Worlds: Effective Hybrid Learning Designs in Higher Education in Hong Kong. In: Kwan, R., Fong, J., Kwok, Lf., Lam, J. (eds) Hybrid Learning. ICHL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6837. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22763-9_1

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