Bulletin Winter 1978

The Administrative and Planning Committee set up the Committee on Instructional Development (CID) in 1976 with a group of amateur but enthusiastic academics as its members: Mr. John Gannon (Chairman) Dr. H. H. Ho Mr. P. T. McGuire Dr. Pedro Ng Dr. T. C. Wong Dr. Leo Yam Professor Timothy Yu Dr. R. F. Turner-Smith (Secretary) The Committee met every two or three weeks throughout the academic year 1976-77 and laid the groundwork for all future developments, both in Instructional Development and in Audio-Visual Services. The Committee on Instructional Development was re-organized under the Senate in October 1978 as the Senate Committee on Instructional Development (SCOID) with the following terms of reference: (1) to promote activities designed for the improvement of teaching and learning; (2) to make recommendations and policy decisions concerning instructionaldevelopment and media servic (3) to coordinate the provision of instructional development services; and (4) to oversee the running of the University Instructional Media Services. The membership of this Senate Committee is: Chairman: Mr. J. B. Gannon (appointed by the Senate upon the recommendation of the Senate APC) Ex-officio Members: Bursar (or his representative) Director of the Centre for Communication Studies (or his representative) Director of the School of Education (or his representative) Librarian (or her representative) Other Members (appointed by the Senate upon Senate APC recommendation): Dr. Y. T. Chung Mr. Jerome J. Day Dr. Chan Chack-kuan Professor G. H. Choa Dr. H. H. Ho Professor John F. Jones Mr. T. C. Lai Dr. Leo Yam Mr. Yu Kwang-chung Member & Secretary: Dr. R. T. Turner-Smith (Instructional Development Officer) Observer: The Audio-Visual Officer Instructional Development Activities Almost as soon as it was formed in 1976 the Committee became deeply involved in the debate on Student-Orientated Teaching and Subject-Orientated Teaching, triggered by the Fulton Report. An I.U.C. visitor from Oxford, Dr. Maijorie Reeves, led a five week series of workshops on The Relationship of Student-Orientated Teaching to the Major Subject. This culminated in papers on “A Working Description 23