Bulletin No. 2, 2016

From Cyber to Hyper 13 Five micro-modules including ‘Social Contract and Freedom’ and ‘Arabic Peninsula at the Beginning of Islam’ have been created, while more modules a re in t he p i pe line. The p roduc t i on team attended a workshop at the Centre for eLearning Innovation and Technology ( ELITE) to equip themselves with the knowhow of video editing and interactive exercise setting. According to Dr. I p, each module requires one week of preparation and another week for multimedia c o n t e n t e d i t i n g . ‘ T h e m i c r o - m o d u l e s ’ completion rate is now above 70%. I find them instrumental in clarifying the core concepts in tutorials, especially when the 45-minute lecture with a class size of over 100 students may not afford a deeper exploration of classic texts’. The micro-modules are currently open to the CUHK community. Dr. Ip hopes to open them to a wider online community in future. ‘After all, the mission of higher education is to pollinate knowledge for the betterment of society.’ Alongside classroom interaction, autonomous learning is also conducted on the mobile app DAIMON , a reading companion developed by CUHK teachers for comprehending difficult texts such as the Qu’ran . The check-point questions of the app help students check their own reading progress and understanding.