On June 27, the CityU Classroom Teaching Reform and Innovation Achievement Sharing Seminar and Teaching Academic Report Conference were successfully held in the Ho Yin Convention Centre of CityU. CityU's top management, such as Rector Shu Guang Zhang and Vice Rector Kong Fanqing, heads of faculties and departments, teachers and students of CityU, as well as guests from the government and experts and scholars shared the achievements of classroom teaching reform and innovation at CityU, and listened to cutting-edge research reports and case sharing from the academic field of teaching.  

The sharing seminar was honored to invite such guests as Deputy Director Chang Kun Hong at the Tertiary Education Services Office, Deputy Department Chief Wong Kin Mou and Section Chief Vong Iat Hang at the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Professor Hui-Ling Pan at Tamkang University, Professor Ieong Sao Leng at the University of Macau, Professor Lin Shin-Yi at National Taichung University of Education, Standing Deputy Dean Zhou Er’ yong at Guangdong University of Science & Technology, Principal Ho Shing at Kao Yip Middle School, as well as Ngai Lai San, Assistant to Principal of Pooi To Middle School.

The event was divided into two sessions: expert lectures and sharing of reports from various teaching research groups. Professor Hui-Ling Pan at Tamkang University and Professor Ieong Sao Leng at the University of Macau gave excellent academic reports on "Teaching Innovation towards Future Universities: Taiwan's Experience" and "University of Macau from an International Perspective: Teaching Reform and Practical Innovation", respectively. After that, representative of the Chinese teaching team, the design teaching team, the computer teaching team and the English teaching team of CityU shared their research findings on the classroom teaching reform and innovation, such as "A Case Study of the Evolution of Chinese Characters and Fonts", "The Flipping Classroom Practice of Jewelry Design Hand Drawing Class" and "Computer Class Activates Classroom Reflection" and "Reflection on English Grammar Classroom Research". The pictures and captions of the sharing reports were both excellent, and the video images of the research process taken by each team vividly showed the reflection and progress of each teaching research team in action research.

Professor Lin Shin-Yi at National Taichung University of Education delivered a lecture on the topic "Benefit Assessment of Co-operative Teaching Practice of Higher Education Practitioners" to introduce the teaching reform and innovative mechanism strategy of "Co-operative Teaching by Practitioners". Dr. Wong Jing Jing from Class of 2015 at CityU shared the research findings of her doctoral dissertation entitled "Teaching Less, Learning More: Action Research on the Reform Path of University Classroom Teaching". Under the guidance of Professor Sean (Shuying) Li, Dr. Wang Jingjing participated in the action research on the reform of education at CityU and completed her doctoral dissertation accordingly. Her action research explained the profound connotation of the teaching concept of "teaching less and learning more" and its application in university classroom teaching.

Finally, Academic Registrar Sean Li extended gratitude to the experts and scholars for the knowledge feast of the academic frontier and highly praised the action research results of the research teams of CityU. Academic Registrar Li noted that to do research, teaching academic personnel should start from studying one of their own courses or even one class. Through the academic teaching reflection process, good habits of academic research and the spirit of scientific research would be formed. Academic status should be given to teaching and the integration and development of science and education should be realized.

With the full support of the Macao Foundation, Academic Registrar Li led various teaching teams to carry out research on teaching reform and innovative actions. Six action research groups had been set up in all faculties and institutes to seriously carry out teaching action research based on university classroom in the 2017-2018 academic year, with fruitful results. In this way, the teaching reform and innovation achievement sharing seminar and teaching academic report conference were held to help our teaching reform and innovation and improve our teachers' teaching academic capabilities.

The City University of Macau is committed to the continuous improvement of the quality of universities and colleges from a new starting point in the pursuit of excellence. The successful holding of this event helps each educational institution to examine the excellent work and improvement of space for teaching, constantly strive for perfection to improve the quality of university teaching, improve the university operating mechanism and bring the higher education in Macao into line with the international standards.

Group Photo of the Guests

Vice Rector Prof. Kong Giving an Opening Speech

​Prof. Pan Giving an Academic Report

Sharing of Reports from Chinese Teaching Research Group

Summary of Academic Registrar Li

Group Photo of Prof. Kong and Research Groups