2014 - 2015

HKU Teaching Development Grant  (Co-investigator)

An E-learning Calculus platform for the first year Science students

Grant: HK$528,778 (~US$68,000)

About the platform and the app: Link

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In the past, additional tutorials were held for students less prepared in calculus. Conducting these additional tutorials, however, was not very effective since not every student could attend due to scheduling conflicts, and students who managed to attend still had different mathematics background. As a result, the diverse individual learning needs continue to be an issue to be addressed during these tutorials.

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To tackle such problem, an e-learning platform was developed with which students can learn calculus online through instructional videos that cover topics of functions, limits, differentiation, integration and ordinary differential equations. The e-learning platform was hoping to provide round-the-clock assistance to students, who can then easily check their prior understanding and progress. Students can also use this system to work on quizzes and exercises as well as receiving instant feedback. A very powerful feature of such an e-learning platform is that all activities are documented, making it possible to track and analyse students’ learning. This e-learning platform was later transformed into a mobile app HKU Calculus. Their effectiveness is supported by our recent research findings through learning analytics, which were presented in an international conference, as well as published as a book chapter in a proceeding by Springer.