Innovative Learning Spaces at CETL, Invited Speaker

As higher education moves into the new post pandemic era, new innovative
technological affordances are introduced in teaching and learning. With the
emergence of online, blended, and "flipped" classroom learning models that
supplement traditional face-to-face instruction, hybrid learning environment
can be delivered synchronously or asynchronously. These new pedagogical
goals align with the acquisition of the necessary twenty-first-century
technological affordances for problem solving, collaboration and critical
intellectual inquiry that embraces the social, cognitive and affective dimensions
of learning. Unfortunately, many universities are finding it difficult to support
synchronous hybrid collaborative group work or discussion as classroom
settings are limited with the fixed desk arrangement, and students who bring
their laptops often find it difficult to find an electric plug to recharge. At the
University of Hong Kong, the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and
Learning (CETL) has successfully obtained a design patent in the People's Republic of China for a New Hybrid Learning Mobile Desk Console System in an immersive blended synchronous hybrid learning environment.