Bulletin Issue AUGUST 2020



Learning

GDC-Online to Produce High-quality Courses


With effect from 1 July 2020, Professor CH Chu, Clinical Professor in Cariology and Dr James Tsoi, Assistant Professor in Dental Materials Science have joined the Global Dental Campus (GDC) as directors. GDC is part of the Institute for Advanced Dentistry (IAD), a global centre of excellence for the management of complex and severe oral conditions.

Dr Tsoi is in-charge of the GDC-online that offers continuing dental and professional education to practising dentists and specialists. He coordinates the production of the planned Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Advanced Courses that that are intended to blend into each other and expand the global reach of the Faculty. He also works closely with the course directors. “However, the first thing is to build a video team and establish a well-equipped studio for high-quality course production,” he said.

The multi-media team will be formed and brought on board very soon. Dr Tsoi looks forward to the new production and new courses, together with the existing MOOCs. “The courses will be accessible not only from home, but everywhere using a mobile device. We should break the walls between learners and the content through this kind of learner-centred and technology-enriched approach,” he added. The GDC-online enables the maximization of impact and potential of HKU’s role in global dental education.

Dr Tsoi is grateful to the predecessor of the GDC-online, Professor Jukka Matinlinna, who contributed extensively on its development and gave valuable insights to Dr Tsoi. “I am honoured to take over and carry on with the GDC-Online. We will continue to produce different high-quality pioneering dental contents for various levels of learners,” he said.

Five more MOOCs and Advanced Courses are targeted to be offered in 2020-2021. To learn more about the courses, please visit Faculty website: http://facdent.hku.hk/learning/massive-open-online-courses.html and HKU Online Learning and MOOCs webpage: https://tl.hku.hk/hkuonline/ . Please join the GDC - On Campus and get the credits!

 
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