TY - CHAP
T1 - Building Cross-Cultural Academic Exchange with University Students During COVID-19 Through Online Deliberation
T2 - The Case of an Energy Studies Course in Hong Kong
AU - Cheung, Wing Kei
AU - Mah, Daphne Ngar yin
AU - Cheung, Darren Man Wai
AU - Siu, Alice
AU - Kim, Hana
AU - McLellan, Benjamin C.
AU - Mori, Akihisa
AU - Deng, Lifeng
AU - Huang, Liling
N1 - Financial support was required to support the staff members, university research networks and technological systems for the event. We would like to extend our thanks to the Virtual Teaching and Learning grant, Service-Learning Mini-Grants, Communities of Practice Funding for providing us sufficient funds for the smooth running of the online workshop and other community-based service-learning activities. In addition, the Research Impact Fund provided by the Hong Kong SAR Government was available to support research elements of the workshop. Figure 7.7 illustrates the contributions of the various funds towards the workshop and other research related works.
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PY - 2024/1/2
Y1 - 2024/1/2
N2 - Under the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong in early 2022, teachers and students in the higher education sector were subject to severe adverse learning environments due to social distancing practices. Researchers identify the growing hardships in connecting students with each other. Through the Hong Kong x Daejeon x Kyoto x Taipei x Guangzhou Online Undergraduate Deliberation Workshop organised in April 2022, 65 students from Hong Kong, Daejeon, Kyoto, Taipei and Guangzhou gathered, and discussed the role of universities for sustainable energy transitions through a mixed online model of the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform, Zoom and Qualtrics. This project utilised the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform and university networks to conduct a cross-cultural exchange for our undergraduate students at Hong Kong Baptist University. This workshop was a collaboration between seven Asian universities across five cities. To compare participating students’ changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours before and after the project, quantitative questionnaires (n = 50) alongside qualitative post-event in-depth semi-structured interviews (n = 8) were conducted. This study revealed the effectiveness of combining the online platforms and other online teaching software in facilitating students’ knowledge exchange across various cities. Through experimenting with the new virtual platform, this project opened up new ways for globalisation in teaching and learning.
AB - Under the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong in early 2022, teachers and students in the higher education sector were subject to severe adverse learning environments due to social distancing practices. Researchers identify the growing hardships in connecting students with each other. Through the Hong Kong x Daejeon x Kyoto x Taipei x Guangzhou Online Undergraduate Deliberation Workshop organised in April 2022, 65 students from Hong Kong, Daejeon, Kyoto, Taipei and Guangzhou gathered, and discussed the role of universities for sustainable energy transitions through a mixed online model of the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform, Zoom and Qualtrics. This project utilised the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform and university networks to conduct a cross-cultural exchange for our undergraduate students at Hong Kong Baptist University. This workshop was a collaboration between seven Asian universities across five cities. To compare participating students’ changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours before and after the project, quantitative questionnaires (n = 50) alongside qualitative post-event in-depth semi-structured interviews (n = 8) were conducted. This study revealed the effectiveness of combining the online platforms and other online teaching software in facilitating students’ knowledge exchange across various cities. Through experimenting with the new virtual platform, this project opened up new ways for globalisation in teaching and learning.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Cross-cultural academic exchange
KW - Energy studies course
KW - Stanford online deliberation platform
KW - Technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85181467065&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-8418-3_7
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-8418-3_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85181467065
SN - 9789819984176
T3 - Springer Briefs in Education
SP - 65
EP - 79
BT - Teaching with Technology in the Social Sciences
A2 - Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke
A2 - Li, Sandy S. C.
A2 - Pahs, Sebastian
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore
ER -
