The ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Awards celebrate and reward excellent research and practice and outstanding achievement in Learning Technology. Established in 2007, the Awards have established a benchmark for outstanding achievement in Learning Technology on a national scale and attract competitive entries from the UK and internationally. All entries are reviewed by an independent judging panel chaired by the President of ALT.

 Our PALMS Project and YoTeach! have been shortlisted in categories, “Science of Learning Award" and “ICT Tools for Learning and Teaching Award", respectively, in the 2020 Reimagine Education Awards this year.  This year’s Awards process saw nearly 1500 applications submitted across our thirteen categories, and we have only chosen to shortlist the top 12 percent of these innovations.  We are absolutely thrilled to be included in this year's group of innovators in education.

The awards are broken down into two sections those for Suppliers and/or distributors, and those for Teachers, Schools and Educational Professionals. The awards will highlight and reward the quality and diversity of educational products, resources, services and people as well as the best educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the teaching profession.The awards highlight and reward the quality and diversity of educational products, resources, services and people as well as the best educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the teaching profession. The GESS Education Awards aim to encourage the raising of educational services & product standards throughout the industry and aims to be recognised throughout the sector as the accolade of excellence.

Hong Kong Emerging Technology Education Association organized and organized by a number of Hong Kong industry organizations and professional organizations. The Education Bureau, the Innovation and Technology Bureau and the Government Information Technology Supervision Office are fully supported. The purpose of the competition is to allow students to be creative and enhance innovation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), and to commend students, teachers and schools for inventions. The effort made. 2020 Greater Bay Area STEM Excellence Award (Hong Kong) Topics include: Science Experiment Group, Robotics, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence

The competition is divided into kindergarten group, elementary school group, junior high school group, high school group and college group. Students can choose to participate in individual or small groups of seven. At the same time, the competition also has ten STEM teacher excellence awards and ten STEM school excellence awards. If you are interested in participating in the competition, please visit the conference website ( http://www.hknetea.org ) to read the competition details and download the application form.

In recognition of our innovative teaching and learning pedagogies, the PALMS project has been shortlisted for the prestigious Wharton-Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Reimagine Education Awards 2018, in the E-LEARNING AWARD category with a project entitled “Developing Active Learning Pedagogies and Mobile Applications in University STEM Education (PALMS Project – Pedagogic and Active Learning Mobile Solutions). The Reimagine Education Awards (https://www.reimagine-education.com/) is a global event also known as “The Oscars of Education” and is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and QS Stars. The competition aims to reward those most successful in creating transformational educational initiatives across the educational sector by providing outstanding educational innovators with the opportunity to present their projects to a panel of judges and industry experts. The competition attracted 1150 submissions with an international panel of judges consisting of 100 experts who evaluated the projects based on five main criteria: project approach, project engagement, project impact, scalability and feasibility analysis. We look forward to attending the Conference on 29-30 November, 2018 in San Francisco, with the opportunity to showcase our project in front of a global audience of educators and decision-makers from the higher education space as well as investors in education-related and government startups.

Funded by the UGC Funding Scheme for Teaching and Learning Proposals, Dr. Ting and his team have initiated a project entitled “Developing Active Learning Pedagogies and Mobile Applications in University STEM Education” with an aim of improving students’ overall learning outcomes through active learning. Under this project, the team partnered with CUHK, HKU and HKBU and developed 13 active teaching pedagogies, mobile applications and platforms, with approximately 35,000 international and local users (students and teachers) per month. The project objectives include: – Increasing students’ overall learning outcomes through active learning; – Exploring and developing active learning pedagogies to increase student engagement in STEM higher education; – Developing an online platform to promote and encourage wider adoption of active learning among Hong Kong STEM instructors; – Using and improving quantitatively rigorous and valid methods to evaluate the impact of active learning strategies on student learning outcomes in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education; and – Adapting existing or developing new mobile applications to enhance active learning. In addition to YoTeach!, AMA’s team has developed 2 other applications namely Badaboom! and The Cell Game. These technologies successfully engage students in active learning, and also serve as platforms for knowledge sharing and dissemination.