PALMS Teacher Testimonials
" [The PALMS Project] tools add to the options you have for designing fresh learning environments where students are engaged in learning and you, as teachers, get good information about how well your students are learning. A win-win scenario. "
- Professor Carmel McNaught - Emeritus Professor of Learning Enhancement and former Director of the Centre for Learning Enhancement AndResearch (CLEAR) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
" PALMS provided a great opportunity for us educators from different disciplines and different institutes to collaborate in the pedagogical development and breakthrough for higher education in Hong Kong. PALMS has given us cutting edge technology platforms to integrate our expertise and experiences and realize our innovative education ideas. "
- Dr. YANG Jian - Ph.D (U of Bristol), FHEA Lecturer School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong HKU Teaching Grant: "Mobile electronic platform and electronic resources for histology education, the Histology E Classroom"
" The PALMS team truly understand the challenges as well as the benefits of engaging students in active learning pedagogies. They draw on their own experience as teachers and listen to feedback from other teacher users to develop tools that are simple to use yet really work in engaging learners. These resources can be flexibly applied, which allows me in my role as an instructional designer to recommend PALMS tools to teachers across many disciplines and learning contexts. "
- Dr. Josephine Csete - Senior Educational Development Officer Educational Development Centre The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
" It was great that I was one of the members in the PALMS project as I learned a lot from the peers to share the different pedagogical teaching experience of the common discipline, i.e. Anatomy teaching. Besides, the support from the PALMS project gave our team having a breakthrough. There was a great challenging to adopt the web-based AR with the 3D printing technology in the Anatomy teaching for the visual-spatial learning in the new era. The courseware may be further disseminated to the teaching STEM tertiary education for the health professional study. "
- Dr. Florence TANG - Ph.D., RegVetSurg Lecturer School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
" The PALMS Project is brilliant that provides lots of resources and supports for teachers to develop and apply different platforms, such as mobile apps, to adopt active learning in and/or after class. For example, with the ChemEye app, every student seems to have a mini-portable laboratory hiding in their mobile phones. Colorimetric measurements can be performed whenever the need arises at any location, without any confines from the classroom and laboratory. "
- Dr. Gray HO - Ph.D. (The University of Hong Kong) Lecturer Department of Chemistry Hong Kong Baptist University Awards: President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Early Career Teaching, 2018
YoTeach! Teacher Testimonials
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