Conference Papers
The improvisation of Hong Kong biology educators in response to COVID-19: Country report of Hong Kong SAR, China
EdLink- The improvisation of Hong Kong biology educators in response to COVID-19: Country report of Hong Kong SAR, China
- The 56th BIOTA National Convention and Scientific Sessions & 28th Biennial Conference of the AABE (2022: Philippines)
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- The COVID-19 pandemic measures substantially affected the Hong Kong education systems over two years. The learning and teaching of Biology in local secondary schools have been greatly hindered by the occasional suspension of face-to-face teaching in Hong Kong. The school-based assessment (SBA) of the major public examination, Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE), have been even canceled for the past years. To respond to the constraints imposed by COVID-19, there was an accelerated popularization of electronic learning (e-learning) in the educational sector. Other than conducting online real-time lectures, some new educational modules unitizing Virtual Reality (VR) have been developed by educational organizations to substitute the authentic learning in the field trip. The presentation would report a case study of such a VR-based module which has been tested in the tertiary institution for training the pre-service Biology teachers. The students agreed in the survey that the learning experience through VR-based module is not comparable to authentic field experience, and yet it could be a contingent measure in responding to the COVID-19 situation and a potential resource for self-directed learning in the future. Copyright © 2022 BIOTA & AABE.
- Paper presented at the 56th BIOTA National Convention and Scientific Sessions & 28th Biennial Conference of the AABE, Philippines.
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- English
- Conference Papers
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/6e0696f6
- 2022-11-03
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