The School of Open Learning presented its first "Christmas Busking”. Its staff teamed up with its distance-learning and part-time student volunteer team, “V-Power”, to sing Christmas songs to celebrate and send blessings to students. Christmas gifts were distributed to students who attended it.
The School of Open Learning organized a workshop on mindfulness and stress reduction on 2 December 2022. The workshop was delivered by Ms Lo Sau Kuen, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Health Studies. It aimed to help distance-learning and part-time students counteract stress and anxiety in their hectic lives as well as to develop a stronger sense of wellbeing and self-care through basic mindfulness exercises.
The School of Open Learning organized the hill cleanup activity "Leave No Trace" on 30 October 2022. Members of "V-power," a volunteer team of students from the Distance-Learning and Part-time Programme at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, went to Yuen Tsuen Ancient Trail to clean up the trail with their friends and family members.
To complete your assignments, you often search and refer to academic works on the Internet or in libraries. Proper referencing is essential for academic integrity. To assist students to master academic referencing skills and common referencing styles and avoid pitfalls, the School of Open Learning will organize two Academic Referencing Workshops, one in Cantonese and the other in English. The details are as follows: Academic Referencing Workshop Contents: · Academic referencing skills · Common referencing styles · Common pitfalls Language: Cantonese English Date: 21 October 2022 (Friday) 28 October 2022 (Friday) Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Speaker: Dr KC
Two library webinars were provided in Cantonese on 22 and 23 September 2022. For other library webinars conducted in English, please visit https://www.hkmu.edu.hk/lib/library-workshop-series-autumn-term-2022/#orientation for details.
Four sessions of new student orientation were held on 20, 21, and 22 August and 9 September, with the last one for new students who had registered late. Information such as accessible teaching and learning resources, DL study cycle, programme structure, course registration, learning support and student activities were covered in the orientation sessions. This was the first time that the University had organized orientation sessions for all new DL students at University level.
