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In 2008, two undergraduate students at Stanford University, Kayvon Beykpour and Aaron Wasserman, created a collection of iPhone apps that provided campus and course information of the university. With the support of Stanford’s Registrar, administrative features like add/drop courses and grade review ...
With curriculum changes to support the 3-3-4 academic reform, the University has a rare opportunity to rethink and redesign how we provide and deliver education to our students to create a rewarding and unique CityU learning experience. The University has instigated a new “Discover & Innovate @ ...
Since 2009, the OCIO has been organizing several experience/knowledge sharing sessions that are opened to all IT staff, both central and departmental, as well as any interested students. These sessions provide rare opportunities for IT staff across departments and units to meet and share their ...
The introduction of learning management system (LMS or VLE for virtual learning environment) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) was led by a small group of colleagues, including myself, in the Department of Physics and Materials Science and the Computing Server Centre (CSC) in 1998 [1]. Seven ...
As e-learning evolves into an integral part of our academic learning environment, the Blackboard platform (Bb) is now a mission critical system at CityU, enabling both staff and students to maximize their productivity. The e-learning project is the major focus of CityU's Information Systems ...
Eighteen months into the University’s e-learning project, the first focus of the Information Systems Strategic Plan 2005-2010 ( Ref: Network Computing Issue 46 - December 2005), every credit-bearing course is now provided with an e-learning component on the Blackboard (Bb) Academic Suite. This ...
Recently, the University's student intranet has been replaced by the CityU e-portal. This marks the beginning of a new era in the use of electronic communications in the University. There is no doubt that the World Wide Web (WWW) has completely transformed the use of computer networks for ...