JTC 2025 – Feedback Unpacked: Mastering Feedback Flow in Large Classrooms
Event Details:
Date: 11 November 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:45pm – 01:45pm (HKT)
Venue: Learning Lab (RRS 321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)
Abstract
Arranging feedback sequences in large classes requires a systematic approach to ensure all students benefit from timely and meaningful input. Structured feedback cycles—where whole-class, peer, and targeted individual feedback are delivered alternately—help streamline the process and enhance engagement. Leveraging technology and clear scheduling, instructors can efficiently monitor progress and address common issues collectively, fostering a supportive learning environment that scales for large groups. For this event, we have three speakers sharing their teaching experiences at CI-badged courses, providing valuable insights into effective feedback strategies in large classes.
About the Speakers
Prof Alastair Mcclure is a legal historian of modern South Asia and the British Empire. He teaches legal history courses relating to imperialism, the development of the criminal trial, introduction to legal history, and a global history of Gandhi.
Prof. Cao Wenjun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hong Kong and serves as the Associate Director of the Construction Informatics Laboratory. Prior to joining HKU, she was an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology. Wenjun holds a B.Eng. from Tongji University and a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. With over 14 years of experience spanning design, construction, structural health monitoring, maintenance, and adaptive reuse of bridges, her research focuses on cyber civil infrastructure and circular construction.
She is the sole lecturer for Principles of Civil Engineering Management, where she innovatively integrates circular economy concepts into the syllabus and has developed AI tools to assess students’ oral presentations, along with a novelty evaluation method for this new topic.
Dr Carol C. L. Tsang is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. She is a historian of gender and reproductive health in Hong Kong. She coordinates and teaches courses on gender studies, motherhood and family. Her works have been published in Cold War History, World Medical & Health Policy, Twentieth Century British History and with HKU Press.
For information, please contact:
Dr. Michelle Raquel (cics@hku.hk)