To facilitate online teaching and learning, instructors can make use of Library’s Resource List to seamlessly connect your students to lists of mandatory and supplementary teaching resources directly from Learn@PolyU.

• Resource List is a platform that lets Instructors personally manage suggested readings and other resources, such as e-books and e-journals and Open Educational Resources (OERs) so as to better support online teaching and student’s learning. 

• The Library’s OER portal pulls together open-licensed teaching and learning resources that reside in the public domain so that PolyU Instructors can discover and share them to supplement their teaching.

How to add supplementary materials and Open Educational Resources into your Resource List?

Instructors can easily add mandatory and additional teaching materials, including relevant Open Educational Resources (OERs) into the Resource List of their courses.   

HSS2011 Human Anatomy is an example of a resource list where the Course Instructor embedded his own OER into the Resource list.

Steps to add materials into Resource List can be found in this Guide.

For further assistance, contact your Faculty Librarian  or call us at  2766-6863  (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.

The project “i-Space: A Makerspace and Community for Students of All Backgrounds at the University Library” launched by the Library of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has won the Regional Silver Award in Asia-Pacific and Cultivating Curiosity Bronze Award of the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2020.

The PolyU Library built and opened the new i-Space in 2017. The i-Space is an experimental learning space zoned for inspiration, ideation and implementation. It is an educational innovation, the first of its kind among academic libraries in Hong Kong. To promote the equality of opportunity for students to access digital equipment, the Library offers a new facility Digital Makerspace in i-Space to provide a low barrier of entry for students of all disciplines and family background to try out and explore entry-level digital equipment such as Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR), 3D scanning & printing, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, poster printing, videos recording and editing.

With a view to cultivating curiosity and Can-do Mindset, MakerMindset@i-Space Programme was launched in 2018 with the sponsorship from Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund. The Programme enriches students’ learning experience through creative and insightful hands-on workshops and seminars, encourages students to explore inspirational use of emerging technologies in creative work.

The PolyU Library’s Digital Makerspace embraces Culture Tech concept by bringing culture, technology and interdisciplinary collaboration together. In facilitating knowledge transfer to the community, the PolyU Library and Department of Electronic and Information Engineering co-organized the “Inter-secondary School Virtual Reality Contest” with the theme "Stories from Ancient China". The Contest challenged secondary students from diverse disciplines to turn stories and fables from ancient China into immersive Virtual Reality games.

QS Reimagine Education Awards 2020

The international Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Reimagine Education Awards are designed to reward the most successful educational innovations, enhancing student learning outcomes and employability. Over 1500 educators from across the world contested this year’s Awards. Over 250 educators from across the world submitted judging candidacies, from which 194 of the most authoritative and experienced were selected.

As the semester draws to a close, we can make use of analytics and data from the Resource List platform to better understand how our students are making use of the reading lists for your courses.

Resource List, a tool launched in July 2019, aims to connect your students with your course readings right inside Learn@PolyU. This platform allows Instructors and Librarians to collaborate and manage suggested readings and other resources to support students’ learning.

Log on to Learn@PolyU, access the Resource List platform and see usage analytics under “Reports” in the left sidebar. Here are some useful usage analytics you can use to better understand how your reading lists are used:

• Total number of Active Students
• Total number of Full Text Access
• Total number of Likes

These analytics can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet for further analysis.

Do check out our guide for Resource List to learn more!

Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact your Faculty Librarian or call us at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.