PolyU EDC Webinar – Designing Assessments in the GenAI Era

PolyU Educational Development Centre (EDC) arranged a webinar entitled “Designing Assessments in the GenAI Era” on 24 Jun 2026. In the beginning, Dr. Dawn Lo briefed the intended learning outcomes (ILO) in the GenAI Era. 

Dr. Julia Chen gave an introduction about impacts of GenAI on assessment including academic integrity and trustworthiness. She quoted a study of comparing the maths exam and practice results with and without GenAI practice. 

She mentioned the development of GenAI assessment since 2023 and to setup teacher and student GenAI Guidelines. She proposed to make learning visible.

Then Dr. Dawn Lo discussed why we need to rethink and redesign assessment. Assessment is a systematic process of collecting and documenting information about student performance and achievement. She mentioned three purposes of assessment including formative, summative and diagnostic.

The key features of quality assessment included validity, reliability, academic integrity and assessment security.

Dr. Dawn Lo pointed out some challenges associated with students’ use of GenAI in assessment. 

After that Mr. Leo Chon discussed six major approaches of embracing GenAI in assessment. Firstly, he stated the approach 1 that from written description to multimodal explanation and application. He asked students to apply what they learn in class to analyze a certain real-life situation that student cannot easily copy the content from GenAI.

And then he demonstrated some examples using multimodal work under green construction technology and video project.

For green construction technology, he proposed to use human insight plus AI insight to do the green design.

In approach 3 from presentation of ideas to defense of views that it needed to redesign oral presentation to give more time for defense.

After that Dr. Dawn Lo discussed approach 6 for assessing GenAI-related competency including knowledge, application, evaluation and AI ethics.

Finally, she concluded to design effective and authentic assessments, educators should align activities with learning outcomes, test tasks using GenAI tools, provide clear student guidelines and regularly review, as well as, update the assessment design.

Reference:

COMP - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

EDC, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/edc/

20260624: PolyU EDC Workshop – Flipped Learning Signature Showcases - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/06/polyu-edc-workshop-flipped-learning.html

20260511: PolyU EDC Seminar on Future-Proofing Your Career: Thriving in the AI Era - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/05/polyu-edc-seminar-on-future-proofing.html

20240826: PolyU EDC Webinar on GenAI in Learning and Teaching - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/polyu-edc-webinar-on-genai-in-learning.html

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PolyU EDC Workshop – Flipped Learning Signature Showcases

PolyU Educational Development Centre (EDC) arranged a workshop named “Flipped Learning Signature Showcases” on 24 Jun 2026. Dr. Jeff Tang was the first speaker. In this morning, we had breakfast in staff canteen together.

Then we arrived at the venue and saw a poster area outside.

Before start, we selfie with Dr. Raymond Pang.

And then Dr. Richard Lui also arrived.

Dr. Jeff Tang was the first speaker and his topic entitled “A Gamified Flipped Learning Platform for Human-Computer Interaction courses with RAG-Based Tutor Support”. 

In his self-introduction, he introduced his metaverse identity.

Then, Dr. Jeff Tang gave a brief introduction to "What is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)?"

After that he mentioned different pain point of learning HCI with different background students.

Fitts's law is a predictive model of human movement that he employed for design or application.

Finally, he introduced the gamified web-based learning platform for HCI concepts.

Inside the game, he employed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as AI tutor in the game.

Lastly, he concluded that they developed and successfully piloted a gamified, RAG-enabled web platform for flipped learning in HCI, with plans to expand its features and conduct a larger-scale evaluation to establish it as a reusable model for other abstract computing subjects.

Jeff’s capstone project team members were showed at the end.

And then we visited the posted area and saw low-altitude economy for flipped learning.

Another one related to academic integrity and ethics in business.

In this afternoon, we had lunch with Dr. YC Chau and Dr. Vincent Fung.

Reference:

COMP - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

EDC, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/edc/

20260511: PolyU EDC Seminar on Future-Proofing Your Career: Thriving in the AI Era - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/05/polyu-edc-seminar-on-future-proofing.html

20240826: PolyU EDC Webinar on GenAI in Learning and Teaching - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/polyu-edc-webinar-on-genai-in-learning.html

20240813: PolyU EDC Webinar on Flipping with FLIP - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/polyu-edc-webinar-on-flipping-with-flip.html

Visit PolyU Design Show 2026 in Father's Day

The PolyU Design Show 2026 started from 5 Jun to 7 Aug 2026 in Jockey Club Innovation Tower. Today is the Father’s Day, I visited the Show and then had lunch with Father-in-law family on 21 Jun 2026.

The Show as a key highlight of Hong Kong’s creative calendar brings together works by nearly 400 students from the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes of PolyU Design. This year, the Show features capstone projects for advanced works from interdisciplinary taught postgraduate programmes, real client collaborations, and Integrated Designpreneurship projects including commercial realities, community needs, and pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges.

Upon entering the main entrance, you will see a design exhibition tour.

The BA(Hons) Scheme in Design program showcases several examples of Work-Integrated Education (WIE).

Some interesting ideas about selling disaster cases.

An interesting product advertisement was played.

Then I went to the 7/F for Product Design.

Many students' creative works were displayed.

Solar panel for public use

Another room displays different types of products.

Idea for future Taxi in Hong Kong

Innovative design of wheelchairs

After lunch, we took a group photo to celebrate Father's Day.

Reference

PolyU Design Show 2026 - https://2026.polyudesignshow.com/

HKIE Press Conference on "Driving a Research-Led Approach, Fostering Safety and Low-Carbon Transition in the Construction Industry"

The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) held the Press Conference on "Driving a Research-Led Approach, Fostering Safety and Low-Carbon Transition in the Construction Industry" (「推動研究導向·促進建造業安全與低碳轉型」新聞發布會) on 16^th Jun 2026. Firstly, 4S Practical Approaches guideline was introduced.

The policy background and core objectives of the Smart Site Safety System (4S) is focusing on its mandatory implementation, real-time safety alerts, and data-driven root cause analysis.

The standard technical architecture of the Smart Site Safety System (4S), which integrates a Central Management Platform (CMP) acting as the analytical "brain," a high-bandwidth site telecommunications network for real-time transmission, and automated remote sensing technologies such as AI cameras, IoT sensors, and wearable smart gear.

And then HKIE representative introduced the 15th Five-Year Plan: "Promoting 'AI+'" Action and New Quality Productive Forces and promoting Greater Bay Area (GBA) Mutual Recognition.

Smart Site Safety System (4S) Labelling Scheme including 4S Label Scheme (4SLS), Qianhai Cross-Boundary Pilot and Value of Technology Export.

After that HKIE suggested the 4S system should not be viewed as an add-on measure after construction has commenced; instead, it should be integrated into preliminary project design, site layout planning, risk assessment, BIM coordination, and project delivery.

And then 10 Major Categories of Smart Site Safety System were mentioned.

Finally, IDES Iterative Adoption Framework was briefed from Identify, Deploy, Evaluate, Adjust to Scale.

HKIE recommended to employ AI and LLM for transforming from traditional safety inspection to AI prediction using data governance platform.

They issued the guideline named “Practical Approaches to Smart Site Safety System (4S) Adoption”. 

After that they demonstrated the use of smart devices.

The second part was the Research Report on Carbon Management for Infrastructure and Building Works of Hong Kong. Firstly, they reviewed local and overseas regulations and standards. 

They summarized the experience that to transition from carbon reporting to active management, organizations must establish clear metrics, expand lifecycle assessments to infrastructure, manage procurement, and leverage digital data. This transition should follow a phased implementation that builds capability before raising standards.

Finally, HKIE proposed four dimensions to improve the performance in project level and organization level. They expected to build the foundations governance and accountability.

Lastly, there was a Q&A session with media reporters.

Reference:

HKIE - https://hkie.org.hk/

News in HKCD - https://www.hkcd.com.hk/hkcdweb/content/2026/06/16/content_8760269.html