Teachings

• Spring 2026, EMIA6500R(CWB)/CMAA5022(GZ)/CSM160021(Helsinki): All One Needs to Know about Social Media/Social Media for Creatives, HKUST-GZ* & HKUST* & University of Helsinki*, Teaching Assistant
• Course website: https://socialmedia.ust.hk
• Syllabus: All One Needs to Know about Social Media (also known as Social Media and Social VR) is a postgraduate course that immerses students in the evolving ecosystem of social media and its applications across creative practice. Blending human-led instruction with AI-driven teaching assistants and lecturers, the course explores how creators ideate, produce, and distribute content in networked environments. A distinctive feature is its multi-university collaboration: students co-create and discuss with peers from partner institutions worldwide inside a shared Metaverse Classroom in VR, experiencing truly cross-cultural production workflows and critiques. Students engage critically and practically with platform logics, audience behaviors, and emerging technologies, including generative AI, social VR, and Metaverse. Each class includes a seminar session featuring global researchers and student teams presenting current work, giving learners direct exposure to cutting-edge scholarship and practice. Through case and paper analyses and iterative prototyping, participants develop fluency in creative content creation, digital storytelling, multimedia production, gamification for engagement, and data-informed strategy. Emphasis is placed on ethical and responsible creation, accessibility and inclusivity, experimentation, and reflective practice. Students will be capable of designing innovative, research-informed social media experiences that resonate across diverse communities and contexts.

• Fall 2025, UCUG1000 CTDL: Basics of Critical Thinking and Data Literacy (UG), HKUST-GZ, Teaching Assistant
Syllabus: This course is taught by a teaching team of a group of faculties from four Hubs to introduce the basics of critical thinking and data literacy. The course will be delivered using the problem-solving approach with interdisciplinary applications. The contents include barriers to critical thinking, characteristics of a critical thinker, argument, cognitive bias, logical fallacies, inductive reasoning, and simple probability and statistical models. Students will be equipped with critical thinking and data analyzing skills to analyze problems of reasoning, evaluate the truthfulness of evidence, examine the fallacies of thinking, construct valid arguments, and make better decisions in personal and professional life.

• Fall 2024, UCMP6030: Cross-disciplinary Design Thinking (PG), HKUST-GZ, Teaching Assistant
Syllabus: This course focuses on user-collaborative design methods for generating inclusive product solutions that integrate stakeholder and product functionality perspectives. Students will create specified product/process/policy/protocol/plan (5P) concept models through the use of recursive user feedback engagement methods, experimental prototyping, and divergent and convergent ideation strategies. Featured topics include design thinking; stakeholder research; concept development, screening, and selection; and interaction design.

• Sept. 2024, PDEV6800: Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PG), Instructional Deliver
Syllabus: The course is designed to strengthen students’ competence in teaching. It comprises 2 parts: Part 1 aims to equip all full-time research postgraduate (RPg) students with basic teaching skills before assuming teaching assistant duties for the department. Good teaching skills can be acquired through learning and practice. This 10-hour mandatory training course provides all graduate teaching assistants (GTA) with the necessary theoretical knowledge with practical opportunities to apply and build up their knowledge, skills and confidence in taking up their teaching duties. At the end of the course, GTAs should be able to (1) facilitate teaching in tutorials and laboratory settings; (2) provide meaningful feedback to their students; and (3) design an active learning environment to engage their students. In Part 2, students are required to perform instructional delivery assigned by their respective departments to complete this course.