The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) is privileged to spearhead the Open Textbooks for Hong Kong project, thanks to the generous funding from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and the continuous support of the Education Bureau. The project aims at providing open license textbooks for Hong Kong’s primary and secondary schools, institutes and universities. These open textbooks are free for use, reuse, remix, and redistribution by Hong Kong schools; they therefore provide a solution to Hong Kong’s problem of high textbook prices and at the same time promote a culture of e-learning at all education levels.
For primary and secondary schools, the project team has developed the Open English textbook series for P1 to P6 and S1 to S6; these have been written in accordance to the EDB curriculum, duly approved by the EDB, and are now on the EDB’s Recommended Textbook List (RTL). This open textbook series will be ready for adoption by schools for the 2016-17 school year.
The project is now successfully completed. In order to present our open textbooks to Hong Kong schools, we will organize monthly seminars on English Language Open Textbooks for school principals and teachers, especially English language teachers between February and May 2016.
Target audience:
School principals, English Language subject panels and teachers of primary and secondary schools
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The seminar will cover:
Participants of the seminars will receive a sample unit of Open English. |
Schedule:
Change of date for the seminars to be held in February
Due to unforeseeable circumstance, the seminars for both primary and secondary schools in February have to be changed from 13 February to 20 February 2016.
Seminar sessions for primary schools are as follows (Schools are required to attend one session only):
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Session |
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Time |
Venue |
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1 |
20 February 2016 (Saturday) |
9:00am - 10:45am |
Room B0614, 6/F, Block B, 30 Good Shepherd Street, Homantin, Kowloon |
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2 |
12 March 2016 (Saturday) |
11:00am - 12:45pm |
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3 |
9 April 2016 (Saturday) |
9:00am - 10:45am |
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4 |
7 May 2016 (Saturday) |
11:00am - 12:45pm |
Seminar sessions for secondary schools are as follows (Schools are required to attend one session only):
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Session |
Date |
Time |
Venue |
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1 |
20 February 2016 (Saturday) |
11:00am - 12:45pm |
Room B0614, 6/F, Block B, 30 Good Shepherd Street, Homantin, Kowloon |
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2 |
12 March 2016 (Saturday) |
9:00am - 10:45am |
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3 |
9 April 2016 (Saturday) |
11:00am - 12:45pm |
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4 |
7 May 2016 (Saturday) |
9:00am - 10:45am |
Special Weather Arrangements
Please note that the seminars will be cancelled if Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above / Black Rainstorm Warning are still enforced at 7:00am.
Registration
We will send an invitation letter to schools in early February 2016. Please fill out the enlocsed registration form and fax to Ms Wu, Project Coordinator, (fax no: 2396 5009). If schools could not receive our letters, please contact us for details.
Enquiries
Tel: 2768 6482 or 2768 6484
Email: otb@ouhk.edu.hk
