Josephine Csete

Factors involved in the success of Hong Kong construction and property entrepreneurs

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report a study investigating the success stories of six entrepreneurs in the Hong Kong construction and property field.Design/methodology/approach – Through in‐depth interviews, participants shared their experiences and the factors they perceived as contributing to their success.Findings – Evidence obtained from the interviews suggests what scholars mean by the Chinese entrepreneurial ethic is best understood as a combination of cultural values and strategizing behaviours.Research limitations/implications – Data collected in this study were restricted to the construction and property industry. However, the same combination of values and strategies would be an essential factor contributing to success in other industries, and therefore further exploration of this is encouraged.Originality/value – This paper explores the factors which successful Hong Kong construction and property entrepreneurs regarded as contributing to their success, it adds knowledge to the discu...

Creative Educational Use of Virtual Reality Working with Second Life

Hong Kong Polytechnic University educators used the Second Life virtual world to help students learn the relationships between key concepts in designing clothing for functional comfort.

Educational Virtual-Wear Trial: More Than a Virtual Try-On Experience

Developments in computer capabilities, networks, mobile devices, and social media have enabled researchers and educators to increasingly employ blended strategies when developing new learning technologies. In addition, there is a growing need to develop discipline-specific learning technologies as result of expanding research in various domains. The study reported here was conducted in the context of a textile and clothing higher education course. The key aim was to develop a new learning technology for university students, specifically to help them learn about clothing thermal functional design (CTFD).

Strategies for Impact: Enabling E-Learning Project Initiatives.

Purpose – The paper aims to focus on institutional initiatives to embed e‐learning in a university in Hong Kong, from 2006‐12, through large‐scale funding of 43 e‐learning projects. It outlines the guiding principles behind the universitys e‐learning development and discusses the significance of various procedures and practices in project planning, development and implementation.Design/methodology/approach – This longitudinal study combines historical perspectives with process description, analysis and personal observations. Its approach is based in action research. The authors are engaged both as participants/learning designers in particular projects and in management, administration and evaluation of the projects at the institutional level.Findings – It is proposed that e‐learning projects need careful planning, scaffolding and managing. Also that piloting, evaluation and formal reporting as well as the availability of professional, technical and instructional design support are significant factors in ...

Costs of E-Learning Support: An Investigation Across 139 Small Projects

Understanding the costing of e-learning informs decision-making on how to support the development and implementation of teaching and learning technologies in higher education. This paper describes costings and processes in a central e-learning support service that is especially applicable to face-to-face universities that use e-learning in a blended or supplemental mode. We differentiate three types of costs: infrastructure costs that are less sensitive to variation in the complexity of e-learning strategies, and edevelopment and e-delivery costs that are directly related to the nature of the strategies used. Using actual data from a three-year e-learning support project (e3Learning) with 139 sub-projects, the paper illustrates how the calculations promote an understanding of e-learning in the following four dimensions: 1) total cost of running an e-learning support service, 2) individual costs attributable to each of the sub-projects, 3) ‘price-tags’ of e-learning strategies, and 4) initial exploration of the cost-effectiveness issue.

Turning Service-Learning Teaching into Scholarly Work

The main aim of this chapter is to support teachers of service-learning (SL) subjects and projects in conducting a scholarly study on some aspect of the teaching and learning process. Key principles from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) are outlined with foundational references provided. Topics include: (1) the benefits of conducting SoTL studies in SL for the teacher/researcher; (2) types of scholarly studies that can be conducted on the teaching of SL; (3) basic background on SoTL including the standards applicable to all forms of scholarly work; and (4) the main stages of drafting questions, designing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating the results of a scholarly study. The chapter contains a summary checklist of the key questions presented.

Usability Study of CAD for Clothing Thermal Computational Design Education

This paper describes a usability study of CAD for teaching and learning clothing thermal computational design (CTCD) for university students of fashion and textiles. The CAD helps students to learn the clothing thermal computational design through computational design simulations (CD-Sims). The pedagogical strategies of employing CAD, and learning process and pedagogical implementation of CD-Sims are discussed. In addition, a user study employing the CD-Sims with CAD indicated that they enhanced students’ learning outcomes on pre-test and post-test clothing thermal computational design scores.

CPI Learning in Clothing Thermal Computational Design

This paper proposes a CPI (conceptual-procedural-integrative) learning method for textiles and clothing university students to learn the computational design for clothing thermal functions and performance on knowledge, skills and application levels. First, the CPI learning method is discussed. Second, three proposed learning approaches (virtual trial learning, 3M learning, F/P-oriented design learning) on knowledge, skills and application in clothing thermal computational design are described. Third, the paper describes a course design and user study of a one-semester university apparel functional design course. The data of a pre-post study were collected. The results showed that the students achieved significant improvement in theoretical academic content on knowledge, skills and application.