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In the fascinating, unfolding world of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), a whole new set of relationships between learners is being forged, according to Prof King L Chow, Professor in the Division of Life Science at HKUST, one of the institutions pioneering the way in Asia for these global courses. “In the past, university students would only discuss with classmates when doing group projects. Now in my course, I have seen high school students, a graduate student, an archeologist, chefs and homemakers discussing recipes together.”

Lam Ho Tat Year 2, major in Physics HKUST is well known for its Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), which encourages students to gain early research experience with distinguished professors. UROP is not officially open to freshmen. However, in the first week of the first semester in Year 1, I decided to email Prof Kwok Yip Szeto in the Department of Physics to express my interest. Very fortunately, he decided to accept me and I started doing theoretical physics research under his supervision.

Students in a pioneering credit-bearing elective course at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School learn how investment in social enterprises can help society. By bringing students, social entrepreneurs and philanthropists together, the new teaching model enables students to contribute their ideas and skills to real businesses while making socially responsible investment. The course is open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of all majors at HKUST.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) will add its first three courses on edX (xConsortium) - one of the two major platforms in the world that offers Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in its ongoing efforts to promote this next generation learning medium that not only gives any eager learner worldwide an opportunity to take classes provided by top universities, but also make learning more personalized and flexible for students.The University will also offer a pilot scheme this summer for HKUST students to earn credits for their degree study, provided that they complete six weeks of face-to-face course work on campus on top of the MOOC they take. The course will be listed on their transcript and the credits can be counted as degree requirements.The three new courses to launch between June and September are as follows:

Research has definitely been the brightest gem in HKUST, a focused elite research university.  True to its founding ethos, HKUST’s thoughtful emphasis on both basic and applied research has pioneered today’s globally recognized research culture among its sister institutions and rendered a powerful evocation of all that science and technology can give to nourishing society and humanity.

Rebecca Kundrik, Science, Year 1

Michelle Qin, Business, Year 3 I was honor to be nominated by School of Business and Management (SBM) to represent HKUST (team of 4 students) to join the 2011 Citi International Case Competition ( https://hkicc.hkust.edu.hk/past_competitions_2011.html ). 20 teams of 4 students from all around the world join in the competition, such as UC Berkley and USC from US, UBC from Canada, NUS from Singapore, Thammasat University from Thailand, Tsinghua University from China, etc. The 20 teams are divided into 4 divisions and after the preliminary presentation on Wednesday afternoon, 4 top teams from each division will be selected to join the final presentation on Thursday.

Chen Qi Feng is a final year undergraduate student studying in computer science and mathematics. His fields of research are computer vision and computer graphics. Four years ago, Chen Qi Feng was admitted by Tsinghua University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He finally decided to pursue his study in HKUST. Before he is graduating from his first degree from the university, he is now awarded scholarships from 9 universities for studying his Ph.D including the Stanford University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of California at Los Angeles and University of Michigan. Here you can find out Chen’s story. Editor: Why did you choose HKUST?