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The Diastemas portal is a social media driven learning platform developed as a joint-collaboration between the University of British Columbia (UBC) and HKU. The first platform was developed and initiated in Dentistry. A redesign was undertaken by HKU’s Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and further refined by our e-Learning Team. We enhanced the application by consolidating the backend database connection, improving the graphical user interface (GUI), and enabling a MP4 video upload function.

Dr Sam Chu’s Blended Synchronous Teaching and Learning (BSTL) project is supported under the Dean’s Innovation Fund. BSTL tries to implement a new pedagogy, which means a mix of face-to-face classes and online classes using media rich technologies (Bower, Kenney, Dalgarno,  Lee, & Lee, 2013; Szeto, 2014, 2015).