博雅行 | 三杰获教学与服务奖之王莹博士

UIC“杰出教学与服务奖”的设立是期望提高教学和服务质量，表彰在教学和服务方面有杰出表现和成就的教师。2015-2016年度“杰出教学与服务奖”由理工科技学部助理教授郭奕龙博士、人文与社会科学学部助理教授爱德华多·摩纳哥博士、工商管理学部助理教授王莹博士获得。

我们将推出该奖项获奖者的系列访谈，本期人物是工商管理学部助理教授王莹博士。

王莹于2009年取得香港大学商学院的博士学位，同年加入UIC。她在评选年度时任应用经济专业课程主任。王莹认为，教师应使学生掌握必要的技能，学会自主学习，并达到教师期望的教学目的；换句话说，就是实行以学生为中心、以成效为本的教学方法。

If you watched the Cantonese music drama “I Have a Date with Spring” staged by our staff and students two years ago, you would be probably impressed by one of the main actresses. Her beautiful singing and dance moves greatly amused the audience. She was also one of the hosts in the evening gala of the UIC 10th Anniversary Celebration. She can fence, she plays badminton and tennis, she practises yoga… She is versatile Dr May Wang. Dr Wang obtained an MPhil in System Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003, and turned towards a PhD programme in the School of Business at the University of Hong Kong. In 2009 she started her spell at UIC as Assistant Professor. Courses she taught encompassed Management Science, Marketing Research, Business Research Methods, and Management Information Systems.As for her teaching belief she has quoted Plutarch's words that “The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.” She believes it encompasses the idea that “teachers should seek to empower or capacitate students with the necessary skills to take control of their own learning and emulate the behaviours that teachers expect from their students to acquire, or in another word: student-centred learning and outcome-based teaching and learning.” To follow the creed, her teaching style varies depending on the backgrounds of the students and the natures of subjects. Though devoting most of her time to teaching and guiding her students, she evinces a keen interest in research on E-Commerce, Recommendation Technology, Online Marketing and Online Consumer Behaviour. Dr Wang believes in the synergy between teaching, research and services for a scholar, which in return, is beneficial to students. In the 2015-2016 academic year, she was Programme Director of Applied Economics, Division of Business and Management. How important do you feel such recognition is for you and for teachers of UIC?May Wang: This recognition is not only to encourage teaching staff to continuously help our students become effective learners and life-long learners, but also to enhance the awareness of importance of teaching in UIC.What, do you believe, has been your most effective tool in reaching students?MW: Good communications between students and instructors, which are enabled by Blackboard, WeChat groups, discussion groups and continuous sharing and learning among students in and after class, are the most effective tools in reaching students and identifying their difficulties in learning. What does the profession of teaching give to you?MW: Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. I am so glad to see that most of my students are capable of critical thinking and that some of them have worked very hard to achieve excellence out of their comfort zone. I can see that many students can achieve the graduate attributes in their year 3 or year 4.What challenges in the future do you see?MW: Both teachers and students should be life-long learners. I will keep on learning and continue to work in this direction to further improve my teaching effectiveness. I still have a lot to learn from my colleagues.

*原文刊载于杂志《博雅行》第一期。

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文 | 何锭

图 | 王晓鹏

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