About Supplementors Online Learning Platform

Goals:

1. “Students as Partners” : BPharm students can take the initiative and ownership to improve their learning environment. During the learning process, they can also polish and enhance their leadership skills, communication skills and organisation skills.
2. Promote teaching and learning of basic knowledge about the dietary supplements commonly used in daily life for all HKU students.
3. HKU students with science and medical background can gain more competent knowledge on selected dietary supplements in an advanced difficulty.
4. The online learning materials developed can benefit not only the current cohort of students but also prospective students in the future.
5. Students can build up self-directed learning skills by self-managing and self-evaluating their own learning journey.

Objectives:

1. To engage Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) students as partners to create an E-learning platform to facilitate teaching and learning in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
2. To facilitate basic understanding in CAM for all students in University of Hong Kong (HKU) and foster knowledge in advanced level for all students with science and medical background.
3. To promote self-directed learning through E-learning platform, which may be potentially extrapolated to other learning discipline in the future.
4. To act as a complement the current undergraduate curriculum in the area of CAM which contributes to the improvement in course design in the future.

Who Might Be Interested?

• Public who are interested in dietary supplements
• Students/ Professionals in Healthcare sectors

Major Medium of Instruction

• Cantonese for training videos
• Chinese questions in assessments