Centre for Knowledge and Information, shorted as CKI, is the combination of Library, Management Information Technology and System Office (MITS), Museum, University Marketing and Communications (UMC), and Centre for Educational Technology (CET).
CET Vision:
The Centre for Educational Technology works to promote innovation and excellence in educational practice facilitated by technology.
Library Vision:
As a research-led academic library, XJTLU Library enriches the intellectual and creative life of our communities and beyond by advancing information discovery, creation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge.
MITS Vision:
To drive business innovation and support business strategy to acquire core competitiveness.
Museum Vision:
To become XJTLU campus culture leading point and bridging for Integration, Inheritance and Innovation.
UMC Vision:
We enhance the University’s brand and reputation by leveraging our professional support. We work across the marketing and communications mix: conducting research on brand strategy, managing media and public relations, creating news and marketing content.
HIGHLIGHTS
X-Bar “One Day Host” Event: Introduction to English Calligraphy
XJTLU Museum launches the “One Day Host” event located in the campus cultural space–X Bar, committed to offering an opportunity for the insightful teachers and students of XJTLU to be “One Day Host” of X Bar, based on which the participants could lead online videos about hobbies sharing and discussion the deep thinking in various disciplines.
Mochu Li from BSc Economics and Finance at XJTLU shared English Calligraphy. More than 30 students participated in the “One Day Host” Event this month.
The fourth “W•E Salon” Classic Series event: X Bar Crosstalk Show
“W•E Salon” is one of the new programmes which is organised by XJTLU Museum. Renowned artists, entrepreneurs, talk show actors, authors and scholars who are widely recognised for their achievements in different fields will be invited to “W•E Salon”.
The fourth “W•E Salon” Classic Series event is X Bar Crosstalk Show. Students from XJTLU Cross Talk Club and Su Chow University-Dong-Wu Cross Talk Club presented the quintessence of Chinese culture and their own cross talk show.
The seventh XJTLU Museum “W·E Musicale” event: Wave Stage Concert |520•XJTLU
XJTLU Museum launches brand event called “W•E” which is short for “Wisdom & Exploration”. “W•E Musicale” is its sub-series event organised by XJTLU Museum and Art Association.
Live music has always played a significant role in campus cultural life. These performances offer opportunities for music students to showcase work in progress on a public platform.
Meanwhile, it aims to promote the active and diversified development of campus culture. The seventh “W·E Musicale” Event is Wave Stage Concert |520•XJTLU.
Student performers from XJTLU Art Center-Art Association Keyboard Troupe/Symphony Orchestra/Chinese orchestra provided a feast for the ears of any music lovers. More than 150 students attended the concert.
EVENTS & NOTICE
XJTLU 15th Anniversary Celebration Series: Sound Exhibition | Listen TO XJTLU
To celebrate the up-coming 15th anniversary of our university, Xi 'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Museum is calling for audio entries from all faculty, students and alumni which capture the sound of XJTLU and seal the warmth and brilliance of those moments in the history of XJTLU. All selected audio works will be exhibited in Exhibition Hall 155 of the Central Building from 18 May, 2021 to July 31, 2021.
The Venue Booking of Museum in June
1. XJTLU Enterprise Meeting - Special Session for Construction Industry
Time: 13:30-16:00, 9 June, 2021
Location: CB123W, XJTLU Museum
Organiser: SACDO
2. Jiangsu Province Comprehensive Evaluation Admission Interview
Time: 14 June, 2021
Location: CB123W, XJTLU Museum
Organiser: SACDO
HIGHLIGHTS
XJTLU IN THE MEDIA IN APRIL
In April, XJTLU was mentioned in media reports from outlets including China Youth Daily, China National Radio, China Daily, Xinhua Daily, Yangtse Evening Post, JS China Net, Jiangnan Times, Suzhou Broadcasting System, Suzhou Daily and Gusu Evening Post.
Topics included new industry-driven postgraduate degrees, discussion of the future of child care in China, education exploration, studying abroad in the post-pandemic era, precision medicine for childhood cancer, comprehensive assessment admissions, eight newly approved undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and the Suzhou Reading festival.
Representatives from XJTLU have also been included in stories, sought for comment, or authored content in a number of English-language media outlets including Times Higher Education-Campus.
NEWS WRITING IN MAY
In May, UMC has published 34 pieces of English and Chinese news stories.
Topics include XJTLU 15th Anniversary celebration series events, Opening Ceremony of XJTLU Academy of Film and Creative Technology, Opening Ceremony of XJTLU Academy of Future Education, XJTLU Learning Mall Global Launch, City Lecture series events co-organised by UMC and Suzhou Broadcasting System, 21 programmes in the ranking list on THE, Leadership Forum, XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), students’ stories, and collaboration and communication.
15TH ANNIVERSARY MILESTONES
Fifteen years ago, XJTLU started with one building and 164 students. Now, the 15th birthday is coming. XJTLU milestone long image post records every key moments of XJTLU history.
YOUR 15TH ANNIVERSARY PORTRAIT PHOTO HAS BEEN DELIVERED!
In a flash, XJTLU is 15 years old. At the time of the 15th anniversary, we have prepared 12 special portrait photo frames for you.
XJTLU STAFF PORTRAIT PHOTO SESSION (JUNE 2021)
Staff portrait photo shooting is a regular photo session supported by UMC, it will usually take place on the second and last Friday of each month. If this month's registration is full, you're more than welcome to join the photo session of next month.
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CET OUTREACH PROGRAMME FOR XJTLU ENTREPRENEUR COLLEGE (TAICANG)
Since the launch of the CET Outreach Programme in November 2020, CET staff has provided 15 onsite support service to five schools of the Suzhou campus and the schools for the Taicang campus. In a recent outreach on 27 May (as is shown in the picture), colleagues from the Taicang campus were very actively engaged in the Q&A format onsite training and communication activities. Various practical topics were deep discussed, such as how to hide grade and feedback before the moderation, export from LMO and import grade to e-bridge, and use the assignment activity for offline presentation marking. The Executive Assistant to Associate Principal Taicang Ms. Li Wei (Lily) and her colleagues have made great efforts and support to organise the “CET day” for Taicang colleagues, including collecting faculties’ needs and interests for the one-hour bespoken training session that was customized for the Taicang schools, preparing the flexible and open inquiry space for colleagues to drop in and asking any questions about the use of educational technologies. It was recognised that the CET Outreach Programme was very constructive and would be continuously developed with XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang).
DOWNLOAD COURSE CONTENT
If you are a student who is busy revising for exams and wish to have offline access to all the files and documents available in your module(s), a new Learning Mall feature was recently released which allows teachers to make this functionality available at their choosing.
To enable this feature, teachers need to access Course administration > Edit settings and within the 'Enable download course content' item select the 'Yes' option.
After enabling this setting, students and other users in the module will then be able to download a .zip file containing all the files and documents (which are below 50MB in size - files larger than this are not included and need to be downloaded separately) present in the module area.
CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE JUNE
On 2 June CET continued hosting XJTLU’s XR Communitie of Practice (CoP).
During this convention of XJTLU’s XR CoP Its members explored the capabilities of XR technologies in relation to the use of 360° degree cameras as a means of creating Virtual Tours, scanning environments and how it’s use could be utilised to promote collaboration and e-learning on their own XJTLU Courses.
The XR CoP also discussed the future of the community as means to promote ideas around the use of XR technologies within the University, and a productive discussion was had by all, as members expressed their vision for the future of the community and how it could continue to grow and consolidate its position as a productive forum for discourse around the XR technology.
If you want to know more, you can join our communities via the Mattermost Platform @
The XJTLU XR CoP Channel and The Assessment CoP Channel respectively.
HIGHLIGHTS
'GEAR UP FOR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION' LIBRARY MINI-SYMPOSIUM SUCCESSFULLY HELD
'Gear up for Scholarly Communication' mini-symposium, organised by Research Academy@XJTLU Library was held on 26 May 2021.
On the occasion, Dr. Xuan Wei (Wiley research experience specialist), Dr. Yi Zou (XJTLU productive author, Department of Health & Environmental Sciences) and Dr. Bin Zou (Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, Department of Applied Linguistics) gathered to discuss different topics of scholarly communication, including research paper writing, paper submission, research collaboration, peer reviewing, journal editing, etc.
Over 100 researchers in and around XJTLU joined the mini-symposium onsite or online.
Click HERE to review the talks.
LIBRARY EVENT: LIVING LIBRARY HELD SUCCESSFULLY
On 25 May 2021, the 29th Living Library was held successfully at 123W in the Central Building.
In the event, we invited 5 Living Books, namely Dr. Chongjie XU, Dr. Youzhou ZHOU, Mengyao ZHENG, Qinlin WANG and Qinyu NI. They shared their life experiences and ideas with us face to face, encouraging us to know ourselves and pursue self-worth.
Approximately 100 students took part in the event.
Inspired by the guest speakers' insights and experiences, they took the opportunity to reflect on their current life and look forward to the future. Xu, member of XJTLU Reader Association, said to us, “Living Library is awesome! It is the most meaningful event I have participated in ever since I came to XJTLU.”
LIBRARY STUDENT COMMITTEE MEETING 2021 SUCCESSFULLY HELD
On the afternoon of 26 May, librarians from various departments and student representatives at all levels met together at Room 153 Central Building for the Library Student Committee meeting 2021. The forum promotes student voice in the Library by providing a communication platform for them to discuss and exchange ideas with the staff on library related topics.
LIBRARY SERVICES FOR SUMMER HOLIDAY
For your convenience to use Library resources during the summer holiday, please click links for details.
- Notice of Extension of Library Opening Hours
- Notice of Loan Period Adjustment during the Summer Holiday
HIGHLIGHTS
MITS INFROMATION SECURITY SEMINAR FOR STUDENT
On 19 May, the MITS Staff Training and Development Committee and the Information Security Group jointly held a seminar on student information security. Experts from AsiaInfo were invited to give students a comprehensive explanation on information security. Students can take time to participate in the seminar during the reading week for the final exam. Prove the importance of information security to everyone.
MITS CUSTOMER SERVICE SURVEY AY2021
MITS has successfully concluded the 2021 Customer Experience Survey on 24 May. With over 3,200 responses from students and staff, MITS has scored an 8/10 overall satisfaction rate. MITS will keep improving the quality and level of service in the following academic year based on feedback and comments received from the survey.
MITS MONTHLY INTERNAL TRAINING – LINUX MAINTENANCE (RHCSA/RHCE)
On 26 May, MITS department held the 18th monthly intenal training. The theme of the training was Linux Maintenance (RHCSA/RHCE). The lecturer Yongfu explained RHCSA and RHCE certification, network, storage, logical volumes and OPENSSH, etc. In addition, Xiangang Hu showed the newly launched departmental internal training website. The website is used for MITS internal training data collection.
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