A number of international teaching collaborations have stemmed from connections built between faculty members under the support of the University’s Internationalisation Faculty Mobility Schemes. An example is the MOOC courses jointly developed by Prof. Jimmy Lee in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK and Prof. Peter Stuckey in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Two courses on modeling of discrete optimisation problems (at different levels and in both Chinese and English) were launched on Coursera in January 2017 and have since attracted an enrollment of over 5,000 students from more than 100 countries/regions. Learners will walk through an interesting fantasy based on the famous Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms with Prof. Lee and Prof. Stuckey while learning advanced computing technologies to solve difficult real-life problems.

On the humanities front, Prof. Ian Morley in the Department of History has been offering a joint course with Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart in the Department of American Studies at Brown University (Brown) for senior undergraduate and master students at CUHK since 2015-16. The course, titled ‘Trans-Pacific Connections in East Asia’, will be introduced at Brown for the first time in 2017–18. The course offers an examination of the evolution of Philippine society from the onset of Spanish colonisation in the mid-1500s to the start of World War II in Asia in 1941. One of the major innovations of the course is the use of e-learning which includes lectures by Dr. Hu-Dehart via video conferencing, a virtual field trip to Manila, and the use of micro-modules in the form of interviews and short lectures with people from the Philippines. In addition, an e-learning project among CUHK, Brown, and De La Salle University in Manila will be formed to explore the significance of the Manila galleon trade.

The University has in place a number of Internationalisation Faculty Mobility Schemes to support international exposure of its faculty members and visibility of CUHK as a whole. Selected outbound CUHK faculty members are granted an air ticket and accommodation while inbound visiting scholars will receive accommodation support. In 2016-17, more than 70 awards were offered under the schemes. Please visit the website for more details of the schemes.