Jointly supervised and managed by the i3Learn team, the eToy lab is one of the two specialized teaching laboratories in the Department of Computing, with the support of teaching and learning activities as our primary objective. Our activities can be roughly divided into the following four categories:

• Teaching Methodology Development: The eToy lab acts as a testbed and development platform for many new teaching initiatives in various course modules. These modules include course-based initiatives such as the integration of robotics and edutainment into fundamental programming as well as project-based initiatives such as student projects that focus on robotics, data mining and multimedia processing.
• Extra-curricular teaching: Giving our students chances to apply classroom knowledge to real world situations is part of the learning process, and the facilities in the eToy lab are also used to support a variety of extra-curricular teaching activities. These include providing IT training courses for local schools, collaborating on IT development work with non-profit organizations, as well as organizing and running the annual summer camps for primary and secondary students.
• IT Educational Research: As part of our teaching and learning development, the eToy lab is also home to many teaching and learning research activities, with the goal of developing novel methods to bring active learning to the classroom. A list of our projects include: a virtual world for introductory programming classes and a training program to support work-integrated education.
• IT Educational Consultancies: In addition to our own students and Department, the eToy lab also supports a number of educational consultancy projects for the local primary and secondary education sector. These projects include the "Robots Exploring Science" series, which aims to introduce higher-order thinking and problem solving into the traditional Integrated Science curriculum in local secondary schools through the integration of robotics and IT into the usual curriculum material.

http://etoy.comp.polyu.edu.hk/aboutus.htm

For enquiries, please contact Dr. Grace Ngai.
Telephone: (852) 2766-7279
Email: csgngai@comp.polyu.edu.hk