UM awards Teaching Excellence Award for the first time

The University of Macau (UM) today (27 May) awarded the UM Teaching Excellence Award for the first time at the Congregation 2017. The recipient was Michael Li Zihao, an assistant professor from the Faculty of Education, who adopts ‘flipped classroom’, an innovative teaching method, in the classroom.

The UM Teaching Excellence Award is established to recognise, on an annual basis, a distinguished member of the academic staff who has demonstrated excellence as an educator. The award also signifies the importance placed by the university on the pursuit of teaching excellence and the enhancement of student learning experience.