JMCentre

This is the wiki website for daily work of the JM Centre of Excellence at Hunan Normal University.

This website shortlink: http://bou.de/u/wiki/JMCentre

Our public website: http://jmcentre.eu

Registration on this website

Please all participants register for this wiki in order to be able to edit the websites and also to add your information:

https://bou.de/u/wiki/Special:RequestAccount

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PhD student staff work hour documentation

Date, time, hours, content of work

Minutes

Nov 16, 2023

Minutes of the Kick-off meeting “EU JM Centre of Excellence for Digitalization of University Teaching” Nov 16, 2023, 10:00-11:30 am, HNU Tenglong Building, room 309

Next Meeting

Friday Nov 24, 2023, 10:00 am room 309. For those who can only attend online: Zoom: http://bit.ly/ZOOMCOURSE

Your contact people: The project staff

Project Leader: Prof. Woesler, Project Assistants: PhD students Duan Yuanyuan, Zhouli Ziruo, Liu Rong. The staff takes on the double task of conducting research (especially systematic literature reviews, surveys, field experiments testing different learning spaces or digital tools) and doing the administration (keeping the overview, watching the timeline, reports on the EU platform, reminding of deadlines, organizing meetings, inviting project members and external experts to joint papers, conferences, anthologies etc.).

Salaries

The project started in September and the project staff has already invested some work. So far, the payment of the salaries was not yet agreed to by the accounting office, they wanted more information. Still, there is a lot of work which needs to be done, including website and reports, until December. Therefore, it is important, that the accounting office already pays the monthly salaries to the project staff now in November.

Budget

The budget is quite large and except from the salary for the project staff contains several sub posts, like lump sum salary for students, travel reimbursement, equipment, website programming, conference costs etc. Prof. David Porter offered to design and create a EU and a CN website adhering to the respective policies.

Personnel

For the 5 Research Groups, the following heads were suggested:

1. Regulation (Comparison) Liu Bai
2. Experiences (Comparison) Aline
3. Effectiveness of digital tools: David Porter, Ole Döring, Yang Zhiming

Explanation: (How to achieve learning outcomes of teaching in presence also with online or technology-enhanced teaching? Quality measurement.)

1. Learning Spaces (Comparison): Jiang Lihua
2. ChatGPT/PostEdit (Comparison C-EU): Martin Woesler

Salary for Project Personnel and Project Members

There is no monthly salary foreseen in the budget for all participants. But everybody who invests time in the project should be reimbursed. Since the publication of papers is the most important in the project, the project offers to reimburse all Professors and PhD candidates, who publish a paper to be reimbursed for 50 hours (each SCI, SSCI or A&HCI impact paper, corresponds to 1000 Euros for professors and 500 Euros for students), 25 hours (each CSSCI impact paper, corresponds to 500 Euros for professors and 250 Euros for students). Non PhD-Students (but Bachelor- or Master students) who participate, e.g. in the many time consuming tasks like literature review, surveys, field experiments, will be reimbursed with a lump sum per month and will be informed about the expected number of hours they are required to work.

Credits and Acknowledgments

Hunan Normal University needs to be mentioned as the affiliated university of both, the 1st and 2nd author. Also, the grant acknowledgement and disclaimer need to be printed with the paper, e.g. as a footnote or endnote. All posters, websites etc. need to display the EU Erasmus + co-funding logo.

Things to do

1. Prof. Jiang: Please invite Prof. Liu Bai and Prof. Yang Zhiming.
2. Prof. Jiang: Dean Situ and the Accounting office may contact you to reconfirm that the first money can be paid from the grant amount received.
3. Ole: Please invite Prof. Aline Tedeschi
4. Everybody: Please start to read the newest research papers on the topic. The library offers and EBSCO access. Ole can instruct student groups to perform different Systematic Literature Reviews. Languages should be at least Chinese and English. Some research questions should be developed through these literature reviews. Please keep in touch in the WeChat group and exchange your findings.

Things to do for the project staff

1. Finalize report of old project (this part of the work is NOT paid by the new project) both on the EU platform as well as on the website http://jmchair.eu.
2. Organize setting up a Website
3. Get the frequent payments running with the accounting office in coordination with the College leadership.
4. Conduct systematic literature reviews, develop research questions, surveys, field studies, experiments etc. => results on wiki for everybody to use.
5. Set up virtual working space on wiki and invite everybody to join. Publish there all findings.
6. Invite everybody to the next meeting next Friday 10 am and collect points for the agenda from the participants.

P.S.: After the meeting, Prof. Jiang invited Prof. Woesler to join the current session of her Colloquium into room 410 (13:00-14:15). There he introduced the project again and offered the PhD candidates to join the project, preferrably assisting the head of research group 4, Prof. Jiang Lihua. PhD candidates are encouraged to join because they can make double use of their research for the project/publications and their thesis. Also, the participation in the project will be certified and can be used in the curriculum vitae for job applications.

Nov 24, 2023

Minutes of the second weekly meeting “EU JM Centre of Excellence for Digitalization of University Teaching” Nov 24, 2023, 10:00-11:30 am, HNNU Tenglong Building, room 309

Participants

Prof. Woesler, Prof. Porter, Prof. Ma Nake, PhD students Duan Yuanyuan, Liu Rong, "Sari" Cai Xixiu.

Next Meeting

Scheduled for Tuesday Nov 29, 16:00 and 18:15 Chinese time room 309. For those who can only attend online: Tencent Meeting:https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/bCQdfgGlezZ1

Budget and Salary

For student volunteers the budget provides a total of 4,000 Yuan per month over the range of 3 years. Since there is a higher workload before and during conferences, we will have to be able to assign both salaries (e.g. for Cai Cixiu) and short-term contract salaries (e.g. for conferences). The project staff receives regular payments. The request for first payments has been submitted.

Things to do

1. Sari: Please conduct a MikeCRM survey. Print the research questionnaire by Prof. Doering, and conduct the survey with the students who participated in the painting event. (When conducting the survey, the respondents’ initials with birth date (like WJG1001) can be used to code them, so that the privacy of respondents can be protected and we can compare and analyze developments.)
2. Phd students: Please analyze the survey results of the last EU project, and upload the parts of the final report to the EU website (compare the answers of Prof. Woesler’s with the students’ answer and get the percentage both at the beginning and the end of the semester. If there is a progress, this would be a good result for the report.) Also copy documentation to website jmchair.eu.
3. Prof. Porter: Thank you for submitting the first samples for a website. They are under review.
4. Everybody: Start reading. Prepare systematic literature reviews on the project topic, develop research questions, surveys, field studies, experiments etc. => results on wiki for everybody to use.

Next Meeting

Scheduled for Tuesday Nov 29, 16:00 and 18:15 Chinese time room 309. For those who can only attend online: Tencent Meeting:https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/bCQdfgGlezZ1

Minutes Nov 28, 2023

Participants

David, Aline, Martin, Duan Yuanyuan, Sari, Zhouli Ziruo, Liu Rong

Website

The new website http://jmcentre.eu is online currently as a copy of http://jmchair.eu. The PhD students have a laptop with which they can edit the website. They will fill in the documentation of the events and courses of the last project on jmcentre.eu and then start to adjust the new website. Later the website might move to a smart phone friendly content management system provided by David Porter, which then should be copied to http://jmcentre.eu

Literature Review

David and Alina start reading papers on Digitalization of University Teaching. David will report about a AI question next time.

Support by University Council President

The University Council President Prof. Jiang offered his support to our project.

He could host the lecture series.

We will look for EU projects he can apply for.

Work to be done soon

PhD candidates: Submit frequent reports on EU platform, e.g. that the website is set up and running.

Everybody: Look for external experts (Chinese and Foreign, out of budget concerns best from within China or if from elsewhere online), which can be invited to a lecture series and a workshop.

Wiki work platform

Everybody should document the work (the PhD students also the hours and what work exactly was done during the hours) on http://bou.de/u/wiki/JMCentre

Next meeting

Scheduled for Dec 5, 2023, 17:15 in room 309 and on Tencent Meeting.

https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/srf6bMHRBJcN

1. 腾讯会议：240-505-868

December 5, 2023, 17:15

Participants

David, Aline, Ole, Martin, Duan Yuanyuan, Sari, Zhouli Ziruo, Liu Rong

Check on the to dos

Can we get any PhD candidates from the Colloquium to join?

Have the people mentioned in the Minutes of the Kick-off meeting been invited to join?

Report on the payments by the accounting department

The staff has been paid for the first three months. Only Zhouli Ziruo needs to set up an account with the department and can only receive salary starting from January 2024.

To do: Duan Yuanyuan will apply that also Sari gets paid the student volunteer lump sum.