Immersive Education Academy launched its youth program for Primary 6 students in Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ Wong Yee Jar Jat Memorial College.  The program provides students with supplemental ways of learning online. Lessons use multimedia learning content like pictures, music and videos. Classes are conducted by native English speaking teachers that work with students to improve their pronunciation and speaking fluency. “Students are given chances to speak to native English instructors. They learn new words and improve their pronunciation skills.  They are encouraged to be more expressive,” said Ms. Anna Ngai, an English teacher from Wong Yee Jar Jat Memorial College.

​Immersive Education Academy is starting its comprehensive program for students at Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Mrs. Fung Wong Fung Ting College. The online program delivers a 16-week enriched learning experience. The e-learning platform extends learning beyond the classroom by connecting students with the program’s team of native English speaking instructors conveniently. “My spelling improved and I have fewer spelling mistakes after [participating] in this program last year. I like speaking with foreigners. I felt excited to speak to them through the Internet. The experience was amazing,” expressed Jasmine Li, a Form 2D student from Mrs. Fung Wong Fung Ting College.

Immersive Education Academy is launching a program for new form 1, 2 and 3 students at Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ Lee Ching Dea Memorial College. This program is designed to build students’  vocabulary and to incorporate a range of global news topics into each lesson. Ko Tsz Kwan, a student from Lee Ching Dea Memorial College commented that “the Program is good for learning words. I can use the words that I’ve learnt in my everyday life. I know more about the current news too. I did not watch news before I joined the Program but I watch more after joining the Program.”

Students at Lo Kon Ting Memorial College are starting a tailored English curriculum for their secondary students. Provided by Immersive Education Academy, the program will allow students to practice two key components of the HKDSE exam: (1) group discussion, and (2) individual response. Group discussions form an integral part of this curriculum in preparing students for the DSE. Using the new DSE program provided by Immersive Education Academy, students will be able to practice varying difficulty levels of DSE simulations inside and outside of class through the program’s virtual classroom and online platform. “The iEd English Online Program has provided our students plenty of opportunity to communicate with the native speakers of English through group interactions,” said Ms. Gloria Tam, a teacher from Lo Kon Ting Memorial College. Instructors from Immersive Education Academy will assist and explain the discussion sections to students and give them instant feedback in class, or comments on their online exercises.

We are excited to celebrate the third year since Tung Wah Group of Hospitals schools started using the iEd program. Designed as a learning tool for primary and secondary students to use at home and in school to enhance their English abilities, the program also provides support to their teachers. “[It] has granted our students, who come from families of low social economic status, opportunities in learning and practicing authentic English outside of the classroom,” said Chow Hing Chung, school principal of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Sun Hoi Director’s College. Future development of this project is planned as students can look forward to tailored curriculums with different focuses.

A teacher from Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Wong Yee Jar Jat Memorial Primary School commented that “students are given chances to speak to native English instructors. They learn new words and improve their pronunciation skills.” Students start with training of accurate pronunciation and later on have the chance to focus on specific areas like DSE skills, or more general skills that include listening, speaking and reading.

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals has a total of 52 schools, providing education services for children and young people to enable them to exert their full potentialities, and eventually, to serve the community.


 

We are happy to announce that we have recently revamped our iEd Pocket Guide training app, which is now available on the Apple app store. In order to help students learn how to use every feature of the iEd Program and platform, we have revamped our app to include videos and pictures tutorials and other in depth explainations on how our program works and how you can use it to learn English in different ways. 

We are happy to celebrate the second year since the launch of our custom Nursing English Training Course. Designed to be a training tool for nurses studying to meet their nursing license English requirement, the Nursing English Training Course remains a useful option for nurses interested in excelling in their nursing career. Originally developed in cooperation with the Guangdong Nursing Education Centre and our sister company Uppotential, custom English programs for specific purposes continue to show the potential of online education. Future development is planned as the need increases and members can look forward to increasing learning modules that incorporate multimedia, module quizzes and other learning tools.
 
The Guangdong Nursing Education Centre assists in organizing continuing education programs for nurses and training nursing management. Currently the organization covers more than 200,000 nurses in China’s Guangdong province.