新闻稿及香港科大故事

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香港科技大学(科大)工学院今天(2018年12月4日)宣布，计划在未来两至三年内将「体验式学习」课程订为必修科，日后每年入读工学院的800位本科一年级学生，均需修读「体验式学习」课程，动手制作工程作品，学习跨学科的工程知识，贴近现实需要。

在今日数据满泻的年代，各行各业对「大数据」的人才需求若渴。香港科技大学（科大）理学院和工学院于本学年推出「数据科学与技术理学士」本科生课程，为本港首个以工程技术为本的本科生大数据课程，旨在培养数据分析与技术应用能力并重的「实战型」跨学科人才，以切合未来社会需要。

香港科技大学（科大）与全球主要在线课程(MOOC)平台Coursera合作推出先导计划，科大学生、员工及教职员修读由科大提供的Coursera课程，将可免费申请证书。此先导计划暂时仅覆盖数间院校，而科大是当中唯一的亚洲学府。

Electronic journals are a daily staple of scholarly research. We have done some analysis of how heavily used our e-journals have been. The chart below shows the total number of article downloads and the number of article downloads per student FTE for the past five years (from 2013 to 2017).

The Library recently studied overall trends in physical visits, book loans and e-book usage?...This reveals that users continue to visit the Library for activities other than borrowing physical books.

In September 2017, the Library conducted the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS), an international project investigating students? attitudes and behaviors in regards to academic reading. So far, 32 different countries and territories have participated.