Bringing us all together: Connected Learning, connected learners, and learning through collaboration
Author: Jason P. DaviesSinead Harmey, Amanda Ince, Bin Guo, Shira Salomon Lider (UCL IOE, Learning and Leadership) 45 minute discussion In this session we will provide participants with a brief overview our ongoing UCL Changemakers project from the perspective of both staff and students. This project aims to enhance students’ educational experience at UCL. The project team aspire toContinue reading Learning Together: Creating Student Online Community
Cosette Crisan, Lesley Gourlay, Katherine Riding; Ian Warwick, Evi Katsapi, Lauren Clark, Kristyna Campbell (UCL IoE (CPA, CCM, EPS, PHD)) 10 minute talk The sudden move to remote teaching and learning in Spring 2020 brought together staff and students in order to learn from each other how to best address the challenges of the new waysContinue reading Learning from Lockdown: Listening to students’ voices about the challenges and benefits in the post-Covid digital practices
Martin Compton (Arena Centre) Asynchronous Submission In a video of around eight minutes I will present four arguments which represent the four biggest and ongoing debates about online teaching I have dealt with this year, very much from my perspective. I hope they will act as provocations for debate with the ‘change my mind’ challenge.Continue reading 4 mini polemics about student engagement and online teaching: can you change my mind?
Tim Young, Salman Haider (Queen Square Institute of Neurology Education Department) 10 minute talk Over the last ‘pandemic year’, many face-to-face courses made heroic efforts to convert to online teaching. As a well-established fully online course, our clinical neurology by distance learning MSc/Diploma/PG Certificate programme was fortunately in a position to help guide others withContinue reading Bringing us all together: building a community of online learners spanning 6 continents
Hannah Timlin, Marcus Pedersen (Brain Sciences) 5 minute talk We will discuss how we created a dynamic and accessible digital resource that will continue to grow each year using software available to us. This method can be a part of anyone’s digital pedagogy. With a rapid shift online our practical course needed a dramatic redesign.Continue reading How to develop an ever increasing list of interactive and accessible digital resources for students.
Andrew Gillen (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) Asynchronous Submission Providing feedback on open-ended work in the engineering classroom has always been challenging, and even more so as we transitioned to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this presentation, I will present a method I use for engaging students in an empowering and participatoryContinue reading What the performing arts can teach us about giving feedback in the engineering classroom
Emma Newall, Joanne Nicholl UCL Institute of Education; Zoe Attal, Qi Wang, Jessica Lo, Hebe Manos (BSc Biomedical Sciences students) Stephen Price (Division of Biosciences) Asynchronous Submission Abstract BIOS0025 is a 45-credit module for final year BSc Biomedical Sciences students to undertake research in education of the Biosciences, particularly at UCL. The module is a collaborationContinue reading Undergraduate Students Researching UCL Biosciences’ Response to Education in a Global Pandemic
Rachel Knowles, Sonia Kalsi (Centre for Access to Justice) Asynchronous Submission We teach access to justice and community engagement, a third year module which brings together literature on the fundamental obstacles to access to justice with experiential learning in our legal advice clinic in East London. With the advent of the pandemic lockdown, our challengeContinue reading Legal clinic in a virtual world: transcending barriers to access to justice
Stephen R Price, Ralph Levinson, Ruth Wheeldon (contributions from Thiago Costa Caetano, Newton de Figueiredo Filho, Adhimar Flávio Oliveira, Luciano Fernandes Silva, Institute of Physics and Chemistry Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil) (Division of Biosciences) 5 minute talk Authentic experiences in Science are crucial to facilitating participation of marginalised groups in advanced science education. WeContinue reading Student Discourse on Current Bioscience Research Topics: Findings from face to face and online activities
Gil Myers, Alison Sturrock, Victoria Clausen-Thue, Paula Raftery, Taylor Bennie: (UCL Medical School) 10 minute talk Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in academic year 19/20, we were unable to run practical assessments and could only hold remote online assessments. This meant that we needed to replace our assessments, which combine assessments of applied knowledge with observedContinue reading Online Assessments at UCL Medical School