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How to develop an ever increasing list of interactive and accessible digital resources for students.

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.

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“I can’t see students’ reactions”: The experiences of UCL academics in the move to online teaching during lockdown

Allison Littlejohn, Eileen Kennedy, Martin Oliver (contributions from Lesley Gourlay, Tim Neumann, Kit Logan, Jennifer A. Rode, John Potter; UCL IOE Culture, Communication and Media) 10 minute talk In this presentation we examine the challenges posed by the technological mediation of student-teacher and student-student interaction while teaching online during Covid19. The UCL Moving to Online TeachingContinue reading “I can’t see students’ reactions”: The experiences of UCL academics in the move to online teaching during lockdown

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The importance of learning and feedback through collaboration in a large-scale, cross-departmental, student project

Ryan Grammenos (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) 10 minute talk This presentation will talk about what we “learned about learning” in the current climate, and the need for and value of collaboration between staff and students. The talk will draw on the experience of running a cross-disciplinary project across two departments for over 400 first-year studentsContinue reading The importance of learning and feedback through collaboration in a large-scale, cross-departmental, student project

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Academic Communication for Widening Participation: Crafting learning spaces for and with students

Unfortunately, due to a family emerency, Dr Smart will not be able to offer the talk on the day. Dr Ariane Smart (Academic Communication Centre) 10 minute talk Over a decade working with international students and partners has taught me how exclusionary academia can feel. In my new role at the Academic Communication Centre (ACC)Continue reading Academic Communication for Widening Participation: Crafting learning spaces for and with students

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Bringing us all together: building a community of online learners spanning 6 continents

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

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COVID19 : Online not distant – student’s feedback on a blended approach of teaching MSc medical statistics to UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Saiful Islam, Yasna Palmeiro, Alexender Cozzi-Lepri, Saiam Ahmed, Mifuyu Akasaki, Rosamund Greiner, Carlos Valencia, Masuda Khanom, David Blundred (Institute of Neurology) 10 minute talk COVID-19 has challenged learning and teaching (L&T) activities worldwide. During Term 1 (Sept-Dec) 2020-2021, we ran the “Research Methods and Introduction to Statistics” module online, facing challenges related to lecture deliveryContinue reading COVID19 : Online not distant – student’s feedback on a blended approach of teaching MSc medical statistics to UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

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The use of video and audio feedback in the assessment of post-graduate coursework.

Samir Nuseibeh (Biochemical Engineering) 10 minute talk Traditionally, one of the main areas of complaint from student cohorts is the quality of feedback they receive on their coursework with many suggesting that written feedback is often meaningless and impersonal. There is an increasing amount of data in the literature to support the idea of movingContinue reading The use of video and audio feedback in the assessment of post-graduate coursework.

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Escape the Pharmacy

Ellie Bates, Anika Ahmed (Policy and Practice, School of Pharmacy) 10 minute talk This presentation will explore the redesign of a Pharmaceutical calculations workshop for online delivery and the development of an online escape room. Pharmaceutical calculations are an important part of the pharmacy curriculum and an area in which students struggle. The aim ofContinue reading Escape the Pharmacy

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Learning from Lockdown: Listening to students’ voices about the challenges and benefits in the post-Covid digital practices

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

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Online Assessments at UCL Medical School

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