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Remote, Virtual, and Hybrid Biomedical Engineering Laboratories

Henry Lancashire, Pilar Garcia-Souto, Eve Hatten, Prabhav Reddy. (contributions from Rebecca Yerworth, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering) 10 minute talk UCL’s Biomedical Engineering degree includes laboratory and group project work throughout the four year programme. We will discuss some different approaches taken across the programme, this year, from on-site socially distanced labs inContinue reading Remote, Virtual, and Hybrid Biomedical Engineering Laboratories

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Improving virtual field trip resources for teaching geology: A case study from Dorset for UG and PGT students

Sudeshna Basu (contributions from Mr. Todd Downing, Mr. A. Abdulkadir, Prof. P. Bown, Prof. T. Mitchell) (Chemical Engineering/Earth Sciences) 10 minute talk Fieldwork is an indispensable part of geology. In the department of Earth Sciences, UCL, two field trips to Dorset run every year for UG and M.Sc. students. Dorset is located in the SouthContinue reading Improving virtual field trip resources for teaching geology: A case study from Dorset for UG and PGT students

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Lessons Learned from Over 600 Hours of Online Teaching of Short Courses

Catalina Suarez-Rivera, Eirini Koutoumanou, Dean Langan, Chibueze Ogbonnaya (contributions from Angie Wade Population; Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department) 10 minute talk The UCL Centre for Applied Statistics Courses (CASC) offers short (1-5 day) courses for non-statisticians from UCL and beyond to build understanding of research methods and statistical techniques. Our face-to-face courses movedContinue reading Lessons Learned from Over 600 Hours of Online Teaching of Short Courses

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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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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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The benefits and challenges of designing programmes

Simon Walker, Sandra Lusk; Silvia Coliaicomo, Anne Preston, Martin Compton (Arena/VP education) 10 minute talk To support the development of new programmes at UCL East and the recommendations of the 2020 PGT review, UCL is piloting a holistic approach to its development of new programmes. As part of the preparation for Programme Module Approval PanelContinue reading The benefits and challenges of designing programmes

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Benefits of joining the Student Health and Wellbeing Community of Practice

Mitesh Vagadia (Student Support and Wellbeing) 5 minute talk The Student Health and Wellbeing (SHW) Community of Practice (CoP) is sponsored by the Registrar and Director of Student Support and Wellbeing and has two leads Mitesh Vagadia – Head of Student Support and Wellbeing and Madiha Sajid – Teaching & Learning Officer for MSc HealthContinue reading Benefits of joining the Student Health and Wellbeing Community of Practice

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Help! 5 days to deadline day with just 1 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) participant. A subject identified for improvement

Tim Young (Queen Square Institute of Neurology) 10 minute talk The annual Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is the key collator of postgraduate student views, yet nationally participation is typically below 30% making interpretation challenging. Our distance-learning Clinical Neurology course experience, with some 80 students, demonstrates how to dramatically improve participation Our course 2017 PTESContinue reading Help! 5 days to deadline day with just 1 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) participant. A subject identified for improvement

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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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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