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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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4 mini polemics about student engagement and online teaching: can you change my mind?

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?

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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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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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What the performing arts can teach us about giving feedback in the engineering classroom

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

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Undergraduate Students Researching UCL Biosciences’ Response to Education in a Global Pandemic

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

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Legal clinic in a virtual world: transcending barriers to access to justice

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

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Student Discourse on Current Bioscience Research Topics: Findings from face to face and online activities

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

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Learning robotics from home

Pradeep Devadass with Ben Spong, Martyn Carter, Viktoria Viktorija, Marielena Papandreou, Georgios Drakontaeidis, Vincent Huyghe. Asynchronous Submission How has the pandemic impacted the workshops & labs of the UCL’s architecture department? How has the B-made (Bartlett’s Manufacturing and Design Exchange) team addressed a complex subject like ‘robotics in architecture and construction’ in their teaching? The presentationContinue reading Learning robotics from home