Tag: Collaboration

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

Alejandro Bolaños-García-Escribano, Mazal Oaknín (SELCS), Marga Navarrete (SELCS/CMII) (contributions from PG Research Students: Lydia Hayes. UG Students: Nadia Massoud, Kat Pirnak, Clemency Connolly-Linden, Kieran Lewis, Ellen Cusack) (SELCS/CMII) 10 minute talk Scholarly inquiry on distance-learning practices in foreign language education is far from new and although in the past two decades many higher-education institutions hadContinue reading Bringing Language Learners Closer (BLLC): A ChangeMakers Project on Social Interaction in the Modern Foreign Languages Classroom

Aditya Mori, Arshiya Sawhney; Yash Dewan; Shivam Gujral; Raed Altaf (contributions from Amy Gardner; George Hawthorne; Anastasia Skuratova; Ed Collins) (Economics Department) 10 minute talk In this presentation we, the Senior Committee of The Economist’s Society (the student society of UCL Economics), will reflect on the content and the format of events we have organised duringContinue reading Student Engagement in a Virtual Setting: A Departmental Society’s Experience

Dean Langan (Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) 10 minute talk Students find it easier to engage when presented with examples from a familiar subject area. However, when teaching students of varying professional backgrounds, finding relatable examples can be especially challenging. Data generation exercises offer a solution for training in statistics as all studentsContinue reading Automated, collaborative, receptive and interactive: a data generation exercise for teaching statistics

Sandra Lusk, Sophie Keresztes, Tim Young (contributions from Abbie King, (UCL Arena Centre) 10 minute talk The Student Reviewers of Teaching Practice programme brings staff and students together in reflective dialogue about the staff member’s teaching practice. UCL has run Student Reviewers of Teaching Practice every academic year since 2016/17, leading to staff-student dialogue andContinue reading Driving change through Staff-Student dialogue: The first 5 years of the UCL Student Reviewers of Teaching Practice.

Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva (SELCS) 10 minute talk The SELCS Brazilian Translation Cub is a series of workshops in which students, translators, and enthusiasts of Brazilian literature meet to discuss the translation of a selected contemporary Brazilian short story. We offered 15 workshops from January 2019 to November 2020: 10 workshops at UCL andContinue reading Moving the face-to-face workshops of the SELCS Brazilian Translation Club online