Guest authors Camilla Audia and James Porter share their reflections on a learning experiment inspired by our Active Learning Design case study. Continue Reading
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Empowering students to become efficient, effective and resilient learners
I recently gave a Talking Teaching presentation on how we embed ‘Learning Fitness’ skills and values into the Change Makers curricula and learning design. Continue Reading
Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’
As part of this SRHE event on 3rd April 2019, I gave a talk about my paper ‘Understanding The World Today‘ – broadly covering what interpretive dance, ribbon and getting thrown out of a club have to do with navigating a world of fake news. Continue Reading
Case Study: Active Learning Design
We recently faced a challenging teaching situation – accommodating 170+ individuals for the opening session of a highly interactive and student-led module, in a raked lecture theatre with a 150 seat capacity, poor acoustics and very limited access in and out of the seats. Continue Reading
Change Maker in Chief
This week has seen the publication of the first issue of a new Imperial College publication – D/srupt. Continue Reading
Re-Imagining Transferable Skills
Over the last year, we have been developing and trialling a ‘skill manual’ with our undergraduate Global Challenges students. Continue Reading
Educational Exchange
We were very pleased to welcome two guests from Chile who had come to learn about our Live, Love, Learn approach in higher education. Continue Reading
Talking Teaching: Designing Inclusive and Participatory Curricula
As part of our new Teaching and Learning Strategy at Imperial College, the Education Office has launched a series of ‘Talking Teaching’ seminars Continue Reading
Rising to the challenge – reflections on a year teaching Global Challenges
I have now been teaching in the Global Challenges field for over a year. Most of my previous Higher Education teaching had been in social sciences following a fairly standard lecture-seminar format. On joining the Global Challenges team, I was looking forward to adopting more innovative pedagogical practices and, a year on, I have not been disappointed.
Evaluation of the Engineering for People Design Challenge
We have been running the Engineering for People Design Challenge (formerly the EWB Challenge) with Engineers Without Borders UK for the past four years as part of our second year course Design for Sustainable Development. Continue Reading