Find out how the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace team adapted their hands-on and practical Change Makers Making and Prototyping module to a pandemic-proof hands-on and practical remote delivery model. Post by David Miller and Harry Barnett, Hackspace Fellows
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At home, but not alone – connecting through collaboration and creativity
How can you teach from your front room? And how can you facilitate connections for a class of students based all over the world? Continue Reading
Dear Change Maker
We presented a paper at the National Interdisciplinary Education Conference (Online) about our Dear Change Maker research, entitled: Dear Change Maker: Using Correspondence to Develop a Visual Reflective Practice. Continue Reading
Reshaping education – learning from a pandemic
We were pleased to be featured in a recent Imperial Stories interactive, reflecting on Imperial’s work during the pandemic – both in terms of contributing to the national and global response to Covid 19, but also with respect to innovation within our community. Continue Reading
Project reinvention: moving online
Change Makers’ student Dhanya Mahadevan shares some insights about learning online with us this year. Continue Reading
Breaking down barriers to engagement online
Working online brings plenty of obstacles to active learning, communication and engagement – but can they be overcome?
Continue ReadingDoes working online have any advantages?
Working online has been a brand new experience. And we put a lot of thought and effort into how to make it work in the ways that we – as teachers – thought would provide the most supportive and engaging student experience. But has it worked? Continue Reading
(More Than A) Handbook
To align with our complete transformation to online learning, we decided to completely re-write and re-imagine our student handbook. Continue Reading
The Check In
Initially conceived as a way to monitor attendance (a requirement for Change Makers and Imperial Horizons modules) and to some extent welfare (students not completing the Check In could be followed up and offered support for any difficulty they might be experiencing), the Check In has been a hugely successful part of our new learning design. Continue Reading
The 24hr Rolling Class
One of the biggest challenges that we were faced with was to accommodate students learning both synchronously and asynchronously – with us in the live class and catching up at a later date. Continue Reading