Our Global Village students impressed with their artwork and sustainable designs at the recent Engineering for People Design Challenge Grand Finals. Continue Reading
Author: Mark Pope
Positive Feedback for Change Makers Modules at Staff Student Committee
I recently met with Pratik Ramkumar and Milan Paczai, the Student Representatives for all the Change Makers modules this academic year, and was really pleased with the positive student feedback they reported.
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Reflections on our ‘Dear Change Maker’ project
We recently gave a presentation and seminar for the ‘Dear Change Maker: Using correspondence to develop a visual reflective practice’ (see video here). It was rewarding to share our work and hear the thoughts of academics and educators here at Imperial College and beyond. Continue Reading
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
How do you reflect on learning in a creative and interactive way? The answer’s on a postcard.
How do you make assessment criteria more student-centred? Co-create it with the students…
The last time I set an assignment for students in my class, I did something different. Continue Reading
Innovating to stem flooding: Sembula
Guest authors, Annie Cheung (2nd year undergraduate Medicine) and Shreya Basu (2nd year undergraduate Mechanical Engineering), write about their experience designing a flood barrier for Tamil Nadu in India, for the Engineers Without Borders UK design challenge. Continue Reading
The great potential in linking learning to real-world experiences
Real life breeds real experiences. Yet the studies that are discussed in laboratories, libraries and lecture theatres can feel removed from the social world outside. Continue Reading
Collaborating with the Live, Love, Learn approach
I have just finished working on a biomedicine summer school with staff from the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. 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.