Teaching And Learning Portal

The Vice-Provost (Education) has called a meeting to discuss helping students make better use of their time after the summer examinations by providing a distinctly 'UCL' programme for undergraduates.

The line between helpful feedback that a student can learn from and well-meaning but overly detailed corrections is a thin one. Ele Cooper talks to Dr Rachel Rees about how she helped her teaching team to recognise the difference.

Set a class of first-year undergraduates loose on an android application development platform and the results can be both inspiring and surprising. Ele Cooper talks to Dr Graham Roberts and Dr Dean Mohamedally to find out more.

The winner of a competition celebrating the new UCL Teaching and Learning Newsletter has been announced.

The website for the Cultural Consultation Service (CCS), which provides support to students and staff experiencing challenges to their learning and/or teaching due to intercultural conflict, has now launched.

Tom James, first-year student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, talks about his experience of being a mentor on the Open-City Accelerate programme, in which undergraduate students mentor A-level pupils from hard-to-reach London schools.

A workshop entitled ‘Self-assessment: strategies and software to stimulate learning’ is to be held on June 11th.

Professor Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost (Education), discusses the White Paper and outlines his ambition to truly unite research and teaching.

Curricular Development and Examiners Manager Irenie Morley tells Ele Cooper about how the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) is being implemented at UCL and explains its implications for students.

Ele Cooper attends the Global Engineering Education Conference and finds a crowd frustrated with the status quo and hungry for change.

CALT Teaching Fellow Dr Rosalind Duhs offers advice on how staff can help reduce students' pre-exam nerves and ensure that they perform as well as possible on the day.

Douglas Guilfoyle, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Laws, tells Ele Cooper how he’s using 15-minute video clips to enhance his students’ learning experience.

The deadline for nominations for the 2012 Provost's Teaching Awards has been extended to midnight on Friday March 23rd.

Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, lecturer in Scandinavian Literature and undergraduate tutor for SELCS, describes the ways in which being a Provost’s Teaching Award winner has impacted upon his career.

The winner of a competition to find examples of inspiring teaching at UCL has been announced and awarded an iPad.

UCL Computer Science is calling for applicants to a new two-year, dual-location Master’s programme being run as part of an initiative by the European Institute of Technology (EIT).

Su Bryant, director of the UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT), explores what ‘borderless learning’ could mean for UCL and asks whether our teaching community is ready to walk over the edge.

Today is the first day of Open Education Week and, as part of this, members of the public, students and staff alike are being invited to take part in a webinar entitled ‘Topics in open education: what does open education mean in practice?’.

A two-part training course is being held in order to highlight the advantages of object-based learning (OBL) and explain how to apply it to different disciplines.

The Provost has invited nominations for the 2012 Provost's Teaching Awards.

Image: Dr Chiara Ambrosio teaches students in UCL Art Museum

The Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) has announced that it is launching an MSc entitled Atkins Rail Integrated Design Management in partnership with construction firm Atkins.

UCL staff should encourage students to complete the National Student Survey (NSS*) as this year’s results are likely to make more of an impact on application numbers than ever before, Academic Support has advised.

Peter Delves, Professor of Immunology and Vice-Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Medical Sciences, shares observations gleaned during a recent trip to the School of Medicine at Boston’s Tufts University. Interview by Ele Cooper.

Ele Cooper visits ‘After Michelangelo’ at UCL Art Museum and finds that ‘pop-up’ isn’t always shorthand for questionable design and flapping waiters.

Elizabeth Grant reflects on the New Year Address given by the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities.