Educational Resources

Networks, books and hardware to support education within MAPS

MAPS Teaching Interest Network (MAPS TIN)

The aim of the MAPS Teaching Interest Network is to promote good teaching practice throughout MAPS and beyond, act as a forum to discuss teaching practice through peer dialogue and to help staff gain recognition for their efforts. The Network’s events are therefore intended for any MAPS staff, be it teaching, academic or professional services, with an interest in teaching and pedagogy. MAPS Teaching Interest Network (MAPS TIN) Moodle page. (https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9019). Staff can self-enrol on the site with password pedagogy.

UCL Library

The library have a getting started page dedicated to new academic staff which provides a useful summary of all their provision, including collections and spaces, support for research and support for teaching.

Educational Research Textbooks

MAPS Faculty has invested in some requested textbooks to support Education Research, subject-specific pedagogy and course design. All of the titles below are available for long-term loan on request. Please email Katherine Holt (k.b.holt@ucl.ac.uk) to request a loan.

General Education Research and pedagogy:

  • Teaching for Quality Learning at University: What the student does
  • Bryman’s Social Research Methods
  • Thematic Analysis: A practical guide
  • What’s the use of lectures?
  • A Handbook for teaching and learning in higher education: enhancing academic practice
  • Turning Access into Success: Improving University Education with Legitimation Code Theory
  • Research Handbook on the student experience in higher education
  • Necessary Conditions of Learning
  • Conducting Educational Design Research
  • Eye Tracking: A comprehensive guide to methods and measures
  • Essentials of Thematic Analysis
  • Teaching as a Design Science

Subject-specific books to enhance pedagogy and course design:

  • Creative Chemists: Strategies for teaching and learning
  • Instrumental methods in electrochemistry
  • Illustrated guide to home forensics experiments
  • Illustrated guide to home biology experiments
  • Machine Learning with Python Cookbook: Practical solutions from preprocessing to deep learning
  • Generative deep learning: teaching machines to paint, write, compose and play
  • The big book of computing pedagogy

Hardware

We have some digital equipment that you may find useful to support work in education. These can be borrowed from the MAPS Faculty Office on request. Please contact the Faculty Learning Technology Lead for more information.

Digital Camera, Mic & Tripod

Sony FDR-AX53 4K Camcorder

We have purchased a Sony FDR-AX53 4K Camcorder together with an external microphone and tripod, all in carry cases.

Meta Quest 2 Headset

For those who wish to explore VR we have one headset.

Tobii Eye Tracker / Eye Tracking Laptop

We have a Tobii Pro Fusion Eye Tracker (https://www.tobii.com/products/eye-trackers/screen-based/tobii-pro-fusion) and powerful laptop to accompany it for eye tracking studies.