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The following case studies demonstrate how UCL staff use open educational practices to enhance teaching and learning. These include:
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Dr Rikke Duus, UCL School of Management, explains how she challenged traditional assessment design in response to an increasingly tech-driven world.
30 November 2018
Dr Cosette Crisan from the IOE explains how they are actively encouraging current students and alumni to work together in order to enhance their educational provision.
15 November 2018
Dr Neph Marina-Gonzalez talks about research-based education, his approach to teaching applied medical sciences and the UCL Academic Career Framework
16 October 2018
New type of assessment improves student satisfaction, and leads to outward-facing assessment outputs in all first year modules.
26 September 2018
Carl Gombrich on interdisciplinarity, the rewards of teaching and the Academic Careers Framework.
26 September 2018
An undergraduate module with poor student satisfaction has been turned around by a novel hybrid teaching method, says Dr Nephtali Marina-Gonzalez.
26 September 2018
Improved academic performance, engagement and attendance come out of peer instruction, where students discuss difficult concepts with their peers and interact with the whole class.
26 September 2018
Students are asked to reflect on their experiences and the connections between knowledge they have acquired at UCL and their internship role as part of their assessment
15 February 2018
In creating campaigns around HIV/AIDS treatment for young people, teams of first year undergraduates drew on theory and practice to connect with the world
20 November 2017
Luke Olsen (Senior Teaching Fellow, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) explains activities he is facilitating to build an enhanced Connected Curriculum within his department.
15 May 2017
An online course is helping students to engage critically with the theory and research by using video. Dr Cosette Crisan (Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, UCL Institute of Education) explains.
9 February 2017
Students produced a short video based on research which was then shown in at a department-wide screening. Dr Laura McKemmish explains.
13 July 2016
UCL has built on its partnership with Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre (NCS) through the development of a tutorial scheme with the mathematics department.
27 April 2016
George Richards (UCL Public and Cultural Engagement) shares what happened when students learned about the heart through two watercolours painted by a UCL professor of surgery and artist.
24 February 2016
This three year blended learning MSc adopts several different teaching methods to reflect the Connected Curriculum. Dr Susan Parekh and Dr Paul Ashley (UCL Eastman Dental Institute) explain.
10 February 2016
For Professor Geraint Thomas (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology), this classmate exchange succinctly captures the essence of project work and for many second year students, unfamiliar territory.
14 October 2015
Dr John Potter (UCL Institute of Education) talks about the value of learners being creators of media as well as consumers as it helps “bring subject matter alive and increases engagement”.
7 September 2015
‘Object Lessons’ is a second year core module on the BASc Arts and Sciences undergraduate degree programme at UCL.
14 August 2015
Dr Kerstin Sailer (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) discusses how her students have benefitted from hands-on teaching and learning by visiting specific buildings and writing a weekly blog.
23 June 2015
Co-organiser Dr Mira Vogel discusses the success of a recent Wikipedia-editing workshop.
22 June 2015
What happened when staff on one module encouraged students to openly license the online products of their assessed group work? Dr Mira Vogel (E-learning Environments) reports.
15 June 2015
Dr Tabitha Tuckett (UCL Library Services) explains how undergraduates can establish research skills through studying rare books and manuscripts.
19 May 2015
Dr Tim Baker (Senior Teaching Fellow, UCL Mechanical Engineering) works with first year undergraduates to develop a ‘one stop’ online resource where students can learn vital practical industry skills.
18 May 2015
Dr Paul Walker (UCL Arena Centre), and Dr Zubin Mistry, UCL History, presented attendees at the UCL Teaching and Learning Conference 2014 with a pioneering first-year undergraduate history module.
22 August 2014
Provost’s Teaching Award winner Dr Elisabete Cidre invited post-graduate students to create online resources for undergraduates.
1 July 2014
Clinical Teaching Fellow Dr Kaz Iwata talks about the Medical School’s peer-assisted learning scheme.
16 June 2014
Dr Chris Laoutaris, from the Department of English Language and Literature, explains how he used the UCL Art Museum to help his students understand Shakespeare plays.
9 August 2013
David West and Andrew Wilderspin from the School of Pharmacy explain the Provost's Teaching Award-winning Integrated Therapeutics Project, in which wikis are used to teach students integration.
7 August 2013
