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Join #LearnHack to improve UCL education through technology
3 November 2017
Students and staff invited to UCL’s fourth hackathon, developing technology to support teaching and learning 24 – 26 November
Students and staff will come together later this month for a lively weekend of problem solving, tackling challenges around technology to support teaching and learning.
#LearnHack 4.0, which takes place at UCL on 24 – 26 November, will be a perfect peer learning environment, a breeding ground for new ideas and new connections and an opportunity to shape how we do things at UCL, in particular, how we use technology for teaching and learning.
Kicking off with a social event to get to know each other on Friday night, the hackathon proper takes place all day Saturday and Sunday. You can attend for the full weekend or drop in and contribute when you can.
Who should attend
Anyone with a UCL email address (staff, researchers, students or alumni of UCL) is welcome to attend.
You don’t need to have specific knowledge of technology or coding to attend – the benefits of the hackathon is that it brings together a diverse group from different backgrounds so they can look at a challenge from many different perspectives.
What you’ll do
Working in teams, you’ll work on a particular challenge and develop your ideas from rough draft to prototype. On the final day your team will give a short 2-3 minute presentation about how you tackled your challenge and what you learned in the process.
- See the schedule for the weekend
- Read about what happened at the Hackathon in June 2017
The challenges
We have some suggested challenges already but you can submit your own ideas for challenges ahead of the Hackathon.
Full details of the challenges are listed on the #LearnHack website – but in brief:
- Visualising the data literacy playground: can we build an online version of the Datopolis game?
- Development of the 360 degrees peer assessment system: how can Moodle be developed so tutors can run this?
- Assessing freely-drawn graphs on Moodle: how can we develop a new type of question for Moodle where students can draw a graph and get feedback immediately?
- LabNotes: how can we create a smarter lab experience that assists data recording, archiving and sharing to make data and data processing more long-lasting, time-saving and stress-free?
- How can the entrepreneurship team prove the value of entrepreneurship education to current and prospective students?
This edition of #LearnHack is a collaboration between: