Student-staff collaborations to enhance the remote learning environment | Engineering - Imperial College London

Chemical engineering undergraduates and teaching staff have designed several projects to enhance collaboration in virtual spaces, says Sara West, Communications Manager - Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering.

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A group of undergraduates have teamed up with Chemical Engineering Teaching Fellows on several projects to enhance the virtual learning experience. They have focused on trialling tools for collaborative learning, both within and outside the curriculum, ranging from assessed activities to informal group-learning.

Their projects have produced a range of digital tools that undergraduate and masters’ students can utilise to collaborate with their teachers and peers online...

Imperial Chem Eng Wiki

The Imperial Chem Eng Wiki site was created by Chemical Engineering undergraduates Thomas Nok Hin Cheng and Pierre Walker. Their vision was to create a site where they could consolidate learning materials for their modules, including lectures notes, and facilitate the sharing of learning resources in a communal online space.

Thomas and Pierre launched the Wiki in February 2020, just before the first UK national lockdown and the start of remote teaching. They trialled it with second-year students who were revising for their summer term exams. In a follow-up survey, 95% of respondents said they found the Wiki useful and thought it helped them retrieve information and consolidate concepts...

Next steps 

These student-staff collaborations have led to transforming the delivery of content and assessment in a more engaging and helpful manner. Moreover, several students have shown interest in improving these resources further for the benefit of their peers in the future and on-going work to strengthen these projects are planned for the 2021 Summer period.

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Source: Imperial College London