U21 Global Educational Enhancement Fund Outputs

Learning together in a global pandemic: practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times

 The University of Queensland, Lund University, The University of Edinburgh

We are delighted to announce that the final report from an international research project funded by Universitas 21 (U21) is now available. It synthesises academic colleagues’ experiences of the pivot to ‘emergency remote teaching’ in March-April 2020 due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

UC Davis,  Tecnológico de Monterrey and Shanghai Jiao  Tong University

This project used the Global Classrooms model to run four  course collaborations, involving eight faculties and over 250 students.  The team have developed a toolkit to help others implement collaborative learning opportunities themselves.  The toolkit is relevant for  developing and teaching any joint course and covers strategic guidance such as gaining gathering support from  senior  management to practical advice such as which platforms to use and how to resolve time zone challenges. 

University of Edinburgh, University of Auckland

HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) is a collection of 50 workbooks that covers the curriculum of first- and second-year mathematics courses for engineering undergraduates. They were designed as flexible learning resources and have been used by an estimate of 12,000 students in 55 UK higher and further education sites to date (Nov 2021). 

University of New South Wales and University of Melbourne

Climate in the Cloud is a suite of innovative online educational resources for University-level courses in atmosphere, ocean, and climate science. The project uses state-of-the-art climate and weather model output with web-enabled labs built with Google Colaboratory, a cloud-based python notebook server, and Dedalus, an open-source fluid dynamics solver that allows students to enter equations in human-readable format.