Festival of Learning and Teaching 2024 - Sustainable Success: Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Well in STEMMB

The Festival of Learning and Teaching is Imperial’s annual collaborative and celebratory forum of educational innovation and achievement across the College. This year we are delighted to welcome colleagues from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in our first international collaborative event.

At Imperial and across the higher education sector, we strive to perform well in the work that we do. This includes the education mission and how we understand and enhance its value. Looking beyond metrics, such as the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and the National Student Survey (NSS), we ask what it means for us – students, educators, and all colleagues who support learning – to perform well? How can we look beyond metrics, grades, and evaluation scores when striving for success, in order to ensure that education is healthy and sustainable? We will consider some of the current opportunities and challenges faced by our education communities, exploring over three days what it means to teach, learn and assess well.

Event resources

Teaching Well

Teaching Well: Student, EDI, and Intercultural Perspectives
Keynote Panel session delivered by:

  • Speaker 1: Dr Wayne Mitchell, Associate Provost (EDI)
  • Speakers 2: Milan Paczai and Eliott Stoclet, Imperial College Alumni
  • Speaker 3: Dr Monika Pazio Rossiter, Senior Teaching Fellow

Parallel sessions

  • 1a: How emotionally (il)literate are you and your students: and why does it matter? (Presentation)
    By Kate Ippolito, Dr Catherine Mansfield, Dr Manuela Mura
  • 1b: Fostering Synergy in Online Business Education: Digital Innovation and Collaboration (Presentation)
    By Jamina Ward, IDEA lab, Business School; Nai Li, Business School; Stephen Vaz: Fostering Synergy in Online Business Education: Digital Innovation and Collaboration
  • 1c: Fostering Inclusive Access and Transition to Higher Education: reflections from a Widening Participation program supporting students into healthcare careers (Presentation)
    By Dr Roshni Bhudia, Dr Ismail Ismail, Sukhi Ubhi, Dr Laura Knight, Stephanie Powell, Dr Ravi Parekh MEdIC (Medical Education, Innovation & Research Centre)
  • 2b: Teaching literature review in the age of Generative AI (Presentation)
    By Dr Richard Silversides, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • 3a: Ignite session
    Presentation 1: Virtual and Augmented Reality in Neurology and Neuroscience Education: Applications and Curricular Strategies
    By Stefano Sandrone
    Presentation 2: What Role Does a Teacher Have in Helping Students Become Well-Rounded Programmers? (Presentation)
    By Chris Cooling
    Presentation 4: To keep up or to fall behind and catch up later? Study patterns and how we support students (Presentation)
    By Linda Stringer
  • 3b: Ignite session
    Presentation 1: Importance of relevant role models: a qualitative study investigating experiences of Black women studying STEM at Imperial (Presentation)
    By Linda Van Keimpema
    Presentation 2: The importance of embedding a culture of academic integrity within postgraduate taught education (Presentation)
    By Dr Natasha Croome
    Presentation 3: Words’ exchange - an ice-breaking approach to foster meaningful intercultural exchanges among doctoral students (Presentation)
    By Elena Forasacco
  • 3c: Ignite session
    Presentation 1: An Introduction to Ambiguity (Presentation)
    By Fabian Sorce
    Presentation 2: Innovation Sustained by Integration: making radical ideas acceptable over time
    By Sunday Popo-Ola et al
    Presentation 3: Information literacy, self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (Presentation)
    By Heather Lincoln and Rosemary Russell
    Presentation 4: Virtual Horizons: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sustainable Virtual Reality Education Futures 
    By Dr Argita Zalli and Monica Tolocica
  • Plenary session: AIM Framework: interactive 3D visualisation to asynchronous online learning experiences (Recording)
    By Daniel Mitelpunkt, Director, Digital Media Lab and Dr Simon Pocock, Learning Technology & Software Lead, Interdisciplinary EdTech Lab  
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President Hugh Brady delivering the opening speeches at the Festival of Learning and Teaching 2024.

Keynote panel on Teaching Well: Student, EDI, and Intercultural Perspectives. Delivered by Dr Wayne Mitchell, Associate Provost (EDI); Dr Monika Pazio Rossiter, Senior Teaching Fellow; Milan Paczai and Eliott Stoclet, Imperial College Alumni

The keynote speakers invited the audience to ask questions and voice their thoughts.

This year, the Festival hosted more delegates than ever before with over 250 staff and students from the Imperial community in attendance.

The event ended with a plenary session focusing on 'Towards Sustainable Success'.

Virtual poster gallery

View our virtual poster gallery for the Imperial Festival of Learning and Teaching 2024.