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The ,Ìýfeaturing both staff and students,Ìýcurrently has threeÌýpodcasts in the series with more in the pipeline.

Research-based education

In the first of the series, Professor Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost (Education & Student Affairs), and former Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøU sabbatical officer Wahida SamieÌýexplain what a research-based education means and how it "speaks to our changing relationship with the body of knowledge".

"It is not about saying that the ways that students have been taught in the past are wrong or different to what they need to be," Professor SmithÌýsays, "it's about a focus on questioning and inquiry." Professor Smith says staff are increasing seeing students as a "wonderful, creative intellectual source and a great way of crowdsourcing and testing ideas".

In the secondÌýpodcast,ÌýProfessor Smith discusses proposals to make teaching and education leadership as important as research when it comes to academics' promotionÌýprospects.

Student feedback

In the thirdÌýpodcast,Ìýwe tackle the thorny issue of student feedback. Dr Fiona Strawbridge, head of Digital Education at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø, and Dr Simon Banks, faculty tutor in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø's Faculty of Engineering Sciences, talk about My Feedback report. This new tool, developed at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø, enables students to see many of their grades and assessment all on one screen.Ìý

Dr Banks says the tool, which has been tested by about 700 engineering students, helps identify students' strengths andÌýareas for developmentÌýacross an entire programme. Dr Banks explains how some students want to see the tool give them a ranking against their peers.ÌýOther universities are watching the development of the tool closely, Dr Strawbridge says.

Tune intoÌýourÌýpodcastÌýand emailÌýus atÌýteaching.learning@ucl.ac.ukÌýto let usÌýknow what you think of it, which topics you'd like us to cover and who you'd like to hear discussÌýthem.

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