[Academic] Fwd: UK/Ukraine STEM resources

[physics-director-teaching]

Anyone lab-people interested in contributing please feel free to contact our chemistry colleagues below.

Best

John

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Professor John Jeffers
Director of Teaching
Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
physics-director-teaching at strath.ac.uk<mailto:physics-director-teaching at strath.ac.uk>


From: Patrick Thomson <patrick.thomson at strath.ac.uk<mailto:patrick.thomson at strath.ac.uk>>
Sent: 20 July 2022 09:43
To: Lorraine Gibson <lorraine.gibson at strath.ac.uk<mailto:lorraine.gibson at strath.ac.uk>>; Debra Willison <D.Willison at strath.ac.uk<mailto:D.Willison at strath.ac.uk>>
Subject: FW: UK/Ukraine STEM resources

Hi both,

See below – after a recent conference, some colleagues across the UK have set up an initiative to make remote practical STEM lab resources available to Ukrainian universities. Thought that Strathclyde might be able to contribute.

The network I’m a part of includes representatives from Labster and Learning Science, and I imagine they’ll get involved. Hence why I think we’re well suited to step in as our offerings were designed to fill gaps around the edges of those sims.


Lorraine, I’d like to contribute some of the remote virtual experiments I worked up for first year – there’s a few that have students do data collection from a video capture of a set of apparatus; they’re nice and portable and a lot more engaging than providing a spreadsheet of results. Seem reasonable? I’ll make sure there’s Strathclyde branding somewhere.


Debbie, the network aims to cover all types of remote alternatives to practical lab-based education; they also cover Bioscience, Physics, and Engineering. Most of those are your purview in the Science faculty, but could you also pass the call on to colleagues in Engineering?

Cheers,

Patrick


From: Malcolm Stewart <malcolm.stewart at chem.ox.ac.uk<mailto:malcolm.stewart at chem.ox.ac.uk>>
Sent: 20 July 2022 09:07
To: practical_teaching_in_chemistry at maillist.chem.ox.ac.uk<mailto:practical_teaching_in_chemistry at maillist.chem.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Fwd: UK/Ukraine STEM resources

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Dear all,

Please see the email from Nigel below.

Hope everyone is doing well after the last few days of heat?

Speak soon,
Malcolm

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From: Nigel Francis <FrancisN10 at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:FrancisN10 at cardiff.ac.uk>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 9:02 am
To: Malcolm Stewart <malcolm.stewart at chem.ox.ac.uk<mailto:malcolm.stewart at chem.ox.ac.uk>>; Craig Campbell <craig.campbell at chem.ox.ac.uk<mailto:craig.campbell at chem.ox.ac.uk>>; H.L.Vaughan at liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:H.L.Vaughan at liverpool.ac.uk><H.L.Vaughan at liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:H.L.Vaughan at liverpool.ac.uk>>; Samantha Pugh <S.L.Pugh at leeds.ac.uk<mailto:S.L.Pugh at leeds.ac.uk>>
Subject: UK/Ukraine STEM resources

Dear all,

I hope this email finds you all well. The war in Ukraine has had a huge impact on the provision of university education in the country with many academics and students being forced to flee frontline areas, disruption to services and facilities and even their destruction. Advance HE ran a panel session at their L&T Conference recently with some Ukrainian academics, and towards the end, a plea was raised for the provision of laboratory teaching resources…I think you can see where this is going!

I am currently working with Advance HE (Kathy Wright and Kay Hack), along with some other UK academics (Ian Turner - Derby and Pete Mylon – Sheffield) and colleagues in Ukraine to try and collate resources that can be used in teaching. While this is initially a short-term response to the situation in Ukraine, longer term we want to try and make this a repository for tried and tested teaching resources across the STEM disciplines.

All our networks were founded on the spirit of collegiality and sharing, so I am reaching out to ask for your help and to allow the networks that gave us all so much during the pandemic to give back to the wider HE community. Would you be able to send out an email to your distribution lists asking them to make resources available? The idea is that the different subject areas are divided by topic and links to different teaching resources in each area will be collated there. We have a Google site set up (https://sites.google.com/view/stem-teaching-resources/home<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fstem-teaching-resources%2Fhome&data=05%7C01%7Cjohn.jeffers%40strath.ac.uk%7C982e3cd7716843064cb408da6a41bbdb%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C637939127792046808%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UlMCOFPKZHdNoMl0dwEym1spR3MQN14dSeSnOuCgnsA%3D&reserved=0>) and I have had a go at dividing the broad subject areas into sub-sections…I am sure as a non-subject specialist there are other areas that should be included so if I have missed anything obvious please let me know.

Anyone wanting to contribute resources can contact me directly.

Thank you in anticipation.
Nigel

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