Welcome back to the fourth episode of this fourth season of the SEFI podcast! In this first episode we talk to Professor Tim Drysdale, Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Tim is responsible for developing an entirely new approach to online laboratories to support non-traditional online practical work activities across multiple campuses.Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Dr. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn about nontraditional practical work. shownotes: Timestamps0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode0.27 Podcast Intro0.47 Experiences in non-traditional practical work from Natalie and Neil2.17 Tim's Background4.28 Engineering at Edinburgh5.43 Technology as not replacing humans: a post critical humanist approaches and less instrumentalist approaches to practical work10.22 Different types of non-traditional practical work 13.00 The benefits of non-traditional practical work15.04 How to select the best approach to take based on our aims and learning outcomes18.23 Student engagement and limitations22.10 The user experience 26.35 Use of dangerous and specialist equipment27.39 The user interface 31.07 Challenges to implementation33.24 Maturity of non-traditional practical work38.16 The role of AI40.42 Getting buy-in: evaluation of non-traditional practical work to produce an evidence base45.13 Final advice from Tim47.02 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil Further Reading The following provides a link to work in which Tim describes different types of NTPLhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23752696.2020.1816845The following provides a link to work whereby Tim makes use of a post-humanist lens.https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/posthumanistic-practices-of-community-for-non-traditional-laboratFor more information about student (user) experience you can refer to the following pieces of workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03064190221081451https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10399863Join us! Become a member of the European Society for EngineeringEducation, SEFI, Europe's largest network of engineeringeducators: www.sefi.be Music by ComaStudio: https://pixabay.com/users/comastudio-26079283/ Written and produced by Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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