Aberystwyth University Blogging

Welcome to the Aberystwyth University Blogging Service.
If you wish to start a blog, please send an email to blogging@aber.ac.uk to discuss your requirements and we’ll advise you on how to get started. You can also view information about setting up a blog on the Web Services pages.

Our Active Blogs

Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Spellcheck your feedback in Turnitin

    • If you’re anything like us, we have been a little bit obsessed with Line of Duty recently (no spoilers here) and understand how the misspelling of the word ‘definately’ can have potentially catastrophic consequences and we wouldn’t want anyone to be accused of being in league with OCGs. We’ve found a way in which you can ...more

  • Annual Learning and Teaching Conference Keynote Announcement: Helen Beetham

    • We are very excited to announce that this year’s keynote for the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference will be Helen Beetham. Helen is an education consultant, researcher, writer, and digital project leader, with a particular focus on learners’ digital literacies. Recently, Helen helped to develop the Jisc Digital Insights survey. Aberystwyth University was one of the ...more

  • Conference Registration now open

    • Registration for the seventh annual Learning and Teaching conference is now open. This year’s Learning and Teaching conference has the theme Learning from Excellence: Innvate, Collaborate, Participate! and will be taking place between Monday 8th and Wednesday 10th July 2019. You can register for the conference by filling in this online form: https://aber.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/7th-annual-learning-and-teaching-conference-registration This year, we’ve got ...more

  • How can we help you with the Blank Course Copy?

    • Level 2 and Level 3 Blackboard modules for 2019/20 academic year will be created with no content. Previously, year by year the content was automatically copied over for all Blackboard modules. Preparing the Level 2 and Level 3 modules for the next year will require the module co-ordinators to copy over existing and/or upload new material ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter - May 2019

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mai 2019

  • Iris de Freitas refurbishment, Hugh Owen Library: area now closed from 29th May 2019

    • To prepare for refurbishment work on the Iris de Freitas and Hermann Ethe rooms on Level E of the Hugh Owen Library during summer/autumn 2019, this area will now be closed to users from 13:00 on Wednesday 29th May after the final exam has taken place. We expect to re-open the space on the 4th ...more

  • E-learning Group’s Reflections on the recent Mini Conference

    • Following the recent Mini Conference on Inclusive Education, we have been reflecting on our experience of the event. Each member of the E-learning Group has written a short piece on one aspect of the Mini Conference. Neurodiversity Janet and Caroline’s session was interesting both in terms of the subject matter and the way it was presented. As ...more

  • Padlet

    • Over the last few weeks, I’ve been taking a FutureLearn course called Using Technology in Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning. It’s run by the Chartered College of Teaching and focuses on the use of learning technologies in primary and secondary education. Although the context is different to higher education, it’s been a really interesting and enlightening ...more

  • Blackboard SaaS Update 2

    • At the end of last month, we blogged about getting our hands on a test Blackboard SaaS environment. This month we’ve started the process of testing the environment and finding out the differences and similarities between SaaS and our current version of Blackboard. A lot of the work this month is being done by our Blackboard ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – April 2019

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Ebrill 2019

  • Academy Forum: Instilling Self-Regulation in Learners

    • The E-learning Group host several Academy Forums across the academic year. The aim of the Academy Forums is to bring together members from across the University to discuss a matter related to Learning and Teaching. Our last Academy Forum focused on Instilling Self-Regulation in Learners. This topic was suggested following last year’s Annual Learning and ...more

  • Dr Rob Grieve – Mini Conference Presentation

    • The E-learning Group are hosting a mini conference on Inclusive Education on Wednesday 10th April at 1pm in E3, E-learning Training Room, Aber Academy. In addition to our previous blogpost announcing the line-up for the mini conference, we’re also pleased to announce that Dr Rob Grieve will be giving a recorded presentation entitled Stand Up ...more

  • Using Virtual Reality (VR) in Mental Health

    • Although individuals using VR are conscious of their experience not being real, the physical and psychological responses induced by it are similar to those experienced in real life scenarios. Using VR in mental health treatment opens up possibilities of working through responses to problematic stimulus without having to face them in a real life. There is ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter - March 2019

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mawrth 2019

  • Iris De Freitas refurbishment focus group 12/02/2019

    • A focus group has been held on the planned refurbishment of the Iris De Freitas room. Six participants joined staff and the architects who are working on the refurbishment to talk through the current plans. The focus group session helped to gather student feedback along with surveys and the post-it note board in the Iris ...more

  • Iris De Freitas Refurbishment

    • A photo of the Iris De Freitas Room. The Iris De Freitas room in the Hugh Owen Library will be closed for refurbishment from the 3rd of June. We expect to re-open the space on the 4th November 2019. During the planning process we asked the users of the room to give us their suggestions for ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Chwefror 2019