Aberystwyth University Blogging

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Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Jisc Digital Tracker

    • This year Aberystwyth University participated for the first time in the JISC Student Digital Experience Tracker - an online survey designed by JISC to collect information about students’ expectations and experiences of technology. Why did we decide to take part in the project? The tracker is a simple and well-designed tool. It is credible across the ...more

  • Celebrating excellence in teaching: AU Blackboard Exemplary Course Awards (ECA)

    • We are proud to announce that the winners of this year’s AU Blackboard ECA awards are being presented with their awards during this week’s graduation ceremonies. Adam Vellender, Catherine O’Hanlon, Daniel Low and Stephen Chapman, the winners 2017-2018 ECA winners are being presented with their awards during their department’s graduation ceremony. The winning modules all showed ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – July 2018

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored – Gorffennaf 2018

  • Thomas Parry Library: a celebration: Thursday 19 July 6pm

    • The Llanbadarn campus will be closing down for teaching over summer 2018. There will still be some University staff and services based over there from September 2018 onwards but the Thomas Parry Library will be closing as a service library in August 2018. Alan Clark (former Librarian at the Thomas Parry Library), Bill Hines (former ...more

  • Planning Downtime

    • Downtime on the systems we rely on is never popular. Making the decision about when to take Blackboard out of service is one of the hardest parts of our job. Juggling the different areas of work at the University as well as making sure that all the relevant parties are consulted takes a lot of ...more

  • Conference Registration now open

    • Registration for the sixth annual Learning and Teaching conference is now open. This year’s Learning and Teaching conference has the theme Stepping up Students’ Learning and will be taking place between Tuesday 11th and Thursday 13th September 2018. You can register for the conference online. This year, we’ve got an exciting and varied programme with activities, workshops ...more

  • Anticipating AU’s 6th Learning and Teaching Conference: Stepping up Student’s Learning, 11 – 13 September

    • We’re very excited to announce that Professor Jonathan Shaw, Lauren Heywood and Oliver Wood from Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL) will be giving the keynote address and providing workshops for this year’s Learning and Teaching conference. The DMLL’s Director, Professor Jonathan Shaw, is giving the keynote, while Lauren Heywood and Oliver Wood, DMLL ...more

  • Welcome to the Aber E-Learning blog!

    • The E-learning Group help staff and students throughout the University to use technology to enhance learning, teaching and assessment. Aberystwyth University has been recently awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and the E-learning provision was mentioned as one of the institution's strengths. For all those interested in how technology can make learning and ...more

  • Aberforward Scheme

    • For the last academic year I have been working in Information Services Creative Media Team as part of the AberForward Internship Scheme. My time has come to an end here and this will be my last blog for the university, so I thought I would tell you a little bit about my time as an ...more

  • New user spaces at Hugh Owen

    • We are progressing well with the collections resequencing and we’ll update you soon with plans of the new layout, but this post is about the additional user spaces we’ll be creating to help accommodate the needs of our students joining us once Thomas Parry Library closes. We’ve now identified an additional two group study rooms ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – June 2018

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored - Mehefin 2018

  • Resequencing Level F

    • To prepare for the move of Thomas Parry materials to Hugh Owen we are about to begin resequencing the current stock on the shelves on Level F. We’ve got the space to accommodate everything, we just need to make sure that the spaces are all in the right place! We also want to ...more

  • Thomas Parry Library

    • We’ve set up a page to answer your questions about the move from Thomas Parry Library https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/news/tplsummer18/ but if you have any further questions or feedback then please do let us know at ...more

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored - Mai 2018

  • OA Repository Newsletter – May 2018

  • Thomas Parry Library - Summer 2018

    • To tie in with the move of Departments to Penglais in the summer, we will be closing Thomas Parry Library on Friday 10th August 2018 and beginning the transfer of books and journals to Hugh Owen Library on Monday 13th August 2018. We’re hoping to have these items out of circulation for as short ...more

  • Rugby 7s

    • Aberystwyth is home to the biggest Rugby 7s tournament in Wales, hosted by the Student's Union. It’s a weekend filled with rugby, a few drinks (or more) and friendly competition. It’s open to anyone, even if you’ve never player before! I’ve been lucky enough to be part of one of netball’s rugby 7s teams, District 7s, ...more

  • Veterinary Biosciences at Aberystwyth University by Charlotte Marsh

    • My name is Charlotte and I am a final year BSc Veterinary Biosciences student at Aberystwyth University. Over the past three years I have lived and studied in the beautiful, coastal town of Aberystwyth and had some thoroughly enjoyable experience through my student life and course. There are many reasons why my time in Aberystwyth has ...more