Aberystwyth University Blogging

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Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • More training sessions available

    • The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit have got some more Moving to Online Teaching and Using Microsoft Teams for Learning and Teaching Activities scheduled. You can book your place online and we will send you a Teams Calendar invite to attend the training session. In the Moving to Online Teaching session, we introduce some general guidance ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mai 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter – May 2020

  • Exemplary Course Award

    • Dr Lara Kipp, from the Department of Theatre Film and Television Studies, has been awarded the Exemplary Course Award for the module TP22320: Principles of Scenography. The panel commended this module for its innovative assessment design and support, clear and logically ordered learning materials, novel use of announcements, and offering multiple ways for students to ...more

  • Tips for Discussion Board Engagement

    • One of the interactive tools available in Blackboard is the Discussion Board. Whilst moving to online teaching, we’ve seen staff start to use discussion boards to communicate with their students and for students to communicate with their peers. In this blogpost, we’ll be giving you some tips on how best to design learning activities using discussion ...more

  • Changes to the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

    • This year’s Learning and Teaching Conference is scheduled to take place between Monday 7th and Wednesday 9th September. We are starting to plan to deliver elements of the conference online. We have extended the deadline for proposals for the conference to Friday 26th June 2020 and added an extra strand, to this year’s conference theme: Enhancing ...more

  • Blackboard Tests – Creating Online Assessment Activities for your Students

    • Online tests and quizzes can be created for your students using the Tests function in Blackboard. Tests can be provided as a formative method of assessment, as a self-assessment method for students, or as a more formal means of assessing student performance.  The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit have recently updated our Blackboard Tests guidance, ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Ebrill 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter – April 2020

  • Using Third Party Software for Learning and Teaching

    • As we move to planning and delivering teaching online, we have to become creative with the tools that we use. Whilst advice so far has been to use technologies that both you and your students are familiar with, there might be a good reason to try a different platform that is not supported or hosted by ...more

  • Teaching Online? How to make Blackboard Activities more interactive with Adaptive Release

    • Following the move to online teaching, this blogpost is intended to give you some ideas about how to make your Blackboard Course Site more interactive for students. In the first of this series of blogposts, we’ll be looking explicitly at a feature called Adaptive Release. The move to online teaching, if anything, shows us that Blackboard ...more

  • Monitoring Student Engagement while teaching online

    • This blogpost aims to provide you with information on some useful tools in Blackboard that can help you monitor student engagement. This was initially produced for a Distance Learner forum but the tools discussed apply to teaching online. In addition to providing some guidance on Blackboard tools, there are also some resources on student engagement ...more

  • Teaching Tips: Teaching and Learning Continuity

    • General Points  Provide clear and easy to understand instructions. This cuts down on the number of emails and queries you will receive.   Use the technology that you and your students know and can use. Remember that you can include links to our FAQs in your Blackboard course to help your students.  If you are using your own ...more

  • Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2020 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ale Armellini

    • We are very excited to announce that Professor Ale Armellini will be attending this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference as our Keynote speaker. From developing, implementing and evaluating Northampton University’s own Learning and Teaching plan, we are highly anticipating Professor Ale Armellini’s thoughts and ideas on this year’s conference theme of Enhancing the Curriculum: Inspire Learning ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mawrth 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter - March 2020

  • Erasmus is not one year in your life but your life in one year!

    • Hello! My name is Kasia, I am a Polish girl who graduated from Aberystwyth University and decided to do an internship in Spain as a part of the Erasmus+ program! After studying Media and Communication I choose to do a Sales and PR internship with Happy Erasmus Bilbao; a student association which organizes events and ...more

  • Sunny Spain – My Year Abroad

    • First things first, if you ever get the chance to travel as part of your degree – go for it! I believe that every student should have the chance to experience a different culture, a different language, new friends and more importantly new food. During my year abroad, I had the chance to work as ...more

  • Norway.....First Impression

    • The realization that I was about to embark on an adventure abroad did not hit me until it was 6 am in the morning and I was standing in Birmingham, caffeine and sleep-deprived, on the day of my flight. Being an international student in Aber, I was already ‘abroad’ and now I was going to ...more

  • My Exchange to Aber

    • Hi! I’m Eleanor. I’m on an exchange here at Aberystwyth University for two semesters. I’m from Canada; my home university is Dalhousie University, in Halifax. Dalhousie University is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. It has over 18 000 students, although they’re spread over several campuses, so it doesn’t feel that big. It’s well-regarded for ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter - February 2020

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Chwefror 2020

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Ionawr 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter – January 2020

  • Back from field training on Ponkar glacier in Nepal

    • In November 2019, Adina Racoviteanu, IGCP 672 project leader, joined by Neil Glasser (Aberystwyth University) and Stephan Harrison (Univ. Exeter) set out with a group of seven Masters students and young researchers from several institutions in Nepal and Sikkim to survey Ponkar glacier in the Manaslu region of Nepal. The glacier had been previously surveyed by ...more