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[:en]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.

Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Taking your (PowerPoint) Lectures Online: Kate Exley Workshop

    • The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce a special online workshop run by Dr Kate Exley on Wednesday 7th July at 10am. The workshop will be useful for colleagues who are modifying and transferring their traditionally delivered lectures for on-line learning. Please book your place online : https://stafftraining.aber.ac.uk/sd/list_courses.php Places are limited so please book as soon ...more

  • Invitation: Aberystwyth University’s Learning and Teaching Conference 2021

    • We’re looking forward to this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference which is just under a month away, 29th June-2nd July 2021. As you may have read, this year’s Conference will be taking place online via Teams so you can join us for as much or as little of the conference as you wish. You can view the ...more

  • Sally Brown and Kay Sambell Resources

    • As part of our Mini Fest on Assessment, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit invited Professors Kay Sambell and Sally Brown to give a workshop looking at how assessment might change because of changes to practices owing to the pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, Kay and Sally became integral to developing HE assessment practices following the publishing ...more

  • Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: Third external speaker – Dr Dyddgu Hywel

    • We are delighted to announce our third external speaker to this year’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Dr Dyddgu Hywel, senior lecturer in Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Dyddgu studied BSc (Hons) ‘Design and Technology Secondary Education leading to Qualified Teacher Status’ at Bangor University, where she graduated with first class honours. Her early career started ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 2/6/2021

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. ...more

  • Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol: Online Research Conference (29 June 2021)

    • The Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol are hosting their Online Research Conference on 29 June 2021. This conference is for anyone who is interested in multi-disciplinary academic research through the medium of Welsh. Scientists, humanists and sociologists from all over Wales and beyond are invited to share the results of their research and to meet other like-minded Welsh researchers. The aim ...more

  • Designing Anxiety-Free Assessments

    • During last week's Mini-Fest we run a session entitled 'Designing Anxiety-Free Assessments'. The session was based on A review of the literature concerning anxiety for educational assessments produced by Ofqual which outlines links between assessment anxiety, students’ performance, and mental health. It also offers possible assessment anxiety interventions which can be applied to both assessment ...more

  • What is a well-designed Blackboard module? – Student Learning Ambassadors Project

    • Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LTEU) is looking for a number of Student Learning Ambassadors to work on a ‘What is a well-designed Blackboard module?’ project. Issues with consistency and navigation of Blackboard modules are frequently raised in the feedback received from students (e.g., via the Information User Survey or the JISC Digital Insights survey). ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 27/5/2021

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. ...more

  • Demystifying Assessment Criteria

    • Assessment Criteria serve a number of functions: to render the marking process transparent; to provide clarity about what is being assessed how; to ensure fairness across all submissions; and to provide quality assurance in terms of the subject benchmark statements. While all these reasons are valid and honourable, there are a number of issues at ...more

  • WELCOME

    • Welcome to the blog of the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University, Wales’ first law school and one of the oldest in the United Kingdom. This is a relatively informal space for members of the Department’s academic staff to post brief articles on law and criminology. From time to time we will include items ...more

  • Bell v Tavistock: a quick explainer

    • This blog post is intended as a quick explainer on Bell v Tavistock. It is not intended to be a full analysis nor nearly as comprehensive as a finished article would be. It is just here to help avoid misunderstandings or misinformation in the interim. First of all: a pet peeve of mine is when people ...more

  • We are open!

    • Hello everyone, Following on from a successful launch we are delighted to see the newly refurbished Hugh Owen Library Level D in full use. Our Group Study Rooms are busy and the library floor is full of students revising hard for their exams. The space was officially reopened by our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Elizabeth Treasure on Monday January ...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 improvement. ...more

  • 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, 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

  • Hugh Owen Library, Iris de Freitas room refurbishment: 3D architect's plans

    • Exciting to see how plans for the refurbishment of the Iris de Freitas room on Level E of the Hugh Owen Library are progressing. The architect has provided us with a "fly-though" 3-D representation of the refurbishment so far: https://youtu.be/-Uosb6VwfJA (by kind permission of George and Tomos architects) and come and visit the library to ...more

  • Hugh Owen Library building work update on the Iris de Freitas room June 2019

    • Good progress is being made on the refurbishment of the Iris de Freitas room on Level E of the Hugh Owen Library over the summer. As of 26 June 2009: • the room is cleared ready for 3 new bookable group study rooms • acoustic baffles on the ceiling are being installed to reduce noise ...more

  • Iris de Freitas refurbishment details

    • We've just received a summary of the many improvements being made in the Iris de Freitas room in the Hugh Owen Library - we hope you're as excited as we are! There will be: • 44 study desks, each with their own PC. Two of these will be height adjustable • 140 desk spaces, with two of these ...more

  • Iris de Freitas refurbishment update August 2019

    • The Iris de Freitas room is coming along nicely, the new windows having recently been installed. The windows facing West (on the front of the building) are tinted and heat-reflecting, which will make the room a more comfortable space for all. It's planned to be reopened in November, and we're all very excited to see ...more
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