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Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Active Learning Network satellite group

    • The university’s APEX learning and teaching strategy emphasises active learning. To support staff in using active learning effectively, we have established an Active Learning Network (ALN) satellite group here at Aberystwyth University. Our aim is to create a community of practice for staff so that you can exchange ideas and support each other in active learning. The ...more

  • Come and visit our LinkedIn Learning stall during Welcome Week!

    • Blog post by Laurie Stevenson (Student Digital Champion) LinkedIn Learning, which is a free online learning platform, is available to all students. Our stand has information about the platform and shows examples of the sort of short videos, courses and skills you can find on it. What’s more, if you sign up to LinkedIn Learning by the ...more

  • Welcome to our new Student Digital Champions!

    • A warm welcome to our new Student Digital Champions who joined the Digital Capabilities Team at the start of September! They will be working with us this semester to encourage students across the university to develop their digital capabilities and to provide valuable insights into what support students want. Laurie Stevenson (Faculty of Earth and Life ...more

  • Annual Learning & Teaching Conference 2022: recordings and resources now available!

    • We at the LTEU want to say a big thank you to everyone who got involved and attended our annual learning and teaching conference. If you didn’t manage to attend not to worry, we are pleased to announce that all of the recordings are now live on the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference programme page. If you ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 22/9/2022

    • 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. In the ...more

  • Blackboard Ultra: Stakeholder Meeting 1

    • The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is starting to work on our next project: the move to Blackboard Ultra. Over the coming months we’ll be using our blog to communicate project progression as well as important information. Over the next year or so, you’ll probably hear the following phrases: Ultra Base Navigation: the name given to the ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 16/9/2022

    • 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. In the ...more

  • Training for Academic Staff: Using LinkedIn Learning to Support your Teaching

    • LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform with an extensive digital library of expert-led courses and short videos. We will be delivering training sessions in October 2022 and January 2023 for academic staff who are interested in using LinkedIn Learning to support their teaching. Sessions will be available in Welsh and English on the following dates: ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 8/9/2022

    • 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. In the ...more

  • Vevox Update: September 2022

    • The University has a site license for Vevox, a polling software, which means that we benefit from regular updates. You can view the March updates on this blogpost. The summary of the updates for September are below: Vevox interface available in Welsh The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce that Vevox,  the University’s polling software, ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 1/9/2022

    • 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. In the ...more

  • Vevox Training Session

    • Last year, the University procured Vevox as its Polling Tool solution. Since then, we’ve seen lots of fantastic in-class polling activities taking place across the University. For those of you who haven’t used Vevox before or would like some guidance, Vevox will be running a training session: 22 September, 11:00-12:00 Book your place on our Courses Booking site. This training ...more

  • The Children's Literature Collection

    • Colourful books from the Children's Literature Collection on a table on Level F of the Hugh Owen Library If you go down to the Hugh Owen Library today... you're sure to find our latest display on Level F of some wonderful titles from our Children’s Literature Collection! Our collection has a good range of children’s fiction in ...more

  • Student Digital Insights Survey Results (2021-2022)

    • By Joseph Wiggins Aberystwyth University has once again run the Students Digital Insights Survey, a survey that asks learners the impact of online and technology implemented learning. This year over 600 students at Aberystwyth University took this survey. The Key Metrics The JISC survey has changed in the last year with some of the key metric questions being ...more

  • Develop your Digital Communication Skills

    • Want to learn how to improve your digital communication skills and especially how to use Instagram to promote your Business or Social Enterprise? AberPreneurs, part of the University's Careers Service, are running an exiting online event, Use Instagram for your Business/Social Enterprise - with Kacie Morgan, on 5 September (18:00-19:00). This session will be delivered ...more

  • Training for Academic Staff: Introduction to the Digital Discovery Tool

    • The Jisc Digital Discovery Tool will be available to all Foundation Year and First Year students from the start of academic year 2022/23. We will be delivering training sessions in September and October for academic staff who will be supporting their students to review their individual Digital Discovery Tool reports, and facilitating conversations with students ...more

  • Graduation 2022 Monday 11th July

    • Graduating students Congratulations to the following students who graduate today!You can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links Computer Science Edore Akpokodje 'Effective mobile query systems for rural farmers' http://hdl.handle.net/2160/d8193099-77c7-4c43-8afa-9a83e96b2cd7 Emmanuel Isibor 'Exploring the Concept of Navigability for Virtual Learning Environments' http://hdl.handle.net/2160/eedfaa52-0c74-4f46-ad60-ac06e9d8eb40 Suresh Kumar 'Learning with play behaviour in artificial agents' http://hdl.handle.net/2160/a53c855c-e6b2-4a93-886e-914d11bf1528 Mathematics Tirion Roberts 'Modelling foam ...more

  • Graduation 2022 Friday 8th July

    • Graduation ceremony Congratulations to the following students who graduate today! You can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links English and Creative Writing Morgan Davies 'The Burning Bracken: A Novel with Accompanying Critical Commentary' http://hdl.handle.net/2160/3cf9e413-70a7-44cd-95c5-af6ec91b2d42 Elizabeth Godwin 'Poetry and the Architecture of Imagination' http://hdl.handle.net/2160/0531b4b8-49b0-4ce5-95a6-3e95c62667f1 Robert Jones 'Lain Beside Gold' Narrative, Metaphor and ...more

  • Graduation 2022 Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th & Friday 15th July

    • Graduates at Aberystwyth University Congratulations to these students who are graduating on the following daysYou can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links Wednesday 13th July Physics Llyr Humphries 'Studies in chromospheric and transition region events and their relationship with the corona using IRIS and AIA’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/b85c1f59-36fb-4d1b-a351-4bce858102e2 Thursday 14th July Law & Criminology Roger Owen 'Dealing with ...more

  • Graduation 2022 Tuesday 12th July

    • Graduates in the Great Hall Congratulations to the following students who graduate today!You can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links Physics Benjamen Reed 'Developments in the Catalytic Graphitisation of Diamond and Silicon Carbide Surfaces' http://hdl.handle.net/2160/43e778c7-99d1-420b-903b-8f426bef7d9a English and Creative Writing Kittie Belltree 'Photograph albums of the dead: Imagining the unsayable through poetry' http://hdl.handle.net/2160/12005 Simon Jones 'My Rosalind: ...more
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