As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online.

Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the interest of clarity, our policy is to show the titles and descriptions in the language of delivery.

• 17-18/6/2020 Media & Learning Online Conference “Scaling up and providing access to video based services in higher education” https://news.media-and-learning.eu/type/featured-articles/agenda-launched-for-media-learning-online-17-18-june-2020/
• 18/6/2020 Webinar Dr Thomas Lancaster – ‘Contract Cheating in the Context of Covid-19: Five Key Ideas to Consider’. “Dr Lancaster will be providing an overview of the contract cheating landscape in relation to Covid-19, with a focus on five key ideas for the academic community to consider” https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5006411100167100942
• 23/6/2020 Webinar “Jumping online: Sustaining quality learning. University of London Centre for Distance Education webinar, designed to support the move to online during the pandemic. The webinar will be led by two CDE fellows, J Simon Rofe, Academic Head of Digital Learning at SOAS University of London and Jonathan San Diego, Lecturer in Technology & Health Informatics Education and Director of the iTEL Hub at Kings College, London and by Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies, UCL Knowledge Lab.” https://london.ac.uk/centre-distance-education/cde-activities/cde-events
• 26/6/2020 FutureTeacher Webinar “Self-assessment and Mastery learning – Reactivated” https://xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?template_id=4#selfassessment
• 1/7/2020 UCISA Webinar “Webinar Design to Promote Quality Engagement: Towards a Transactional Model and Toolkit” “Webinars are now commonplace, but as with early eLearning pedagogy, a ‘talking head’ design falls short of meeting the potential of the media. Next-generation learners need to master virtual collaboration skills to construct solutions to higher-level problem solving using interactive webinars.” https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2020/July/Spotlight-on-Digital-capabilities-webinar-3 https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events
• Virna Rossi “Inclusive Learning Design Webinar series“: “Inclusive Learning Design (post lockdown)”, “A menu of practical lesson activities (in e-learning mode)” http://inclusivelearningdesign.com/webinars/
• Dustin Hosseini “Digital Education Practices Podcast Series” https://digitaleducationpractices.com/podcast/
• Sarah Lambert, “A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis”, Asian Journal of Distance Education, (15)1 (2020) http://asianjde.org/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/462/307
• Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal “RAISE is a network of staff and students in the higher education across the world who are working in and/or interested in researching and promoting student engagement.” https://sehej.raise-network.com/raise
• Abby Sparrow et al, “Student autonomy of feedback format in higher education and perceived functional behaviours for academic development“, Journal of Pedagogical Research, 11 May 2020 https://www.ijopr.com/article/student-autonomy-of-feedback-format-in-higher-education-and-perceived-functional-behaviours-for-8256

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