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 interest of clarity, our policy is to show the titles and descriptions in the language of delivery.   

Online events and webinars

• 26/5/2021 UEL, Debating the ‘meaning’ of communities of practice in higher education. Through sharing, discussion and networking
• 27/5/2021 AdvanceHE, Challenging privilege and the ‘danger of the single story’
• 28/5/2021 UEL, Debating the power of restorative practices for the Higher Education sector
• 7-21/6/2021 FutureLearn MOOC, How to Create an Online Course
• 9/6/2021, 17/6/2021, 24/6/2021, 30/6/2021 HEFi Showcase webinars University of Birmingham, How to be Amazing: Exploring the UKPSF
• 10/6/2021 University of Kent Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching Online
• 16/6/2021 University of Kent, Kent Digital Accessibility Conference 2021
• 16-18/6/2021 University of London Centre for Distance Education (CDE), Research in Distance Education (RIDE) conference 2021: Learning through disruption
• 18/6/2021 AdvanceHE Degree Standards Conference 2021: Improving assessment literacy and maintaining academic standards

Resources and publications

• Barrett, E. (10/5/2021), Four ways to ready students for the workplace of the future, Jisc Blog
• Beggs, R. (4/2021), Active and Collaborative Learning as an institutional approach and then Covid hit…, Media & Learning
• Dawson, P. (11/5/2021), The remote proctored exams dilemma, Slideshare
• Fawns, T., Mulherin, T., Hounsell, D. & Aitken, G. (2021) Seamful learning and professional education, Studies in Continuing Education
• Guccione, K. (27/10/2020), Busting mentoring myths, GCU Academic Development and Student Learning
• Guccione, K. & Zihms, S. (8/4/2021), Could you use a Power Hour of Writing in your teaching, GCU Academic Development and Student Learning
• Holt, J. (17/5/2021), Rex: Real EXperiments for the Virtual Classroom, Duke University Learning Innovation
• Jisc Podcast (17/5/2021), Episode 2: HE leaders discuss the post-COVID student experience
• Open University Learning Design team, Reflection and Resources
• Parson, V. (10/5/2021), “You must be mythtaken”: Learning styles is the neuromyth that refuses to go away, University of Sunderland School of Psychology Blog

Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. You may also wish to follow my Twitter feed, Mary Jacob L&T.