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
- 7/7/2021 University of Kent Digitally-Enhanced Education Webinars, What will HE look like once the pandemic is over? Please express your interest by contacting the organiser
- 12-16/7/2021 Playful Learning Association, Playful Learning Online Conference
- 14/7/2021 Advance HE, Inclusive and Equitable Assessment and Feedback Workshop
- 15/7/2021 Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), Showcasing Research and Scholarship in Teaching and Learning
- 15/7/2021 Advance HE, Gender Equality Colloquium: Advancing gender and sex equality through research design
Resources and publications
- Are You OK?, podcast series about doctoral supervisor wellbeing
- Chavez, M. (30/6/2021), A review of frameworks as a starting point for anti-racism content development, #ALTC blog
- Collins, M. & Childs, M. (1/7/2021), Harry Potter and the Learning Design Proposal (1 hour podcast), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogic podcast with the pop culture core
- Deans for Impact (22/6/2021), Deepening Meaning and Learning
- Healey, M. & Healey, R. (22/6/2021), Mini-case studies of socially-just pedagogic practices in HE (scroll to the bottom of this page to download the mini-case studies), Mick Healey Resources
- Melcher, M. (23/6/2021), Beyond the technology: Inclusive teaching and engaging students through the chat panel (30-minute podcast), Jisc blog
- Postgraduate Pedagogies, an open-access journal dedicated to discussing, synthesising, and analysing the unique contribution that Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) bring to the teaching and learning environment in Higher Education
- Quintana, R. M. (1/7/2021), Resilient Teaching: A Learning Design Framework for a Post-pandemic Era, Media & Learning Association
- Talbert, R. (6/7/2021), How to write learning objectives (7-minute video)
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.