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

• 2/8/2021 ALT, Co-Creating Expectation
• 4/8/2021 Transforming Assessment, Object-Based Learning for Digital Assessment
• 16/8/2021 ALT, A Framework to Support Problem-Based Learning (mobiPBL)
• 1-2/9/2021 RAISE Network, Annual conference: Student Engagement in the Context of Covid-19
• 10/9/2021 Pedagogy and Pancakes, Practical Pedagogy Conference

Resources and publications

• Baughan, P. (8/7/2021), Assessment and Feedback in a Post-Pandemic Era: A Time for Learning and Inclusion, Advance HE
• Center for Engaged Pedagogy, Barnard College, Faculty Resources (a collection of guides including support for active learning online, backward design, and more)
• Deslauriers, L., McCarty, L. S., Miller, K., Callaghan, K., Kestin, G. (9/2019), Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (39) 19251-19257
• Eadens, D.M. & Eadens, D.W. (2021). Offering assessment options: motivating learners through multiple means of action & expression. In A. deNoyelles, A. Albrecht, S. Bauer, & S. Wyatt (Eds.), Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Center for Distributed Learning
• Hamilton, S. (14/10/2020), Design Thinking for Pandemic Pedagogy, Hybrid Pedagogy
• Harvard, B. (6/6/2019), Make Learning Simpler, Not Easier, The Effortful Educator
• Headleand, C. (23/7/2021), We shouldn’t confuse online engagement with logging in, Times Higher Education Campus
• Helix Education, Ep. 120: Harvard Uncovers Roadblocks to Deep Learning w/ Dr. Logan McCarty & Dr. Louis Deslauriers (podcast 3 minutes)
• Kaye, L. (4/5/2021), Forget everything you think you know about online engagement, Times Higher Education Campus
• Kuepper-Tetzel, C. E., & Nordmann, E. (4/6/2021), Watch Party Lectures: Synchronous Delivery of Asynchronous Material
• Sherrington, T. (26/6/2021), Applying the CogSci – examples from across the curriculum. #EdFest, TeacherHead blog
• Trautwein, C. (2018), Academics’ identity development as teachers, Teaching in Higher Education, 23:8, 995-1010
• Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, Teaching Statements
• Veritasium (9/7/2021), The biggest myth in education (video 15 minutes)

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.