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

• Self-paced MOOC, Disability Awareness, Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning design approach that recognises there is no ‘average’ learner.”
• Multiple dates through 31/1/2022 Education and Training Foundation, EdTech Accessibility Training
• Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
• 11/1/2022 National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Plotting your UDL Journey: getting started and moving forward
• 11/1/2021 WonkHE, Sealing The Cracks: Connecting With Students For Wellbeing And Success
• 11-12/1/2022 University of Nottingham, Designing Programmes for Learning: Foundations and Aspirations, “design of curricula and assessment at programme level”, includes some case studies on students-as-partners co-design
• 12/1/2022 University of Nottingham, Hybrid Teaching and Learning in HE – a futuristic model or a realistic model for the future?
• 13/1/2022 Active Learning Network, Active Learning to Engage Students and Enhance Learning
• 20/1/2022 UKAT, Tutoring Matters – What Works? Effective Advising for Post-secondary Students
• 24-28/1/2022 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
• 8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest

Resources and publications

• Carolina (16/12/2021), Breaking the Binary: Conceptions of Sex and Gender in Undergraduate Science – A Summary (1 hour video plus other resources), LGBTQ Psychology Reading Group, TILE Network
• Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities Project (EDTL) (webinar series and materials for students and staff)
• Foucher, J. (17/12/2021), Gendering decolonial pedagogies and decolonializing feminist learning & teaching, Teaching Matters Blog
• HEFi, University of Birmingham (4/1/2022), Recordings from 4/11/2021 Online Symposium: Adopting and Thriving, The PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education
• Mihai, A. (23/12/2021), Students as reflective practitioners: a personal development journey, Times Higher Education, Campus
• Nieminen, J. H. (5/12/022), Assessment for Inclusion: rethinking inclusive assessment in higher education, Teaching in Higher Education
• Paterson, H. & McAleer, P. (16/12/2021), Framing Feedback Around Student Development, TILE Network

Other

• Call for papers 18/1/2022: Duke Learning Innovation Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium, “How do we move from pandemic innovation to real, lasting transformation?”
• Call for papers 21/1/2022: Warwick Learning Design Consultancy Unit, Technology Enhanced Active Learning Festival (TEALfest)
• Call for papers 23/1/2022: University of Lincoln | LALT | Digital Education Team, DigiED: Futures
• Call for papers 24/1/2022: Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference, Contemporary assessment practice in the new age of higher education
• Call for papers 4/2/2022: Education Development Service at Birmingham City University, “Curriculum Imagination”: Decolonising HE Academic Practice Lecture Series
• Call for papers 10/2/2022: Association for Learning Technology and GO-GN, 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER22)
• Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference

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.