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

• On-going LTHE Chat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
• 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
• 20/1/2022 INCLUDE, Mission Accomplice: Practicing Antiracism with UDL as White Allies for Systemic Change
• 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
• 25/1/2022 AbilityNet, How to deliver and sustain accessible digital learning – for HE and FE professionals
• 25/1/2022 SEDA, CPD and Reflective Practice – Opportunities for Meaningful Outcomes
• 8/2/2022 #CreativeHE, Let’s Dance! Play that funky music to facilitate learning
• 8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest
• 28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop

Resources and publications

• Bhopal, K. (4/1/2022): Academics of colour in elite universities in the UK and the USA: the ‘unspoken system of exclusion’, Studies in Higher Education
• Compton, M. (10/1/2022), How effective are your questions?, Martin Compton, University College London, 10-minute podcast and article
• Crisp, E. (12/2021), Authentic and Effective: Rescuing Video from Its Role as the Villain of Online Learning, Media & Learning
• Elliott, J. (12/2021), Using video blogs to build connection in online learning – some unexpected lessons, Media & Learning
• Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (22/12/2021), inaugural issue
• Scoles, J. (13/1/2022), Welcome to the January – February L&T Enhancement Theme: Online/hybrid enhancements in teaching practice , Teaching Matters blog
• Sherrington, T. (3/12/2021), Five Ways to: Do Daily Review, Teacherhead (note: although this blog is mainly aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, many of the principles can be adapted for higher education, too)
• Sinfield, C. S. (10/1/2022), ‘I nearly quit my degree – then I read letters from my past self’, Open University Student Stories

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 14/2/2022: AdvanceHE, Race Equality Colloquium 2022: Race Equality in Transformative Times: Exploring intersections of minority-racialised identity and neurodiversity
• Call for papers 25/2/2022: University of Hull Annual international teaching and learning conference, Personalised Pedagogies: Inclusive, empowering and progressive Higher Education for all
• 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.