External Speaker: Feedback Engagement, Dr Robert Nash

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce our next External Speaker.

On Friday 11 March, 10am-12pm, Robert Nash will be running a masterclass on strategies for feedback engagement.

Bookings for the event are open via the CPD Staff booking page.

The workshop will take place online via Teams. A link will be sent to you before the event.

Please see below for the session description and speaker biography.

Session Description

Why don’t they listen to my feedback?

Most people prefer to perform well than to perform badly, and one of the primary aims of giving feedback to students is to help them improve their performance. So why do our students so often ignore, resist, and reject the feedback we give them, and what can we do about it? To set the scene for this workshop, we will first consider the extent to which these problems are unique to students. In particular, I will share some insights from diverse domains of social psychology that shed light on the very human motives behind avoiding feedback. With these insights in mind, we will go on to explore the perceived and actual barriers that limit students’ effective engagement with their feedback. We will contemplate practical ways by which we, as educators, might play a role in breaking down these barriers. Throughout these discussions, sustainability is key: with academic workloads spiralling ever higher, our fixes cannot involve us always giving more feedback, quicker feedback, and fancier feedback. I will share my own mixed experiences of trying to implement into my own teaching practice what I’ve learned from almost a decade of working on these problems.

Speaker Biography

Dr Rob Nash is a Reader in Psychology at Aston University, where he is currently Director of Undergraduate Learning & Teaching for the School of Psychology. A experimental psychologist, Rob’s primary expertise is in human memory, particularly the ways in which memories become biased, distorted, and fabricated. However, he also conducts and publishes research on the topic of feedback in education, with an emphasis on how people respond and react when given feedback. Rob is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Legal & Criminological Psychology, and co-author of the Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit (Higher Education Academy, 2016).

If you’ve got any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us (lteu@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 23/2/2022

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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 LTHEchat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
25/2/2022 Westminster Student Parnerships, Students as Co-creators Online Seminar Series, Inclusive Curriculum Consultants: Lessons learned from student-staff partnerships in curriculum development, design, and review
28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop
2/3/2022 Transforming Assessment, Pandemic-induced assessment changes at the Open University (UK)
3/3/2022 University of London Centre for Distance Education, The year ahead for the practitioner “The Covid-19 pandemic has rejuvenated debates around the use of learning technologies in the classroom (online or face-to-face) and resulted into the emergence of hybrid models and approaches that are predicted to permanently influence the way both distance and campus based learning are carried out.”
8-9/3/2022 Jisc, Digifest – update: now free of charge for Jisc members
9/3/2022 AdvanceHE, Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement
10/3/2022 SEDA, Book Launch: Developing Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education
10/3/2022 Collaborative Research Network, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic perspectives in the New Curriculum
14-18/3/2022 University of Warwick TEALfest, Technology-enhanced Active Learning Festival
6/4/2022 UDL UK and Ireland, The Elephant in the Room: Universal Design for Learning and Assessment
7/4/2022 Warwick International Higher Education Academy, Universities and Post Pandemic Digital Praxis – Critically Reframing Education and the Curriculum
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

Cast, The Accessible Learning Experience podcast series
Digitally Enhanced Webinar Series (22/2/2022), Webinar 12: Pedagogy and Practice when teaching and learning Online, several short video recordings
Education Burrito Podcast (8/2/2022), Ep 30: Unwrapping blending learning & teaching with Danielle Hinton, 32-minute audio recording
Ezarik, M. (17/2/2022), Reading Between the Lines to Support Struggling Students, Inside Higher Education
Harvard, B. (13/1/2020), Growing a Brain Dump, The Effortful Educator
Merry, K. (16/2/2022), Episode 9: All things UDL with Katie Novak 46-minute audio recording, Talking Teaching and Learning podcast series
My Liminal Pod podcast series (16/2/2022), The Perfect Blend with Dr Alexandra Mihai (Part 1), 17-minute audio recording
Poelzer, T. (1/2/2022), Silver Linings: The Unintended Positive Pedagogical Consequences of the Pandemic, Media & Learning
Quinlan, K. (22/2/2022), Returning to the lecture hall? trigger students’ interest in large group settings, 28-minute video, Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars
Quinlan, K. M. (2016), How Emotion Matters in Four Key Relationships in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, College Teaching, 64:3, 101-111

Other

Call for papers 4/3/2022: University of Birmingham HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future-Facing University Teaching
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.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference Announcement

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#aultc22 #pacda22

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce the theme and strands for this year’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.

Save the Date: this year’s conference will take place between 12^th and 14^th September 2022. It’s hoped that we will see the return of some face-to-face elements that we’ve enjoyed in the past.

This year’s conference theme is:

Designing the Teaching of Tomorrow: Innovation, Enhancement, and Excellence

Celebrating 10 years of Aberystwyth University’s Learning and Teaching Conferences

With the following strands:

Inclusive and sustainable pedagogies
Assessment validity, authentic assessment, and feedback engagement
Scaffolding skills across the curriculum and beyond
Developing a Bilingual University community
Working with students as partners to design learning
Active learning in today’s higher education landscape

We can’t believe that it’s our tenth annual conference, with the first one starting in 2013. We’ll have lots of highlights from the past ten years. Ahead of the conference, we’ll be making our archive of materials available so look out for those.

Save the date and look out for the forthcoming call for proposals, guest speakers, and booking announcements on our blog and webpages.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 16/2/2022

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Online events and webinars

On-going LTHEchat, 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 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
17/2/2022 University of Glasgow Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service, Staying Connected: A Toolkit for Effective Groupwork
17/2/2022 Media & Learning Association , Media-supported Language Teaching
17/2/2022 COGx Teacher Feature II, Interact with other educators and learn a low-prep classroom activity that cultivates curiosity, increases engagement, and promotes transfer, featuring Blake Harvard
24/2/2022 Future Teacher Talks, Online learning – what works?
24-25/2/2022 QAA, Quality Insights Conference 2022, “the conference will address three core themes: Inclusive learning communities, Assessment design and delivery, Innovative approaches to managing quality”
28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop
2/3/2022 Transforming Assessment, Pandemic-induced assessment changes at the Open University (UK)
3/3/2022 University of London Centre for Distance Education, The year ahead for the practitioner “The Covid-19 pandemic has rejuvenated debates around the use of learning technologies in the classroom (online or face-to-face) and resulted into the emergence of hybrid models and approaches that are predicted to permanently influence the way both distance and campus based learning are carried out.”
8-9/3/2022 Jisc, Digifest – update: now free of charge for Jisc members
9/3/2022 AdvanceHE, Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement
14-18/3/2022 University of Warwick TEALfest, Technology-enhanced Active Learning Festival
6/4/2022 UDL UK and Ireland, The Elephant in the Room: Universal Design for Learning and Assessment
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

AdvanceHE, Design Thinking Podcast series (30-minute audio recordings)
Brown, S. & Sambell, K., Covid-19 Assessment Collection
Cottingham, S. (5/2/2022), No more teaching tips and tricks, Evidence for Educators: Use cognitive science to make better decisions
Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (a community and curated digital resource)
Galloway, R., Hardy, J., & Brown, T. (10/2/2022), Interactive engagement and online teaching: Using the text-chat feature in digital lectures, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
Harvard, B. (22/5/2020), Desiring Difficulties, The Effortful Educator
Swingler, M. (3/2/2022), Generating Internal Feedback from Self and Peer Review – A Summary (blog post plus 1.5 hour video), TILE Network
University of Guelf Digital Learning Commons (n.d.), How to Give Awesome Feedback

Other

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 4/3/2022: University of Birmingham HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future-Facing University Teaching
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference

External Speaker: Universal Design for Learning Masterclass, Kevin L. Merry

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce our next External Speaker.

On 16^th February, 2pm-4pm, Kevin L. Merry will be running a masterclass on Universal Design for Learning and its implementation at De Montfort University.

Bookings for the event are open via the CPD Staff booking page.

You can read more about Universal Design for Learning on the CAST Site.

The workshop will take place online via Teams. A link will be sent to you before the event.

Please see below for the session description and speaker biography.

Session Description

In 2015, De Montfort University adopted Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as its institution-wide approach to learning, teaching, and assessment in response to its exceptional level of learner diversity. UDL is an approach that incorporates a variety of options to allow it to be accessible and inclusive for diverse groups of learners possessing a wide variety of learning needs and preferences.

In this masterclass, Dr Kevin Merry, will introduce the “Cheese Sandwich” approach to supporting learner mastery. The Cheese Sandwich has become the vehicle by which colleagues at DMU have begun to embed UDL into the design of their teaching sessions, modules, and programmes. Specifically, Kevin will provide a series of practical activities that will help colleagues to uncover the pedagogic foundations of the Cheese Sandwich. Furthermore, Kevin will invite colleagues to begin thinking about some of the key considerations that teachers must make when planning and designing learning experiences from a UDL perspective, and how this can be done using the systems approach of the CUTLAS method.

Finally, Kevin will finish off the session by addressing the elephant in the room – the issue of universally designed assessment. By providing guidance and practical examples from De Montfort University’s own Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (PGCLTHE), Kevin will hopefully dispel some of the myths that exist around UDL and assessment, supporting colleagues to adopt more UDL centric ways of assessing learning.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 2/2/2022

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Online events and webinars

On-going LTHEchat, 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 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
8/2/2022 POD Scholarly Reads, Reimagining the place of students in academic development, “With the founding of a Co-Creation Through Partnership Special Interest Group (SIG) within the POD Network, the time feels ripe for a discussion series on the possibilities of partnerships, with Students as Partners (SaP) representing a growing body of scholarship. What does it mean for us to be engaged in partnership, and how does this affect our roles and identities as educational developers? Join us for our Spring 2022 POD Scholarly Reads discussion series. Register here.”
8/2/2022 AbilityNet, Don’t disable me: How you can avoid creating barriers for disabled people
8/2/2022 #CreativeHE, Let’s Dance! Play that funky music to facilitate learning
9/2/2022 Westminster Student Partnerships, Pedagogies for Social Justice Project by Kyra Araneta
16/2/2022 University of Kent #DigiEduWebinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online
17/2/2022 COGx Teacher Feature II, Interact with other educators and learn a low-prep classroom activity that cultivates curiosity, increases engagement, and promotes transfer, featuring Blake Harvard
24-25/2/2022 QAA, Quality Insights Conference 2022, “the conference will address three core themes: Inclusive learning communities, Assessment design and delivery, Innovative approaches to managing quality”
28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop
2/3/2022 Transforming Assessment, Pandemic-induced assessment changes at the Open University (UK)
3/3/2022 University of London Centre for Distance Education, The year ahead for the practitioner “The Covid-19 pandemic has rejuvenated debates around the use of learning technologies in the classroom (online or face-to-face) and resulted into the emergence of hybrid models and approaches that are predicted to permanently influence the way both distance and campus based learning are carried out.”
8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest – update: now free of charge for Jisc members
14-18/3/2022 University of Warwick TEALfest, Technology-enhanced Active Learning Festival

Resources and publications

Association for Learning Technology (15/12/2021), Framework for Ethical Learning Technology (FELT), ALT
Eden Centre, London School of Economics (2022), Inclusive Education at LSE, “Inclusive Education is teaching in ways that dismantle the dominant structures within higher education embedded in whiteness, able-bodied, elite and heteronormative culture”
Harvard, B. (27/1/2022), Choke Point and Pitfalls in Studying, The Effortful Educator, review of Chew, S. L. (17/6/2021), An Advance Organizer for Student Learning: Choke Points and Pitfalls in Studying, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne.
Mak, O. (26/1/2022), The Library Peer Network: a lifeline in the education lottery, RAISE Network
Mihai, A. (21/1/2022), Time to reboot and start the new semester, The Educationalist
Quigley, A. (29/1/2022), 10 Things to Know about Teaching and Learning, The Confident Teacher
Retrieval Practice (n.d.), Download Free Resources, “In our free resources, written by cognitive scientists, we condense research on teaching strategies, why they enhance learning, and how to implement them in the classroom.”
Robertson-Hughes, C. (2/2/2022), Do you know what’s going on? The first-year undergraduate perspective, The SEDA Blog
Ruge, G., Schӧnwetter, D. J., McCormack, C. & Kennelly, R. (15/9/2021), Teaching philosophies revalued: beyond personal development to academic and institutional capacity building, International Journal for Academic Development
Sherrington, T. (7/12/2021), Five ways to: Sustain Student Attention, TeacherHead blog
University of Edinburgh, Teaching Matters, Teaching Matters Podcast series

Other

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 4/3/2022: University of Birmingham HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future-Facing University Teaching
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference