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
• 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

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.