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
• On-going FutureLearn MOOC, Blended and Online Learning Design, with Diana Laurillard, UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
• 22/3/2022 University of Portsmouth Excellent in Learning & Teaching Fest, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Festival
• 24/3/2022 UKAT, It’s All Greek to Me! Decoding Cross-Cultural Communication on Campus
• 25/3/2022 Westminster Student Partnerships, Students as Co-creators Roadmap: Questions moving forward…
• 30/3/2022 University of Lincoln, DigiED: Futures – Online Conference
• 30/3/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Flipped Learning – Reflected
• 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
• 18/4/2022 start MIT Media Lab, Learning Creative Learning 6-week MOOC
• 25/4/2022 Surrey Institute of Education, Surrey ExciTeS 2022: Ideas for changing times: Inspiring stories in higher education
• 26-28/4/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), OER Conference
• 27/4/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar series, University of Kent, featuring Diana Laurillard on learning design, and more talks
• 4/5/2022 RAISE network, Impactful Student Partnerships
• 11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
• 26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
• 6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

• Alexander, S., Littlejohn, A., Sharpe, R., Bennett, S., & Varga-Atkins, T. (16/12/2021), COVID has changed students’ needs and expectations. How do universities respond? The Conversation
• Duke Learning Innovation, (n.d.), Alternative Strategies for Assessment and Grading
• Ferrell, G. & Knight, S. (2/3/2022), Principles of good assessment and feedback: How good learning, teaching and assessment can be applied to improving assessment and feedback practice, Jisc Guides
• Jisc (n.d.), Learning Design Family Tree
• King, H., (22/3/2022), Developing Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education: Practical Ideas for Professional Learning and Development, SEDA series, Routledge
• Knight, S. (8/3/2022), What is the future of assessment and feedback?, Jisc blog
• Lodge, J. (15/3/2022), The Top 10 Myths of Learning (13-minute video), University of Queensland Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation
• Multiple authors (7/3/2022), Feminist perspectives on learning, media and educational technology special Issue of Learning, Media and Technology
• Rode, J., Kennedy, E. & Littlejohn, A. (7/3/2022), Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19, Learning, Media and Technology, 47:1, 109-124
• University of Liverpool Centre for Innovation in Education, Treasure Island Pedagogies Series

Other

• Call for participation in podcast series, L&T ChatShow DMU
• Call for proposals 24/3/2022 Jisc Change Agents Network 2022: Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times
• Call for proposals 6/5/2022 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference, Shaping academic practice through diversity and flexibility
• Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online 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.