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)
• 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…
• 29/3/2022 University of Glasgow, Learning & Teaching Conference: Inclusive teaching and assessment practices

• 30/3/2022 University of Lincoln, DigiED: Futures – Online Conference
• 30/3/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Flipped Learning – Reflected
• 5/4/2022 CRADLE seminar series, Developing Feedback Literacy: Case Studies from Multiple Disciplines, with Professor Phillip Dawson and Dr Joanna Tai along with Development Partners Dr Kelli Nicola-Richmond and Dr Christine Contessotto
• 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
• 7/4/2022 HERDSA Queensland Branch, The online engagement framework: Activating students’ online learning experience, with Dr Alice Brown and Professor Petrea Redmond,
• 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
• 6/5/2022 SEDA, Reimagining the student learning experience – key considerations
• 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

• Childs, M., O’Brien, R. & Nolan-Grant, C. (16/3/2022), FIBRES Learning Design Framework, DCAD: Educational Development Resources, University of Durham
• Hack, K. (16/2/2022), Flexible by design podcast (40-minute audio recording), Advance HE
• Havemann, L. & Roberts, V. (13/12/2021), Pivoting Open? Pandemic Pedagogy and the Search for Openness in the Viral Learning Environment, Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Open University
• Mayer, R. E. (5/5/2014), Research-based principles for multimedia learning (1.5 hour video recording plus background article and slides), Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)
• Mihai, A. (16/3/2022), “Educationalist: Around the world” podcast, Episode 7: Jenae Cohn, California State University, Sacramento, USA, (38-minute audio recording)
• Stommel, J. (2022), Ungrading and Alternative Assessment
• Varga-Atkins, T. (18/3/2022), Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 18 – the one with the podcasts (blog post plus 39-minute audio recording), University of Liverpool Centre for Innovation in Education
• Veletsianos, G. & Houlden, S. (2/10/2020), Radical Flexibility and Relationality as Responses to Education in Times of Crisis, Postdigital Science Education 2, 849–862

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.