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
• 13/4/2022 Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of East London, Enabling Agency through Learning Design
• 18/4/2022 MIT Media Lab, Learning Creative Learning 6-week MOOC
• 25/4/2022 Active Learning Network, Online Global Festival of Active Learning
• 25/4/2022 Surrey Institute of Education, Surrey ExciTeS 2022: Ideas for changing times: Inspiring stories in higher education
• 26/4/2022 QAA, The Role of EdTech in Creating Inclusive Assessment and Feedback Practices
• 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
• 5/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Hybrid experience & student well being
• 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)
• 12/5/2022 Advance HE, Student Engagement Conference 2022: Meaningful, Active Participation
• 16-18/6/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE) Accelerating innovation (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

• Collins, M., Childs, M., & Greene, T. (1/4/2022), How can the Wu-Tang Clan inform our online collaborative learning experiences? (1 hour audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogic podcast with the pop culture core
• Corwin, L. A., Prunuske, A., & Seidel, S. B. (1/1/2018), Scientific Presenting: Using Evidence-Based Classroom Practices to Deliver Effective Conference Presentations, CBE – Life Sciences Education, 17(1)
• Fawns, T. (2/4/2022), An Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy—Technology Dichotomy, Postdigital Science and Education
• Garnham, W. (12/1/2022), When will we ever escape the rut of outdated pedagogy?, Times Higher Education
• Greene, S. M. (30/3/2022), Hybrid Courses in the Post-COVID Classroom, Inside Higher Education
• Harvard, B. (17/7/2017), Learning Myths Vs. Learning Facts, APA’s Psych Learning Curve: where psychology and education connect
• Merry, K. (5/4/2022), Episode 12: Antiracism and UDL with Tesha Fitzgerald (27-minute audio recording), Talking Learning and Teaching
• Pagaling, R., Eaton, S. E., & McDermott, B. (4/4/2022). Academic Integrity: Considerations for Accessibility, Equity, and Inclusion
• Palmer, A. (6/4/2022), Repurposing hackathons to engage students as partners, The Seda Blog
• Sinha T. & Kapur M. (18/6/2021), When Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Works: Evidence for Productive Failure, Review of Educational Research. 91(5):761-798
• Tai, J., Boud, D., & Bearman, M. (31/3/2022), Grading students may be as easy as ABC, but evidence shows better ways to improve learning, The Conversation
• University of Kent, Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars YouTube channel

Other

• Subscribe to SEDA’s electronic mailing list
• Call for proposals 20/4/2022 RAISE annual conference, Student as Producer: Origins and Impact
• 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.