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

• 3-24/5/2022 Birmingham City University, Decolonising HE Academic Practice – Lectures, Provocations, and Roundtables
• 4-6/5/2022 Jisc, Connect More: Where do we go from here? Continuing the momentum for digital transformation
• 4/5/2022 Transforming Assessment, Designing authentic exam questions
• 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
• 10/5/2022 University of Liverpool Centre for Innovation in Education, Islands of Innovation festival
• 11/5/2022 Quality Conversations, Second Words: Exploring Internationalism
• 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
• 19/5/2022 UKAT, Everyone is welcome in our tutorials
• 24/5/2022 Blackboard, Teaching and Learning Conference Europe 2022
• 26/5/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Collaborative teaching and learning – inside and outside the classroom – Reflected
• 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

• Middleton, A. (n.d.), Active Learning Manifesto, Active Learning Network
• Pérez-Espona, S., Borthwick, F., Connelly, L., & Rhind, S. (21/4/2022), Teaching approaches for decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
• Potter, M. & Kustra, E. (2011), The Relationship between Scholarly Teaching and SoTL: Models, Distinctions, and Clarifications, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5
• Rowell, C. (28/4/2022), Where have all the students gone?, WonkHE blog
• Sankey, M. D. (8/4/2022), The state of Australasian online higher education post-pandemic and beyond, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 19(2), 14-26.
• Staff Development Forum, Advance HE (April 2022), SDF News Pad April 2022,
• Zawacki-Richter O., Jung I. (eds) (April 2022), Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education (Springer, Singapore)

Other

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• Call for proposals 6/5/2022 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference, Shaping academic practice through diversity and flexibility
• Call for proposals 16/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE), RIDE 2022 Accelerating innovation
• 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.