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
• 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
• 1/6/2022 Transforming Assessment, Student perspectives on audio feedback
• 8/6/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar (programme to be announced soon)
• 8-9/6/2022 QAA Scotland, Enhancement Conference 2022: Resilient Learning Communities – Inclusive, Flexible and Accessible (hybrid online and in person)
• 9/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback webinar
• 13, 20, & 29/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback summit
• 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 at Glasgow)
• 26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
• 6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

• Atlantic Technological University (ATU), Digital Education (DigitalEd.ie) knowledge platform. “Explore the site and discover your digital capabilities, courses and resources to enable you to teach online and support flexible learners effectively in higher education”.
• Brehm, W. (23/2/2022), International Development and Education – The Student View (article with 20-minute audio recording), The Post-Pandemic University
• Collins, M., Childs, M., & Jacob, M. (5/5/2022), Are learning styles the boss level zombie of neuromyths? (42-minute audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogic podcast with the pop culture core
• Cotton, D. R. E., Miller, W., & Kneale, P. (30/1/2017), The Cinderella of academia: Is higher education pedagogic research undervalued in UK research assessment?, Studies in Higher Education, 43(9), 1625-1636
• Henderson, M., Boud, D., Molloy, E., Dawson P., Phillips, M., Ryan, T., & Mahoney, P. (2018). Feedback for Learning: Closing the Assessment Loop – Final Report, Canberra: Australian Government Department of Education and Training
• International Journal of Students as Partners (10/5/2022), 6(1)
• Kleiman, P. (5/5/2022), Is a picture worth a thousand words? Incorporating the visual into your teaching, Paul Kleiman Stumbling with Confidence
• Sadler, I., Reimann, N. & Sambell, K. (9/5/2022), Feedforward practices: a systematic review of the literature, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• Tai, J., Ajjawi, R., Boud, D. et al. (16/12/2017), Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work. Higher Education 76, 467–481
• Vines, C. (6/5/2022), ALT’s Open Education Conference, OER22 recordings of presentations at the conference

Other

• Subscribe to SEDA’s mailing list for email discussions about educational development and emerging teaching practices. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
• Follow University of Birmingham’s Higher Education Futures institute HEFi on Twitter for daily posts with links to pedagogical literature and more. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
• Join the #LTHEchat on Twitter Wednesday nights for one hour of lively discussion about learning and teaching in HE.
• 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.
• Call for proposals 31/5/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT) 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.