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

• June, July & August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
• 13/6/2022 INRAP, Active Feedback: Building students’ capacity to generate their own feedback
• 13/6/2022 ACUE, Designing Courses that Put Students and Equity First (note that the time listed is US Eastern time).
• 13, 20, & 29/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback summit
• 14-16/6/2022 University of Edinburgh, Learning & Teaching Conference (hybrid in person and online)
• 16/6/2022 UKAT, Tutoring Matters – Understanding Reflection and its Relationship with the Personal Tutor Role
• 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)
• 20/6/2022 University of Birmingham, HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future Facing University Teaching (hybrid online and in person)
• 23/6/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Strategies to support reading – Reflected
• 26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
• 6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference
• 12-13/7/2022 University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference 2022, Personalised Pedagogies: inclusive, empowering and progressive higher education for all, see full programme

Resources and publications

• Collins, M. & Childs, M. (7/6/2022), How did thinking about humanity’s graduate attributes guide the God Emperor of Dune’s golden path?, Pedagodzilla, the pedagogical podcast with the pop culture core
• Costa, K. (8/6/2022), Trauma Aware Pedagogy (40-minute audio recording with transcript), Tea for Teaching podcast series
• Hinton, D. (9/6/2022), Curriculum Futures: Situational Factors in Learning Design Framework Workbook, HEFi University of Birmingham via National Teaching Repository
• Kernohan, D. (8/6/2022), Less jargon and more evidence is needed on skills, WonkHE blog, “Microcredentials are the fashionable term in skills provision, but there’s no evidence that learners or employers have any interest in the idea. David Kernohan wonders why we are focused on supply rather than demand.”
• Nicol, D., McCallum, S., Kushwah, L., & Quinn, N. (1/6/2022), Beyond the Technology: Rethinking assessment and feedback – unlocking the power of comparison based feedback (1-hour audio recording), Jisc podcast series
• Paas, F. & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (8/7/2020) , Cognitive-Load Theory: Methods to Manage Working Memory Load in the Learning of Complex Tasks, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(4), pp. 394–398.
• Watson, D. & Turnpenny, J. (10/1/2022), Interventions, practices and institutional arrangements for supporting PGR mental health and wellbeing: reviewing effectiveness and addressing barriers, Studies in Higher Education

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 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.