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
• 6/7/2022 Transforming Assessment, eAssessment Awards: Selected winners showcase
• 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
• 13/7/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online
• 20/7/2022 Active Learning Network, 5th International Active Learning Conference – Moving forward with confidence (programme and booking link)
• 20 & 27/7/2022 Jisc, Digital storytelling: Using digital technology to capture and share stories that will impact on audience and storyteller alike (2-part workshop)
• 27/7/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), Transitions and belonging in higher education: duck to water, or fish out of water? with Julie Hulme and Michelle Morgan
• 9/8/2022 Centre for Research in Assessment & Digital Learning, CRADLE Seminar Series – Programmatic assessment hype or necessary development
• 19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now

Resources and publications

• Center for Educational Innovation, University of Minnesota (n.d.), Faculty Guide to Team Projects (toolkit)
• Clegg, A. (22/6/2022), SCARN 2022: Introduction to enABLe, Supporting a Transformative Approach to Team-Based Learning (poster with links to toolkit resources)
• Curtis, G. J., McNeill, M., Slade, C., Tremayne, K., Harper, R., Rundle, K. & Greenaway, R. (26/8/2021) Moving beyond self-reports to estimate the prevalence of commercial contract cheating: an Australian study, Studies in Higher Education
• Fox, B. & Marinescu, V. (27/6/2022), Teaching International Academics about Active Learning, National Teaching Repository
• Hanley, T. (16/10/2020), Learning theories timeline: key ideas from educational psychology, myBRAINisOPEN
• Higher Education Futures institute, University of Birmingham (n.d.), Large Group Teaching Techniques Menu, Active Learning Cookbook
• Jackson, A. & Blake, S. (20/6/2022), Building students’ sense of belonging needs time and energy, WonkHE
• Kleiman, P. (23/6/2022), Revealing assessment through drawing, Stumbling with Confidence, fragments at the edge of chaos, creativity, and education
• Lang, J. (17/6/2022), Why Students Hate Group Projects (and How to Change That), Chronicle of Higher Education
• MacKenzie, A., Bacalja, A., Annamali, D. et al. (29/10/2021), Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching: a Collective Response to The Manifesto for Teaching Online (Bayne et al. 2020), Postdigital Science Education 4, 271–329
• Mayhew, E. (n.d.), Teaching Innovations: 60+ quick ideas to enhance your learning and teaching, Surrey Institute of Education
• Nadan, T. (21/6/2022), My name means sacred bells and music, Digital, Equitable & International HigherEd
• QAA (25/6/2022), Belonging through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion, QAA Collaborative Enhancement Projects
• Rowell, C. (24/6/2022), FREE book Presence & Belonging in Digital Education, totallyrewired ~ ….education, music and random stuff
• Sambell, K., Brown, S. & Adamson, E. (23/2/2021), Engaging with feedback processes in workplace settings: using student expertise to co-create resources to foster first-year students’ feedback literacy development, Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal
• Sambell, K. (n.d.), Feedback During Student Placements (Nursing) – featuring downloadable cards, Prof Kay Sambell: Kay Sambell’s learning, teaching and assessment (AfL) in HE website
• Selwyn, N. & Bayne, S. (27/6/2022), Studying digital education in times of climate crisis: what can we do? (1-hour video recording plus article), University of Edinburgh, Media Hopper Create
• Supiano, B. (22/6/2022), ‘It’s Not About the Evidence Anymore’, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Theobald, Elli J., Mariah J. Hill, Elisa Tran, Sweta Agrawal, E. Nicole Arroyo, Shawn Behling, Nyasha Chambwe, et al. (7/2/2020), Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (12): 6476-6483.
• Transforming Assessment Webinars (1/6/2022), Student perspectives on audio feedback (1 hour video recording plus resources)
• QAA (24/6/2022), Social Induction Framework, QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project
• WonkHE (15/6/2022), Taking action on belonging and inclusion (3-hour video recording plus resources), WonkHE
• Wood J. (2022), Enabling feedback seeking, agency and uptake through dialogic screencast feedback, Assessment & Evaluation 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.