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

• July & August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
• 25/7/2022 ALT, Effectiveness of Online Collaborative learning
• 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 HEFi Reading Group, ch. 3 “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher: Uncovering Hegemonic Assumptions” (Stephen Brookfield)
• 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
• 3/8/2022 INRAP, An integrated approach to feedback across disciplinary & cultural contexts
• 9/8/2022 Centre for Research in Assessment & Digital Learning, CRADLE Seminar Series – Programmatic assessment hype or necessary development
• 11/8/2022 Sage Psychology, Common challenges in Thematic Analysis and how to avoid them with Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
• 19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now

Resources and publications

• Active Learning Network, Betts, T. & Oprandi, P. eds. (20/7/2022), 100 Ideas for Active Learning
• Albertyn, R. (13/7/2022), Mindsets for postgraduate research: Developing doctoral intelligence, The SEDA Blog
• Athabasca University (n.d.), Community of Inquiry framework
• Bovill, C. (21/7/2022), Assessment and feedback in conversation with students: Towards co-creating assessment and feedback, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
• Buckley, A. (13/7/2022), Meaningful feedback on assessment: Taking the long view, Teaching Insights Improving Student Learning, Oxford-Brookes Institute
• Cariola, L. & Lai, T. (18/7/2022), Where are you from? Raising awareness of Third Culture Students in Higher Education, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
• Compton, M. (26/5/2021), Ungrading: a continuum of possibilities to change assessment and feedback (including 11-minute audio recording), Martin Compton, University College London
• Davidson, C. N. & Katopodis, C. (20/7/2022), 10 Arguments for Inciting Learning, Inside Higher Education
• Inclusive Teaching Practices (n.d.), The Community Inquiry Model, Denver University Office of Teaching & Learning
• Duckworth, A. L. (3/5/2013), Grit: The power of passion and perseverance, TED talks
• Fawns, T. (21/7/2022), Entangled Pedagogy Implications for Design (1-hour video), ASCILITE Learning Design SIG monthly webinar 
• Gibbs, L. (13/3/2019), Getting Rid of Grades (chapter from Blum, S. (ed.) (12/2020), Ungrading, West Virginia University Press), OU Digital Teaching
• H5P: Create, Share, and Reuse HTML5 Content in your Browser
• International Learning Design Cross Institutional Network
• Irish Journal of Academic Practice
• Ishkova, M., Loh, V., White, G., Lawton, O., Tyson, J., & Fung, H. (5/8/2021), To Flip Or Not To Flip? Reflecting On PALPable Outcomes Of Flipping The Classroom During The Pandemic, Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(2), 146-158.
• Katopodis , C. (13/12/2018), Active Learning Activities You Can Use in Your Classroom Now, HASTAC
• Nicholson, S. (n.d.), Introduction to EscapeIF Website, Educational Storytelling for Low-resource Classrooms (toolkit and 5-minute video), EscapeIF Because Play Matters
• Roxå, T. & Mårtensson, K. (22/7/2009) Significant conversations and significant networks – exploring the backstage of the teaching arena, Studies in Higher Education, 34(5), 547-559
• Student Relationship Engagement System (SRES) (developed by University of Sydney and University of Melbourne)
• Thornborough, J. (13/7/2022), Examining the elusive ‘nexus’ between teaching and research, Higher Education Policy Institute

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.

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.