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

• August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
• 11/8/2022 Sage Psychology, Common challenges in Thematic Analysis and how to avoid them with Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
• 7-8/9/2022 (in-person at University of Lincoln) RAISE Network: Focused on Research into Student Engagement, RAISE Annual Conference 2022 – Student as Producer: Origins and Impact
• 19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now
• 22/9/2022 University of London Centre for Distance and Online Learning, Extended reality and the future of education
• 28/9/2022 UDL UK and Ireland Network, Institution-wide adoption of accessible, inclusive and equitable education

Resources and publications

• Advance HE (9/06/2022), Student Academic Experience Survey 2022
• East, M., & Wood, J. (5/8/2022), Active Online Reading: Infographics (Version1), National Teaching Repository.
• McDougall, J. (7/2022), Critical Approaches to Online Learning, Media & Learning
• Means. B. (1/8/2022), Making insights from educational psychology and educational technology research more useful for practice, Educational Psychologist, 57:3, 226-230
• Miller, M. D. (2/8/2022), Ungrading Light: 4 Simple Ways to Ease the Spotlight Off Points, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Naiminen, J. H. & Carless, D. (5/8/2022), The making of feedback literacy: a critical review of an emerging concept, SlideShare
• Rossiter, M. P. (13/7/2022), ‘What you mean versus what you say’ – exploring the role of language and culture in European students’ interpretation of 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.

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.