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

• Monthly series European Network for Academic Integrity, ENAI monthly webinars free open webinars on various topics related to academic integrity
• 30/9/2022 Future Teacher Talks, Strategies to support student writing
• 4/10/2022 Practice as Research Network, Ethics and ethical considerations in practitioner research
• 5/10/2022 Transforming Assessment, Using individualised assessments to counter contract cheating
• 6/10/22 Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate, Teaching climate change in the university
• 10/10/2022 Centre for Research in Digital Education, Decarbonising Computer Science: Making sustainability a key component of our curriculum
• 14-21/10/2022 UWE Bristol Higher Education Pedagogies, Policy and Practice Research Network (HEPPP), Exploring expertise in teaching in higher education: The artistry of teaching
• 18/10/2022 Jisc, Supporting learners’ digital identity and wellbeing
• 19/10/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, How Best to Engage our Students in 2022/23
• 19/10/2022 WonkHE, Belong from the beginning: Building connections, confidence and inclusion at university
• 2/11/2022 SCARN, SCARN – Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2022
• 11 & 12/2022 QAA, Hallmarks of Success Playbook Sprint: Student-Centred Learning and Teaching
  • Workshop: 7 November, 14:00-16:00
  • Check-in 1: 17 November, 10:00-11:30
  • Check-in 2: 6 December, 10:00-11:30
  • Finish: 14 December, 10:00-11:30

Resources and publications

• Bale, R. (28/9/2022), Just make it up as you go along? Improvisation and adaptive expertise for teachers, The SEDA Blog
• Duckworth, A. (n.d.), What is Grit?, Angela Duckworth
• Duckworth, A. (30/6/2021), How to turn grit into a lifelong habit (1-hour recording), The TED Interview
• Fawns, T. (2/4/2022), An Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy-Technology Dichotomy. Postdigital Science Education 
• Lazar, G., & Ryder, A. (24/11/2017), Speaking the same language: Developing a language-aware feedback culture, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 55(2), 143-152
• Mihai, A. (26/9/2022), Just another new Academic Year? Think again!, The Educationalist
• Molloy, K. & Thomson, C. (27/9/2022), Humanising Learning Design with Digital Pragmatism (1-hour video plus resources), Enhancing Digital Teaching & Learning in Irish Universities webinar series
• Olson, C., Briscoe, H., & Prior, M. (27/06/2022), Grow Your Academic Resilience! (poster), National Teaching Repository 
• Pollard, E. & Aldred, S. (22/9/2022), Imagined universities and blank spaces for dreams, WonkHE
• Ross, P. (7/9/2022), Poor feedback and what we can do about it (1-hour video plus resources), Transforming Assessment webinar series
• Practical STEM Teaching Community Resources (community-led project initiated at the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference)
• Samuel, A., & Conceição, S. (5/2022), Using the Critical Incident Questionnaire as a Formative Evaluation Tool to Inform Online Course Design: A Qualitative Study, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 23(2), 151-169.
• Strudwick, K. & Prichard, D. (6/9/2022), What’s next for student engagement?, WonkHE
• The Academy, University of Liverpool (30/9/2022), Driving strategic change in a UK university with Rachel Parkes and Natalie Carpenter (41-minute audio recording), Developing Practice Podcast
• Woolley, J. (26/9/2022), Annual Learning & Teaching Conference 2022: recordings and resources now available!, LTEU Blog, Aberystwyth University

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 due 9/10/2022 for SCARN Annual Learning and Teaching 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.