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

• 26/10/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows, Designing for agency and presence: Lessons learned from a case in innovation
• 27/10/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Self assessment and mastery learning – Reflected
• 31/10/2022 Sustainability in Learning and Teaching Seminar Series (University of Glasgow/AdvanceHE Connect), Embedding Transformative Learning in HEIs and Adapting Quality Assurance
• 2/11/2022 Transforming Assessment with Assessment in Higher Education Network, Student Centred Feedback Practices
• 2/11/2022 SCARN, SCARN – Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2022
• 8/11/2022 Active Learning Network, Inclusive practices in active learning
• 10/11/2022 Student Assessment and Classification Working Group Seminar, Playing by the Rules: Assessment Regulations and Taught PG Programmes
• 15/11/2022 Active Learning Network, Building active learning communities
• 15/11/2022 Advance HE, Changebusters – Using theory and evidence to explore impact on student outcomes
• 22/11/2022 Active Learning Network, Empowering active learners
• 22/11/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), Exploring educators’ lived experiences of social support and wellbeing in online social network sites
• 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
• 7-8/3/2023 Jisc, DigiFest (hybrid online and in person) “Innovation takes collaboration; it takes connection; it takes networks. It takes questions: why do you do that? what if I tried this? why not?”

Resources and publications

• Austen, L. & Pickering, N. (20/10/2022), Embedding pedagogy in evaluation: demystifying student outcomes through game playing, Advance HE
• Costa, K. (13/10/2022), Imagine Higher Ed (blog post and 6-minute audio recording)
• Egea, K. & Melvold, J. (14/10/2022), First-year transition: following the 6 first-year curriculum principles, UTS
• Equity Unbound and OneHE (n.d.), Community building activities toolkit
• International Journal of Students as Partners (18/10/2022) new issue
• Mansfield, K. (17/10/2022), International perspectives on teaching and learning forged during Covid, Times Higher Education, Campus
• Morris, S. M. & Stommel, J. (2018), An Urgency of Teachers: the work of critical digital pedagogy, associated with Hybrid Pedagogy
• Tisdale, P. (17/10/2022), Daring to Connect, The Grateful Academic: Sharing Positivity
• Tulshyan, R. & Burey, J.-A. (11/2/2021), Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome, Harvard Business Review

Other

• Monthly series European Network for Academic Integrity, ENAI monthly webinars free open webinars on various topics related to academic integrity
• 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. I often find out about good resources for the Roundup from the chat.
• Call for papers due 30/10/2022, creativeHE annual 2022 open invitation to contribute, Say it with a story
• Call for papers due 23/1/2023, AHE, International Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference (in-person, Manchester)

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.