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

• 14/12/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, What role does Learning Design play in student retention, progress and success?
• 14/12/2022 UAL Digital Education, Spark! Live, ‘Spark! Live is an online series of talks to celebrate the new edition of Spark journal.’
• 25-30/1/2023 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit 2023 – Citizenship: Global, local, digital
• 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?”
• 9-11/5/2023 University of Liverpool CIE, Islands of Innovation

Resources and publications

• Clark, J. (n.d.), Why Don’t Students Like School?: Understanding how students’ minds work (downloadable poster), Jamie Clark
• Elkington, S. (30/11/2022), Embedding Inclusive Assessment: lessons from large-scale assessment change, The SEDA Blog and associated report by QAA, Developing a Set of Inclusive Assessment Design Attributes
• Future Teacher Webinars (11/2022), Social media for teaching and learning – Reflected (webinar materials)
• MacNeill, S. & Beetham, H. (22/11/2022), Approaches to curriculum and learning design across UK higher education, Jisc
• Newcastle University’s Learning & Teaching Development Service podcast series, (30/11/2022), Episode 30 – Authentic Assessment with Professor Sally Brown and Professor Kay Sambell (37-minute audio recording)
• Teaching & Learning, Copenhagen Business School (n.d.), Accessibility (online toolkit)
• Wexler, N. (6/12/2022), To Help Struggling College Students, Look to Cognitive Science, Minding the Gap
• Willingham, D. (3/12/2022), How come some people study hard but still struggle? (3-minute video)
• Wong, P. (2/12/2022), My Liminal Pod (podcast series), HE and the affordances of the Internet (Part 1, with Dom Pates, 34-minute audio recording)
• Woods, B. (n.d.), Game Over or Game On: Knowing When Gamification Is Right for Your Course, E-learning Heroes

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 19/12/2022, University of Winchester, Decolonising the University Within and Beyond the Curriculum
• Call for papers due 21/12/2022, Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching UK, 7th Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference (UK) Interdisciplinary Experiences: Transforming Perspectives (hybrid online and in-person)
• Call for papers due 23/1/2023, AHE, International Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference (in-person, Manchester)
• Call for papers due 27/1/2023, Oxford Brookes University, International Teaching and Learning Conference: Pedagogies of possibility: tales of transformation and hope
• Call for participation due 31/1/2023, Association for Learning Design & Education for Sustainable Development, Learning Design and ESD Bootcamp 2023

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.