Supervisor Information

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Congratulations to Dr Gareth Hoskins, Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences and Professor Reyer Zwiggelaar, Computer Science/Head of the Graduate School on successfully achieving, in December 2022, the UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor award. This award is a national framework which is aligned with the University Supervisor role and supports supervisor development in the sector.

We have an internal support facility for those of you who may be interested in applying, for this award, so please contact Annette Edwards, LTEU, sfastaff@aber.ac.uk or Reyer Zwiggelaar rrz@aber.ac.uk for further information.

The next deadlines for UKCGE applications are 24 March and 23 June.

Also, please hold the 20 April for the 2nd Supervisory Training Day programme for this academic year, programme to be distributed in due course, which will be useful for sections of your application.

If you would like to know more about this award, please visit the UKCGE web page https://supervision.ukcge.ac.uk/good-supervisory-practice-framework/ or there is also further information on the Graduate School web pages https://www.aber.ac.uk/cy/grad-school/

Learning and Teaching Mini Conference Materials Available Now

Resources are now available from the Aberystwyth University Mini Conference for Learning and Teaching that took place on 20^th December 2022. For those who were unable to attend or who would like a refresher, the resources for all sessions can be found here.

The conference focused on Sustainability in Higher Education, with the key-note session delivered by Dr Georgina Gough (UWE Bristol) exploring how to embed sustainability goals within the curriculum.

Other topics included Marian Gray’s session ‘Student Mobility and Cross-Cultural Skills – Global & Sustainable?’, and Dr. Louise Marshall’s ‘Discipline hopping: Interdisciplinary approaches to a sustainable curriculum’.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 20/1/2023

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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

24/1/2023 Tile Talks, Quality Provision and Support for Distance Doctoral Students
25-30/1/2023 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit 2023 – Citizenship: Global, local, digital
26/1/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Inclusive Practice including a discussion of ChatGPT
2/2/2023 Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick, Engaging staff in developing a blended curriculum: Challenges and lessons learned
8/2/2023 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online, including a discussion of ChatGPT
8/2/2023 University of London Centre for Distance and Online Education (CODE), De-colonising digital education: Bridging the great divide
8/2/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop ‘Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS’
9/2/2023 Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick, Making feedback work
9/2/2023 University of London Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), Understanding our evolving digital practice: Scholarship and research of teaching
16/2/2023 Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick, The place and case for lectures and lecture capture in the new normal
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?”
29/3/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop, “Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS”
9-11/5/2023 University of Liverpool CIE, Islands of Innovation
17-18/5/2023 Change Agents Network conference, Reimagining student/staff partnerships to generate new learning opportunities (call for proposals open until 13/3/2023)

Resources and publications

Anthony, P. (11/1/2023), AI and Higher Education: Is it time to re-think teaching and assessment?, University of Kent, Learning Technologies
D’Agostino, S. (12/1/2023), ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now, Inside Higher Education
Foster, E. (6/1/2023), Student Attendance: explaining the post-Covid Crisis, Living Learning Analytics Blog: Living the interface between learning analytics and actual change in a HE setting
Huang, K. (16/1/2023), Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach, New York Times
Johnson, L., Partridge, H. & Dawson, P. (16/1/2023), 1,300 years is long enough: it’s pens down for the exam hall, Cradle News, Deakin University
Juliani, A. J. & Warner, J. (18/12/2022), Teaching and Learning in the AI Age with John Warner (1 hour video recording),
Karagiannopoulou, K. & Entwistle, N. (22/3/2019), Students’ Learning Characteristics, Perceptions of Small-Group University Teaching, and Understanding Through a “Meeting of Minds”, Frontiers in Psychology
Maloy, R. W., Trust, T., Butler, A. & Xu, C. (n.d.), 9. Teacher and Student Guide to Analyzing AI Writing Tools (e.g., ChatGPT), Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning
Metz, C. & Weise, K. (12/1/2023), Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I., New York Times
Mills, A. & Goodlad, L. M. E. (17/1/2023), Critical AI: Adapting College Writing For The Age Of Large Language Models Such As ChatGPT: Some Next Steps For Educators, Critical AI, Rutgers University
Nagy, R. P., Martin, A. J., & Collies, R. J. (13/12/2022), Disentangling motivation and engagement: Exploring the role of effort in promoting greater conceptual and methodological clarity, Frontiers in Psychology
Smith, D. (11/1/2023), How artificial intelligence has answered the UnGoogleable exam question, David’s adventures in the classroom blog
UCL Arena Centre (4/1/2023), Designing assessment for academic integrity “Evidence-based recommendations for designing teaching, student support and assessment in the era of digital assessment and artificial intelligence with the aim of developing good academic practice.”, Teaching Toolkits UCL Arena Centre
Warner, J. (11/12/2022), ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving, The Biblioracle Recommends
Weale, S. (13/1/2023), Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool, The Guardian
Weller, M. (12/12/2022), 25+ Years of Ed Tech: 2022 – AI Generated Content, The Ed Techie: Martin Weller’s blog on open education, digital scholarship & over-stretched metaphors

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 27/1/2023, Oxford Brookes University, International Teaching and Learning Conference: Pedagogies of possibility: tales of transformation and hope
Call for papers due 29/1/2023, University of Lincoln Digital Education Team, DigiEd: Horizons
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.

Call for Proposals: Mini Conference: Virtual Reality

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce the next mini conference. On Tuesday 28 March LTEU will be hosting our next mini conference in person.

This mini conference will be focused on Virtual Reality, building on one of the sessions from last year’s Learning and Teaching Conference.

Colleagues from across the University will be showcasing their use of Virtual Reality in their teaching and research activities – offering advice from design to integration.

If you’re interested in contributing to the event, then please fill out this online form. Please submit your proposal before 17 February 2023.

Bookings are already open – you can book your place online.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (lteu@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 11/1/2023

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Online events and webinars

24/1/2023 Tile Talks, Quality Provision and Support for Distance Doctoral Students
25-30/1/2023 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit 2023 – Citizenship: Global, local, digital
26/1/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Inclusive Practice
8/2/2023 University of London Centre for Distance and Online Education (CODE), De-colonising digital education: Bridging the great divide
8/2/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop ‘Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS’
9/2/2023 University of London Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), Understanding our evolving digital practice: Scholarship and research of teaching
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?”
29/3/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop, “Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS”
9-11/5/2023 University of Liverpool CIE, Islands of Innovation
17-18/5/2023 Change Agents Network conference, Reimagining student/staff partnerships to generate new learning opportunities (call for proposals open until 13/3/2023)

Resources and publications

Bruff, D. (5/1/2023), A Bigger, Badder Clippy: Enhancing Student Learning with AI Writing Tools, Agile Learning: Derek Bruff’s blog on teaching and learning
Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University (n.d.), CRADLE suggests… “series of briefings that translates our own research into practice-based possibilities”
Compton, M. (10/1/2023), Who’s Afraid of ChatGPT?, Teachers going Gradeless blog
Corsini, A., Pezzoni, M., & Visentin, F. (12/2022), What makes a productive Ph.D. student?, Research Policy, 51(10)
Fong, C. & Schallert, D. L. (3/1/2023), “Feedback to the future”: Advancing motivational and emotional perspectives in feedback research, Educational Psychologist
Forsyth, R. (5/1/2023), ChatGPT: What should educators do next?, Assessment in Higher Education (blog)
Guccione, K. (2022), What does a Thesis Mentor do? And how can we support them to do it well?, CollectivED, 14, pp. 58-60.
Harvard, B. (17/7/2017), Learning Myths Vs. Learning Facts, APA’s Psych Learning Curve, “Where psychology and education connect”
Jisc (10/1/2023), Does ChatGPT mean the end of the essay as an assessment tool?, Jisc News
Klein, E. (6/1/2023), A Skeptical Take on the AI Revolution The A.I. expert Gary Marcus asks: What if ChatGPT isn’t as intelligent as it seems? (1 hour 11 minute podcast plus transcript), The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times
Kovanovic, V. (15/12/2022), The dawn of AI has come, and its implications for education couldn’t be more significant, The Conversation
Mihai, A. (10/5/2022), Do you keep a diary? Reflection as a part of the learning process, The Educationalist
Moss, P. (3/1/2023), All Things Groupwork (series of blog posts), Learning Design by Paul G. Moss
Pates, D. (6/1/2023), Teaching Here And There, Media & Learning, also see Teaching Here and There podcast series
QAA Scotland (2023), Transition Skills and Strategies (toolkit)
Sambell, K. & Brown, S. (9/1/2023), Working towards more authentic assessment: a pragmatic approach to choosing alternatives that are right for you, Assessment, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Sally Brown
Stanley, G. (n.d.), Approaches to Process Writing, British Council Teaching English
TILE Webinar Series (video playlist) (6/12/2022), Staffs TILE Hub
UCL Arena Centre (4/1/2023), Designing assessment for academic integrity “Evidence-based recommendations for designing teaching, student support and assessment in the era of digital assessment and artificial intelligence with the aim of developing good academic practice.”, Teaching Toolkits UCL Arena Centre

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 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 papers due 29/1/2023, University of Lincoln Digital Education Team, DigiEd: Horizons
Call for participation due 31/1/2023, Association for Learning Design & Education for Sustainable Development, Learning Design and ESD Bootcamp 2023

Blackboard UBN

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It’s been about a week since we moved to Blackboard UBN. Here are some answers to some of the questions that staff and students have asked us. You may find your question answered here (or in our How do I get started with Ultra Base Navigation FAQ). If not, you can email us.

1. Where is my departmental information site / training module? If you are looking for a Blackboard site that isn’t linked to a taught AU module, have a look on the Organisations page. You’ll probably find the course you are looking for here.
2. How are the courses organized on the Course page? They are listed by academic year, and then alphabetically by module title. You may find it easier to find your courses by using one of the following:
a. Search box – you can search by module name or module code.
b. Favourite – use the favourite (star) icon to pin the courses you use regularly at the top of your list.
c. Filter. This is particularly useful for staff who are Instructors on some modules and have other roles in other modules. Choosing Course I teach will show you all your Instructor courses.
d. Change the academic year. You can limit your view to just the current academic year by changing Courses to Cyrsiau 2022-23 Courses.
3. My course menu was a different colour / design – can I change it back? No, this is no longer available. Once we move to Ultra courses there will be no course menu.
4. How do I change the picture displayed? Have a look at the Blackboard guidance (follow from bullet point 3).
5. Why am I getting an error message when I go to Blackboard? Make sure that you go directly to https://blackboard.aber.ac.uk. Don’t use a link or bookmark.
6. The Activity Stream says I have overdue assignments? In some courses there may be submission points for extensions, groups etc that aren’t relevant to you. These will show in the Activity Search. If you aren’t sure if a submission is for you, go back into the course and check you have no assignment submissions outstanding.
7. My course or Organisation says Private on it; what does this mean? It means that the course isn’t available to students. If you no longer need this course, please let us know and we can remove the course.

Save the Date: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit are excited to announce the date for the 11^th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. The conference will be taking place between Tuesday 4 July and Thursday 6 July 2023.

Look out for Calls for Proposals and the announcement of the conference theme. As usual, we will be updating our Learning and Teaching Conference Webpages and also our blog to keep you up-to-date with how things are progressing.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 4/1/2023

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Online events and webinars

10/1/2023 University of London Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), Why learning design? Why now? with Donald Clark, Stephanie Moore, Margaret Korosec, Neil Mosley and Phil Hill
24/1/2023 Tile Talks, Quality Provision and Support for Distance Doctoral Students
25-30/1/2023 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit 2023 – Citizenship: Global, local, digital
8/2/2023 University of London Centre for Distance and Online Education (CODE), De-colonising digital education: Bridging the great divide
8/2/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop ‘Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS’
9/2/2023 University of London Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), Understanding our evolving digital practice: Scholarship and research of teaching
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?”
29/3/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop, “Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS”
9-11/5/2023 University of Liverpool CIE, Islands of Innovation

Resources and publications

Aitken, G., Fawns, T., Warran, K. et al. (9/8/2022), Making space to learn about teaching: expanding teaching horizons through postgraduate education, Advances in Health Science Education
Bates, T. (2/1/2023), Playing with ChatGPT: now I’m scared (a little), Online Learning and Distance Education Resources
Carless, D. & Winstone, N. (2023), Teacher feedback literacy and its interplay with student feedback literacy, Teaching in Higher Education, 28(1)
CETL (30/12/2022), Creating non-linear stories using Twine to support case-based learning, TEL Series: Leveraging technology to innovate your course,
DigiSim (13/12/2022), DigiEd Dilemmas! An EdTech community podcast
Forsyth, R. (8/12/2022), Robot-generated submissions, Assessment in Higher Education blog
Freeman S., Eddy S. L., McDonough M., Smith M. K., Okoroafor N., Jordt H. & Wenderoth M. P. (15/4/2014), Active learning increases student performance in science engineering and mathematics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 8410–8415. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319030111
Gilbert, T. (n.d.), Compassion in Education: Embedding and Assessing Compassion in the University Curriculum (toolkit and blog)
Loughlin, C. & Lindberg-Sand, Å. (12/32022), The use of lectures: effective pedagogy or seeds scattered on the wind?, Higher Education
Loughlin, C., Lygo-Baker, S. & Lindberg-Sand, Å. (2021), Reclaiming constructive alignment, European Journal of Higher Education, 11(2), 119-136
Lim, H., Murdoch, Y. D., & Cho, J. (2021), Online EMI learner engagement and perceptions of teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Innovations in Education and Teaching International
MacNeill, S. & Beetham, H. (22/11/2022), Approaches to curriculum and learning design across UK higher education: Looking beyond the emergency responses to lockdowns and restrictions – are we delivering learning in flexible and accessible ways?, Jisc
Moss, P. (4/1/2023), Designing Formative Group Tasks, Learning Design by Paul G. Moss
Moss, P. (18/2/2020), Schema, Learning Design by Paul G. Moss
Murdoch, Y. D. (21/12/2022), Online learner engagement and teaching-learning perceptions, The SEDA Blog
Saunders, R. & Gilbert, T. (2023), S2E12 – Theo Gilbert on Compassion and student learning (part 2, 50-minute audio recording), L&T Chatshow podcast
Supiano, B. (22/6/2022), ‘It’s Not About the Evidence Anymore’, Chronicle of Higher Education
Theobald E. J., Hill M. J., Tran E., Agrawal S., Arroyo E. N., Behling S., Chambwe N., Cintrón D. L., Cooper J. D. & Dunster G. (9/3/2020), Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science technology engineering and math, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 6476–6483. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916903117
Watkins, R. (19/12/2022), Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT, Ryan Watkins on Medium
Weller, M. (3/1/2023), The Haunted Lecture Hall, The Ed Techie: Martin Weller’s blog on open education, digital scholarship & over-stretched metaphors
WosDEC Global Citizenship (2020), Why?-Why?-Why? Chains

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 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 papers due 29/1/2023, University of Lincoln Digital Education Team, DigiEd: Horizons
Call for participation due 31/1/2023, Association for Learning Design & Education for Sustainable Development, Learning Design and ESD Bootcamp 2023

Blackboard Ultra Base Navigation: Work Complete

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Ultra Base Navigation is now enabled on Blackboard.

Next time you log onto Blackboard, you will be greeted with a new interface.

Please consult our FAQ on how to use Ultra Base Navigation.

Whilst the look and feel of Blackboard has changed, course functionality and content remain the same.

If you have bookmarked or created links to pages within Blackboard these might need updating. Any links directly to the address https://blackboard.aber.ac.uk/ will still work.

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit will now start work preparing for Ultra Courses, ready for Semester 1, 2023.

Our Ultra webpages and FAQs will be updated as the project progresses. If you have any questions, please contact the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (elearning@aber.ac.uk).