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

• 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

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.