2023

29th June 202329th June 2023 Mary Jacob [mhj] Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

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

June

Workshops throughout the month, EduExe Festival
June, July, and August Equity Unbound, MyFest
30/6/2023 EmpowerED: A Webinar Series for Embracing Innovation in Teaching and Learning

July

4-6/7/2023 LTEU Aberystwyth University, Annual Learning and Teaching Conference (hybrid in-person and online)
5/7/2023 QAA membership benefit, Co-creating the blueprint for quality Education for Sustainability
5/7/2023 Transforming Assessment, 2023: eAssessment Awards selected winners showcase
6/7/2023 Jisc, Rethinking learning and curriculum design (in-person at University of Northampton)
12/7/2023 ENAI and University of Derby, European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (hybrid in person and online)
14 and 17/7/2023 Ravensbourne University London, Inclusive Learning Design book launch with Virna Rossi
18/7/2023 ASCILITE and Turnitin, Designing assessment to deter student misconduct and contract cheating
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

August

2/8/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
4/8/2023 UNESCO Campus IESALC, ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in higher education (online course)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Boston University (3/2023), Using Generative AI in Coursework, CDS Generative AI Assistance (GAIA) Policy, Boston University Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences
Lancaster, T. (28/6/2023), ChatGPT and Academic Integrity – Thoughts For Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) (slides from keynote talk)
Lancaster, T. (5/6/2023), Artificial intelligence, text generation tools and ChatGPT – does digital watermarking offer a solution?, International Journal of Educational Integrity 19, 10 (2023)
Langston, T. (26/6/2023), Guest Blogger: Tom Langston – Last Night ChatGPT Saved My Life…, Tel Tales, Advantures in Techology-enhanced Learning @UoP
Nerantzi, C., Abegglen, S., Karatsiori, M. & Martínez-Arboleda, A. (Eds.) (23/6/2023), 101 creative ideas to use AI in education, A crowdsourced collection, Zenodo
University of Pittsburgh (22/6/2023), Teaching Center doesn’t endorse any generative AI detection tools, University Times 55, 22
University of Pittsburgh (n.d.), ChatGPT Resources for Faculty (toolkit), University Center for Teaching and Learning
Varma, V. (n.d.), Futurepedia, the largest AI tools directory, updated daily

Other resources

CAST (21/10/2020), Sharing Stories: Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning with Andratesha Fritzgerald (1-hour video recording)
Davis, G. & Norman, M. (19/7/2016), Principles of Multimedia Learning, Wiley University Services
QAA (n.d.), Students Driving Curriculum Quality for Sustainability – Developing Criteria & Tools, QAA Membership Benefits
Rossi, V. (11/7/2022), Guest Blog: Rear-view mirror – reflecting about practice through the lens of Universal Design for Learning, Ketso Insights
Saunders, R. (n.d.), L&T Chatshow podcast series

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.

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.

Blackboard Ultra Project Update

The big news since our last update on the Blackboard Ultra project is that we have started departmental training sessions. It’s been great getting to meet staff and demonstrate the basics of using Ultra. To date 200 people have attended a session, and we’ve got more sessions lined up over the summer.

If you’re not able to attend your departmental training session, then we’ve got a number of centrally organised ones for you to join.

In addition to this, and to make sure that colleagues have access to full Ultra functionality, we’ve got the following sessions scheduled (available in Welsh and English):

E-learning Enhanced: Using Tests
E-learning Enhanced: Designing Wiki Alternatives
E-learning Enhanced: Using Discussions
E-learning Enhanced: Using Journals
E-learning Enhanced: Designing Blog Alternatives

You can view our sessions and book your place on the course booking page.

We’re also working behind the scenes on our integrations with other tools. At the moment, we are working on making it easier for you to find the correct academic year Panopto folder when you create recordings. We think that this is going to make things much easier when teaching starts again. Keep an eye out for news on this.

We’re looking forward to welcoming colleagues from Anthology / Blackboard and Bangor University to the annual learning and teaching conference. We’ve got a whole day of Ultra-related events on 4^th July. If you haven’t booked your place at the conference, you can do it on our conference webpages.

If you’ve got any questions about Ultra, contact the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 22/6/2023

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Online events and webinars

June

Workshops throughout the month, EduExe Festival
June, July, and August Equity Unbound, MyFest
27/6/2023 UAL Students as Partners Festival (hybrid in person and online)
28/6/2023 IFNTF, The pedagogical potential of work-based learning placements – a “missing” link between theory and practice for employability within higher education
28/6/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
29/6/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Getting savvy with digital tools and resources
29/6/2023 TELedvisors Webinar, Ed tech, student equity and 3rd space professionals
30/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, in-person at King’s College London, Strand campus
30/6/2023 EmpowerED: A Webinar Series for Embracing Innovation in Teaching and Learning

July

4-6/7/2023 LTEU Aberystwyth University, Annual Learning and Teaching Conference (hybrid in-person and online)
5/7/2023 Transforming Assessment, 2023: eAssessment Awards selected winners showcase
6/7/2023 Jisc, Rethinking learning and curriculum design (in-person at University of Northampton)
12/7/2023 ENAI and University of Derby, European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (hybrid in person and online)
14 and 17/7/2023 Ravensbourne University London, Inclusive Learning Design book launch with Virna Rossi
18/7/2023 ASCILITE and Turnitin, Designing assessment to deter student misconduct and contract cheating
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

August

2/8/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
4/8/2023 UNESCO Campus IESALC, ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in higher education (online course)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Anthony, P. (9/6/2023), Embracing the Use of ChatGPT in Education: Understanding the Concerns and Opportunities, Learning Technologies Blog, University of Kent
Assessment in Higher Education Network and Transforming Assessment (7/6/2023), Authentic and online assessment in an AI enabled world (1-hour video recording), Transforming Assessment webinars
Fawns, T. (2023), Ten-minute Chats on Generative AI (video podcast series), Learning and Teaching: Teach HQ, Monash University
Watson, S. (21/6/2023), Developing academic literacies in the era of artificial intelligence – part 2, Dare to Transform, University of Sussex

Other resources

Chan, C. K. Y. & Chen, S. W. (16/6/2023), Student partnership in assessment in higher education: a systematic review, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Collins, M., Childs, M. & Mitchell, L. (26/5/2023), How does metacognition enable people to be the heroes in (dystopian) LARP? (1-hour audio recording), Pedagodzilla: the pedagogic podcast with the pop culture core
Costelloe, L. (21/6/2023), Using the Universal Design for Learning Framework to enhance student engagement with feedback, Assessment in Higher Education Conference (presentation slides)
EAT-Erasmus (n.d.), Enhancing Equity, Agency, and Transparency in Assessment Practices in Higher Education, EAT-Erasmus Project
EAT-Erasmus (20/6/2023), EAT-Erasmus Webinar Serie s : Self-Regulation in Assessment (video playlist), EAT-Erasmus Project
Martin, S., Alvarez, I.M. & Espasa, A. (6/4/2023), Video feedback and Foreign Language Anxiety in online pronunciation tasks, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 19, 19
McNaught, A. (19/6/2023), Five years on – Digital accessibility in the UK, (or see the page in Xerte), Alistair McNaught Consultancy Ltd

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.

External Speakers at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference: Part 2: Bangor University

19th June 2023 James Woolley [jbw] Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2023, Blackboard, Conference Leave a comment

To complement the keynote sessions from Blackboard, we’re delighted to welcome colleagues from Bangor University: Bethan Wyn Jones and Alan Thomas.

View our full programme and book your place online.

One thing that we were keen on having as part of the conference is to hear about colleagues’ experience of moving over to Blackboard Ultra. Bangor have been using Ultra since 2020.

Please see below for their biographies:

Weekly Resource Roundup – 15/6/2023

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Online events and webinars

June

Workshops throughout the month, EduExe Festival
June, July, and August Equity Unbound, MyFest
20-21/6/2023 University of Warwick, Technology Enhanced Active Learning Festival (TEALfest)
21/6/2023 University of Central Lancashire, Exploring innovative approaches in learning, teaching and assessment
22/6/2023 Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE) University of London, Sustainable approaches to managing technology for learning
28/6/2023 IFNTF, The pedagogical potential of work-based learning placements – a “missing” link between theory and practice for employability within higher education
28/6/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
29/6/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Getting savvy with digital tools and resources
30/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, in-person at King’s College London, Strand campus
30/6/2023 EmpowerED: A Webinar Series for Embracing Innovation in Teaching and Learning

July

6/7/2023 Jisc, Rethinking learning and curriculum design (in-person at University of Northampton)
12/7/2023 ENAI and University of Derby, European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (hybrid in person and online)
14 and 17/7/2023 Ravensbourne University London, Inclusive Learning Design book launch with Virna Rossi
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

August

2/8/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
4/8/2023 UNESCO Campus IESALC, ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in higher education (online course)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Anthony, P. (15/6/2023), AI in Education: Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration (playlist of video recordings), Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, University of Kent
Attewell, S. (14/6/2023), Meeting student needs: Equipping students for generative AI in tertiary education, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
Attewell, S. (14/6/2023), Exploring the role of generative AI in assessments: A student perspective, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
European Parliament (14/6/2023), EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence, European Parliament News / Society
Fawns, T. & Jacob, M. (15/6/2023), 10 minute chats – generative AI – Mary Jacob, Monash Education Academy
Hartley, P., Beckingham, S. & Irving-Bell, D. (), Taking advantage of ChatGPT et al (ideally before the end of the world), The SEDA Blog
Liang, W,. Yuksekgonul, M., Mao, Y., Wu, E. & Zou, J. (18/4/2023), GPT detectors are biased against non-native English, arXiv, Cornell University
Myers, A. (15/6/2023), AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers, Stanford University, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (this blog post highlights key messages from Liang et al)
Office of Educational Technology (5/2023), Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning, US Department of Education
Singer, N. (8/6/2023), New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning, New York Times, “Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.”
Weiser, B. & Schweber, N. (8/6/2023), The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself, New York Times, “In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray.”

Other resources

EAT Erasmus (multiple dates), EAT-Erasmus Webinar Series on Self-Regulation in Assessment (playlist of 1-hour video recordings)
Mihai, A. (12/6/2023), Coaching for employability: Facilitating students’ transition to the workplace, The Educationalist
Saunders, R. & Byron, K. (7/6/2023), S2E34 – Kevin Byron on brainstorming (36-minute audio recording), L&T Chatshow podcast series
Tai, J. (13/6/2023), ADCET Webinar: Inclusive assessment for students with disability (1-hour video recording), Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training

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.

External Speakers at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference: Part 1: Blackboard

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We’re delighted to welcome a number of external speakers at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference.

View our full programme and book your place online.

On Tuesday 4 July, we’ll be joined in person by colleagues from Blackboard.

Colleagues will have the opportunity to hear about future developments, work on and enhance their blackboard ultra modules, and provide feedback to the company on enhancements.

Please see below for our speakers’ biographies.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: Stands at the conference

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The Annual Learning and Teaching Conference is fast approaching (4-6 July). We’re delighted to have a couple of stands during the second day of the conference, 5 July.

Located in the Think Tank, colleagues can speak to the Tell us Now team about upcoming changes to the MEQ process and Student Services about the plans for teaching and learning through a trauma-informed lens.

Our full programme is available on our webpages and you can book your place online.

Free Trial with Talis Elevate for social annotation

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We are excited to invite teaching staff to join a free trial of Talis Elevate for collaborative annotation. It is designed to encourage students to engage with course reading and learn actively by collaborative and individual annotation. It features detailed analytics to help you keep your students on track.

For an illustration of what it does, see the main Elevate page
For examples of how others have used it, see Talis Elevate Webinars and Community Content

Our free trial of this tool is currently underway and will run through November 2023. Depending on staff response and budgetary considerations, the university may be able to acquire Elevate for longer-term use.

Please contact us at thestaff@aber.ac.uk to join the pilot.

Here is a screenshot from the main Elevate page to show you what it looks like:

Many thanks,

Mary Jacob & Julie Hart

Parent-child modules 2023-24

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Now that the 2023-24 modules are available to staff, we can link them together at the module co-ordinator’s request. This process is known as parent-childing. Linking modules together is an effective way of dealing with separate modules with the same content so you don’t have to upload materials to two or more different modules.

This process makes one module the parent, whilst the other module(s) become a child. There’s no limit on how many modules you make a child but there can only be one parent. The parent-child facility works in the same way with Blackboard Ultra.

If you’d like to parent-child your modules, and you’re the module co-coordinator, contact elearning@aber.ac.uk with the module codes for the parent and child modules.

Examples from Aberystwyth

Many members of staff are currently using parent-child modules across the institution. Some examples are:

Modules are taught the same content but there’s a module available for different years.
Modules that bring together different degree schemes and have different module IDs, for example dissertation modules.

Essentially, any module that shares the same content is ideal for parent-childing.

What do students see?

Students will see the name of the module that they are enrolled on (even if it’s the child module) when they log into Blackboard but they will see all the content placed in the parent module. Instructors will not be able to place content in the child module.

Things to consider

Now, before the start of term and whilst module content is being built, is the perfect time for linking your modules. Whilst the linking of modules does save time in the loading of materials, there are some things to consider:

All content is able to be viewed as soon as the modules are merged (as long as students are enrolled on the module). In addition to PowerPoints, lecture materials, this also includes Announcements and other interactive tools on your parent module.
Historical student interactions on a child module (such as using blogs or posting in discussion boards) won’t be available once the modules have been merged.
Any submission points created on a child module before the merge takes place will no longer be able to be viewed. We would advise creating these again in the parent module.

How do I control content so that it is only viewable to a module cohort?

Whilst all content is automatically visible once the modules are merged, you can use groups and adaptive release if you only want the content to be visible to a specific module cohort. This might be useful, for example, if you have a 2^nd year and 3^rd year module merged but your students on the different modules have separate assignments. You can use groups – 1 for the 2^nd year students and one for 3^rd year students and limit who can see the assignment information and submission point. Follow our guidance on creating a group and adaptive release (known as ‘release conditions’ in Ultra) if you wish to do this.

Parent-Child Grade Book

Once the merging takes place, all students will appear in the Grade Book (previously known as Grade Centre in Blackboard Original) of the parent module. You can, however, determine whether they are enrolled on the child module as this information displays against the student in the Grade Book columns.

If you’d like further information on this process or have any specific questions then please contact us (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 7/6/2023

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Online events and webinars

June

Workshops throughout the month, EduExe Festival
June, July, and August Equity Unbound, MyFest
9/6/2023 QAA HEFCW-funded Welsh Integrity and Assessment Network: Symposium Event 2023
9/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, pre-conference online event
14/6/2023 Oxford Brookes University, International Teaching and Learning Conference, ‘Pedagogies of Possibility: Tales of Transformation and HE Hope’
14/6/2023 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, AI in Education: Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration
14-16/6/2023 University of Westminster, Festival of Decolonial Learning
21/6/2023 University of Central Lancashire, Exploring innovative approaches in learning, teaching and assessment
28/6/2023 IFNTF, The pedagogical potential of work-based learning placements – a “missing” link between theory and practice for employability within higher education
28/6/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
29/6/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Getting savvy with digital tools and resources
30/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, in-person at King’s College London, Strand campus
30/6/2023 EmpowerED: A Webinar Series for Embracing Innovation in Teaching and Learning

July

6/7/2023 Jisc, Rethinking learning and curriculum design (in-person at University of Northampton)
12/7/2023 ENAI and University of Derby, European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (hybrid in person and online)
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Bearman, M., Ajjawi, R., Boud, D., Tai, J. & Dawson, P. (2023), CRADLE Suggests… Assessment and genAI, Figshare, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Eaton, S. E. (6/5/2023), The Use of AI-Detection Tools in the Assessment of Student Work, Learning, Teaching and Leadership
Fowler, G. (2/6/2023), Detecting AI may be impossible. That’s a big problem for teachers, Washington Post
Office of Educational Technology (5/2023), Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning, US Department of Education

Other resources

K. Patricia Cross Academy (n.d.), Wait for It! Improving Student Responses by Increasing Wait Time, CrossCurrents
Mikroyannidis, A., Jacob, M., Rhodes, S., & Gordon, D. (6/6/2023), Webinar 5 (playlist of 4 videos), EmpowerED Webinar series
Wiliam, D. (3/6/2023), Putting learners at the heart of the feedback process: Reflections on the special issue, Learning and Instruction (87)

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.