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

July

• 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

• 1/8/2023 Jisc, Artificial intelligence and ethics Mini-MOOC
• 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)

September

• 6-7/7/2023 RAISE conference (hybrid in person and online, with student discount)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

• Anthony, P. (4/7/2023), Harnessing the Power of Learning-by-Teaching with ChatGPT, University of Kent, Learning Technologies
• Attewell, S. (6/7/2023), How generative AI is impacting the way we work, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education blog
• Booker, J. (29/6/2023), Jordan Booker, Uni of York, Top 5 tips, Getting Savvy (20-minute video, Future Teacher Webinars (Note: This student discusses how she uses ChatGPT in her study)
• De Vynck, G. (28/6/2023), ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data, Washington Post
• Dickinson, J. (11/7/2023), It looks like you’re writing a disciplinary letter. Would you like help?, WonkHE
• Duke-Williams, E. (5/7/2023), AI RESOURCES – A PADLET, AI in Higher Education, University of Dundee
• Heikkilä, M. (30/5/2023), How to talk about AI (even if you don’t know much about AI) Plus: Catching bad content in the age of AI, MIT Technology Review
• Jolly, J. (12/7/2023), Financial firms must boost protections against AI scams, UK regulator to warn, The Guardian
• Lu, Y. (11/7/2023), What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature, Graphs, maps and data analyses? Now ChatGPT can do even more, New York Times
• Russell Group (4/7/2023), New principles on use of AI in education
• Sample, I. (10/7/2023), Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study, The Guardian (also see: Liang, W,. Yuksekgonul, M., Mao, Y., Wu, E. & Zou, J. (18/4/2023), GPT detectors are biased against non-native English, arXiv, Cornell University)
• Simpson, M., Thanaraj, A., & Durston, P. (2/7/2023), Learning how to be more human will prepare universities for an AI-mediated future, WonkHE
• Webb, M. (7/2023), Generative AI in further education and skills – the myths, the threats and the opportunities, Association of Colleges
• Webb, M. (11/5/2023), A Generative AI Primer, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
• Wen, L. S. (11/7/2023), The AI revolution in health care is already here, Washington Post (Note: this article highlights the difference between generative AI and predictive AI)
• Williamson, B. (30/6/2023), Degenerative AI in education, Code Acts in Education
• Wolfram, S. (14/2/2023), What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?, Stephen Wolfram Writings

Other resources

• Collins, M. & Childs, M. (6/7/2023), Playful Learning 2023 Day 2 Recap (50-minute audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogical podcast with the pop culture core
• Cook-Sather, A., Salmeron, D. & Smith, T. (2023), Humanizing STEM education through student-faculty pedagogical partnerships, Frontiers in Education. 8. 10.3389/feduc.2023.1153087
• Cross Academy (n.d.), Making Group Work Work: Strategies for Forming Effective Groups, K. Patricia Cross Academy
• Kukulska-Hulme, A., Bossu, C., Charitonos, K., Coughlan, T., Deacon, A., Deane, N., Ferguson, R., Herodotou, C., Huang, C-W., Mayisela, T., Rets, I., Sargent, J., Scanlon, E., Small, J., Walji, S., Weller, M., & Whitelock, D. (2023), Innovating Pedagogy 2023: Open University Innovation Report 11 (Milton Keynes: The Open University)
• Merry, K. (multiple dates), Talking Learning and Teaching podcast series (see episodes that emphasis neurodiversity)
• Parcell, L. (7/7/2023), Beyond the technology podcast: Hybrid teaching – learning from staff and student experiences (40-minute audio recording), Jisc Podcasts “Lis Parcell is joined by Matt Turner and Gabi Witthaus from the Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi), University of Birmingham to talk about a hybrid teaching project involving two universities.”
• Rienties, B. (6/2023), Lessons learned from large scale implementations of learning design and learning analytics, Media & Learning
• Rossi, V. & Vasant, S. (6/7/2023), Episode 32 Virna Ross, Inclusive Learning Design (13-minute audio recording), Talking HE Podcast series
• Winstone, N. E. & Nash, R. A. (5/7/2023), Toward a cohesive psychological science of effective feedback, Educational Psychologist, 58:3, 111-129
• Zakrzewski, C. (13/7/2023), The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers, The Washington Post

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.