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

• 26/7/2023 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, AI and Pedagogy: Advancing Personalized Learning, Adaptive Teaching, and Values-Based Assessment
• 27/7/2023 Learning Design Cross-Institutional Network 2023 (hybrid in person in Milton Keynes and online) also see their Conference Padlet
• 28/7/2023 EmpowerED webinar series, Webinar 7 (topics include Conversations to change teaching, Strategies to foster creativity, Strength-based approaches to teaching and learning, and Power of playful pedagogic podcasting with Pedagodzilla)

August

• 1/8/2023 Jisc, Artificial intelligence and ethics Mini-MOOC
• 2/8/2023 Transforming Assessment, Authentic assessment to develop integrated thinking
• 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

• Alexander, B. & Bali, M. (19/7/2023), AI, academia, and equity (1-hour video), Future Trends Forum
• Anthology (17/7/2023), Anthology Accelerates Innovation in Higher Education with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service (note: the Blackboard VLE is being rebranded as Anthology)
• Arnold, L. (16/7/2023), Slide Deck: Authentic Assessment and AI … Let’s Get Critical, Lydia Arnold: Learning, teaching, assessment, technology, higher education & action research
• Attewell, S. (3/7/2023), Exploring the Significance of Generative AI for Students, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
• De Vynck, G. (13/7/2023), OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI, Washington Post
• Frenkel, S. & Thompson, S. (15/7/2023), ‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I., New York Times
• Gertner, (18/7/2023), Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth: Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?, New York Times
• National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education (ongoing), MOOC Artificial intelligence and ethics
• Roose, K. (11/7/2-23), Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism, Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with ChatGPT while preventing an A.I. apocalypse. It’s been a little stressful., New York Times
• Schaul, K., Chen, S. Y. & Tiku, N. (19/4/2023), Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart, Washington Post
• Tasneem, A. & Panthagani, A. (3/7/2023), Six ways universities could embrace AI – and six ways to get it wrong, WonkHE
• Turner, J. (19/7/2023), Charting Uncharted Waters: How ELESIG’s Roundtable Sheds Light on AI’s Role in Neurodiverse Students’ Education, ALTC Blog
• Zakrzewski, C. (13/7/2023), FTC investigates OpenAI over data leak and ChatGPT’s inaccuracy, Washington Post

Other resources

• Elkington, S. (10/7/2023), How are we using different modes of communication to engage students with their learning?, QAA Blog
• Felten, P., Forsyth, R., & Sutherland, K. A. (9/7/2023), Building Trust in the Classroom: A Conceptual Model for Teachers, Scholars, and Academic Developers in Higher Education, Teaching and Learning Inquiry 11 (July)
• Fraile, J., Gil-Izquierdo, M. & Medina-Moral, E. (20/7/2023), The impact of rubrics and scripts on self-regulation, self-efficacy and performance in collaborative problem-solving tasks, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• Hyb ACE Cymru / ACE Hub Wales (n.d.), Croeso i wefan Hyb Profiadau Niweidiol yn ystod Plentyndod (ACE) Cymru / Welcome to our Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Hub Wales website (toolkit)
• Inner Development Goals (2020), IDG Framework: Transformational Skills for Sustainable Development
• Mason, M. (28/11/2022), The key knowledge and approaches needed for trauma-informed teaching, Times Higher Education Campus
• QAA (10/7/2023), Speaking my language – understanding and supporting the experiences of disabled students (41-minute audio recording), QAA Membership Benefits
• Roberts, D. (28/3/2023), What the heck is decolonization?, David Roberts Online
• Simper, M. (14/7/2023), Beyond the “real world”: exploring authentic assessment design, OU Learning Design team blog
• Teakel, S., Linden, K., van der Ploeg, N. & Roman, R. (2023), Embedding equity: online tutor support to provide effective feedforward on assessments, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• Thornburg, D. D. (10/2004), Campfires in Cyberspace: Primordial Metaphors for Learning in the 21st Century, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning

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.