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

January

• 25/1/2024 Future Trends Forum, Higher Education for Good with Bryan Alexander, Laura Czerniewicz & Catherine Cronin
• 31/1/2024 European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI), Generative Al and Education Fraud: A Review of the Impact
• 31/1/2024 University of East London Learning and Teaching Webinar Series, Student Wellbeing in Higher Education with Dr Elena Riva

February

• 21/2/2024 UDL UK and Ireland Network, Universal Design for Assessment
• 22-23/2/2024 QAA, Quality Insights Conference 2024
• 23/2/2023 EmpowerED Webinar series, Season 2, Webinar 1

March

• 11-15/3/2023 Active Learning Network, Global Festival of Active Learning: Back to the future – looking ahead for active learning (Call for proposals open until 26/1/2024)
• 12-13/3/2024 Jisc, Digifest 2024: Imagining the future of education and research (hybrid in-person in Birmingham and online)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

• Advance HE (2024), Framework for Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education
• Gupta, A., Atef, Y., Mills, A. & Bali, M. (), Assistant, Parrot, or Colonizing Loudspeaker? ChatGPT Metaphors for Developing Critical AI Literacies (preprint), ArXiv
• Hack, K. & Norton, S. (23/1/2024), Beyond the metrics: how higher education needs to refine and enhance assessment, News & Views, Advance HE
• London School of Economics (2023), Practice and perspectives from LSE (video playlist featuring example of AI use for university teaching), Eden Centre, LSE
• Rowell, C. (16/1/2024), Lego and AI workshop, totallyrewired

Other resources

• Clinton-Lissell, V. (2023), Social annotation: what are students’ perceptions and how does social annotation relate to grades?, Research in Learning Technology
• Howson, C. K. & Kingsbury, M. (forthcoming in 7/2024), Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education, UCL Press (open access)
• Köseoğlu, S., Veletsianos, G. & Rowell, C. (1/2023), Critical Digital Pedagogy in Higher Education, AU Press (open access PDF)
• Lingard, L. & Watling, C. (17/1/2024), The writer’s voice repertoire: Exploring how health researchers accomplish a distinctive ‘voice’ in their writing, Association for the Study of Medical Education
• Nicol, D. (2022), Turning Active Learning into Active Feedback, Introductory Guide from Active Feedback Toolkit, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, also see How the power of student internal feedback improves grades (2-minute video) and Professor David Nicol Research Talk (15-minmute video)
• Rees, L. (17/11/2023), LTHEChat 277: Using Creative Approaches to Reflect, LTHE Chat
• Saunders, R. & Torn, A. (24/1/2024), S4E5 Dr Alison Torn on Jigsaw Classrooms (38-minute audio recording), L&T Chat Show podcast series
• Scott, D. (16/1/2024), On Learning, Volume 2, Philosophy, concepts and practices, UCL Press (open access)
• Sutherland, N. (26/1/2023), Writing engaging feedback, UCL Teaching & Learning, also see Neils Common Room YouTube channel
• Taylor, B., Kisby, F. & Reedy, A. (15/1/2024), Rubrics in higher education: an exploration of undergraduate students’ understanding and perspectives, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

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.