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

March

• 20/3/2024 University of Birmingham, Pedagogy Unpacked Reading Group: Chapter 1 from The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom by Stephen D. Brookfield 21/3/2024 Westminster Student Partnerships, The Need for Care: Interrogating EDI Student-Staff Partnerships
• 21/3/2024 QAA, The Impact of Digital Poverty on Learning
• 21/3/2024 IoE at UCL, Writing as ‘passing’ and the role of generative AI with Helen Beetham
• 22/3/2024 QAA, Compassionate Assessment Network launch event (QAA-funded)
• 25/3/2024 #TELresearchers & #HEresearchers with Prof. Gilly Salmon
• 27/3/2024 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online

April

• 10/4/2024 Transforming Assessment, Frenemies – ChatGPT within Assessments
• 10/4/2024 UDL-UKI, Universal Design for Learning in HE: The Basics
• 12/4/2024 QAA, Evaluating the Success of Block Delivery
• 24/4/2024 UDL-UKI, UDL for Assessment
• 29/4 through 3/5/2024 QAA, Assessment Festival 2024

May

• 25/5/2024 Student Belonging Community of Practice, Student Belonging Conference 2024 (hybrid online and in person at UEA). Call for proposals open until 29/02/2024

June

• 26/6/2024 University of Nottingham, Digital Accessibility Conference: Transforming the Culture

Resources and publications

Resources on Generative AI

• Demopoulos, A. (6/3/2024), The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’, The Guardian
• Deslauriers, L. (4/8/2023), The Impact of chatGPT and other large language models on physics research and education (17-minute video), MIT Department of Physics
• Dobrin, S. I. (15/5/2023), Talking About Generative AI: A Guide for Educators, Broadview Press
• Espinoza-Ramos, G., Lander, R., Balu, K., Mohmed, Z., Vyas, M.-T. & Singh Mann, H. (3/2024), Students’ values regarding the use of AI in higher education: A co-creation project that explores challenges and opportunities, Educational Developments 25.1 (SEDA)
• Halper, E. (7/3/2024), Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power: AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up, The Washington Post
• Hofmann, V., Kalluri, P. R., Jurafsky, D. & King, S. (1/3/2024), Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people’s character, employability, and criminality, ArXiv
• Ithaka S+R (n.d.), Generative AI Product Tracker
• Johnston, H., Wells, R.F., Shanks, E.M. et al. (4/8/2023), Student perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in higher education, International Journal of Educational Integrity 20, 2
• Knight, C. (25/2/2024), AI 16 – Charlie does a course 3 (6-minute video), “Charlie is feeling a bit down this week as he considers what AI means for professional qualifications and professional bodies.”
• Nix, N., Zakrzewski, C. & De Vynck, G. (10/3/2024), Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research, The Washington Post
• Open Education Global (7/3/2024), OE Week Live! Developing Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Literacy: A student-led panel (1-hour video)

Other resources

• Abegglen, S., Burns, T., Middlebrook, D. & Sinfield, S. (10/4/2019), Unrolling the text: Using scrolls to facilitate academic reading, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
• Becker, L. M. (2018), Student screencasts within a learning partnership, Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 2(2), 133–140
• Brar, M., Douglas, C., & Lopez-Capel, E. (2024), Using a gamification framework to increase student engagement with groupwork, Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 5(2), 57–75
• Centre for Innovation at the University of Liverpool, LivUniCIE Podcast series (including Treasure Island Pedagogies and Learning to AI)
• Cohn, J. (2021), Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading (First edition. ed.), Morgantown: West Virginia University Press
• Collins, M. (4/3/2024), Roger Saunders on fabulous formative failure and the travails of game design at Playful Learning 2023 (16-minute audio recording), Pedagodzilla podcast series
• Fang, S. (15/11/2021), I feel like I learned, but did I?, MIT Open Learning
• First in Family Podcast series (11/3/2024), Pilot episode (28-minute audio/video recording)
• Illingworth, S. (22/2/2024), Rhyme and reason: poetry’s power as a pedagogical tool, LSE Higher Education Blog
• Jisc (3/2024), Three briefing papers: Facilitating holistic conversations about the student experience with international students (pdf); Supporting international students’ digital experience: a checklist for providing an equitable and inclusive experience (pdf); Comparing international and UK-domiciled student responses in Jisc’s digital experience insights (DEI) survey (pdf)
• Kuepper-Tetzel, C. (5/3/2024), Active Learning Pedagogies at the Intersection of Anatomical Sciences & Health Humanities – A Summary (blog post with slides and 1-hour video), TILE Network
• Mihai, A. (11/3/2024), Space to Fail. And Learn, The Educationalist

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.

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