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

April

• 10/4/2025 Centre for Online and Distance Education, CODE Webinar: Digital Accessibility in Online Education
• 23-25/4/2025, Active Learning Network, 5th Online Global Festival of Active Learning
• 30/4/2025 Anglia Ruskin University – Community Engagement, Inquiry graphics: Multimodal learning and the use of Generative AI: Dr Tünde Varga-Atkins, Dr Natasa Lackovic & Dr Run Wen
• 30/4/2025 Centre for Online and Distance Education, CODE Webinar: GenAI and Academic Integrity – A Two-Lane Approach

May

• 3/5/2025 Blake Harvard, Do I Have Your Attention? Understanding Memory Constraints and Maximizing Learning ($89 USD)
• 9/5/2025 Centre for Innovation in Education, University of Liverpool , Theme Park of Innovation 2025 (call for proposals open until 21/2/2025)
• 20/5/2025 Student Belonging Community of Practice, UEA Student Belonging Conference 2025 (hybrid in person and online), also see Student Belonging Community of Practice Sign Up
• 20-25/5/2025 King’s College London, King’s Institute for AI, The King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence (hybrid online and in person)
• 27/5/2025 (online) and 29/5/2025 (in person), Change Agents Network, Annual Conference: The impact of student-staff partnerships on learning in an ever changing higher-education environment
• 27, 29/5/2025 Jisc Change Agents Network, 12th Change Agents’ Network (CAN) Conference (hybrid in person in Plymouth and online)
• 28/5/2025 Teaching Intensive Research Informed Pedagogy Series (TIRIgogy), Mind the (Bias) Gap: Ethical AI for Inclusive Teaching

June

• 4/6/2025 Centre for Online and Distance Education, CODE Webinar: Managing Academic Integrity in Online Assessment
• 25/6/2025 De Montfort Education Academy, Awarding Gap Seminar series: Decolonising learning and assessment: insights from student and educator experiences
• 26/6/2025 University of Nottingham, Digital Accessibility Conference 2025

July

• 15/7/2025 Active Learning Network, Active Learning Conference 2025

Resources and publications

• Barratt, L. (9/4/2025), Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas, The Guardian
• Coaching in Higher Education Network (30/3/2025), Coaching as an educational practice: holding space for a learning conversation by Dr Kay Guccione (1-hour video)
• Expanding and assessing the Art and Practice Of Statistical Thinking (EAPOST) (toolkit and training sessions)
• Fallaize, R. (2/4/2025), Assessing filmed Teamwork in Life and Medical Sciences: Criticality, Research & Cognitive Compassion, Compassion and Effective Teams (1 hour 17 minute video)
• Gilbert, T. (2/4/2025), The Skills of Cognitive Compassion in High Performance Teams, Compassion and Effective Teams (36-minute video)
• Hendrick, C. (4/4/2025), The Learning Styles Illusion: Debunking Education’s Most Persistent Myth (Again), The Learning Dispatch: exploring the science of learning
• Hislop, J. (3/4/2025), “Let’s get building” LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in postgraduate Edinburgh Summer School in Clinical Education, Teaching Matters, University of Edinburgh
• Jonsson, A., Panadero, E., Pinedo, L., & Fernández-Castilla, B. (26/3/2025), Using rubrics for formative purposes: identifying factors that may affect the success of rubric implementations, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 1–20
• Sadler, I. (2013), The role of self-confidence in learning to teach in higher education, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 50(2), 157–166
• White, J. (3/2025), The Future of Education with AI: Exploring Perspectives, Vanderbilt University (Coursera)

Other

• Call for proposals (open dates) Unfiltered by EmpowerED: A Podcast Series where educators share unedited stories of inspiration and challenge
• Call for proposals (open dates) Future Teacher Webinars
• Monthly series European Network for Academic Integrity, ENAI monthly webinars free open webinars on various topics related to academic integrity.

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. Social media: X.com, BSky.