Category: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2025

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: Keynote Announcement

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We are delighted to confirm our keynote for this year’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Bookings for the conference are already open.

Dr Neil Currant will be joining us for an in-person keynote presentation and masterclass workshop on the second day of the conference, Wednesday 9 July.

Neil will be discussing the important role of compassionate assessment, belonging, and inclusive assessment practices.

In the workshop, colleagues will be given the opportunity to reflect on their own assessment practices and ways in which they could incorporate and adapt them based on Neil’s keynote. This work builds on the vital work being undertaken in Student Support Services.

Dr Neil Currant

Please see below for a speaker biography and links to selected works and projects:

Dr Neil Currant is a Senior Educational Developer at the University of Bedfordshire. He was previously Head of Educational Development at Oxford Brookes University and the Royal Veterinary College. Neil has been supporting teaching, learning and assessment practices in higher education for twenty years with expertise in inclusion and assessment.

Neil has been involved in JISC funded research projects on the use of learning technology, an Advance HE funded project on global citizenship, institutional research on awarding gaps and QAA funded projects on belonging and compassion.

Neil is a reviewer and accreditor for Advance HE. Neil co-founded the Compassionate Assessment Network in HE and is currently researching assessment practice related to compassion, the affective impact of feedback and ungrading.

Belonging research – Teaching Insights journal.

Rethinking assessment? Research into the affective impact of higher education grading

Belonging project – https://www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/collaborative-enhancement-projects/assessment/belonging-through-assessment-pipelines-of-compassion

Compassionate Assessment Project – https://www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/collaborative-enhancement-projects/assessment/compassionate-assessment-in-higher-education

We will be announcing further external speakers in due course.

Call for Proposals

Our Call for Proposals is still open, and closes on April 8. We welcome proposals that speak to the conference themes, but also those which showcase the excellent teaching practices taking place at Aberystwyth University.

Bookings Open

Bookings for the conference are already open. Please complete our online survey to book your place.

If you have any questions about the conference, please contact the conference organisers via elearning@aber.ac.uk.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: Registration now open

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Registration for the thirteenth annual Learning and Teaching conference is now open.

This year’s Learning and Teaching conference has the theme Innovative Pathways to Empowering Learners: Adapting, Engaging, and Thriving and will be taking place between Tuesday 8 and Thursday 10 July 2025.

You can register for the conference online.

Call for Proposals

Staff, postgraduate teaching assistants, and students are invited to submit proposals for the 13th Annual Aberystwyth University Learning and Teaching Conference held 8-10 July 2025.

Submit and view the call for proposals online.

Please complete this form no later than 8 April 2025.

Call for Proposals: Learning and Teaching Conference 2025

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We are now inviting proposals for the 13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Tuesday 8-Thursday 10 July 2025.

Submit and view the call for proposals online. 

The theme for this year’s conference is:

Innovative Pathways to Empowering Learners: Adapting, Engaging, and Thriving

The main strands of this year’s conference are:

  • Adaptable assessment design
  • Student engagement and autonomous learning
  • Community building
  • Technologies to enhance learning
  • Online learning

Staff, postgraduate teaching assistants, and students are welcome to propose sessions on any topic relating to learning and teaching, especially those that focus on the incorporation and use of technology. Even if your suggestion doesn’t fit a particular strand, other topics are welcome.

We seek to encourage presenters to consider using alternative formats that reflect and suit the content of their sessions. As such, we are not specifying a standardised presentation format.

Please complete this form no later than 8 April 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact elearning@aber.ac.uk.

13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: Theme Announcement

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We are pleased to announce the theme of the 13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, taking place between 8 and 10 July 2025.

The theme is: “Innovative Pathways to Empowering Learners: Adapting, Engaging, and Thriving”.

The conference will have the following strands:

  • Adaptable assessment design
  • Student engagement and autonomous learning
  • Community building
  • Technologies to enhance learning
  • Online learning

Each year, we speak to our stakeholder group and other members of the University to establish topics that colleagues will find useful.

The first strand of adaptable assessment design brings together a piece of work being undertaken by colleagues in Student Services, which foregrounds flexible approaches to assessment design, assessments with multiple formats, and authentic assessment design.

Student engagement and instilling autonomous learning remains to be a key challenge for colleagues. Under this strand, we’re interested in strategies for instilling autonomy in learning, ways in which learning can be scaffolded, and the embedding of skills for learning and the graduate workplace.

Our third strand of community building seeks to highlight the work of wellbeing in the curriculum and to consider more trauma-informed ways of working, how online learning communities are created, and the use of learning analytics. Central to all these themes is inclusive pedagogies.

Under the strand technologies to enhance learning we will be interested to hear about positive case studies and uses of incorporating AI into the classroom, advanced and exemplary uses of Blackboard Ultra, and good teaching practice in the digital age.

Our final strand speaks to online learning speaks to the work of the Aber Online Learning Project in partnership with HEP, transitioning on campus to online teaching, and engagement strategies for online learning.

We will be opening the Call for Proposals and conference booking shortly.

If you have got any questions, please contact the conference organisers on elearning@aber.ac.uk.

Save the Date: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit are excited to announce the date for the 13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. The conference will be taking place between Tuesday 8 and Thursday 10 July 2025.

Look out for Calls for Proposals and the announcement of the conference theme. As usual, we will be updating our Learning and Teaching Conference Webpages and also our blog to keep you up-to-date with how things are progressing.