2020

7th July 202010th May 2021 WordPress User [mhj] Events and Networks, Online Teaching, Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

As lecturer in learning and teaching responsible for the PGCTHE, I keep an eye out for new resources to help our staff teach effectively online. This includes externally-provided webinars, toolkits, publications and other resources. Because active learning is high on our university agenda, I’m particularly keen to share guidance for moving active learning online.

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.

8/7/2020 – Advance HE. ‘Safe(r) for staff? Equality implications for ‘re-opening’ university and college campuses in the age of COVID-19‘
8/7/2020 – Advance HE. ‘Learning spaces and beyond: connected learning while physical distancing‘
15/7/2020 – Jisc. ‘Learning and teaching reimagined: best emerging practice?‘
16/7/2020 – ‘Using MS Teams and OneNote to deliver lecture-style content‘
16/7/2020 – Advance HE. ‘Team-Based Learning: Creating human connections in digital teaching’
26-27/8/2020 Association for Learning Technology (ALT) ‘Online Summer Summit‘
Jisc. Accessibility Community of Practice
Carpenter, Shana K. et al. (June 2020) ‘On Students’ (Mis)judgments of Learning and Teaching Effectiveness‘. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. (9)2.
CDE Recordings. Jumping online Webinars ‘Sustaining Quality Learning’
CDE Recordings. Jumping online Webinars ‘What have we learned?’
Clay, James. Jisc. ‘Facilitating positive change through a crisis – As universities consider reopening campuses for the autumn term,’head of HE and student experience James Clay explores how online learning will fit into the new landscape.’
Clay, James. The Pie. ‘Reimagining contact hours‘
Cooper, Kate. History UK. ‘Should we stop worrying about contact hours?‘
‘Digital Education Practices Podcast series’
Lukes, Dominik. Media and Learning News – ‘The 6-Tasks Framework for thinking about instructional video‘
Robson, Louise. Media and Learning News – ‘Online active learning in an emergency pivot – it’s active learning, but not as we know it’
‘Transforming Assessment webinar series‘
White, Dave. ‘The need for Presence not ‘Contact Hours’’

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.

Weekly Resource Roundup 30/6/2020

30th June 202010th May 2021 WordPress User [mhj] Events and Networks, Online Teaching, Other Tools, Resources and Webinars, Training and Support, Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

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.

7/7/2020 RAISE network. “We will be discussing chapter 4 from Cathy Bovill’s new book, Co-creating learning and teaching: towards relational pedagogy. Cathy will be joining us for the webinar. You can find more details, and a copy of the chapter, at the event link on Advance HE Connect.”
16/7/2020 RAISE network. “RAISE Student Engagement Buddying scheme, introduced as a pilot in 2019 to connect staff and students from across the network and facilitate communication and collaboration among our members. The webinar is hosted by the scheme co-ordinator, Madalene George, and there will be a chance to hear from some of our matched buddies about their experience. You can find out more at the event link on Advance HE Connect.”
7/8/2020 “Addressing Bias in HE“
Active Learning Network. “Online Active Learning: A call for collaboration!”
“EADI (European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes) webinar series”
Enhancement Themes. “Learning from Disruption: Exploring what counts in Higher Education”
Gibbs, Graham. Learning@City Conference 2012. “Improving Student Learning through Assessment and Feedback – Feedback doesn’t work because the teachers give it, it works because something goes on in the students’ head.” Slides on Slideshare
Mazur, Eric. Harvard University. “Peer Instruction“.
University of Liverpool Centre for Innovation in Education. “Microsoft Teams Champion videos”

Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff.

Reminder: Call for Proposals: Learning and Teaching Conference 2020

22nd June 202010th May 2021 WordPress User [jbw] Conference, Events and Networks Leave a comment

*Closing Friday*

We are inviting proposals for the 8^th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Monday 7th – Wednesday 9^th September 2020.

Submit and view the call for proposals online.

This year’s conference theme, Enhancing the Curriculum: Inspire Learning and Invigorate Teaching, aims to reflect the commitment that AU staff have to enhance the student learning experience.

Weekly Resource Roundup 22/6/2020

22nd June 202010th May 2021 WordPress User [mhj] Conference, E-submission, Events and Networks, Online Teaching, Resources and Webinars, Training and Support, Uncategorised, Virtual Learning Environment(VLE), Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

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.

23-24/6/2020 St Mary’s Festival of Learning https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/events/2020/06/festival-of-learning
26/6/2020 “AdvanceHE webinar Active Digital Design” https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/calendar/active-digtial-design
26/6/2020 “Future Teacher Webinars – Self Assessment and Mastery Learning” https://xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?template_id=4#selfassessment
1/7/2020 “Jisc Learning and Teaching Reimagined webinar – How Staff Needs are Changing” https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/learning-and-teaching-reimagined-how-are-staff-needs-changing-01-jul-2020
15/7/2020 “Transforming Assessment Webinars – ‘Feedback is useless if no-one can get what it means’ – The effect of technology-mediated peer feedback on uptake and literacy. James Michael Wood (Seoul National University, South Korea); Inclusive assessment design: what can we learn from assessment adjustments?. Joanna Tai, Mary Dracup, Merrin Mccracken, Yasmin Mobayad (Deakin University, Australia); Assessment and digital competences: building capacity with academic staff. Rob Lowne and Suzanne Stone (Dublin City University, Ireland)” http://taw.fi/15jul2020
“Call for papers for Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching – Compass is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that welcomes research articles, case studies, opinion pieces and reviews relating to learning, teaching, assessment, and the wider student experience within higher education.” https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/compass
“Jisc Podcasts Responding to COVID-19” https://www.jisc.ac.uk/podcasts
Beard, Mary “The end of the university as we know it? – Mary Beard asks if the iconic university lecture might have had its day, in the aftermath of the pandemic” BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k2cq
Clay, James “Why online learning doesn’t have to be a poor experience” https://universitybusiness.co.uk/comment/why-online-learning-doesnt-have-to-be-a-poor-experience/
Hosseini, Dustin. “Podcast episode 12: a flipped classroom through digital chalk talks” https://digitaleducationpractices.com/2020/06/16/episode-12-a-flipped-classroom-through-digital-chalk-talks/
Jisc, “Higher education sector comes together to reimagine learning and teaching” https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/higher-education-sector-comes-together-to-reimagine-learning-and-teaching-05-jun-2020
Jisc, “How COVID-19 has changed student assessment for good” https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/how-covid-19-has-changed-student-assessment-for-good-15-jun-2020
Tan, E., Small, A., & Lewis, P. (2020). Have a question? Just ask it: using an anonymous mobile discussion platform for student engagement and peer interaction to support large group teaching. Research in Learning Technology, 28. https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/article/view/2323

Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff.

Weekly Resource Roundup 15/6/2020

15th June 202010th May 2021 WordPress User [mhj] Events and Networks, Online Teaching, Panopto, Resources and Webinars, Training and Support, Uncategorised, Virtual Learning Environment(VLE) Leave a comment

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.

Calling @AberUni staff. Do you use short Panopto lectures or Panopto quizzes in your online teaching? We’re after examples to use in our new good practice module. Email lteu@aber.ac.uk if you’d like to share your materials with us.

18/6/2020 “TILE Network – Back To School: What Did We Do? What Did We Learn?” https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-back-to-school-what-did-we-do-what-did-we-learn-registration-109125816254
23/6/2020 “How to localise ABC Learning Design?” https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-4-abc-ld-localisation-tickets-108845020386 Twitter https://twitter.com/ABC_LD
24/6/2020 “ALT – Preparing for our ‘new normal’: how can effective student feedback help universities to survive and thrive in the next academic year? Student feedback webinar. Topics to be covered include; Is student evaluation still as important, and what does this look like in the ‘new normal’?; How are universities developing their student feedback mechanisms to reflect what the next academic year is really going to be like?; What are the new, and emerging opportunities, for capturing student feedback?; Is it possible to engage the dis-engaged and traditionally harder-to-reach groups?; How are academic and professional teams being supported to deliver this agenda?” https://go.alt.ac.uk/3e1Xvbe
24/6/2020 “Ucisa – Virtual Stratified Medicine Lab – intro to basic lab skills. (Designing a virtual lab tour to promote the learning and teaching of Stratified Medicine)” https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2020/June/Spotlight-on-Digital-capabilities-webinar-2
“Teaching Innovation & Learning Enhancement (TILE network)“ blog https://tile.psy.gla.ac.uk/blog/ Twitter https://twitter.com/TILEnetwork
Association for Learning Technology (ALT), “Call for chapters: Designing Courses with Digital Technologies: Evidence and Examples by and for Higher Education Instructors” Higher education is currently undergoing a digital transformation. As most higher education institutions are integrating digital technologies, instructors need guidance. In this book, to be published by Routledge, instructors from around the world, representing different subject disciplines, will write short chapters with concrete examples of how they use digital technologies to support teaching and learning informed by evidence. The book will be written by and for instructors. https://go.alt.ac.uk/30MLdQf
Educause Review, “Editor’s Picks”: “Can HyFlex Options Support Students in the Midst of Uncertainty?”, “Teaching during COVID-19: Why We’re Fortunate”, “Orienting Students to Online Learning: A Must for Student Success” https://er.educause.edu/editors-picks
Gierdowski, Dana and Joseph Galanek, “ECAR Study of the Technology Needs of Students with Disabilities, 2020 – building accessible infrastructure for all students with Universal Design for Learning (UDL)”, Educause Review, 1/6/2020 https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/6/ecar-study-of-the-technology-needs-of-students-with-disabilities-2020
Okpala, Jude, “COVID-19, Online Learning, and Beijing Jiaotong University, Weihai: Outbreak Narrative or Paradigm Shift?”, Educause Review, 28/5/2020 https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/5/covid-19-online-learning-and-beijing-jiaotong-university-weihai-outbreak-narrative-or-paradigm-shift
O’Toole, Robert, “Peer learning and breakout groups in live online lectures”, 20/5/2020 http://www.inspireslearning.com/journal/peer-learning-and-breakout-groups-in-live-online-lectures/
Rossi, Virna, “Inclusive Learning Design – a rich picture”, https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/inclusive-tree/

Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff.

Weekly Resource Roundup

10th June 202010th May 2021 WordPress User [mhj] Events and Networks, Online Teaching, Resources and Webinars, Training and Support, Uncategorised Leave a comment

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.

17-18/6/2020 Media & Learning Online Conference “Scaling up and providing access to video based services in higher education” https://news.media-and-learning.eu/type/featured-articles/agenda-launched-for-media-learning-online-17-18-june-2020/
18/6/2020 Webinar Dr Thomas Lancaster – ‘Contract Cheating in the Context of Covid-19: Five Key Ideas to Consider’. “Dr Lancaster will be providing an overview of the contract cheating landscape in relation to Covid-19, with a focus on five key ideas for the academic community to consider” https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5006411100167100942
23/6/2020 Webinar “Jumping online: Sustaining quality learning. University of London Centre for Distance Education webinar, designed to support the move to online during the pandemic. The webinar will be led by two CDE fellows, J Simon Rofe, Academic Head of Digital Learning at SOAS University of London and Jonathan San Diego, Lecturer in Technology & Health Informatics Education and Director of the iTEL Hub at Kings College, London and by Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies, UCL Knowledge Lab.” https://london.ac.uk/centre-distance-education/cde-activities/cde-events
26/6/2020 FutureTeacher Webinar “Self-assessment and Mastery learning – Reactivated” https://xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?template_id=4#selfassessment
1/7/2020 UCISA Webinar “Webinar Design to Promote Quality Engagement: Towards a Transactional Model and Toolkit” “Webinars are now commonplace, but as with early eLearning pedagogy, a ‘talking head’ design falls short of meeting the potential of the media. Next-generation learners need to master virtual collaboration skills to construct solutions to higher-level problem solving using interactive webinars.” https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2020/July/Spotlight-on-Digital-capabilities-webinar-3 https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events
Virna Rossi “Inclusive Learning Design Webinar series“: “Inclusive Learning Design (post lockdown)”, “A menu of practical lesson activities (in e-learning mode)” http://inclusivelearningdesign.com/webinars/
Dustin Hosseini “Digital Education Practices Podcast Series” https://digitaleducationpractices.com/podcast/
Sarah Lambert, “A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis”, Asian Journal of Distance Education, (15)1 (2020) http://asianjde.org/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/462/307
Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal “RAISE is a network of staff and students in the higher education across the world who are working in and/or interested in researching and promoting student engagement.” https://sehej.raise-network.com/raise
Abby Sparrow et al, “Student autonomy of feedback format in higher education and perceived functional behaviours for academic development“, Journal of Pedagogical Research, 11 May 2020 https://www.ijopr.com/article/student-autonomy-of-feedback-format-in-higher-education-and-perceived-functional-behaviours-for-8256

Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2020 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ale Armellini

19th March 202011th May 2021 WordPress User [jbw] Conference, Events and Networks 3 Comments

We are very excited to announce that Professor Ale Armellini will be attending this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference as our Keynote speaker.

From developing, implementing and evaluating Northampton University’s own Learning and Teaching plan, we are highly anticipating Professor Ale Armellini’s thoughts and ideas on this year’s conference theme of Enhancing the Curriculum: Inspire Learning and Invigorate Teaching!

Northampton University’s Learning and Teaching Plan and the Aberystwyth Pedagogical Excellence (APEX) Strategy both emphasise the importance of active learning, and are trying to implement active learning on a wider scale across their respective universities. Active learning is one of this year’s key points of the conference, so to have Professor Armellini as keynote speaker will certainly be a highlight of the event.

Over three phases, Aberystwyth University aims to promote a more sustained student active learning ethos, by following a series of both key strategies and ongoing strategies, through the mediums of Welsh and English. This includes our Active Learning Project, and Staff and Student Mental Health Development as two key areas of strategy, as well as Personal Tutor Enhancement, and Employability Initiatives as part of our ongoing strategic concerns. Ultimately, by the summer of 2022, Aberystwyth University strives to have transformed how we teach and how our students learn, and hopefully encourage other Universities to do the same.

Northampton University’s Learning and Teaching Objectives, developed by our keynote speaker, have some similarities which highlight the importance of pedagogic innovation. Professor Armellini’s role in providing leadership in learning and teaching across the entirety of Northampton University and research on learning innovation and online pedagogy, to name a few of his research areas, means he will be providing the attendees of our conference with invaluable advice and insight.

The Annual Learning and Teaching Conference at Aberystwyth University will be held from the 7th September 2020, to 9th September 2020.

You can follow his twitter feed at @alejandroa

Mini Conference Keynote: Working (Groups) in the Digital Age

25th November 201911th May 2021 WordPress User [jbw] Academy Forum, Conference, Events and Networks Leave a comment

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce Professor John Traxler as the keynote speaker at our forthcoming Mini Conference.

The mini conference will focus on Group Work and Group Assessment and will be held on Monday 16^th December, 10:30am-4pm in B.03, Visualisation Centre.

You can book onto the event online.

Mini Conference Keynote: Working (Groups) in the Digital Age

Since the turn of the century, we have seen digital technologies evolve from being expensive, fragile, scarce, puny and difficult, often just institutional, to being powerful, ubiquitous, pervasive, easy, cheap and robust, now personal and social. In this time, they have changed the nature of the commodities, assets, transactions and organisation that constitute our economic lives; have challenged the certainties of political issues, affiliations and processes; in languages, we have seen the emergence of new vocabularies, genres and dialects; they have fuelled moral panics and catalysed new forms of harm, affront and misdemeanour.

Furthermore, they have given students the means and opportunities to generate, share, transform, discuss and access ideas, images, identities and information and in doing so have the potential to threaten the established professions, institutions and forms of education, to shift the ownership and control of what is known, who knows it and how it gets to be known.

This then is the world that graduates enter, the world of work transformed and un-work undefined. Universities take them from the structures and security of the school to worlds with neither. How can pedagogic formats like assessment and groupwork support this transition?

Submit your Blackboard Module for an Exemplary Course Award

20th November 201911th May 2021 WordPress User [jbw] Blackboard, Events and Networks Leave a comment

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Applications for the Exemplary Course Award are now open.

The closing date for applications is 12pm, 31^st January 2020. To submit an application, download the application form here and consult the guidance available on our webpages.

The Exemplary Course Award is designed to recognise exemplary practice in Blackboard modules. Since its launch in 2013, the Exemplary Course award has awarded 6 exemplary modules, 12 highly commended and 3 commended awards.

This year’s awards are slightly different. Although the Exemplary Course Award is still based on Blackboard’s Exemplary Course Program Rubric, we have made some adjustments to emphasise the interactive uses of Blackboard to provide a blended learning environment for students. In addition to this, extra weighting has been given to the accessibility criteria to ensure that the Blackboard modules are accessible for all learners.

We will be running a training session for those of you who are considering submitting an application for the ECA on Thursday 12^th December, 2pm-3pm in E3, E-learning Training Room and also on Friday 10^th January, 2pm-3pm. You can book onto these sessions via the book a course pages.

New Distance Learner Forum

3rd October 201911th May 2021 WordPress User [jbw] Blackboard, Conference, Events and Networks, Other Tools, Training and Support Leave a comment

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We’re excited to announce a new Distance Learner Forum for staff. These Forums are specifically aimed at those who deliver Distance Learning teaching or are considering delivering via Distance Learning in the future.

The Distance Learner Forum was established at this year’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Book your place on these courses online.

This year there are 3 Distance Learning Forums:

Distance Learning Forum 1: Strategies for Monitoring Student Engagement

Tuesday 22^nd October 2019, 1pm-2pm, E3 E-learning Training Room

In the first of these special Distance Learner Forums we will be looking at how you measure student engagement with learning activities in Blackboard. Blackboard has many different types of learning opportunities and activities. In this session, we will be looking at how we can measure student engagement with Blackboard for Distance Learning students.

Distance Learning Forum 2: Creating a Podcast

Tuesday 18^th February 2020, 1pm-2pm, E3 E-learning Training Room

In the second of our Distance Learner Forums, we will be looking at Creating Podcasts. Podcasts are a great way to keep your students engaged with the content that you are creating as well as giving them opportunities to build activities into the podcasts. We’ll look at successful podcast design whilst also looking at the practicalities for creating your podcast and embedding it into your Blackboard course.

Distance Learning Forum 3: Gauging Student Opinion from a Distance

Tuesday 26^th May 2020, 1pm-2pm, E3 E-learning Training Room

In the third of our Distance Learner Forums, we will be looking at how you can gauge student opinion from a distance. We’ll discuss and present strategies on how to allow distance learning students to feel part of a community and also to learn from each other. We’ll introduce activities that can be done in Blackboard to support this as well as other technologies such as online polling and Skype for Business.

We hope that you’ll be able to attend these forums. Please contact us with any questions.

Digital Education Group

Aberystwyth University

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Weekly Resource Roundup – 7/7/2020

Weekly Resource Roundup 30/6/2020

Reminder: Call for Proposals: Learning and Teaching Conference 2020

Weekly Resource Roundup 22/6/2020

Weekly Resource Roundup 15/6/2020

Weekly Resource Roundup

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2020 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ale Armellini

Mini Conference Keynote: Working (Groups) in the Digital Age

Mini Conference Keynote: Working (Groups) in the Digital Age

Submit your Blackboard Module for an Exemplary Course Award

New Distance Learner Forum

Distance Learning Forum 1: Strategies for Monitoring Student Engagement

Distance Learning Forum 2: Creating a Podcast

Distance Learning Forum 3: Gauging Student Opinion from a Distance