2021

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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

21/6/2021 Digital Storytelling 2021 Conference, Storytelling for a Just Future
22/6/2021 AbilityNet, HE/Public Sector Update: Accessible eLearning dos and don’ts with Susi Miller
24/6/2021 Future Teacher, Designing and creating online learning activities and resources
25/6/2021 RSC Higher Education Group, Decolonise the chemical sciences curriculum
29/6-2/7/2021 Aberystwyth University, AU L&T Conference:  Improvisation within Constraint: Reshaping a Learning Community in a Time of Change
30/6/2021 Centre for Educational Research, Active Blended Learning: Theory, Research and Practice
1/7/2021 Centre for Educational Research, ALSIG Active Learning Playground: Virtual Superhero Murder Mystery Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Competition – Michael Monaghan
7/7/2021 Transforming Assessment, eAssessment Awards: Showcase of selected winners

Resources and publications

Ahern, S. (18/12/2020), Kindness, community and pedagogies of care, UCL Digital Education Team Blog
Brennan, A. (7/5/2021). The important risk-taking of advocating for student partnership practice, International Journal for Students as Partners, 5(1), 8-11
Hinton, D. (16/3/2021), Teaching with Online Discussion Boards: MicroCPD, University of Birmingham Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi)
“Postgraduate Pedagogies is an open-access journal dedicated to discussing, synthesising, and analysing the unique contribution that Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) bring to the teaching and learning environment in Higher Education.”
Rhoads, M. (7/6/2021), Navigating Education: the podcast
Stanton, J. D., Sebesta, A.J., and Dunlosky, J. (2021), Evidence-based Teaching Guides: Student Metacognition, LSE
Two Pint Personal & Professional Education Discussion podcast (17/5/2021), 051 Retrieval Practice & Metacognition Translation
University of Edinburgh, Teaching Matters Blog and Podcast series
West Virginia University Press Teaching & Learning Series (2020), Pedagogies of Care: Open Resources for Student-Centered & Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher-Ed Landscape

Other

Teaching Innovation & Learning Enhancement Network (TILE) Call For Best Practice Examples: teaching activity, assessment, and/or feedback approach, submit by 2/7/2021

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 – 2/6/2021

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Online events and webinars

7-9/6/2021 Heriot-Watt University, Learning & Teaching Academy open keynotes: Assessment for Learning, Building Community Online with Equity and Care, Towards a Resilient University: What have we learned from Covid?
10/6/2021 Glasgow Caledonian University, Supporting the Mental Wellbeing of our BAME & LGBTQ+ Students (webinar 4): Student Learning, Wellbeing and whatever normal is going to be…
21/6/2021 Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) open CPD, Revisioning the potential of Freire’s principles of assessment: Influences on the art of assessment in open and online learning through blogging (read article)
21/6/2021 Educational Developers Thinking Allowed (ED T A), Online Learning Spaces as Troubled and Troubling places for Educators, email Fiona Smart to book
25/6/2021 National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Pedagogy for Higher Education Large Classes (PHELC) Symposium
25/6/2021 Westminster HE forum, Next steps for reforming the TEF and ensuring teaching excellence in HE
30/6/2021 Advance HE, The future of the student voice in a post-NSS world? Policy, principles, practice
1/7/2021 Assessment in HE Network, AHE Conference Keynote talks: Joanna Tai: Assessment for diversity in the post-digital world, and Paul Ashwin: How teaching, learning and assessment without knowledge undermine the educational role of higher education
6-8/7/2021 Advance HE, Teaching and Learning Conference 2021: Teaching in the Spotlight: What is the Future for HE Curricula?
12-16/7/2021 Playful Learning, Playful Learning Online Conference 2021
7-9/9/2021 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), ALT Annual Conference: Shared Experience, Different Perspectives

Resources and publications

Advance HE (25/5/2021), Student Partnerships in Assessment – new podcast series
Chaudry, P. (5/2021), Five elements of teaching in a pandemic that will shape future university provision, Media & Learning blog
Goetzke, E. (19/12/2019), Reduce Workload; Increase Impact – A Reflection, TILE Network, (video of talk byRoss Morrison McGill, 56 minutes)
Kuipers, G. & Brans, L. (1/6/2021), Making a transnational teaching podcast: lessons learned, Media & Learning blog
Lubicz-Nawrocka, T. & Bovill, C. (17/5/2021) Do students experience transformation through co-creating curriculum in higher education?, Teaching in Higher Education
McMurtrie, B. (27/5/2021), Why an Active-Learning Evangelist Is Sold on Online Teaching, Chronicle of Higher Education, Teaching
Quinlan, K. M. & Pitt, E. (28/5/2021) Towards signature assessment and feedback practices: a taxonomy of discipline-specific elements of assessment for learning, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
Rosenshine, B. (2012), Principles of Instruction: Research-based Strategies that All Teachers Should Know, American Educator
Sherrington, T. (18/12/2017), #Five Ways of Giving Effective Feedback as Actions, teacherhead
Talbert, R. (19/6/2019), Agile Student Feedback through the Five Question Summary, Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
Think UDL podcast, Episode 63: Minding Bodies, Senses, and Perception
Woolfitt, Z. (17/5/2021), Reflections on a year of teaching online – Media and Learning Conference – Spring 2021, Video Teaching

Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/5/2021

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Online events and webinars

9-10/6/2021 WonkHE, Wo n k Festival of Higher Education #BuildBackHigher
15/6/2021 Advance HE, Disability Colloquium: Improving support for disabled staff in higher education
29/6/2021 Advance HE, Race Equality Colloquium: Decolonising Pedagogy
1/7/2021 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) network, AHE annual conference free keynote addresses
2/7/2021 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference, Reflecting for the future; higher education in disruptive times
15/7/2021 Advance HE, Gender Equality Colloquium: Advancing gender and sex equality through research design
7-9/9/2021 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), ALT Annual Conference 2021 – Shared Experience, Different Perspectives

Resources and publications

Beckingham, S. (2020), Co-creating learning experiences with students as partners, The Journal of Social Media for Learning
Brown, Nicole (25/5/2021), Make enablement the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic, Transforming Society
Eronen, S. & Mihai, A. (3/5/2021), From solo artists to jazz ensembles: Peer support as a tool for teacher development, The Educationalist
Gillaspy, E. & Vasilica, C. (2021), Developing the digital self-determined learner through heutagogical design, Higher Education Pedagogies, 6:1, 135-155,
Harvard, B., The Effortful Educator Blog, “applying cognitive psychology to the classroom”
Hoon, A., Oliver. E., Szpakowska, K. & Newton, P. (2015) Use of the ‘Stop, Start, Continue’ method is associated with the production of constructive qualitative feedback by students in higher education, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 40:5, 755-767
Kight, C. (14/8/2020), Introduction to Brookfield’s Four Lenses (reflective practice) (video 6 minutes)
Lubicz-Nawrocka, T. & Bovill, C. (2021), Do students experience transformation through co-creating curriculum in higher education?, Teaching in Higher Education, (10)
Martin, F., Bolliger, D. U., & Flowers, C. (2021). Design Matters: Development and Validation of the Online Course Design Elements (OCDE) Instrument. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 22(2), 46-71.
Mihai, A. (25/5/2021), Critical thinking and the art of asking a good question, The Educationalist
Open University, The why and how of referencing, Open University Library Services (video 32 minutes)
Ryan, T., Henderson, M., Ryan, K. & Kennedy, G. (2021), Identifying the components of effective learner-centred feedback information, Teaching in Higher Education
Salmon, G. (24/5/2021), Digital Empathy using the 5 Stage Model (video 13 minutes)
Sambell, K., Brown, S., & Adamson, E. (2021). Engaging with feedback processes in workplace settings. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 3(2), 54-73.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 28/4/2021

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Online events and webinars

5/5/2021 Duke University Learning Innovation, Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium
5/5/2021 Assessment in Higher Education and Transforming Assessment, Honing self-assessment via serious games and team learning
6/5/2021 University of London Centre for Distance Education, Experiences in Digital Learning Webinar: Institutional Response
13/5/2021 RAISE, Critical Pedagogies Group Annual Lecture 2021: Critical listening. Anti-racism. Institutions.
26/5/2021 AdvanceHE, Leading Student Engagement in Times of Crisis and Transformation: Student Engagement Conference 2021
9-10/6/2021 WonkHE, Wonkfest: Build Back Higher
14-17/6/2021 Jisc, Connect More: Embracing the digital evolution of education and skills

Resources and publications

Carolina (22/4/2021), Equity Practices in Higher Education: The Importance of Dialogue – A Reflection, TILE Network
Cayley, R. (22/4/2021), Supporting doctoral writers as writers, Supervising PhDs
European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) (26/4/2021), Learning Design in the Eye of the Storm Webinar recording
Hutton, L. (1/4/2021), Improving engagement in live sessions: the power of the chat, Jisc
iBiology, Professional Development Videos: Peer Discussion, Think-Pair-Share, Active Learning Methods, Active Learning, Classroom Models
Mannion, A. (24/9/2019), Do you comply with the new accessibility regulations?, AbilityNet Blog
Open University, Accessibility: Digital Standards and Guidelines
Rowland, O. (4/6/2020), Active Learning: Making Learning Engaging, Open University Learning Design Blog
Seer Centre, University of Georgia, REALISE videos – Repository for Visualizing Active Learning In Science Education
UNC Learning Center Peer Tutor (10/2020), Studying with Quizlet, How I Write and Learn

Supporting your Learning Blackboard module

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[:en]At the beginning of this academic year, various departments across the University contributed to creating Supporting your Learning web pages. Although gathering all essential information in one place has been useful, we were looking for a way to present it in a more interactive and accessible format.

We created the Supporting your Learning organisation on Blackboard which includes all information from the web pages with some additional resources such as the Quick Guide to Student Success as well as practice submission points.

Supporting your Learning module has a menu on the left hand side that you can navigate the different pages from

We conducted several ‘Helping Students to Make Most of Online Learning’ training sessions with Peer Guides, Residential Assistants, Student Representatives and Student Support staff showing them the Supporting your Learning organisation. We received positive feedback and made changes based on their comments. We have also asked for feedback from the Directors of Learning and Teaching.

All students and staff can find the Supporting your Learning organisation under ‘My Organisation’ tab.

Supporting your Learning module is located under My Organisations on BB

We hope that it will support them in findings essential information in a more efficient way as well as enhance various induction processes. We would greatly appreciate if you could share this resource with all students and staff in your departments and utilise it where appropriate.