2022

5th July 20225th July 2022 Mary Jacob [mhj] Resources and Webinars, Uncategorised, Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

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

July & August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
6/7/2022 Transforming Assessment, eAssessment Awards: Selected winners showcase
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference
12-13/7/2022 University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference 2022, Personalised Pedagogies: inclusive, empowering and progressive higher education for all, see full programme
13/7/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online
20/7/2022 Active Learning Network, 5th International Active Learning Conference – Moving forward with confidence (programme and booking link)
20 & 27/7/2022 Jisc, Digital storytelling: Using digital technology to capture and share stories that will impact on audience and storyteller alike (2-part workshop)
27/7/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), Transitions and belonging in higher education: duck to water, or fish out of water? with Julie Hulme and Michelle Morgan
9/8/2022 Centre for Research in Assessment & Digital Learning, CRADLE Seminar Series – Programmatic assessment hype or necessary development
19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now

Resources and publications

Collins, M., Childs, M., & Jacob, M. (1/7/2022), Why are B Movies so good for answering bloody stupid pedagogic questions? (50-minute audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogical podcast with the pop culture core
Bartolic, S., Matzat, U., Tai, J., Burgess, J.-L., Boud, D., Craig, H, Archibald, A., De Jaeger, A., Kaplan-Rakowski, R., Lutze-Mann, L., Polly, P., Roth, M., Heap, T., Agapito, J. & Guppy, N. (1/6/2022), Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Studies in Higher Education
Brabazon, T. (4/7/2022), Ten platinum rules for PhD supervisors, Times Higher Education Campus
Irvine-Bell, D., Wooff, D., Tasler, N. (5/7/2022), The National Teaching Repository: global reach and Impact, Advance HE News, “The National Teaching Repository (NTR) was born out of the desire to facilitate a space for proven and successful teaching materials to be disseminated whilst ensuring that the original authors can evidence the reach and impact of their work in the process”
Mihai, A. (5/7/2022), What’s next for online education?, The Educationalist
National Academic Integrity Network (16/5/2022), An Interview with Kane Murdoch (NAIN podcast series 30-minute audio recording), associated with Finding the thread: a practical guide to contract cheating
Oprandi, P. (7/12/2021), Active Reading: Five ways to engage students in their reading, Active Learning Network blog
Reickmann, M. (2018), Learning to transform the world: key competencies in Education for Sustainable Development, Issues and trends in education for sustainable development, p. 39-59
United Nations (2018), Do you know all 17 Sustainable Development Goals? (1.5 minute video plus resources), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development

Other

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.

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.

Digital Insights Assistant – Joseph

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Hi! I’m Joseph and I will be working with the LTEU team on analysing and disseminating the results from the Students Digital Experience Insights Survey 2022. As the digital experience has become integral to the continuation and development of student learning this survey allows us to understand how the implementation of digital systems has affected students. As a student who went through the introduction of these newer systems, I have experience and a firm grasp of the student perspective. This will allow me to better analyse and place these results.

When I first was deciding upon universities, I had three I wanted to apply for and was able to make it to the open days of two of these. However, due to travel issues I couldn’t attend the Aberystwyth open day. When finally deciding which one to choose I realised both my sisters were attending those other two universities, so in order to have a lot more freedom I chose to apply for Aberystwyth and only saw it for the first time just before my first lecture.

Despite me not knowing anything about Aberystwyth I fell in love with it throughout my degree and thoroughly enjoyed my joint course. I’ve learned to not only create rigid and complex essays on English literature but also how to plan and setup a filming area entirely on my own (Camera Included). I also became the president for an academic society for a department I’m not a part of. This gave me a lot more insight into other degree schemes and student opinions as I found each department has very distinct and varying perspectives to their learning.

Throughout filming escapades and society committees I’ve learned great cooperative skills and filled in various positions in group dynamics in order to be more effective. I’m hoping to carry these skills over when working with the LTEU team in order to facilitate the detailed analysis of the Students Digital Experience Insights Survey 2022 as well as aiding the team with suggesting ideas and helping in the planning of projects.

XOXO

LTEU 2022 Summer Update

10th June 202210th June 2022 Keziah Garratt-Smithson [ksg2] Uncategorised Leave a comment

Update to Turnitin

For the academic year 2022/23 we will be using a new version of Turnitin.
On Tuesday 5 July 2022 Information Services will be enabling the new version of Turnitin on Blackboard. Whilst most of Turnitin’s current functionality will remain the same, there will be some changes. To help staff with this change, we have arranged the following FAQs.
Further information can be found on our Changes to Turnitin: Information for Staff blogpost.

Updated E-Learning Policies

Updated versions of all e-learning policies are available from the Information Services Regulations and Policies site.
Blackboard RMP and E-submission policies remain unchanged from last years. There have been some updates to the lecture capture policy. These include clarification on the retention period for recordings and guidance on using Panopto for assessment.

10th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

We will be hosting our 10th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference between 12-14 September 2022.
Conference Registration is now open. Further information, including the conference programme will be available on our Annual Learning and Teaching Conference webpage.

Digital Insight Survey

The student Digital Insights Survey has recently closed, with over 660 responses. Overseen by JISC, the survey asks students about their use of technology in learning and teaching, and provides a benchmark for comparisons with other institutions.
The results of the survey can be used to inform strategic decisions to enhance the digital experience and enable digital transformation.
Last year’s key findings can be found in the Student Digital Insights Survey Results blog post. Key findings of the 2022 survey will be published soon. Subscribe to the LTEU blog for notifications.

ARCHE

The ARCHE programme is a means by which Aberystwyth University (AU) staff can apply for Fellowship in the Higher Education Academy (now part of Advance HE). See the ARCHE scheme handbook for full details.
The next deadline for applications is 07/09/2022. To express an interest in applying, please email felstaff@aber.ac.uk.

PGCTHE

The PGCTHE is open to staff teaching on Aberystwyth University courses. Participants should have at least 40 hours contact teaching time at higher education level over the duration of each module, but there is scope to consider staff with other scenarios on a case-by-case basis. Please email the course team for more information.
The next intake for both module 1 and module 2 will be in January 2023. The deadline for applications is 1 November. Attendance at induction is required for all students.

TPAU 2022-23 Competition Opens in May

We will start recruiting for the next cohort of the Teaching for Postgraduates at Aberystwyth University programme this month. Any interested PGRs who are teaching can apply for a place on the programme up until 24th June. The compulsory Induction for the programme will take place on 20th and 21st September. Further information.

Subscribe to the LTEU Blog

Subscribe to the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Blog so that you receive an email notification whenever a new post is written. Keep up-to-date with software developments, new initiatives, training sessions and events that help support teaching activities and technology-enhanced learning.

Weekly Resource Roundup

The Weekly Resource Roundup includes resources to help staff teach effectively, such as external webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more.

CPD

Attend sessions in our annual CPD programme.
The programme includes sessions on e-learning, as well as lots of sessions on learning and teaching topics such as assessment and feedback, presentation skills, accessibility, and more.
We deliver some sessions ourselves, while others are delivered by university staff whose teaching features good practice in those areas. Look for (L&T) in the session title.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 22/4/2022

22nd April 202222nd April 2022 Mary Jacob [mhj] Resources and Webinars, Uncategorised, Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

Online events and webinars

25-29/4/2022 Active Learning Network, Online Global Festival of Active Learning
25/4/2022 Surrey Institute of Education, Surrey ExciTeS 2022: Ideas for changing times: Inspiring stories in higher education
26/4/2022 QAA, The Role of EdTech in Creating Inclusive Assessment and Feedback Practices
26-28/4/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), OER Conference
27/4/2022 EAT-Erasmus, Case-Study Showcase for colleagues using the EAT Framework to enhance assessment and feedback
27/4/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar series: Pedagogy and Practice when teaching and learning Online, University of Kent, featuring Diana Laurillard on learning design, and more talks
29/4/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Knowing what they know – getting feedback from students – Reflected
3-24/5/2022 Birmingham City University, Decolonising HE Academic Practice – Lectures, Provocations, and Roundtables
4-6/5/2022 Jisc, Connect More: Where do we go from here? Continuing the momentum for digital transformation
4/5/2022 Transforming Assessment, Designing authentic exam questions
4/5/2022 RAISE network, Impactful Student Partnerships
5/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Hybrid experience & student well being
6/5/2022 SEDA, Reimagining the student learning experience – key considerations
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
12/5/2022 Advance HE, Student Engagement Conference 2022: Meaningful, Active Participation
16-18/6/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE) Accelerating innovation (hybrid online and in person)
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

Cohn, J. & Kalir, R. (11/4/2022), Why we need a socially responsible approach to ‘social reading’, The Hechinger Report: Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education
Esterhazy, R., de Lange. T. & Damşa, C. (21/10/2021), Performing teacher feedback literacy in peer mentoring meetings, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Evans, C. (2022), EAT Framework (Assessment Literacy, Assessment Feedback, Assessment Design), EAT-Erasmus
Goodacre, R. (1/24/2019), Music to Enjoy Science Lectures By, The Analytical Scientist
Melia, C. (5/4/2022), Sparking a passion for digital skills: a tried and tested approach to developing staff confidence, Jisc Member Stories
Nicol, D. (18/10/2020), The power of internal feedback: exploiting natural comparison processes, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 46:5, 756-778
Power, J., Conway, P., Gallchóir, C. O, Young, A.-M. & Hayes, M. (17/4/2022), Illusions of online readiness: the counter-intuitive impact of rapid immersion in digital learning due to COVID-19, Irish Educational Studies
Reis, C. (29/7/2021), Big-class energy: how to get large groups learning by doing, not just listening, THE Campus
Reis, C (28/3/2021), Talking Student Engagement Interview with Charlie Reis, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, Student Partnerships in Quality, Scotland (SParQS)
Robson, L., Gardner, B., & Dommett, E. J. (7/4/2022), Lessons from the pandemic – changing what we do in the lecture space, Media & Learning
Teaching Matters, University of Edinburgh (4/2022), Teaching Matters Newsletter: Five clear messages from the ‘Online/hybrid teaching enhancement’ series

Other

Subscribe to SEDA’s electronic mailing list
Call for proposals 6/5/2022 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference, Shaping academic practice through diversity and flexibility
Call for proposals 16/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE), RIDE 2022 Accelerating innovation
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference

Hello

10th March 202216th March 2022 Keziah Garratt-Smithson [ksg2] Uncategorised Leave a comment

View of Aberystwyth and the sea from the National Library

Su’mae! I’m Keziah, I joined the LTEU in 2022 as a Support Assistant, so I will be helping out the team in a variety of ways from dealing with enquiries to supporting CPD sessions and the annual Learning and Teaching conference. I first came to Aber in 2012 as an undergraduate with the History and Welsh History department. Having graduated I stayed on to complete an MA, before having a brief interlude in Leicester. Afterwards I was lucky enough to be able to take up a PhD here researching Ceredigion’s early modern history through the use of criminal records in the National Library of Wales.
During my PhD I was given the opportunity to do some teaching within the department and to take part in the TPAU programme. I quickly became passionate about finding new ways to improve teaching in Higher Education, especially the problem-solving aspects of balancing all of the different elements that go into designing a rewarding and engaging programme.
My current areas of interest outside of my research, are learning Welsh and looking at ways in which ideas about leadership training from business and industry can be used in undergraduate teaching to build confidence and initiative in students.
I’m looking forward to supporting staff and students at Aberystwyth in their ongoing development, and meeting new people from around the university.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 6/1/2022

6th January 20226th January 2022 Mary Jacob [mhj] Resources and Webinars, Uncategorised, Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

Online events and webinars

Self-paced MOOC, Disability Awareness, Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning design approach that recognises there is no ‘average’ learner.”
Multiple dates through 31/1/2022 Education and Training Foundation, EdTech Accessibility Training
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
11/1/2022 National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Plotting your UDL Journey: getting started and moving forward
11/1/2021 WonkHE, Sealing The Cracks: Connecting With Students For Wellbeing And Success
11-12/1/2022 University of Nottingham, Designing Programmes for Learning: Foundations and Aspirations, “design of curricula and assessment at programme level”, includes some case studies on students-as-partners co-design
12/1/2022 University of Nottingham, Hybrid Teaching and Learning in HE – a futuristic model or a realistic model for the future?
13/1/2022 Active Learning Network, Active Learning to Engage Students and Enhance Learning
20/1/2022 UKAT, Tutoring Matters – What Works? Effective Advising for Post-secondary Students
24-28/1/2022 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest

Resources and publications

Carolina (16/12/2021), Breaking the Binary: Conceptions of Sex and Gender in Undergraduate Science – A Summary (1 hour video plus other resources), LGBTQ Psychology Reading Group, TILE Network
Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities Project (EDTL) (webinar series and materials for students and staff)
Foucher, J. (17/12/2021), Gendering decolonial pedagogies and decolonializing feminist learning & teaching, Teaching Matters Blog
HEFi, University of Birmingham (4/1/2022), Recordings from 4/11/2021 Online Symposium: Adopting and Thriving, The PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education
Mihai, A. (23/12/2021), Students as reflective practitioners: a personal development journey, Times Higher Education, Campus
Nieminen, J. H. (5/12/022), Assessment for Inclusion: rethinking inclusive assessment in higher education, Teaching in Higher Education
Paterson, H. & McAleer, P. (16/12/2021), Framing Feedback Around Student Development, TILE Network

Other

Call for papers 18/1/2022: Duke Learning Innovation Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium, “How do we move from pandemic innovation to real, lasting transformation?”
Call for papers 21/1/2022: Warwick Learning Design Consultancy Unit, Technology Enhanced Active Learning Festival (TEALfest)
Call for papers 23/1/2022: University of Lincoln | LALT | Digital Education Team, DigiED: Futures
Call for papers 24/1/2022: Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference, Contemporary assessment practice in the new age of higher education
Call for papers 4/2/2022: Education Development Service at Birmingham City University, “Curriculum Imagination”: Decolonising HE Academic Practice Lecture Series
Call for papers 10/2/2022: Association for Learning Technology and GO-GN, 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER22)
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference

What is a well-designed Blackboard module? Project

8th December 20218th December 2021 James Woolley [jbw] Blackboard, Students as Partners, Uncategorised Leave a comment

Written by Ania Udalowska

A well-designed Blackboard module may mean different things for different people. We asked our group of Student Learning Ambassadors to brainstorm what does it mean to them that a module is well-design. The findings of this discussion divided into categories can be found below.

Module Information

Teaching schedule – showing what is expected throughout the semester (which is carried out throughout the design of the module in folders). It is not necessary to have to release all content at the start of the module rather a roadmap showing students what they need to plan for. Download the teaching schedule example:

Teaching-schedule-example Download

Module handbook – one of the students explained that the handbook is almost like a contract between a student and a module coordinator. It should include all essential information (which may be, and in some cases, should be also included in different sections, e.g., all assessment-related information in Assessment & Feedback). Take a look at this blog post on comprehensive handbooks.

FAQs on the module – FAQs could be generated throughout the module based on queries received by the module coordinator and could be then used to help future students, e.g., what textbook is best / how do you set the assignment out/ suggestions of resources to help with a tricky concept etc. You could use the discussion board functionality to ask students for questions they want to know answers to.

Short introduction video – it would be nice to include a video that welcomes students into the module, explains how to navigate it and briefly outlines what will the teaching schedule look like. It does not have to be long nor formal!

Learning Materials

Folders – content should be divided into weeks (or topics). It should correspond with the teaching schedule. Consistency within folders is just as important, try to include the same type of learning materials in each folder (you can use small icons to indicate the type of activity) and keep them in a consistent order:

Live session preparation tasks – make it clear what needs to be done.
Teams links to live sessions.
Pre-recorded lectures (clear/ small chunks/ and no background noise)
Lecture slides and lecture handouts with space for notes (how to convert PowerPoint slides into handouts)
Activities to complete that give instant results/feedback to test knowledge. You could use Blackboard tests or Panopto quizzes.
Examples, relating theory to real-world as much as possible.
Reading – which items from the reading list refer to that week’s content.

Note: Where possible use review status and adaptive release – students progress at a different pace, some prefer for the content to be released all at once, others in stages. Having the review status and adaptive release can give students control over how much content they see at once and it also helps them to stay organised.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 8/11/2021

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Online events and webinars

9/11/2021 #CreativeHE, Homestretch: Bringing Embodied Creativity to Postgraduate Support During Covid
10/11/2021 Echo 360, Reimagining Learner Engagement and Assessment in Blended Learning
11/11/2021 SEDA, CPD and Reflective Practice – Opportunities for meaningful outcomes
16/11/2021 TILE Network, Shifting the Dial to Include Those ‘Not in Education’
18/11/2021 Media & Learning, Online conference on Managing and innovating video-based services in Higher Education
8/12/2021 Echo 360, Developing Inclusive Educational Practices with Video-Based Learning
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest

Resources and publications

Anthony, P., Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars YouTube channel, University of Kent
Association for Learning Technology, CPD Webinars YouTube channel
Carless, D. (6/11/2021), Feedback Seeking, Personal Website of Professor David Carless
Fallin, L. & Watling, D. (20/10/2021), Designing for Diverse Learners Poster [3.2.2], University of Hull
Groshell, Z. (30/10/2021), Demystifying Learning through Examples, Education Rickshaw
Henderson M, Ryan T, Boud D, et al. (1/11/2021), The usefulness of feedback, Active Learning in Higher Education. 2021;22(3):229-243.
JLDHE (31/10/2021), Special Issue: Compendium of Innovative Practice: Learning Development in a Time of Disruption, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Newton, F. J., Wright, J. D. & Newton, J. D. (2014), Skills training to avoid inadvertent plagiarism: results from a randomised control study, Higher Education Research & Development, 33:6, 1180-1193
Reedy, K. (22/10/2021), Learning from practice: refreshing the OU activity types framework, Reflection and Resources from the Open University Learning Design Team
Sherrington, T. (17/10/2021), Check for Understanding… why it matters and how to do it. #rEDSurrey21, Teacherhead
Think UDL (2/11/2021), Ultimate Collection of Go-to Faculty Resources with Danielle Hinton (1 hour podcast)
Thomson, S. (27/10/2021), Is HyFlex in flux?, Digisim
Traxler, J. (4/11/2021), Decolonising Learning Technology, Education Observatory

Other

Call for papers 30/11/2021: Advance HE, Teaching and Learning Conference 2022: Teaching in the spotlight: Where next for enhancing student success?
Call for papers 21/12/2021: Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference
Call for papers 24/1/2022: Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference, Contemporary assessment practice in the new age of higher education “If you would like to discuss the relevance of your project to the conference please contact one of the convenors: Kay Sambell kay.sambell@cumbria.ac.uk Linda Graham linda.graham@sunderland.ac.uk or Pete Boyd pete.boyd@cumbria.ac.uk“

Weekly Resource Roundup – 26/10/2021

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Online events and webinars

3/11/2021 Transforming Assessment, Digital Equity in Online Assessment
4-5/11/2021 AdvanceHE, Assessment and Feedback Symposium 2021: Putting the Student at the Heart of Assessment and Feedback: Equality, Diversity and Partnership
10/11/2021 Echo 360, Reimagining Learner Engagement and Assessment in Blended Learning
11/11/2021 SEDA, CPD and Reflective Practice – Opportunities for meaningful outcomes
8/12/2021 Echo 360, Developing Inclusive Educational Practices with Video-Based Learning
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series

Resources and publications

Addie, T. (20/10/2021), What Inclusive Instructors Do: Q&A With Tracie Addy, ACUE (with 2-minute video)
Anthony, P. (8/10/2021), How to share best practice with teachers around the world, Jisc Beyond the Technology podcast series, (39-minute audio podcast).
Bunbury, S., Davies, M., Jones, M., Krajewska, A., Popoola, O., Waddington, L., & Revell, L. (2021), Contract cheating detection for markers: checklist, London and South East Academic Integrity Network
Carless, D. (12/10/2021), Supporting the Development of Student Feedback Literacy
Coe, R., Great Teaching Toolkit, Evidence-based Education: Understanding the content (3-minute video), Creating a supportive environment (2-minute video), Maximising opportunity to learn (2-minute video), Activating hard thinking (3-minute video)
Fallin, L. (21/10/2021), Designing for Diverse Learners Poster version 3.2.2, University of Hull LibGuides
Guccione, K. (21/10/2021), Launching the Are You OK? supervisor toolkit, Supervising PhDs
Jones, K. & Wiliam, D. (13/10/2021), Getting the “Think-Pair-Share” Technique Right, ASCD
Kwok, K., Potter, J., Shaikh, S., & Pritchard, J. (20/10/2021), The practical wisdom of… students? Co-creating a practical resource for HE teachers with students as partners, SEDA blog
Matthews, K. (1/10/2021), Energizing institutional assessment activities with students as partners: Assessment Institute 2021, University of Queensland
Salmon, G. (14/10/2021), Captivating Learning: Storyboarding, OEB Insights
Soon, L. (10/2021), Accessible Equations and Mathematical Text at the University of York
Swingler, M., Wehbe, L., Pringle-Barnes, G., Cleland-Woods, H., Buglass, E., Conlan, V., Sabha, N. & Fournarakis, G. (22/10/2021), Staying Connected: A Toolkit for Effective Groupwork, TILE Network, (11-minute video)
Talbert, R. (30/5/2021), How to write learning objectives

Weekly Resource Roundup – 1/10/2021

1st October 20211st October 2021 Mary Jacob [mhj] Resources and Webinars, Uncategorised, Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

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

Ongoing MOOC, Open University, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM
Ongoing MOOC, University of Derby, Flexible Learning Toolkit
6/10/2021 Transforming Assessment, Using video in assessment and feedback
11/10/2021 Danish School of Education, What is it like to be a Playful Academic, and how can we forge ways to get there?
13/10/2021 Association for Learning Technology, ALSIG Webinar Series: ABC learning design online
13/10/2021 Tile Network, Supporting Neurodiversity in Education
13/10/2021 Blended Learning Consortium, Higher Education Blended Learning Consortium University Launch Event
19/10/2021 European University Association DigiHE, Developing a high-performance digital education ecosystem: strategy and organisational culture
20/10/2021 UDL UK and Ireland Network, Institution-wide approaches to embedding Universal Design for Learning
20-21/10/2021 QAA, Quality Matters 2021 “Quality Matters is an annual student-focused event providing an introduction to student engagement in quality assurance and enhancement and preparing student representatives for the year ahead”
21/10/2021 Active Learning Network, Developing expectations for peer learning
21/10/2021 Future Teacher Webinars, The wonderful world of webinars
21, 25, & 26/10/2021 Cradle Symposium, ‘What is assessment for inclusion? Problematising inclusion, equity, and access in higher education assessment’ and Panel Session – Big questions and ideas in inclusive assessment
23-25/11/2021 21C Student Curriculum Partners at Western Sydney University, National Students as Partners Roundtable 2021
25/11/2021 Active Learning Network, Digital Reading: affordances for active and collaborative reading from screens
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series

Resources and publications

Agarwal, P. K. (2021), Recommended Books on the Science of Learning, Retrieval Practice
Bovil, C. (30/9/2021), Better outcomes for students = build community, University of Edinburgh Teaching Matters Blog
Chakraborty, D., Soyoof, A., Moharami, M., Dwi Utami, A., Zeng, S., Ngo, C.-L., Hradsky, D., Maestre, J.-L., Foomani, E. M. & Pretorius, L. (2021), Feedback as a space for academic social practice in doctoral writing groups, The Educational and Developmental Psychologist
Gagne, A. (30/9/2021), Making Accessibility Accessible: Countering The “That’s Too Much Work” Narrative, OLT Faculty Development
Higher Education Futures institute, University of Birmingham (n.d.), Large Group Teaching Techniques Menu
Kennedy, E. (29/9/2021), #Take5 #63 Design Sprints for Developmental Learning, LMU Take5 blog
Kingsbridge Research School (22/5/2021), From Expert to Novice – Jon Eaton: How do we convey expert thinking to our novice learners?, Research Schools Network
Nelms, A. A. & Segura-Totten, M. (1/1/2019), Expert–Novice Comparison Reveals Pedagogical Implications for Students’ Analysis of Primary Literature, CBE Life Sciences Education 18, 4
Pedagodzilla Podcast (29/9/2021), The Pedagodzilla Open Mic Night (Ft. Gamification) (audio recording 1 hour)
Pedagogies for Social Justice Podcast series, University of Westminster
UCL Press open-source books on education
Vines, C. (23/9/2021), altc21 Resources Openly Accessible, Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference, “The full recorded online programme and session recordings are now available openly to all.”
Wolf, L. G. (21/1/2021), ‘Presence’ in an online Teaching Environment
Wolff, C. E., Jarodzka, H., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (1/8/2017), See and tell: Differences between expert and novice teachers’ interpretations of problematic classroom management events, Teaching and Teacher Education, 66, 295-308.