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
- 24/1/2023 Tile Talks, Quality Provision and Support for Distance Doctoral Students
- 25-30/1/2023 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit 2023 – Citizenship: Global, local, digital
- 26/1/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Inclusive Practice including a discussion of ChatGPT
- 2/2/2023 Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick, Engaging staff in developing a blended curriculum: Challenges and lessons learned
- 8/2/2023 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online, including a discussion of ChatGPT
- 8/2/2023 University of London Centre for Distance and Online Education (CODE), De-colonising digital education: Bridging the great divide
- 8/2/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop ‘Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS’
- 9/2/2023 Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick, Making feedback work
- 9/2/2023 University of London Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), Understanding our evolving digital practice: Scholarship and research of teaching
- 16/2/2023 Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick, The place and case for lectures and lecture capture in the new normal
- 7-8/3/2023 Jisc, DigiFest (hybrid online and in person) “Innovation takes collaboration; it takes connection; it takes networks. It takes questions: why do you do that? what if I tried this? why not?”
- 29/3/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop, “Learn how to create instructional experiences using the UDL principles as part of a structured, facilitated process called CUTLAS”
- 9-11/5/2023 University of Liverpool CIE, Islands of Innovation
- 17-18/5/2023 Change Agents Network conference, Reimagining student/staff partnerships to generate new learning opportunities (call for proposals open until 13/3/2023)
Resources and publications
- Anthony, P. (11/1/2023), AI and Higher Education: Is it time to re-think teaching and assessment?, University of Kent, Learning Technologies
- D’Agostino, S. (12/1/2023), ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now, Inside Higher Education
- Foster, E. (6/1/2023), Student Attendance: explaining the post-Covid Crisis, Living Learning Analytics Blog: Living the interface between learning analytics and actual change in a HE setting
- Huang, K. (16/1/2023), Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach, New York Times
- Johnson, L., Partridge, H. & Dawson, P. (16/1/2023), 1,300 years is long enough: it’s pens down for the exam hall, Cradle News, Deakin University
- Juliani, A. J. & Warner, J. (18/12/2022), Teaching and Learning in the AI Age with John Warner (1 hour video recording),
- Karagiannopoulou, K. & Entwistle, N. (22/3/2019), Students’ Learning Characteristics, Perceptions of Small-Group University Teaching, and Understanding Through a “Meeting of Minds”, Frontiers in Psychology
- Maloy, R. W., Trust, T., Butler, A. & Xu, C. (n.d.), 9. Teacher and Student Guide to Analyzing AI Writing Tools (e.g., ChatGPT), Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning
- Metz, C. & Weise, K. (12/1/2023), Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I., New York Times
- Mills, A. & Goodlad, L. M. E. (17/1/2023), Critical AI: Adapting College Writing For The Age Of Large Language Models Such As ChatGPT: Some Next Steps For Educators, Critical AI, Rutgers University
- Nagy, R. P., Martin, A. J., & Collies, R. J. (13/12/2022), Disentangling motivation and engagement: Exploring the role of effort in promoting greater conceptual and methodological clarity, Frontiers in Psychology
- Smith, D. (11/1/2023), How artificial intelligence has answered the UnGoogleable exam question, David’s adventures in the classroom blog
- UCL Arena Centre (4/1/2023), Designing assessment for academic integrity “Evidence-based recommendations for designing teaching, student support and assessment in the era of digital assessment and artificial intelligence with the aim of developing good academic practice.”, Teaching Toolkits UCL Arena Centre
- Warner, J. (11/12/2022), ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving, The Biblioracle Recommends
- Weale, S. (13/1/2023), Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool, The Guardian
- Weller, M. (12/12/2022), 25+ Years of Ed Tech: 2022 – AI Generated Content, The Ed Techie: Martin Weller’s blog on open education, digital scholarship & over-stretched metaphors
Other
- Monthly series European Network for Academic Integrity, ENAI monthly webinars free open webinars on various topics related to academic integrity
- 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. I often find out about good resources for the Roundup from the chat.
- Call for papers due 27/1/2023, Oxford Brookes University, International Teaching and Learning Conference: Pedagogies of possibility: tales of transformation and hope
- Call for papers due 29/1/2023, University of Lincoln Digital Education Team, DigiEd: Horizons
- Call for participation due 31/1/2023, Association for Learning Design & Education for Sustainable Development, Learning Design and ESD Bootcamp 2023
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.
