Crynodeb Wythnosol o Adnoddau – 28/4/2021

Fel arweinydd ein rhaglen TUAAU, rwy’n cadw llygad allan am adnoddau i helpu staff i addysgu’n effeithiol. Mae’r rhain yn cynnwys gweminarau, podlediadau, pecynnau cymorth ar-lein, cyhoeddiadau a mwy. Mae’r pynciau’n cynnwys dysgu gweithredol, addysgu ar-lein/cyfunol, hygyrchedd/cynhwysiant, a dylunio dysgu effeithiol yn seiliedig ar wyddoniaeth wybyddol. Rwyf wedi rhestru isod eitemau y sylwais arnynt yn ystod yr wythnos ddiwethaf. Er mwyn eglurder, ein polisi yw dangos y teitlau a’r disgrifiadau yn yr iaith y cyflwynir yr adnoddau ynddi.      

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Adnoddau a chyhoeddiadau

Ewch i’r dudalen archebu Hyfforddiant Staff i weld pa hyfforddiant a gynigir gan yr Uned Datblygu Dysgu ac Addysgu a staff eraill Prifysgol Aberystwyth. Gobeithio y bydd y crynodeb wythnosol hwn o adnoddau yn ddefnyddiol ichi. Os oes gennych unrhyw gwestiynau neu awgrymiadau, cysylltwch â’n tîm ar lteu@aber.ac.uk. Efallai hefyd yr hoffech ddilyn fy nghyfrif Twitter, Mary Jacob L&T.

Keynote Announcement: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce that Dr Chrissi Nerantzi will be this year’s keynote speaker.

The conference is taking place online via Teams between 30th June and the 2nd July. Booking for this year’s conference is open and you can still submit a proposal via our online form.

Dr Chrissi Nerantzi (@chrissinerantzi), Principal Lecturer – Academic CPD, University Teaching Academy (UTA), Manchester Metropolitan University

At Manchester Met, Chrissi developed the openly-licensed practice-based professional developmental programme FLEX which incorporates formal and informal pathways of engagement utilising digital professional portfolios and open development opportunities including cross-institutional collaborative initiatives. FLEX has inspired further initiatives internally and externally with staff and students. She is the founder of the the cross-institutional Creativity for Learning in Higher Education community (#creativeHE), the Teaching and Learning Conversations (TLC) webinars and the co-founder of the open courses Flexible, Distance and Online Learning (FDOL), Bring your Own Devices for Learning course (BYOD4L) and the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat (#LTHEchat). Chrissi teaches on the  MA in Higher Education at her institution and leads Recognising and Rewarding Teaching Excellence and the Good Practice Exchange. She also co-ordinates the NTF and CATE submissions and regularly mentors colleagues. CChrissi contributes to further academic development activities within UTA, including the institutional PSF scheme and supports colleagues in creative curriculum design and is one of the Faculty Links for Arts and Humanities.

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Cyhoeddi’r Prif Siaradwr: Y Gynhadledd Dysgu ac Addysgu Flynyddol

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Mae’r Uned Datblygu Dysgu ac Addysgu yn falch o gyhoeddi mai Dr Chrissi Nerantzi fydd y prif siaradwr eleni.

Cynhelir y gynhadledd ar-lein trwy Teams rhwng 30 Mehefin a’r 2il o Orffennaf. Mae archebu bellach ar agor ar gyfer y gynhadledd eleni, ac mae dal modd i chi gyflwyno cynnig drwy ein ffurflen ar-lein.   

Dr Chrissi Nerantzi (@chrissinerantzi), Prif Ddarlithydd – DPP Academaidd, Academi Addysgu’r Brifysgol (UTA), Prifysgol Fetropolitan Manceinion

Ym Met Manceinion, datblygodd Chrissi’r rhaglen datblygu proffesiynol FLEX, rhaglen seiliedig ar ymarfer a drwyddedir yn agored sy’n ymgorffori llwybrau ymgysylltu ffurfiol ac anffurfiol trwy ddefnyddio portffolios proffesiynol digidol a chyfleoedd datblygu agored, gan gynnwys mentrau cydweithredol ar draws mwy nag un sefydliad. Mae FLEX wedi ysbrydoli mentrau pellach yn fewnol ac yn allanol gyda staff a myfyrwyr. Hi yw sylfaenydd y gymuned traws-sefydliadol Creativity for Learning in Higher Education (#creativeHE), y gweminarau Teaching and Learning Conversations (TLC) a chyd-sylfaenydd y cyrsiau agored Flexible, Distance and Online (FDOL), y cwrs Bring Your Own Devices for Learning (BYOD4L) a’r sgwrs trydar Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (#LTHEchat). Mae Chrissi yn dysgu ar yr MA mewn Addysg Uwch yn ei sefydliad ac mae’n arwain y cynllun Recognising and Rewarding Teaching Excellene a’r Good Practice Exchange. Mae hefyd yn cydlynu cyflwyniadau i’r NTF a CATE ac mae’n mentora cydweithwyr yn rheolaidd. Mae Chrissi yn cyfrannu at weithgareddau datblygu academaidd pellach yn Academi Addysgu’r Brifysgol (UTA), gan gynnwys cynllun Fframwaith Safonau Proffesiynol y sefydliad; mae’n cynorthwyo cydweithwyr i gynllunio’r cwricwlwm creadigol ac mae’n un o’r Cysylltiadau Cyfadrannol ar gyfer y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau.

Mae ymagwedd Chrissi tuag at ddysgu ac addysgu yn arbrofol, yn chwareus ac yn gydweithredol. Mae ei diddordebau ymchwil ym meysydd creadigrwydd, dysgu agored a chydweithredol ac mae wedi cyhoeddi’n eang ac yn agored, yn aml ar y cyd ag eraill.

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Weekly Resource Roundup – 28/4/2021

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

Resources and publications

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.  

Galwad am Gynigion yn cau dydd Gwener

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Mae croeso i staff, cynorthwywyr dysgu uwchraddedig, a myfyrwyr gynnig sesiynau ar unrhyw bwnc sy’n berthnasol i ddysgu.

Gallwch gyflwyno a gweld yr alwad am gynigion ar-lein. Gofynnwn i chi lenwi’r ffurflen hon erbyn 30 Ebrill 2021.

Gallwch Gofrestru ar gyfer y Gynhadledd nawr

Gallwch gofrestru nawr ar gyfer y nawfed gynhadledd Dysgu ac Addysgu flynyddol. Eleni bydd y gynhadledd Dysgu ac Addysgu yn dwyn y thema Byrfyfyrio â Chyfyngiadau: Ail-lunio Cymuned Ddysgu mewn Cyfnod o Newid o Gyda’r ffrydiau canlynol ac fe’i cynhelir rhwng dydd Mercher 30 Mehefin a dydd Gwener 2 Gorffennaf 2021.

Gallwch gofrestru ar gyfer y gynhadledd trwy lenwi’r ffurflen ar-lein. 

Call for Proposals – closes on Friday

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Staff, postgraduate teaching assistants, and students are welcome to propose sessions on any topic relating to learning and teaching.

Submit and view the call for proposals online. Please complete this form no later than 30th April 2021.

Conference Registration now open

Registration for the ninth annual Learning and Teaching conference is now open. This year’s Learning and Teaching conference has the theme Improvisation within Constraint: Reshaping a Learning Community in a Time of Change and will be taking place between Wednesday 30 June and Friday 2 July 2021.

You can register for the conference online.

Kay Sambell and Sally Brown Workshop (Mini Fest)

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Improving assessment and feedback processes post-pandemic: authentic approaches to improve student learning and engagement – Professor Kay Sambell and Professor Sally Brown Workshop

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce a special online workshop run by Kay Sambell & Sally Brown on Monday 17th May, 10:30-12:30.

Please book your place online [link].

Places are limited so please book as soon as possible.

Session Overview:

This workshop is designed to build on lessons learned during the complex transitions academics made last year when face-to-face on-campus assessment became impossible. A whole range of approaches were used by academics globally not only to cope with the contingency but also to streamline assessment and more fully align it with learning.

We now have an important opportunity to change assessment and feedback practices for good by boosting the authenticity of our designs to ensure they are future-fit.  Drawing on their work undertaken throughout 2020, https://sally-brown.net/kay-sambell-and-sally-brown-covid-19-assessment-collection/ the facilitators of this workshop Professor Kay Sambell and Professor Sally Brown will argue that we can’t ever go back to former ways of assessment and will propose practical, manageable approaches that fully integrate assessment and feedback with learning, leading to improved outcomes and longer-term learning for students.

This workshop is mapped primarily to A2, A5, K2, K3 on the UKPSF.  

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Can Aberystwyth University become a Positive University?

Frederika Roberts, our keynote speaker at the mini-conference on Embedding Well-being in the Curriculum concluded her presentation by asking ‘Can Aberystwyth University become a Positive University?’ (to watch Frederika’s talk please visit the mini-conference website).

The idea of a positive university is one that focuses on ‘the development of educational environments that enable the learner to engage in established curricula in addition to knowledge and skills to develop their own and others’ wellbeing’ (Oades, Robinson, Green, & Spence, 2011). This definition has been proposed by the authors of Towards a positive university article published in 2011 which includes a useful framework for building Positive Universities based on the PERMA model (Seligman, 2011). Seligman’s PERMA is among the most well-known well-being theories which distinguish five key aspects of well-being:

PERMA model: P - positive emotions, E- engagement, R - Relationships, M- meaning, A- accomplishment

Source: https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/learn

Although much progress has been done on embedding well-being in the curriculum, not many institutions, especially in the higher education sector, implemented a whole-institutional approach to well-being (Oades et al., 2011). The first Positive University in the world was Tecmilenio University, a private institution in Mexico, established in 2002. Following their lead, in 2017, the University of Buckingham became the first Positive University in Europe.

What would have to change for Aberystwyth University to become a Positive University?

The Positive University status is achieved by implementing the well-being in institutional policies and procedures, but also through an individual commitment to the values of positive education. Although Oades and colleagues (2011) mention the importance of senior leadership, they also offer a range of simple activities that are consistent with the ethos of positive education and that could be implemented by teaching and professional staff as well as students (see Table 1. p. 434). Following the recent mini-conference, we would like to call all staff to take an active stand towards their well-being and the well-being of their students and colleagues.

To find examples of how you can embed well-being in your teaching please refer to the Towards a positive university article, recordings from the conference as well as the Wellbeing in the curriculum factsheet created by Samantha Glennie, the Student Wellbeing Service Manager. We would also like to encourage you to share the following resources with your students:

A all Prifysgol Aberystwyth ddod yn Brifysgol Gadarnhaol?

Gwnaeth Frederika Roberts, ein siaradwr gwadd yn y gynhadledd fer ar Ymgorffori Lles yn y Cwricwlwm orffen ei chyflwyniad drwy ofyn ‘A all Prifysgol Aberystwyth ddod yn Brifysgol Gadarnhaol?’ (i wylio cyflwyniad Frederika gweler gwefan y gynhadledd fer).

Y syniad o brifysgol gadarnhaol yw un sy’n canolbwyntio ar ‘ddatblygu amgylcheddau addysgol sy’n galluogi’r dysgwr i ymgysylltu â’r cwricwlwm sefydledig yn ogystal â gwybodaeth a sgiliau i ddatblygu eu lles eu hunain ac eraill’ (Oades, Robinson, Green, a Spence, 2011). Mae’r diffiniad hwn wedi cael ei gynnig gan awduron erthygl Towards a positive university a gyhoeddwyd yn 2011 sy’n cynnwys fframwaith defnyddiol i adeiladu Prifysgolion Cadarnhaol yn seiliedig ar fodel PERMA (Seligman, 2011). Mae PERMA gan Seligman ymhlith y theorïau lles mwyaf adnabyddus sy’n amlygu pump agwedd allweddol i les:

PERMA model: P - positive emotions, E- engagement, R - Relationships, M- meaning, A- accomplishment

Ffynhonnell: https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/learn

Er bod cynnydd mawr wedi cael ei wneud o ran ymgorffori lles yn y cwricwlwm, nid oes llawer o sefydliadau, yn arbennig yn y sector addysg uwch, yn ymgorffori dull sefydliad-cyfan o ymdrin â lles (Oades et al., 2011). Y Brifysgol Gadarnhaol gyntaf yn y byd oedd Prifysgol Tecmilenio, sefydliad preifat ym Mecsico, a sefydlwyd yn 2002. Gan ddilyn o’u hesiampl, yn 2017, daeth Prifysgol Buckingham yn Brifysgol Gadarnhaol gyntaf Ewrop.

Beth fyddai angen newid er mwyn i Brifysgol Aberystwyth fod yn Brifysgol Gadarnhaol?

Cyflawnir statws Prifysgol Gadarnhaol drwy ymgorffori lles mewn polisïau a gweithdrefnau sefydliadol, ond hefyd drwy ymroddiad unigol i werthoedd addysg gadarnhaol. Er bod Oades a’i gydweithwyr (2011) yn crybwyll pwysigrwydd arweinyddiaeth uwch, maent hefyd yn cynnig amrywiaeth o weithgareddau syml sy’n gyson ag ethos addysg gadarnhaol ac y gellid eu hymgorffori gan staff addysgu a phroffesiynol yn ogystal â myfyrwyr (gweler Tabl 1. t. 434). Yn dilyn y gynhadledd fer ddiweddar, hoffem alw ar yr holl staff i gymryd safiad gweithredol ynglŷn â’u lles a lles eu myfyrwyr a’u cydweithwyr.

I ddod o hyd i enghreifftiau o sut y gallwch ymgorffori lles yn eich addysgu cyfeiriwch at yr erthygl Towards a positive university, recordiadau o’r gynhadledd ynghyd â’r daflen Ymgorffori Lles yn y cwricwlwm a grëwyd gan Samantha Glennie, Rheolwr y Gwasanaethau Cymorth. Hoffem hefyd eich annog i rannu’r adnoddau canlynol â’ch myfyrwyr:

Gweithdy Kay Sambell a Sally Brown (Gŵyl Fach)

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Gwella prosesau asesu ac adborth wedi’r pandemig: dulliau gwreiddiol o wella’r modd y mae myfyrwyr yn dysgu ac yn ymgysylltu: Gweithdy Yr Athro Kay Sambell ac Y Athro Sally Brown

Mae’n bleser gan yr Uned Gwella Dysgu ac Addysgu gyhoeddi gweithdy ar-lein arbennig a gynhelir gan Kay Sambell & Sally Brown ddydd Mercher 17 Mai, 10:30-12:30.

Archebwch eich lle ar-lein [link].

Nifer cyfyngedig o leoedd sydd ar gael felly archebwch cyn gynted â phosibl.

Trosolwg o’r Sesiwn:

Nod y gweithdy hwn yw adeiladu ar sail y gwersi a ddysgwyd yn ystod y newidiadau cymhleth y bu’n rhaid i academyddion eu gwneud y llynedd pan ddaeth yn amhosibl asesu wyneb yn wyneb ar y campws. Bu academyddion ledled y byd yn defnyddio ystod eang o ddulliau nid yn unig i ymdopi â’r sefyllfa annisgwyl ond hefyd i symleiddio’r gwaith asesu a sicrhau ei fod yn cyd-fynd yn fwy trylwyr â’r dysgu.  

Mae gennym yn awr gyfle pwysig i newid arferion asesu ac adborth yn barhaol trwy wella dilysrwydd y dulliau yr aethom ati i’w dylunio er mwyn sicrhau eu bod yn addas ar gyfer y dyfodol. Gan ddefnyddio’r gwaith a wnaethant trwy gydol 2020, https://sally-brown.net/kay-sambell-and-sally-brown-covid-19-assessment-collection/, bydd hwyluswyr y gweithdy hwn, yr Athro Kay Sambell a’r Athro Sally Brown, yn dadlau na allwn fyth ddychwelyd at yr hen ffyrdd o asesu, a byddant yn cynnig dulliau ymarferol, hylaw sy’n integreiddio’r asesu a’r adborth yn llwyr â’r dysgu, gan arwain at well canlyniadau a dysgu mwy hirdymor i’r myfyrwyr.

Mae’r gweithdy hwn wedi’i fapio’n bennaf i A2, A5, K2, K3 ar yr UKPSF. 

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