2023

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

June

Workshops throughout the month, EduExe Festival
June, July, and August Equity Unbound, MyFest
20-21/6/2023 University of Warwick, Technology Enhanced Active Learning Festival (TEALfest)
21/6/2023 University of Central Lancashire, Exploring innovative approaches in learning, teaching and assessment
22/6/2023 Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE) University of London, Sustainable approaches to managing technology for learning
28/6/2023 IFNTF, The pedagogical potential of work-based learning placements – a “missing” link between theory and practice for employability within higher education
28/6/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
29/6/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Getting savvy with digital tools and resources
30/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, in-person at King’s College London, Strand campus
30/6/2023 EmpowerED: A Webinar Series for Embracing Innovation in Teaching and Learning

July

6/7/2023 Jisc, Rethinking learning and curriculum design (in-person at University of Northampton)
12/7/2023 ENAI and University of Derby, European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (hybrid in person and online)
14 and 17/7/2023 Ravensbourne University London, Inclusive Learning Design book launch with Virna Rossi
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

August

2/8/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
4/8/2023 UNESCO Campus IESALC, ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in higher education (online course)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Anthony, P. (15/6/2023), AI in Education: Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration (playlist of video recordings), Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, University of Kent
Attewell, S. (14/6/2023), Meeting student needs: Equipping students for generative AI in tertiary education, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
Attewell, S. (14/6/2023), Exploring the role of generative AI in assessments: A student perspective, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
European Parliament (14/6/2023), EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence, European Parliament News / Society
Fawns, T. & Jacob, M. (15/6/2023), 10 minute chats – generative AI – Mary Jacob, Monash Education Academy
Hartley, P., Beckingham, S. & Irving-Bell, D. (), Taking advantage of ChatGPT et al (ideally before the end of the world), The SEDA Blog
Liang, W,. Yuksekgonul, M., Mao, Y., Wu, E. & Zou, J. (18/4/2023), GPT detectors are biased against non-native English, arXiv, Cornell University
Myers, A. (15/6/2023), AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers, Stanford University, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (this blog post highlights key messages from Liang et al)
Office of Educational Technology (5/2023), Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning, US Department of Education
Singer, N. (8/6/2023), New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning, New York Times, “Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.”
Weiser, B. & Schweber, N. (8/6/2023), The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself, New York Times, “In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray.”

Other resources

EAT Erasmus (multiple dates), EAT-Erasmus Webinar Series on Self-Regulation in Assessment (playlist of 1-hour video recordings)
Mihai, A. (12/6/2023), Coaching for employability: Facilitating students’ transition to the workplace, The Educationalist
Saunders, R. & Byron, K. (7/6/2023), S2E34 – Kevin Byron on brainstorming (36-minute audio recording), L&T Chatshow podcast series
Tai, J. (13/6/2023), ADCET Webinar: Inclusive assessment for students with disability (1-hour video recording), Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training

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.

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.

External Speakers at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference: Part 1: Blackboard

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We’re delighted to welcome a number of external speakers at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference.

View our full programme and book your place online.

On Tuesday 4 July, we’ll be joined in person by colleagues from Blackboard.

Colleagues will have the opportunity to hear about future developments, work on and enhance their blackboard ultra modules, and provide feedback to the company on enhancements.

Please see below for our speakers’ biographies.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: Stands at the conference

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The Annual Learning and Teaching Conference is fast approaching (4-6 July). We’re delighted to have a couple of stands during the second day of the conference, 5 July.

Located in the Think Tank, colleagues can speak to the Tell us Now team about upcoming changes to the MEQ process and Student Services about the plans for teaching and learning through a trauma-informed lens.

Our full programme is available on our webpages and you can book your place online.

Free Trial with Talis Elevate for social annotation

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We are excited to invite teaching staff to join a free trial of Talis Elevate for collaborative annotation. It is designed to encourage students to engage with course reading and learn actively by collaborative and individual annotation. It features detailed analytics to help you keep your students on track.

For an illustration of what it does, see the main Elevate page
For examples of how others have used it, see Talis Elevate Webinars and Community Content

Our free trial of this tool is currently underway and will run through November 2023. Depending on staff response and budgetary considerations, the university may be able to acquire Elevate for longer-term use.

Please contact us at thestaff@aber.ac.uk to join the pilot.

Here is a screenshot from the main Elevate page to show you what it looks like:

Many thanks,

Mary Jacob & Julie Hart

Parent-child modules 2023-24

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Now that the 2023-24 modules are available to staff, we can link them together at the module co-ordinator’s request. This process is known as parent-childing. Linking modules together is an effective way of dealing with separate modules with the same content so you don’t have to upload materials to two or more different modules.

This process makes one module the parent, whilst the other module(s) become a child. There’s no limit on how many modules you make a child but there can only be one parent. The parent-child facility works in the same way with Blackboard Ultra.

If you’d like to parent-child your modules, and you’re the module co-coordinator, contact elearning@aber.ac.uk with the module codes for the parent and child modules.

Examples from Aberystwyth

Many members of staff are currently using parent-child modules across the institution. Some examples are:

Modules are taught the same content but there’s a module available for different years.
Modules that bring together different degree schemes and have different module IDs, for example dissertation modules.

Essentially, any module that shares the same content is ideal for parent-childing.

What do students see?

Students will see the name of the module that they are enrolled on (even if it’s the child module) when they log into Blackboard but they will see all the content placed in the parent module. Instructors will not be able to place content in the child module.

Things to consider

Now, before the start of term and whilst module content is being built, is the perfect time for linking your modules. Whilst the linking of modules does save time in the loading of materials, there are some things to consider:

All content is able to be viewed as soon as the modules are merged (as long as students are enrolled on the module). In addition to PowerPoints, lecture materials, this also includes Announcements and other interactive tools on your parent module.
Historical student interactions on a child module (such as using blogs or posting in discussion boards) won’t be available once the modules have been merged.
Any submission points created on a child module before the merge takes place will no longer be able to be viewed. We would advise creating these again in the parent module.

How do I control content so that it is only viewable to a module cohort?

Whilst all content is automatically visible once the modules are merged, you can use groups and adaptive release if you only want the content to be visible to a specific module cohort. This might be useful, for example, if you have a 2^nd year and 3^rd year module merged but your students on the different modules have separate assignments. You can use groups – 1 for the 2^nd year students and one for 3^rd year students and limit who can see the assignment information and submission point. Follow our guidance on creating a group and adaptive release (known as ‘release conditions’ in Ultra) if you wish to do this.

Parent-Child Grade Book

Once the merging takes place, all students will appear in the Grade Book (previously known as Grade Centre in Blackboard Original) of the parent module. You can, however, determine whether they are enrolled on the child module as this information displays against the student in the Grade Book columns.

If you’d like further information on this process or have any specific questions then please contact us (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 7/6/2023

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Online events and webinars

June

Workshops throughout the month, EduExe Festival
June, July, and August Equity Unbound, MyFest
9/6/2023 QAA HEFCW-funded Welsh Integrity and Assessment Network: Symposium Event 2023
9/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, pre-conference online event
14/6/2023 Oxford Brookes University, International Teaching and Learning Conference, ‘Pedagogies of Possibility: Tales of Transformation and HE Hope’
14/6/2023 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, AI in Education: Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration
14-16/6/2023 University of Westminster, Festival of Decolonial Learning
21/6/2023 University of Central Lancashire, Exploring innovative approaches in learning, teaching and assessment
28/6/2023 IFNTF, The pedagogical potential of work-based learning placements – a “missing” link between theory and practice for employability within higher education
28/6/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
29/6/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Getting savvy with digital tools and resources
30/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, in-person at King’s College London, Strand campus
30/6/2023 EmpowerED: A Webinar Series for Embracing Innovation in Teaching and Learning

July

6/7/2023 Jisc, Rethinking learning and curriculum design (in-person at University of Northampton)
12/7/2023 ENAI and University of Derby, European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (hybrid in person and online)
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Bearman, M., Ajjawi, R., Boud, D., Tai, J. & Dawson, P. (2023), CRADLE Suggests… Assessment and genAI, Figshare, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Eaton, S. E. (6/5/2023), The Use of AI-Detection Tools in the Assessment of Student Work, Learning, Teaching and Leadership
Fowler, G. (2/6/2023), Detecting AI may be impossible. That’s a big problem for teachers, Washington Post
Office of Educational Technology (5/2023), Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning, US Department of Education

Other resources

K. Patricia Cross Academy (n.d.), Wait for It! Improving Student Responses by Increasing Wait Time, CrossCurrents
Mikroyannidis, A., Jacob, M., Rhodes, S., & Gordon, D. (6/6/2023), Webinar 5 (playlist of 4 videos), EmpowerED Webinar series
Wiliam, D. (3/6/2023), Putting learners at the heart of the feedback process: Reflections on the special issue, Learning and Instruction (87)

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.

Collaborative Documents available in Blackboard Ultra

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One of the great new enhancements that we’ve got in Blackboard Ultra is the ability to embed collaborative documents.

For those of us who did much of their teaching online during the Covid pandemic, you will recall us espousing the benefits of loading a collaborative document in the chat. We’ve now been working to enable this on our Blackboard Courses and we are pleased to say that they are available for you to use on your 2023-24 courses.

This means that your students will be able to collaborate together outside the classroom, on Blackboard in their own time. There are 3 types of document available for students to collaborate on:

Word
Excel
PowerPoint

We’re going to be using the collab docs for blog and wiki alternatives. But, if you want to maybe get your students to mind map, generate ideas, or build on each other’s notes, take a look at the collab docs. You could also use it to get students to sign up to groups. You can use the group feature in Ultra courses to limit the item to a specific student or group of students.

Want to know how to do it? Take a look at Blackboard’s guidance on Microsoft OneDrive and collaborative documents.

Required Minimum Presence 2023-24: Updated for Ultra Courses

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In preparation for our move to Ultra, the University’s Blackboard Required Minimum Presence has been updated and approved by Academic Enhancement Committee.

We revisit all our policies annually, but the move to Blackboard Ultra has meant that we have spent longer preparing the RMP.

The full RMP 2023-24 is now available on our webpages.

Some of the changes to the RMP are listed below:

The Module Information folder should contain:
- Link to all Panopto recordings on a module
- Staff contact details
An organised location for Learning Materials
- We have not specified a Learning Materials folder owing to the two-level of folder restrictions in Ultra
- Colleagues have the option to create a structure that meets their needs.
The Assessment and Feedback folder remains the same as before and is pre-populated with:
- Guidance for students on submitting their work and finding their feedback.
- Regulation on Unacceptable Academic Practice
- Link to the Referencing and Plagiarism LibGuide
- Link to Past Exam Papers
The Aspire Reading List link should be on the content page of the module and no more than 6 folder levels down. If you have questions about your reading lists, please contact your Subject Librarians.

We have now started our Departmental Ultra training programme and hope to see you over the coming weeks. If you can’t attend your session then we are running a series of centrally organised sessions for all staff to join.

If you’ve got any questions about Ultra, please contact the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 1/6/2023

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Online events and webinars

June

Workshops throughout the month, EduExe Festival
1/6/2023 TILE Network, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Race and Racism and Critical Pedagogies
1/6/2023 Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), Understanding our evolving digital practice: Scholarship and research of teaching
5/6/2023 Jisc, Reimagining assessment and feedback (in-person at UCL, London)
6-8/6/2023 Heriot-Watt University, Learning & Teaching Conference, Creating Global Changemakers
7/6/2023 Transforming Assessment, Authentic and online assessment in an AI enabled world
9/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, pre-conference online event
14/6/2023 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, AI in Education: Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration
21/6/2023 University of Central Lancashire, Exploring innovative approaches in learning, teaching and assessment
28/6/2023 IFNTF, The pedagogical potential of work-based learning placements – a “missing” link between theory and practice for employability within higher education
28/6/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
29/6/2023 Future Teacher Webinars, Getting savvy with digital tools and resources
30/6/2023 Academic Practice and Technology Conference (APT) “Implications and Ethical Dimensions of using Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment“, in-person at King’s College London, Strand campus

July

6/7/2023 Jisc, Rethinking learning and curriculum design (in-person at University of Northampton)
12/7/2023 ENAI and University of Derby, European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (hybrid in person and online)
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Bearman, M. & Ajjawi, R. (22/5/2023), Learning to work with the black box: Pedagogy for a world with artificial intelligence, British Journal of Educational Technology
Beckingham, S., Irving-Bell, D., Hartley, P. & Dawson, M. (19/5/2023), How should our higher education institutions respond to innovations in new AI-based language processing software (slidedeck from SEDA presentation)
Chechitelli, A. (23/5/2023), AI writing detection update from Turnitin’s Chief Product Officer, Turnitin Blog
Cormier, D. (31/5/2023), 10 things I think I might think about AI for teaching and learning, Dave’s Educational Blog
CRADLE Deakin University (2/3/2023), ChatGPT Webinar #2 – how should educators respond? (2-hour recorded webinar), TEQSA and CRADLE Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Higher Education webinar series
Educational Development Unit (EDU), XJTLU (17/5/2023), Generative AI resources (toolkit)
Foltynek, T., Bjelobaba, S., Glendinning, I. et al. (1/5/2023), ENAI Recommendations on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in Education, International Journal of Educational Integrity 19(12)
Hennig, N. (18/5/2023), AI Literacy: Using ChatGPT and AI Tools in Instruction (1-hour video), University of Arizona Libraries
International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF) (18/5/2023), Harnessing ChatGPT for Academic Innovation: An Interactive Exploration (“Beyond the Cheating Freak-out”) (1-hour webinar recording and materials)
Liverpool, L. (31/5/2023), AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research, Nature
McAdoo, J. (7/4/2023), How to cite ChatGPT, APA Style Blog
Metz, C. & Isaac, M. (18/5/2023), In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels, New York Times
Monash University (n.d.), Artificial Intelligence and Teaching (resource toolkit), Learning and Teaching: Teach HQ, Monash University
QAA (8/5/2023), QAA publishes additional advice on Generative Artificial Intelligence tools, QAA News and Events
Saenko, K. (23/5/2023), Is generative AI bad for the environment? A computer scientist explains the carbon footprint of ChatGPT and its cousins, The Conversation
Vaidhyanathan, S. (19/5/2023), My students are using AI to cheat. Here’s why it’s a teachable moment, The Guardian
Webb, M. (14/2/2023), Considerations on wording when creating advice or policy on AI use, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education blog
Webb, M. (11/5/2023), A Generative AI Primer, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education blog
Zakrzewski, C., Lima, C. & Oremus, W. (16/5/2023), CEO behind ChatGPT warns Congress AI could cause ‘harm to the world’, Washington Post

Other resources

Boland, T. (30/3/2023), Accessibility in all Rubrics (8-minute portion of 1-hour video), AHEAD Ireland
Curtis, G. (30/5/2023), Contract cheating is cheap and not easily detectable, so why don’t more students do it?, International Center for Academic Integrity
Harris, R., Blundell-Birtill, P. & Pownall, M. (9/8/2022), Development and evaluation of two interventions to improve students’ reflection on feedback, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Harvey, M., Lloyd, K., McLachlan, K., Semple, A.-L. & Walkerden, G. (29/01/2020), Reflection for learning: a scholarly practice guide for educators, Advance HE
Hinton, D. (12/7/2022), Build your Teaching Philosophy using Lego Serious Play (workshop materials), National Teaching Repository
Laliberte, L. (18/5/2023), Teaching: How to create livelier asynchronous discussions, Chronicle of Higher Education
Li, X. & Ke, P. (23/5/2023), Becoming Feedback Literate: A Case Study of a Chinese University EFL Teacher, The Asia-Pacific Educational Researcher
Tucker, C. R. & Novak, K. (n.d.), Exam Wrapper and Discussion Prompts, The Shift to Student-Led

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.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

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We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 11^th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, which is just over a month away, 4-6 July.

This year’s conference theme, Transformative Teaching: Creating Opportunities for Learning, aims to reflect the commitment that AU staff have to enhance the student learning experience.

We’re pleased to confirm our full programme. We will have 2 days in person (Tuesday 4 July and Wednesday 5 July) and 1 day online (Thursday 6 July).

We look forward to seeing you at the conference, and please remember to register for the conference by completing this online form.

If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us.